Med school will break you and make you

Being a doctor is great. You are respected, usually better money making, and you're able to help the sick. But behind those white coats are people who've been broken and made again from the very start of their medical life's journey.

Medical school will break you. That's a fact. It will break you to the point that it will crush you. Not only monetarily and physically but also emotionally. Break all those rose colored glasses when you think about medical students. Most of them, if not all, are going through a lot. Preparing for exams and failing over and over again. Always unsure of whether they'll still be in the course or not, always standing on the edge of the cliff. You get disappointed a lot of yourself and the people around you and you'll feel like the only ones who gets you are your own fellow students. But in spite of it all, you still grind. You keep grinding and gritting your teeth and make coffee your blood. When I was in my 1st year, I was thinking how great to have this previlege but I expected it to be hard. Med school surpassed my expectation. It's really hard even if you work your butt off. It broke me a lot and I cried a lot and prayed a lot. I was so broken to the point that I couldn't breathe. But med school also changed me a lot. It shaped me to become stronger and resilient. To think for myself, to change my ways and my way of thinking. It broadened my horizon and changed my perspective. I realized I was living in my own small and comfortable world. I both love and hate it. But I still pursue it. There are still so many things that I will go through but I will prevail because I said so. Just gotta close my eyes and keep grinding until I reach my dreams and goal.

Med school may be hard but it definitely is one of the best things that happened in my life. It broke me down and recreated me into something that is much stronger than what I was before.