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By C. Jake Williams. October 16, 2008
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Before we get into what on Earth I've been up to the past few months, I thought I'd share the video above. It's me! wakeboarding at Lake Powell in August.
So, the latest. Well as you may know I'm back in Logan, back at Utah State University despite graduating with a BS Journalism degree in May. I know what you're thinking, but hold the congratulations because I'm not here getting a Master's degree.
I'm preparing for medical school.
During the summer I worked in the sports department of the Deseret Morning News, which was supposed to be a grand ol' time getting paid to watch sports. In reality, I never meshed with the Des-staffers and didn't feel like the company was for me. Couple that with the fact they were cutting jobs during my internship, and leaving was the obvious choice. So I applied for an associate editor position at a newspaper in Manti, Utah.
The Sanpete Messenger is a weekly publication in small town Utah and they need some contemporary ideology. I applied for their editor spot - which by the way would put me as their number four in charge and allow me to entirely skip the reporting phase of journalism - in late June and waited to hear back from them. They eventually called and an interview was scheduled, an interview that I nailed! I answered questions truthfully and as completely as possible over 75 minutes of roundtable discussion. I left confident that a job offer was imminent.
And I waited. And waited. And waited.
Eventually I couldn't wait any longer and looked into other careers within and without journalism. I thought about shadowing Shane at the hotel in hopes that I'd be the general manager of the next hotel the company opened. I looked for other newspaper jobs. I even talked to Navy recruiters about become an officer in their service. And I talked to Melissa.
My little Asian darlin', Melissa, is a fantastically motivated woman on her way to medical school - she's applying right now. Melissa took the Medical College Acceptance Test over the summer and wasn't thrilled with her score. That got me thinking about how I'd do on the MCAT, so I took a practice test without a second of studying.
And scored high.
The MCAT has two science sections and an English section, equally weighted for a total score of 45. I scored 29 overall with a 13 in English, historically my weakest subject. That got me thinking more.
I'm taking biology and organic chemistry right now, which takes care of one science section, and I'll brush up on my physics and general chemistry by May. In May, I'll take the MCAT for real and start applying to medical schools, mostly on the East Coast and Great Lakes areas.
So that's my situation for now. I haven't kept in touch with friends or family much in the past two months but I'd like that to change. Drop me a line soon Fs&Fs!
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