Brief background

Only four hours after my first post and I just can't stay away..!

While I have no intention of bombarding readers with my autobiography, it is pertinent to include a very brief overview of who I am so that you may fully understand where this journey begins.

I would describe my educational background as an ever-winding path. While I attended good schools and did pretty well, I never applied myself 100% and my interests were, well, diverse. In college I declared several majors ranging from the arts, to politics, to business, and finally settling on communication studies.

Unlike my older siblings, I did not attend a high ranking university. I looked over my high school guidance counselor's list of recommended schools and applied to only one: a small, slightly obscure college in New England. Throughout my parade of different majors there, I have received decent grades (currently have a 3.6 GPA, may have a 3.7 by graduation, could have had a 3.8 if not for a few classes that I failed to regularly attend during my freshman year...it happens). However, since the majority of med school admissions departments will most likely never have heard of my school, even the best grades will not raise me above any of the very qualified candidates that I will soon compete with for acceptance.

I do have some advantages. My family seems to be ingrained in heath care (my mother is a nurse, sister a physician, and two brother-in-laws are also doctors). I have already had a great experience working in an excellent health care organization. Oh yeah, and I'm motivated as hell.

I will get into the specific reasons for wanting to go into medicine in a later post; the point here is that, like many people, it took me a while to mature as a student and to really figure out where I want to go in life. Maybe this relates to you or maybe not. But I say we can make it happen.