#2015 summary

Well this year was....a hoot and a half.

Work/Finances: The year started and you officially stepped foot in a hospital as an employee for the first time. Sure, you’ve been employed since you were 13 and what not, but this was your first time being employed not by your mother. Of course you were nervous. But let me tell you this, you fucken killed it. Everyone knows it: you, your bosses, and the doctors you work with. Not a day goes by where you don’t do your best work, and get appreciated for it. Sure, the pay sucks, but you know you’d do this for free anyway. But TBH it doesn’t suck THAT much. On 12/30/14, you finally paid off all your credit card debt. By 12/31/15, you have a pretty nice savings going on. You bought a car, make payments, and treat yourself well every month. Like enough. You don’t deserve this much stuff. Start giving back to your family.

Family: Your relationship with your father, mother, and sister is great. Like after the shit year that was 2014 in terms of parental relationships, 2015 went surprisingly well. As you’ve always suspected, they just get frustrated when they see you doing “nothing” and this was obvi remedied by working super hard. And your sister, damn your sister is fucken great. Like she’s so funny and definitely has the charm you believe you have. I mean she could be smarter and make better decisions when it comes to academics but hey, she’ll figure it out at some point, stop being so tough on her.  You have a goddaughter now.  Like who would’ve thought. I mean obviously Beto would make you his compadre, but I’d never think it would be at the young age of 22. Arabella Hope Ayon- you love her so much and you feel so lucky she’s your goddaughter. Make an effort to see her once you get really busy with medical school.

Friends: Well your New Year’s resolution 2015 sure worked out as planned. You promised yourself you wouldn’t be the first one to txt, make plans, or go out of your way for people. Sure, your phone buzzed less, however, when it did buzz, you know it was from someone you care. With that comes this warning: YOU CAN TXT FIRST SOMETME YOU ASSHOLE. Like you KNOW some people deserve the txt first lol. We get it, you made your point. Make an effort to txt first the people who you know you matter to in 2016.

So you did lose some “friends” because of this resolution, but who fucken cares. They were piece of shits honestly. 

School: LOL. So this was probably the highlight of your life. You applied for medical school and submitted your primary application June 4, 2015. At first you submitted to about 22 schools. Once the secondaries started coming in, you were like “wow wtf this is a lot of essays/writing.” SO you only submitted to 9 schools. The 9 schools you know you would be 100% happy with if you got accepted. Everyone thought you were crazy. 9 schools. Like no one does that. You know your record isn’t that hot to be that confident. But on the contrary, you applied to 9 because you WEREN’T confident. You thought “there’s no point in wasting 1000s of dollars to not be accepted anyway.” But alas, you got an interview at the school of your dreams, the medical you literally always said you were going to go to: Keck School of Medicine at USC. One thing you are confident about are your interview abilities. You always said that once you got an interview, you were in. On 9/22/15 you had your interview. Sure, you rocked it, could’ve been a bit better, but TBH you were working to hard to interview prep. BEHOLD, on 10/15/15, the first day medical schools could accept people...within the first hour....YOU WERE ACCEPTED. You cried, you txted friends, you called your mother. BUT IT GETS BETTER?! You were accepted to the accelerated MD/MPH program. EVEN BETTER?! You received a full tuition scholarship to the MPH portion which is like $50k. You’re so humble. Not posting this on facebook like all the other simps lol.

Camp:  OH CAMP. You’re terrified. You have 3 other coze and need to plan a whole quarter of training for you r volunteers, and then plan a week of camp for your volunteers and campers. There will be so many people looking to you for guidance- step up.  

Relationships: So you finally went on a date. You liked this girl. Or did you? Did you like the person, or did you like the idea of someone liking you? You’re not sure. She was a nice girl, but...you were honest with yourself. You weren’t going to make time for her. You’re too busy...well that’s what you told yourself and her. But it’s true. Bye.

Grandmother: She passed away. May 15. You woke up to the sound of your father on your phone. You could tell something was wrong. She wasn’t dead yet, but you could feel it. Your dad left to go drop off your sister when the phone call came. You knew. You got the chill. Your mother cried. You were blank. No tears right now, you had things to do. You booked the flights. You called the fam. You planned. You kept busy. It wasn’t real. Once you arrived to the rancho...you wept. Oh you cried. You walked in and there was the beautiful cold wooden box. And there she lay, beautiful as always. But unlike all your previous trips to mexico, she wasn’t there to hug you. She wouldn’t give you her bendicion this time around. After the ceremony you went to her house. Her cardigan still had her distinct sent. Honestly. You think about her every day since her passing. Hear her voice, smell her perfume. You miss her so much. I really wish she was here, to see me become a doctor. In her eyes...she knew you’d make it. She never doubted you.