A Path Beyond

This is the game A Path Beyond

I figured out another step to my career plan this week.  That was the highlight of my academic life.  I went to the Life Science Advisement Center and reworked my graduation plan because I've decided to study medicine.  Hopefully, the plan will be sorted out some time next week and I can go ahead into the Pre-professional Advisement to seek more details.

With premed on my agenda, I'll probably be in Provo for a bit longer.  Instead of graduating around the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014, I may have to stay around until 2015.  I must say, the prerequisites for medical school are a lot more complicated than I thought they were.  A person would need to do more than just getting good MCAT scores and high GPA.

Looking through some med schools, I noticed that the average MCAT scores were around 30-31 and 3.5ish GPA.  It certainly gave me a lot of hope because I thought my GPA was not a grand 4.0.  If I do managed to get into medical school, I might stay on the West Coast because they are top ranked and relatively cheaper compared to some of the East Coast counterparts.

Even if I don't wind up going to med school, I would have finished the prerequisites for PA schools.  I may not be rich being a PA, but I'm sure I'll make a decent living.  In the worst case scenario, I would get a masters degree in medical technologies and would still make a good chunk of change.

They are best friends!

I am really excited about my future even though I worry about how everything is going to work out. The one thing I was reminded of today was that we need to continue to build that relationship with our Heavenly Father and do the right things in life. It won't make life easy, but I'd be where I needed to be and probably happier in the long run.

I asked my roommate Ryan to give me a blessing this weekend when all the stress of life seems to have gotten the best of me.  Balancing school, work, etc. is not an easy task.

All I know is that I need to try harder.  Right now, I have a few A-'s for this semester, but they are on the edge of A's, so I should try harder and see if I get a better GPA than I usually get at the end of semesters.

As for this weekend, I went to a stake fireside with friends and ended up playing games with the said people at #24.  The people in the ward are amazing and there would not be enough room to describe them without making this post long and cumbersome.  My friends, you know who you are even if I didn't mention you here in this blog.  Maybe when Spring and Summer come around, I can update this more frequently and include you in this chronicle that I now write.

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