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I'd apologize about the radio silence from this corner of the world, but dang have I not been online. Seriously, people! Broken bones and cancers and marriages and babies and sabbaticals and this is what happens when I leave the internet unsupervised. I owe quite a few of you personal emails, and I swear that is project one of only four for tomorrow. Just because I haven't been around doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about you, and I'm sorry I've been such a lousy long-distance friend.

Here is where I have been lately: applying to medical school. Or no, rather, because that's not news. I have been super excited about applying to medical school. My potential future as a doctor has been kind of the much elephant in the room for the past year, looming ever greater over these last couple of months. I've been resenting the hell out of physics, strangely charmed by organic chemistry, and daily, daily wondering why I'm putting myself though all this for a goal I'm only ever partially convinced I could want when, I don't know, I had some kind of epiphany or the MSAR book is doused liberally in crack, and it clicked.

I want this. I want it a lot, and I have an early decision candidate and/or a list of seven possible back-up schools to convince.

Dear Acceptance Committee:
Hi, I'm awesome. Let's do this thing.