“Congratulations, you have been accepted…”
“There are two tragedies in life: One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.” – Henry David Thoreau
There is a certain amount of morbidity in this quote if you look at it in the wrong way, but all it means I think is that there is the unexpected tragedy of complacency once one reaches his or her goal and does not have any where to move forward.
This is why I think that medicine has been my dream for so long. I will not really ever reach my heart’s desire but I think that is a good thing…I do not like standing still and I do not like to be bored. I think my bigger fear in life is that I will get stuck where I am at and cease to be challenged. In medicine I see an endless road for me to travel. It is almost the easy way out, like I don’t have to do all the searching on my own. But I know that won’t be the case. I just don’t know if I really do need to see the light at the end of the tunnel…as long as I have a shot at trying.
Anyways, I thought about this today as I was running and trying to wrap my head around probably the best news I have heard in a VERY long time. Kate, my older sister, has been accepted to Oregon State’s Veterinary School. She also has achieved an interview at the Tufts University vet school in Boston. For those of you that don’t know us Schoenhals, this has been something she has sweat and toiled over for the past four years, and has wanted for as long as I can remember. She has a long road ahead of her, but just for a moment, she has reached her heart’s desire. In a completely uncomplacent way. It is so scary to think that we are growing up like this…she has an actual career facing her now. She gets a shot at the “what I want to be when I grow up” now.
I was elated when I heard this. I am so proud of her, and it is such a well-earned achievement. No one deserves it more than she does. It just goes to show that your education is what you make it. You don’t need an Ivy league school to get you where you want to go, you need dreams, drive, and to work your ass off. Here is to turning my nose up at all the fancy schools that would turn their noses up at us in the little universities. And here’s to Kate. Maybe there is hope for me yet. I guess I will find out in a few years!
Love Always,Sarah
p.s. the Queens registrar mailed the WRONG TRANSCRIPT to Oxford. I got incredibly lucky and happened to get an extra copy of what they send so I caught the mistake. But not before it had been mailed off with the rest of my application material. I think they are taking care of it now…but I feel like I might be in Orange County! AH!
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