Uncertainty

It seems that I may accustom myself to writing late into the night, or early in the day (depends on how you feel).

Straight after high school I obviously didn't apply to a university since I didn't have the best transcript out there. So I moved onto community college, with really not having any clue of what I wanted to major in. Although I always had some kind of passion for mobile technology, I could never see myself doing something such as marketing or what not as a career. From the uncertainty I decided to obviously take some general education classes and at least get some requirements out of the way. Oh, and to clear the smoke I still wasn't 100% focused on school nor was I even trying to give it my best.

It wasn't really until I went to Mexico during the winter vacation that followed where I began to think about what I wanted to do. The education system in Mexico is a lot different than the States, instead of doing prerequisite classes and getting your bachelor's degree in whatever to get into medical school you were immediately tossed into the hot zone. Straight out of high school my cousins were already one semester closer to becoming a lawyer and a dentist. Meanwhile I spoke highly of my general education classes (sarcasm) they asked me why I just didn't study in the city of Guadalajara (~25 minute drive from where I would stay). At the time I thought, "ok" cool idea, but what would I even study? Fabian, one of my closest cousins going to dentistry school spoke about how he was first interested in going to medical school to become a doctor but had changed his mind. Doctor. Interesting, I asked them if there was any school that offered some kind of international program, and there was.

UAG (Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara) is really one of the only schools in the region that offers a medical school program for international students and assist them to go back home and work in the field. Of course, they expected prerequisites which included: chemistry, biology, organic chemistry, and physics. Thus leading to taking the MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) which obviously resulted in getting a bachelor's degree at the same time. But here's the catch, the requirements for UAG are a lot lower than the requirements for a medical school in the States.

The MCAT has an overall grading scale between 0 - 45, most students in the United States compete with 30+; UAG required a minimum score of 15. The uncertainty had quickly faded.