The one with the beginning

My name is Zeeshan and I currently spend my days as a first year medical student. This blog will be my chronicle throughout my life in medical school, provided I have the time/desire to update often enough. I suppose I should have started this blog at the start of medical school. However due to the fact that I spent the first two months having near panic attacks, I think the late start can be excused.

Why do this blog? Simple, at some point in my life when I'm not in crippling debt or constantly studying I want to be able to look back and have something to show the journey it took to get there.

Additionally I want to be able to chronicle (if possible) the process of becoming a doctor. I know there are a lot of tv shows out there now that have tried to do the same thing but take it from somebody who is going through it, it is NOTHING like that. I WISH that medicine was like Grey's Anatomy or Scrubs. It would make life a lot more interesting and everybody would be hotter. But sadly it is not.

I once asked a classmate of mine at a party how he was doing and this is what he told me:

"You know how I'm doing because you're going through the exact same thing right now. All of us are. I think I have more in common with you right now than I do with my closest friends."

That is the frank truth because as medical students we all go through the same thing. Whether you're in California or Maine, its the same. At times it sucks and at times it is amazing, but the journey through medical school is both incredibly unique and incredibly commonplace.

However you found yourself on this blog, I hope you enjoy reading it. And future-self, if you're actually reading this you better have a great wife and kids, a job you love, a big ass house, and numerous fast cars. If you don't, get a time machine and stop yourself from doing this!