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I can't believe it's been over 5 weeks since my last post! I apologize to everyone who reads and follows my blog. Frankly I'm a bit embarrassed about my sporadic posting lately. I haven't forgot about posting but I've just been so busy. I started an in person calculus class this past week which is one city over from me and it's about a 40 minute drive from my house. Luckily there's not a great deal of traffic and it's a pretty straight path so it's quite a smooth drive. Anyways I will look to make posting on my blog a priority, because it's something I enjoy so much, and I've been so grateful for all of the people who have chosen to take the time to visit my blog. On that note, I should note that a few months ago my blog hit 20,000 views. I'm so happy that other people seem to like reading my blog. Of course my first post was in March of 2014 so we are just over 2 years old here. I honestly love my blog so much and all of the readers are a big reason why, so I promise I'll post more and I'm hoping it's good content as I really am just winging this whole blog stuff.

So what has been new with me? Well we all know I dropped out of the BCIT program after attending for the January semester. The reason for dropping it is because I'm putting all my eggs into one basket. With the end game being a degree and then medical school. Also I now have full support of my family to pursue medical school as best as I can, so that has really made me feel really good about everything. I am very strongly connected with my family which consists of my mom and my brother, as my dad died when I was around 4 or 5 years old. That made us so close. We are an extremely close family and I want to be as successful as I can so that I can make them proud of me and also to make a significant income to have a life that we could have never even dreamed of. We were very poor growing up. After I was born we had to move in with my grandparents and they supported my mom and us for years. I have an older brother who is doing quite well, but we all want more for ourselves. We love the idea of competition and doing great things. Competition just makes things fun. Not to mention there is a well documented correlation between health and income.

Last week I had a talk with my brother on the phone. He called me because he may be breaking up with his girlfriend. I told him he will always have me and my mom, and he already knew that, but I think he was happy hearing it from me. I can't get over how close we are, I've never seen anything like it. How else could I have been in university for 6 years (1 year off) and been able to pay all of that tuition and be supported that whole time? Not to mention I still have another 2 years to go and I'm still getting some support from them despite that I just recently last month started paying for my own tuition.

Other new things include me going on a mini road trip to Washington state and Portland Ore, next weekend. And then I'm going camping sometime after my calculus class. Then I'm going to New York City with my mom in September! I am so excited about going to NYC but I will post more about that later.

My calculus class is my number one priority right now. Organic chem and biology can be finished after my calc class is over on June 16th. I was surprised with how much I remember from high school math, as our class did some precalc review this week. I'm feeling decent about it but I think my saving grace will truly be Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/). This is definitely the best resource for university/college that I've come across. I don't think they had this when I took first year calc in 2009. But boy am I grateful to have it now. I don't think I need a tutor but I was thinking of it. Another good resource is Chegg. If anyone else knows of any other good resources for learning calculus or science, please post in the comments! :)

Until next time, which hopefully won't be too long from now. And here is to another 20,000, 50,000 and 100,000 views! I want to post until I'm in residency and practicing. But I'll work on the fun part of getting in first :)