ANTICIPATION

Anticipation was all I felt the morning I arrived at the RDU airport the Saturday we were expected to start the program (May 16). As I slept endlessly on my flight from Dallas, I kept thinking this is going to be the summer that changes my life; the summer I decide if medicine is truly my calling.
I’ve been having these doubts lately. Is this med school thing really for me? Am I strong enough? Am I willing to sacrifice sleep, money, and time with my friends and family to achieve a childhood dream?

I keep thinking that maybe med school is a fantasy that I want to see fulfilled only to prove to my family that I can do it. So, I decided I would use SEP to prove to myself that this is the life I want for myself, and not because I want to avoid seeing the disappointment on my mother and father’s faces.

The first week of SEP was too crazy! Sitting in that three hour physics and biostat class, I just wanted to shoot myself. I must have been on something when I filled out that application! LOL The only the thing that keeps me going is Dr.D's crazy experiments when he demonstrates the movement of a falling object when it is thrown.

Surprisingly, the most exciting day of the week was our visit to the UNC School of Dentistry. Who ever thought I would be interested in a profession where you have to smell stale breath all day? I always wondered if that was the reason they wore masks. Lol I must admit though it was interesting to see all of the students practicing filling techniques on what looked like my grandma’s dentures.