Graduation concerns

Friday marks a very special day in my life. For the first time in my life I have gone to see a counselor for advice. Up to this point in my life I have been pretty self sufficient and practical. Usually, I can put things together without instructions or understand complex subjects with little to know explanation. I have come to terms that graduating from a university and preparing for a post graduate program, a medical school no less, is a daunting task and rests on the edge of capacity at the moment. With everything else going on in my life, all the prep work that has already been figured out by others is not something I need overloading my system. My counselor said that I had set up my schedule fairly well to this point, but she changed the course loads around and made sure certain pre-requirements are finished before specific checkpoints in my graduation schedule. She also added two courses that aren't required for grad, but are smiled upon by med schools. I now have a spring term that I didn't plan on taking, a lighter fall load for interviewing purposes and an extra semester to spread out my intense workload. However, with sixteen credits of all upper level major required courses next semester and a 200+ hour Kaplan course to complete before June. I have my next six months pretty well booked up. I am excited that I am now running on the last stretch of uphill before the downhill victory lap!

Disclaimer: I am not complaining or meaning to complain although that may seem like a pretty common trend in each of these blog posts. I am basically externalizing things that I normally keep bottled-up or things that I would normally avoid or let slide off my back.