Two years have passed and I felt like this was the perfect time to add on to this post since I’m listening to yet another Ghibli instrumental lolol. Some things don’t change, even from your 18 year old self.
Geez, time sure does fly by. I made this post when I was 18 years old at Seattle Central Community College trying to transfer and updated it when I was 21 at the University of Washington - Seattle in my Biochemistry major. This time, I am 23 years old and I’m attending Washington State University College of Pharmacy - Spokane. My 21 year old self wanted to let my 18 year old self that things will be fine, as my 21 year old self worried about other things lol. What do I want to tell her this time?
When you transferred to SSCC, you met a girl name Hien. You’ve always aspired to be a pharmacist, so you were working on your biochemistry major because it had the most requirements to satisfy UW school of Pharmacy. You had chemistry with Hien and she was older by a few years. She had just graduated from UW and she told you that she was also going to Pharmacy school. But she decided to go to WSU instead of UW so she took a year off to take a few more classes to satisfy the requirements for WSU. You’ve never thought about going anywhere else aside from UW for Pharmacy school, so the thought of WSU was in the back of your head.
Fast forward two years, you finally transferred to UW, got into your biochemistry major, but you started having second thoughts about UW school of Pharmacy. Somehow the thought of what Hien told you a few years ago popped back up in your head. You started to look for pharmacy jobs and got your assistant licence. You had multiple interviews with Safeway and Rite Aid, but no luck. However, during one of your Rite Aid interviews, the Pharmacist that interviewed you was a WSU alumni and he really wanted to work with you. He even brought in another Pharmacist to meet you and she was a UW alumni. Both told you that applying to WSU was better than applying for UW. That was the moment when you decided to fond out more about pre-reqs for WSU-COP.
At your last year at UW, you decided that UW wasn’t for you anymore and so you looked up everything about WSU-COP. Tuition, estimate cost of living, the area around school, graduation rates, literally everything. This was the most selfish decision you’ve ever had to make. But ultimately, you’re lazy & WSU didn’t require the PCAT, and that was your deciding factor LOL. You didn’t finish all the pre-reqs required for WSU-COP and you realized that you did exactly what Hien did, graduated & then took a year off to take classes for WSU lol.
You got a job at Bartell Drugs as a Pharmacy Assistant, you met great co-workers, and amazing Pharmacist staff! You love & hate it there LOL. You quit in 7 months though... LOL. Started on January 13th, 2017 and ended the first week of August.
Applied and had your interview for WSU-COP in March 2017. Got in!!! Started August 2017 lolol.
You & Tin had a bumpy year. You took a break & became open for 3 months. No big deal though. It’s funny because you both knew that it would help you guys by being with each other less, but everyone is judging and acting like you guys broke up for good lol. You thought it was funny to see though tbh lol.
You met someone else. Had a minor crush on him & went on dates. But you realized it wasn’t him that you liked, it was the fact that he reminded you & Tin in your early dating life. That ended cause your break was over. No regrets. Never lied to Tin. Told him everything.
Btw, y’all are still together. 5 years in 2 months (it’s December right now lol). You always wondered if he was the one. Tbh, I still don’t know right now, but it’s fun & exciting being able to see each other grow.
He moved with you to Spokane. Not everyone knows cause you find it annoying to answer peoples questions, but they’ll find out one at a time lol. Everyone acts like it’s a big deal, but we both just found it neutral. Dean moved with you too.
You knew Dean was depressed in Seattle. He wasn’t doing well in school. His parents made him feel suffocated and that probably caused his depression. He can’t really talk to people about this because it’s hard to understand. But you took the initiative to have a date with you so you can catch up. You took him to Sushi Maru for lunch & talk about his life and stuff. You told him that if he wanted to, he can move in with you guys & you’ll pay his rent as long as he went to school and got good grades. He eventually told me yes, that he wanted to move with me.
You told mom your plan. She told you she was proud of you because you were really trying to help him better himself.
Dean’s parents will contact mom and ask if the kids (us) really need to move so far away from home. Mom will try her best to have them understand the situation. She tells them that you have no choice because you decided to go to WSU-COP. For Dean, she knows that all you did was offer him an opportunity to change his life for the better and to finally start going back to school. She tells them that the 3 ish years that Dean had stayed in Seattle, he didn’t go to school and was doing labor jobs with little pay. She knows that you saw more in Dean than that. His parents wanted him to go back to college, but every time that he tried, something always comes up and he cannot finish it. First was his girlfriend breaking up with him and the second time was his mom having surgery. Both had a huge amount of stress and burden on his shoulders. She will explain to them that you are looking out for him and that he will listen to you. You know that he will start to change himself one step at a time if given the opportunity, and mom knows that you have good instinct.
Overall, he is happy at where his is now. You did what you thought was best, and I’m sure that even now he is very happy with his decision.
Speaking of Dean and Tin, they are about to finish their first quarter at Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College. You will be so proud of them because they are doing their best!
You just finished your first semester of Pharmacy school. You learned a lot. Got really frustrated because you always miss at least one exam on blocks by 1 question from competency. On your last exam, you missed Pharmaceutics by half a point from competency lol. But it’s okay. Although it is frustrating always missing something, it really helps reinforce everything that you learned for that block. Tbh, everything that is still stuck in my head about all those classes the ones you got a retest in lol.
You drink WAAAAAYYYY too much LMAO. You’re at the bar every Monday after exams and retests. Whenever mom calls you, you’re always there and she makes fun of you lol.
You actually passed all your exams on your third block, and when mom calls you, first thing she says is “so how many retakes do you have this time?”. Savage af.
You make a lot of friends who accept you for your blunt ass personality lolol. But that’s the best kind of friendships. The one’s that will accept you even if you don’t have the best attitude hehe.
You’re back at Bartells but as an Pharmacist Intern this time!
Let’s see where the next few years will take me!
Sorry that this post was messy. I’m excited to see how much I grow again in a few years!
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