Musing about Money.

The thing about summer school is it just goes by so fast. I finally took a breather this afternoon and I realized that tomorrow will be August 1! The learn, review, test cycle is a blistering pace for all that I need to know. I am looking forward to the shorter hour and a half classes of the fall. I am not looking forward to the fee bill that will be associated with those classes. A couple weeks back, I was cleaning out some drawers and found a fee bill for some classes I took at a community college in 1988. For 12 hours the cost was $106. Not per credit hour, total. My chemistry book alone cost me more than that entire semester. I also just received my last paycheck from teaching. So, from now until AM (After MCAT) we are living on a loan from my retirement since the one salary my husband brings in won't quite cover us. I shudder to think about the bill for further education.

We have decided to cross that bridge when we come to it. My daughter's pediatrician commented to my mother that she was glad that she wasn't in my shoes. She thinks that I will enjoy the process, but she is glad it is over for her. I just want the chance to try to make it into medical school, so I will keep going. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. Thanks for the advice, Nemo. Find inspiration where you can!

Step One

I took my Biology final this morning. I feel like I got a high B or low A, depending on how I interpreted the questions. So, step one is completed. It is a relief, but the trail gets increasingly steeper as time passes. I wish that I posesses some of the true undergraduate naivete in the outlook to this path. I overheard some students discussing the plan to be pre-med, how you just needed a few classes and then take the MCAT. OK, just a few, but the great med school feeder weeder of organic looms. I know that it is hard and I have an extra load with the family, I wish I could be just as blaise about just a few classes.