rainwaterspark | Hi Life, Thanks For Throwing Lemons In My Face (Reply)

It's that time of year again when course registration's starting and exams and papers are coming up in the next couple of weeks.

And once again life decides not just to hand me lemons, but to throw them in my face.

Yep, my horrible streak of bad luck has reared its head again: due to scheduling conflicts, I can't finish the premed requirements next semester. And thanks to the timing of everything (reserving spring semester next year for study abroad, and reserving all of senior year for a thesis), it's looking more like I can't finish my premed requirements, period.

I don't know how I feel about this. On one hand, physics is the number two (aside from scheduling) reason that I'd want to quit premed; I just don't think I can stomach another semester of having to shove all my other courses to the side, all for the sake of doing well in physics. I have to confess that I was never fully committed to the cause of being a doctor and saving people's lives, but having medical school as an option felt like a security net, a big sigh of relief in not having to worry about what I would do after graduating college.

Then again, my mom recently began telling me stories of people who did the examinations and got matched up for a residency, only to quit partway through due to the physical stress, or people who became doctors but let the stress destroy their health. (And my mom likes stressing the fact that I'm apparently a delicate flower who wilts under physical exertion. Although, it's true that I'm not very fit, even though I'm fairly healthy.)

So now I'm back to square one in terms of the question of what to do with my life. Hooray.

(Guilty confession: It would be a huge relief to not have to have three-hour labs anymore, or to be able to take biology courses for non-majors.)