My First Post

Hello blogging community,

After two years of watching and diligently reading medical blogs posted by doctors, medical students, nurses, and other people in health care I am proud to be joining the ranks as a medical blogger. I just got accepted to a Canadian medical school and want to begin chronicling my journey over the next few years giving my tips, tricks, commentary and all my mistakes. I found it extremely helpful to read blogs showing the "hidden" side of medicine when I was thinking about applying to medical school, and now I want to hopefully provide some helpful advice and funny stories to other bloggers and premeds and anyone else who wants to read this blog. I also want to be able to look back on this in a few years and remember what I was feeling and how far I have come. I felt like I knew a lot of the hardships I would be facing in my career from all the reading I have done. However, with only a few weeks until classes start I have already begun to realize how in over my head I actually am! People say applying is the hard part and once you are in then it is easy, but they neglect to mention the vast amounts of papers to sign, forms to fill out, vaccinations, first aid, and other tests you need to complete before they will even let you set foot in the classroom!