The Honest Palate

And then I decided to become… a doctor.

As many of you know, I left my documentary production career in May to pursue a new career path: nutrition.  I began my journey towards becoming a Registered Dietitian by catching up on some prerequisite classes that I missed out on at film school.  Over the summer and this fall I completed:

• Nutrition I
• Chemistry
• Statistics
• Organic Chemistry
• Anatomy and Physiology

I was terrified about taking science & math classes, since I never had a knack for those subjects in high school.  

6 months have passed and an unbelievable amount of changes have occurred.  I left a fantastic job, I went back to school, I began working part time, I received great marks IN MATH AND SCIENCE, I broadened my reading and research on all types of medical subjects….

….and then I quietly decided that nutrition wasn’t the path for me.  I wanted to go further with my career and study medicine in an all-encompassing way.  Long story short, I decided to start the long journey towards become a doctor.  

I’ll leave the horrible details of the last couple months of applications and waiting for acceptances.  I’m starting a post-bac premed program at Columbia University in January and I’m scared out of my mind and unbelievably excited.  The path will not be easy.  I need to:

• Complete a 2 year post bac program
• Take the MCAT
• Go to medical school
• Complete a residency

But I don’t want to get ahead of myself.  I’ve never been the type of person to make a lot of changes, and the last 6 months have been nothing but change.  If anything, I’ve learned the importance of taking things one step at a time and not dwelling on undecided future events.  

Half of those I’ve told have said, in so many words, that this is a bad idea.  The other half think this is an excellent idea.  Maybe I’ve lost my mind…. or maybe I’ve finally figured it all out?

I’m 26 years young and there’s no better time than now to start making things happen.