Envision, create & manifest our best selves with the help of friends on the same path; to hold each other accountable, to encourage, to inspire and to celebrate.

Hi everyone,
Sorry its been awhile since I’ve written. My computer went down (for the third time this year) and my mom’s computer frustrates me no end. My summer has been busy and exciting. I’m really enjoying following my orthopedist and I’ve seen numerous surgeries. Now I’m sure its my calling. I finished all the content review for the MCAT and now I’m doing practice problems. I’ve finally started to grow sick of the television which I really enjoyed when I was younger, but now I’ve been spending my free time reading. I’ve started the couch to 5K running program which I really like because its easy and it keeps me from pushing to hard that I can’t continue. I’m trying to decide whether I should take karate in the fall as a PE course. It is one of my goals, but I don’t know if it’ll be too much with soccer and all the other things I need to do (like study). A lot of my friends are leaving this week to go back to school, so that’s pretty sad for me. So basically I’ve had a really good summer, but I’m sad to see it coming to an end and seeing all my friends go away again.

Since I was little, I’ve always wanted to be a doctor. The process into medical school hasn’t been particularly easy since I’m not naturally inclined towards the sciences and I don’t have many connections. But things are going really well. Tuesday I got to shadow my orthopedist and it was amazing. Seeing all the patients I realized this is definitly something I want to do for a living. Tomorrow I get to put on scrubs and observe in the operating room. I am so excited! Monday, I start another internship at the hospital in which I get to shadow a team of internists. And I finished the physics section of my MCAT book, so I’m making a lot of progress. I’m well on the road to becoming an MD.

I think this group is great idea and I’d love to get to know all of you because I think we all have similar goals. That said, I think it’d be great if we could do a live chat so we could learn about each other and interact in real time. If you’re interested, let me know what time you’d be free. I’m not really sure how to set up a chartroom outside of AIM, so if anybody knows how to, let me know and I’ll work on setting this up. If it works out, maybe we could even make it a regular thing.