A Brief History: Part I

Hello folks, today I'm going to try and give you a little bit of history of things. I'll only go so far as to cover up to the end of high school for the moment and leave out the last two years of medical school as well as my passions for the medical field and what drew me to choosing it as a career. I'll cover those in other posts at a later time.

To start off with, I was born. There. We've started. Yay us!

The rest of my life after this rather violent event has really just been a series of fortunate and unfortunate mishaps that have led me to where I am today (uh... and that would actually be sitting in my spot at K-Place and writing this blog post, watching YouTube videos about perpetual motion, and listening to some awesome Young the Giant and The Postal Service songs).

We can skip past infancy, elementary education, and most of that dreaded time in most humans' lives they like to call puberty but is really just a black spot of awkwardness in any person's timeline. Suffice it to say that I was an ornery and know-it-all child that nursed a hatred of bananas and an affinity towards the outdoors and picking on (perhaps a bit too strongly) my younger siblings... however, I doubt my childhood was any worse for wear from these things and in fact, my dislike of bananas I believe has strengthened who I am today.  I was homeschooled, went to a Biosciences and Medicine Academy (BSMA) for my Junior and Senior years of high school, was extremely active in my Boy Scout troop (was honored with the Eagle rank) and the local Order of the Arrow (Vigil Honor for all of you out there who might know what I'm talking about), and generally enjoyed learning about a myriad of different interests.

All throughout high school I was doing stuff outside of the classroom that were really enjoyable. I went to national conventions for HOSA (look it up, I'm not going to explain everything!) as a part of an academic team for two years through the BSMA, I went on some high-adventure, week-long trips to New Mexico and Canada to backpack and canoe through the wildernesses we encountered there, and I also went to a community college my senior year for a semester and got my EMT-Basic training/licence which was awesome!

Summers were spent on trips with school or Boy Scouts, some family vacations, and random high school stuff like concerts with "awesome" bands, lots of Starbucks, and plenty of just hanging out and reading lots of books in my spare time. Overall, it was a fairly problem-free childhood and actually prepared me fairly well for being on my own in college/medical school.

Sometime soon I hope to continue my story towards medical school, to catch up on everything that has happened pre-blog. Until then enjoy your lives, enjoy your sleep more, and don't get into too much trouble.

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”