In The Beginning...

Welcome! As this is my first post I will try to introduce myself and this blog.
My name is Garret. I'm a "premed" in the sense that I'm currently completing my undergrad in hopes that I will be competitive enough to gain acceptance to medical school. I'm usually not a fan of what most people associate a premed as... but that is a different blog for a different time.
I've decided to blog my journey. Mostly for myself,  but also to help other premeds, as other blogs have helped me (prime example: medhopeful).
There are already many blogs like this on the internet, so why should I do this? My path is a little bit different than most. I have statistically the worst chance of reaching my goal than the others. I'm semi "non-traditional." Ironically, I'm not non-traditional in the traditional meaning of the word, but over time it's meaning has shifted away in the premed world.

Six years ago I went to college as a very different person. I was playing music, having fun, enjoying life and mostly not caring about school. In four years, I went in and out of school, dropping courses, failing courses, and really not doing well. I ended up with about three semesters worth of credits averaging around a C. It wasn't that I couldn't do it; I was repeatedly called the smart underachiever, even by those who didn't like me. I had disappointed many in my high school years and was disappointing many more in my college years. I didn't care though; I was having fun. Music was going well. I was touring and had many great experiences and opportunities. To this day, I still don't regret what I did outside of school, just inside.
Long story shortened: I fell in love, got married and decided to go start school from scratch (no such thing as starting over, especially without the UBC 10 year rule, but again another blog). So, now you're probably thinking I'm old... well I'm almost 25. Which in the premed world is too old to be considered normal but too young to be considered old.
I'm glad to say in my first two semesters back I've gained 4 A+'s, 3 A's and 3 A-'s.
That's me in a nutshell.

I will give advice, opinions and reviews on here but for the most part it will be a story. I hope to eventually include MCAT writing sample practices and (if I'm privileged) MMI responses. I hope that one day I can look back at these with a sense of achievement. Worst case scenerio: others can learn from me and succeed where I fail. If you could get one moral from my first post: don't go to school unless you plan on trying.

Well other than that... I'm currently listening to A Textbook Tragedy's Dude, I'm on Allese