the next generation

It's funny how you don't realize how much your life is consumed with something until it's taken away, when you feel like a piece of you is missing. It's not that you can't can't go on without it, but life just becomes different. For me, getting into med school was a bigger part of my life than I estimated it to be. I think about all of the time I spend studying, all the weekends that have been consumed by projects and huge lab reports, just to get good grades, and the job I've worked for five years, all just to be in the field, the Friday late night internship at the ER, and then all of these wonderful, yet demanding extra-curriculars. With several factors falling out of the equation, my life's about to take a different course, but this should be a good thing. Hopefully being away from the lot of it will give me a chance to re-affirm my chosen profession. Not that I need any reassurance, but I'll let myself think about it... a lot.
Here's a tangent-- why do half the people on facebook have pictures of themselves getting drunk and/or half clothed? Is this really the image people want to convey: "me, last night, drunker than sh*t, with my top off?" And then they wonder why the "cute" frat boys don't call the next day... gee, I wonder. Last time I checked, real people figure out how overrated that crap is after their first semester. They try it, realize how stupid it is and move on. Some never have to try it to figure it out, and some even do it before college. The point is-- can't we all just grow up? We want to be taken seriously as responsible adults, but then still want to act like a bunch of retards on the weekends. hmmm, I'm about to join this lovely flock of recent grads, now where do I go to get away from them?
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Song of the Day: "Milk" By Garbage