This is the first of hopefully many questions I’ll answer, as a part of my new blogging idea. Today’s questions is a combined one. Nadine wanted to know why I chose to study medicine, and Kaylee wondered how old I was when I decided/knew I wanted to go to medical school.

I must say that I don’t really have a good reason. Nothing of this ‘I want to go to Africa and save the world’-stuff. I suppose I first decided I wanted to do something medical when I was around 11/13 years old, because that was when I started watching ER. The doctors in ER were so incredibly cool, racing around, spouting all this medical jargon of which I didn’t understand anything, saving people’s lives like that. I think I decided I wanted to be a doctor then and there.

I still don’t know how I stuck with the same dream for 5-7 years, but somehow I managed. I wavered from time to time, but my resolve to go to medical school was only strengthened when I started to watch Grey’s Anatomy, House and Strong Medicine (not necessarily in that order).

Over the years I’ve often wondered if I would get in. Especially when my grades started slipping a bit in 5th and 6th grade, but overall I’ve always known that I wanted to go. I didn’t even have a back up plan when I applied! When people would ask me that I would always say something along the lines of: ,,Perhaps I’ll do Chemistry, or Physics, or Law, but for now I’m not even allowing myself the option that I might not get in.” I suppose I didn’t allow that possibility because I didn’t want to freak out, and believe me, that didn’t really help.

I still often wonder on what grounds they thought I was special enough to make number 8 on a list of 300 people, but I’m just glad I made it that high on the list. Now that I’m in, I realise that even though some of the courses I have right now might not be the most interesting, I still really want to become a doctor.

So yeah, when I grow up I’m going to be a television doctor (jk.)

(Please keep in mind that if there are other things you would like to know about me, all you have to do is ask a question in the comments! The questions can be as weird as you like )

So this question thing seemed to be a really good idea. Which is why I’m adding it to my previously non existent blogging schedule, which now looks like this:
Wednesday – Answer a question posed by a reader
Rest of the week – ????

Yeah… I need to work on that. For now, please ask me loads and loads of questions, and I’ll answer the first one on Saturday.

However, feel free to exclude all potentially embarrassing questions, the internet doesn’t need to know everything, kay?

(You can e-mail me the questions at questions @ forever-thinking .net, or you can simply post your questions as comments on ANY entry.)