I'M GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL!
After years of working and trying and missing the boat, I finally got in! A few days after the final parts of my application were completed, I was very surprised to get a phone call saying that a school (I'd applied to a few) actually wanted to schedule me for a phone interview. Taking Kathryn's advice, I dressed up professionally and waited by my cell. Actually, the outfit helped keep me in a work mode, and I was able to answer all of the questions thoughtfully and with quite a bit more knowledge than even I thought I knew. At one point in the interview, Adrianna said, "You sound like you just need to be in school NOW." They came back to me in 4 days with an answer. Upon my acceptance, they asked if I wanted to start in September (3 months)! I opted to defer to January. I'll be headed to the Cayman Islands in 2008!
St. Matthew's University is located on the beautiful (but ridiculously expensive) island of Grand Cayman. I will be there from January 2008 to May 2009 doing my didactic learning, and then it's to Miami for preclinicals, and then wherever my clinical rotations send me!
Jaret came with me to see the campus - gorgeous island, they drive on the LEFT, office building and dorms across the street from Seven Mile Beach; major export: rum cakes! The first time I saw students (identifiable by the uniforms - yes, I'll be in uniforms, again) in the same restaurant, I couldn't stop shaking - like they KNEW just by looking at me that I was a fraud and didn't belong there. I was able to sit-in on several classes, and it was the first time in my life I was in an academic setting and realized, "oh my God - I can DO this - oh my God - I'm going to be a doctor, finally!"
any advice?
UNDERGRADUATE WORK
Theatre - it's fun, but it is DEFINITELY work!
HIGH SCHOOL