Updates

So, you can probably guess that I returned home from Manipal. Unfortunately, medical school at Manipal just didn't work out for me. So, I am currently looking for a job in the worst economy I have ever seen; I am both resilient and hopeful that I will succeed. For the future, I am also very hopeful and I am looking forward to progress on my part and reasserting myself and my characther. I was in a bad place after high school and in Manipal, and I need to get some of the gusto and energy I had as a high schooler. Welcome to Life: The Blog.

Motivation: Part 3

Motivation: Part II

Motivation

Thunderstruck

This past year has been the most difficult and trying year, so far, in my life. 

I'm not doing great in medical school; I might get kicked out of Manipal if I don't pass these next retake exams. But even if I do get kicked out, I learned so much about myself, more so than I learned in college. 

I learned that I developed a lot bad habits in college and I became very lazy. I learned that studying in professional school is VERY serious business. In a sense, I got reincarnated. For better or for worse, I am much better off this year and I will never let myself down ever again.

We all have a certain amount of potential. My idea is that I have the ability, the fortitude and now I have the drive to reach that potential and use it to my benefit. 

If I have to come back to the US, I will probably rename this blog to whatever I am doing at the time. Well, back to studying. Wish me luck.

Homecoming

After waiting a year, I'm finally home!!!

Michigan is so quiet compared to India. I didn't realize how much noise pollution exists in India.

Taco Bell was everything I wanted it to be and more.

Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat tasted like magic.

I'll write more later.

The Man in the Mirror

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Words to live by. After a baptism by fire, you have to come out stronger, or you'll never survive life.