I effing did it.
On New Year's Eve last year, I was still thinking I would apply to business schools. By March, I had decided that I hadn't written science off, and I still had some freakish desire to be Dr. Nagrani. By August, I was in hardcore study mode, first for the general GRE, and then the biology subject test. And in less than a month since that blasted thing, I have finished (count em!) eight grad school apps to biomedical science PhD programs. I didn't skip the gym, I didn't take time off of work, I just buckled down, and remembered that I can be a hardworking, motivated person- and in fact, am way happier for it.
It hasn't set in, that come tomorrow, I won't have deadlines looming over my head, or something I "should" be doing while watching bad TV. I will have time to cook, to clean, to take care of myself, to spend with my roommates, my friends, my family... oh, and that one guy. :) I have no idea what the next few months will hold, or what city of the US I will be in a year from tonight. But in the last few months, I've felt like my college self again, and if this feeling holds, I'm making the right life decision.
It's amazing how at peace I feel right now. :)
It hasn't set in, that come tomorrow, I won't have deadlines looming over my head, or something I "should" be doing while watching bad TV. I will have time to cook, to clean, to take care of myself, to spend with my roommates, my friends, my family... oh, and that one guy. :) I have no idea what the next few months will hold, or what city of the US I will be in a year from tonight. But in the last few months, I've felt like my college self again, and if this feeling holds, I'm making the right life decision.
It's amazing how at peace I feel right now. :)