Ever feel like you don't know what to do with your life? Not sure you could choose one career for the rest of your life? Well that's exactly how I felt for a long time. In fact my dream of becoming a physician did not really begin until two years ago when my wife was already 3 months pregnant. It was towards the end of my graduate coursework that I realized I wanted to pursue a career as a medical doctor. I began this blog about one year before I was accepted and sparsley documented my MCAT prep and addmissions process. Now that I am in I will be recording how well (or not so well at times) I handle the rigors of being a husband, father, and medical student. My intention is to show that one can have a family and hobbies and still be a successful medical student. I hope this blog will be an inspiration to others taking a non traditional path to their career and also be a little entertaining.



Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Excited

This is going to be short because I need to get back to studying, but I just wanted to write quick note about my upcoming practice MCAT this Friday. This will be the first full one I've taken in 6 weeks, and I really think I have made a lot of progress in that time. My goal this week is to make at least a 24 although I'm really hoping for about 26. I want a minimum 10 on Verbal 8 (but 9 really) on Physical and whatever on Biology. I think that Biology will be the easiest to pull up quickly since I do have almost have a Master's degree in that field so I have not done any studying for it at all yet. I am studying to get my Physical above 9 and then I will switch focus to biological. I am also excited about this week because it will be the first afternoon exam I have taken. If I feel alert and do well on it then I am going to complete registration for the real deal. If this test goes well I will be signing up for the May 27th test administration which is at 1:00PM. Well that's all for now. I'll update how it goes after the test.

-Back to the books
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