I'm an AA male in the NICU. I came from a low SES, real low, was technically homeless as a senior in H.S. So I didn't think too much about what I wanted to do in college, I just knew that I wanted to be the first in my family to go to college and attain a Bachelors. My mom convinced me to do a B.S.N program at a local university and I fell in love with human anatomy and health science as a whole, but due to my financial situation I had to dropout and couldn't finish school. I honestly thought that was the end of my goal to earn a bachelors. I took a year off and just worked and played my video game, and I realized that I was wasting my life, I never felt productive and I was just depressed honestly. Then one day I just decided I wouldn't let that be the end of my education and I found an accelerated associates RN program, worked full-time and went to school. While in school there was a guy who was in medical school but dropped out because he got burnt out, and I used to tell him all the time that "if I could afford it, I would've went to Med School". because in Nursing school I realized that although I like nursing and I believe its a great profession, I don't like the scope of practice. I want more. I've been shadowing a physician who's a surgeon because I like the idea of surgery and shadowing him has been such a great opportunity. He is the PD for Plastics at a university not too far from me and offered to be like a pseudo-mentor for me. I will have my Bachelors this summer, at the same time I will be starting my prerequisites for Med School and my current level of excitement to start my journey to medicine is through the roof!