I can't sleep, so it seems to be a good enough time to update my blog. Something I haven't done in quite a while!
The last couple months have absolutely flown by! I was in a car accident on February 24 that could very well have ended in my death. (I was hit by a semi and ran off the road directly into a tree.) Within the week afterwards, I began to make some decisions that had needed to be made in a long time. The previous 4-5 months had been full of indecision on what to do with my life. Do I stay in Chico, do I continue studying for the MCAT and proceed with medical school or do I start applications for grad school? I couldn't make up my mind and was having extreme difficulty finding work to support my continued stay in Chico. So I guess that week I just finally realized (being so close to death does this, I suppose) that life is too short, and I needed to make up my mind. Now. So within that first week, I started the application process for naturopathic medical school.
I am currently in Portland after a whirlwind tour of NCNM (in Portland) and Bastyr University (in Seattle) and interviews at both schools. My interview at NCNM was a week ago, and I have already found out that I have been accepted. I will not hear from Bastyr for at least another 7-10 days. I left for this trip less than two weeks after returning from Arizona for an interview at SCNM (which I have also been accepted at). So the last month has been full of traveling (each trip has been 10-11 days), school and clinic tours, interviews, and seeing friends and family along the way.
Later this morning I leave for Chico and will begin the next part of the process. The big decision. I am really torn between the schools and am not entirely sure how I will make the decision. First thing will be to make a pro/con list. In the end, I may just go with my gut (although I have no idea what it is telling me right now), but to calm down the need-for-logic part of my brain, I will still make that list.
Perhaps this is why I cannot sleep. It may be weighing on my mind too much. I am trying to convince myself to stop thinking about it and to quit worrying about it until I get back to Chico. I don't think it's working.
However, I also have a sinus infection, and I think that might be what is really keeping me up. So off to attempt sleep again. Wish me luck!
The last couple months have absolutely flown by! I was in a car accident on February 24 that could very well have ended in my death. (I was hit by a semi and ran off the road directly into a tree.) Within the week afterwards, I began to make some decisions that had needed to be made in a long time. The previous 4-5 months had been full of indecision on what to do with my life. Do I stay in Chico, do I continue studying for the MCAT and proceed with medical school or do I start applications for grad school? I couldn't make up my mind and was having extreme difficulty finding work to support my continued stay in Chico. So I guess that week I just finally realized (being so close to death does this, I suppose) that life is too short, and I needed to make up my mind. Now. So within that first week, I started the application process for naturopathic medical school.
I am currently in Portland after a whirlwind tour of NCNM (in Portland) and Bastyr University (in Seattle) and interviews at both schools. My interview at NCNM was a week ago, and I have already found out that I have been accepted. I will not hear from Bastyr for at least another 7-10 days. I left for this trip less than two weeks after returning from Arizona for an interview at SCNM (which I have also been accepted at). So the last month has been full of traveling (each trip has been 10-11 days), school and clinic tours, interviews, and seeing friends and family along the way.
Later this morning I leave for Chico and will begin the next part of the process. The big decision. I am really torn between the schools and am not entirely sure how I will make the decision. First thing will be to make a pro/con list. In the end, I may just go with my gut (although I have no idea what it is telling me right now), but to calm down the need-for-logic part of my brain, I will still make that list.
Perhaps this is why I cannot sleep. It may be weighing on my mind too much. I am trying to convince myself to stop thinking about it and to quit worrying about it until I get back to Chico. I don't think it's working.
However, I also have a sinus infection, and I think that might be what is really keeping me up. So off to attempt sleep again. Wish me luck!
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