Beginning Anew, Again
Sorry for the delay since my last posting. September has been a crazy month during which, you guessed it, I began anew, again. I quit my job on September 15th to officially become a full time student again. I could only stay away from education for a year before I came crying back.
I'm incredibly happy with my decision. I felt so liberated leaving work on the last day, as if I reclaimed my soul from the corporate world. I feel so empowered and motivated to be doing work for myself now. But boy is it a lot of work. Continuing my premed studies from the summer, I'm taking organic chemistry, biology, and physics simulatenously, and all with lab. It's certainly a challenge, but I am so motivated to get through this that I don't see these courses as a burden. They are more a chance for me to learn more about the various basic sciences in a way that also fulfills prerequisites and puts me on a path towards my greater goal of practicing medicine.
A year ago, I would have never thought I'd be a student again so soon, and pursuing medical studies to boot. The next logical step after a job in consulting would be a job change and then b school. Honestly, I never looked forward to that. Even while pursuing my undergraduate business degree, I never looked forward to the jobs I could get after college. I was simply good at learning about business and found it interesting enough to get through it. And for most of my life, I've wanted to be a doctor. I guess I got to college and got lazy about taking the science classes.
The important thing, though, is that I'm back on the right track. :) I don't know how well I would have done in premed classes if I had taken them as an undergrad at Penn. I'm sure I would have thought about business, and how much more lucrative and less time intensive (both in and out of school) it is as a profession over the long term. I don't think I would have been quite as motivated to get through the classes, and I would always be wondering "what if" about business jobs. Now I've had a full year's worth of experience, more than enough time for me to realize business is not for me. I'm more motivated about school now than I've ever been in my life.
Like I said before, this time it's about getting the education for myself. I suppose it's always been about getting the education for myself; learning to read, write, and add in grade school was only to my benefit. :) But school is no longer compulsory, and that somehow makes a huge difference. That and I'm studying subjects that fascinate me. Call me nerdy, but I actually enjoy the material I read in my textbooks, so much so that I've taken time away from writing in this blog simply so I can read more.
I'll try to post more often than I have this month, but if you don't see another entry from me for a while, you'll know why. :)
I'm incredibly happy with my decision. I felt so liberated leaving work on the last day, as if I reclaimed my soul from the corporate world. I feel so empowered and motivated to be doing work for myself now. But boy is it a lot of work. Continuing my premed studies from the summer, I'm taking organic chemistry, biology, and physics simulatenously, and all with lab. It's certainly a challenge, but I am so motivated to get through this that I don't see these courses as a burden. They are more a chance for me to learn more about the various basic sciences in a way that also fulfills prerequisites and puts me on a path towards my greater goal of practicing medicine.
A year ago, I would have never thought I'd be a student again so soon, and pursuing medical studies to boot. The next logical step after a job in consulting would be a job change and then b school. Honestly, I never looked forward to that. Even while pursuing my undergraduate business degree, I never looked forward to the jobs I could get after college. I was simply good at learning about business and found it interesting enough to get through it. And for most of my life, I've wanted to be a doctor. I guess I got to college and got lazy about taking the science classes.
The important thing, though, is that I'm back on the right track. :) I don't know how well I would have done in premed classes if I had taken them as an undergrad at Penn. I'm sure I would have thought about business, and how much more lucrative and less time intensive (both in and out of school) it is as a profession over the long term. I don't think I would have been quite as motivated to get through the classes, and I would always be wondering "what if" about business jobs. Now I've had a full year's worth of experience, more than enough time for me to realize business is not for me. I'm more motivated about school now than I've ever been in my life.
Like I said before, this time it's about getting the education for myself. I suppose it's always been about getting the education for myself; learning to read, write, and add in grade school was only to my benefit. :) But school is no longer compulsory, and that somehow makes a huge difference. That and I'm studying subjects that fascinate me. Call me nerdy, but I actually enjoy the material I read in my textbooks, so much so that I've taken time away from writing in this blog simply so I can read more.
I'll try to post more often than I have this month, but if you don't see another entry from me for a while, you'll know why. :)
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