My new life
Coming to North Carolina has been eye-opening. It's really amazing to meet people with the same goals (post-bacc pre-med) and even cooler to see how they came about it (personal medical circumstances, waking up one day and deciding it was the right move, etc). Also, things down south are different, which is also exciting to experience.
For example, I had to get cash yesterday and I found an ATM close-by. Did i forget to mention it was a drive-through ATM? WHAT?! So cool. I had heard about them before when I went to school in New York but to actually drive up to one and get cash ... that was a whole new world. My friend who i met up with after I got the cash joked that California is ten years behind because we don't have drive-thru ATMs.
Anyway, I'm learning to be a different person here. Not in a bad way, I feel like I'm evolving. A lot of my post-bacc friends are married. I've never had married friends before. I'm learning how to act around them -- which isn't very different than how I normally act, I just can't invite married men over to study (which I did once, and realized afterwards how stupid that was because you just don't do that) or put either of us in alone-circumstances. Which I know. It's just weird to think about and realize because again, I've only ever had single friends.
My younger married friend (let's call him Nick) invited me out to play poker with this group he and his wife play with. It was actually a lot of fun. I was worried about being with a bunch of people I didn't know but I think we all hit it off pretty well. They are all significantly older, but I like to think I held my own. And that's the other thing, being able to blend in or mesh or some similar word with older people is rewarding. I don't know if that's the correct adjective or if you're getting my drift but I think I'm liking my life here (thus far).
We'll see how things go when the roommate moves back in and the school year officially starts. I've got other things to say but I think you've been good enough to read this much so another time perhaps.
For example, I had to get cash yesterday and I found an ATM close-by. Did i forget to mention it was a drive-through ATM? WHAT?! So cool. I had heard about them before when I went to school in New York but to actually drive up to one and get cash ... that was a whole new world. My friend who i met up with after I got the cash joked that California is ten years behind because we don't have drive-thru ATMs.
Anyway, I'm learning to be a different person here. Not in a bad way, I feel like I'm evolving. A lot of my post-bacc friends are married. I've never had married friends before. I'm learning how to act around them -- which isn't very different than how I normally act, I just can't invite married men over to study (which I did once, and realized afterwards how stupid that was because you just don't do that) or put either of us in alone-circumstances. Which I know. It's just weird to think about and realize because again, I've only ever had single friends.
My younger married friend (let's call him Nick) invited me out to play poker with this group he and his wife play with. It was actually a lot of fun. I was worried about being with a bunch of people I didn't know but I think we all hit it off pretty well. They are all significantly older, but I like to think I held my own. And that's the other thing, being able to blend in or mesh or some similar word with older people is rewarding. I don't know if that's the correct adjective or if you're getting my drift but I think I'm liking my life here (thus far).
We'll see how things go when the roommate moves back in and the school year officially starts. I've got other things to say but I think you've been good enough to read this much so another time perhaps.