#first acceptance

[lubricating]

well i got into UT Austin i guess ≖‿≖

[studieswaytoomuch]

First acceptance at one of my safeties, University of Georgia!!! :)

[chasingmymind]

i got into Whittier college!!!! 🤓🎉✨🌞

[actuallyjomd]

Accepted.

From personal experience, and from the pre-medical and medical students I’ve spoken with, many of us have a small, malicious voice of doubt jabbing us in the back of our brains:

You could have done more.

Don’t hope too hard.

They don’t want you.

That person is better than you.

You are not enough.

Well, I want to tell you something very important, something you should tell that stupid, little voice with the utmost confidence.

No matter what, this remains true. A constant. Sometimes other people tell us what we can and cannot do… but sometimes we tell ourselves we can’t do it. That treacherous voice says reaching for our dreams is too hard, too risky, too grandiose.

But I know you.

You go the extra mile.

You have hopes higher than the atmosphere.

You want to heal, serve, treat others.

You are one-of-a-kind.

You are needed and wanted and more than enough.

A few days ago, the Director of MD Admissions at one of my top choice medical schools called me and said I was one of their most competitive applicants. That the girl who went to a tiny liberal arts school, got a C+ in Organic Chemistry, and bombed her MCAT twice was someone they sought out and wanted in their program. My “failures” paled in comparison to who I showed myself to be: someone who loves kids, who advocates for the under-served, who tutored in Chemistry for 2 years after that C+, and who crushed her third MCAT. The little voice had nothing to say to that. NOTHING. And while that voice may rear it’s terrible head again, it cannot take away the truth of who I am.

Accepting the truth, that I could, that I can, and that I did, was the first step in this acceptance into medical school. Theory kisses reality.

Thank you for your support! Excited to share this new chapter with all of you!!

[fools-errands]

i just got into college c:

[daaiiizze]

!!! I got accepted to Pratt guys

[becominghappy]

GOT ACCEPTED INTO PENN STATE

[carorineee-blog]

YASSSSSSS

omg no acc for me next year!!!