New Beginnings

One of my proteges starts medical school on Monday. She had her "transition" ceremony on Friday where she was given her white coat. She always had her heart set on being a doctor but had such a hard time as an undergraduate at Harvard that she wasn't sure she would make it. But she took a gap year and both added classes in biochemistry and worked in a lab at the university hospital in Salt Lake City. She wants to be a family practice or internal medicine doctor because she wants to be the first and more constant physician. She also wants either of those fields because she wants to begin paying her mother back for all of her hard work and all of her sacrifices as quickly as she can. I have known her since she was 14 and have helped her along the way with tutoring and advice and sometimes just a hand to hold or a friend to visit. What a journey it has been.