I am usually a pretty pessimistic person, who loooves to criticize self for being crap. Yeap, that’s me. Do I like it? No. It’s just how I do.

Lately, though, I’ve been really seeing what an awesome person I am. Like I am truly and utterly awesome! For years,I’ve been lamenting on how I never do enough and always manage to find something wrong, that this new feeling has struck me so much that I had to start a blog and speak on it.

As most of you know by now, I have been accepted into a CLS program at SJSU. It’s a highly competitive post-bacc program, where I will train 4 days a week at a hospital, and learn in a classroom once a week. At the end of the year, I will be a Clnical Lab Scientist. I’ll be doing medical analyses and/or diagnosis on human specimen (blood, bone marrow,other tissues, urine, snot, etc haha). I am soooooooo excited. I freakin love science and I have been busting my ass for the past few years just to be qualified to apply.

People now ask me how I got in since there are many obstacles. One being that hematology couses (a prerequisite) are impossible to get. When I told them I took an online class with Sac State where I watched lectures live online after work, and went to Sac 5 days out of the semester for labs and exams…. (run on sentence) they would complain about how far Sac is. And when I told them that I started a phlebotomy program (not a prerequisite, but a boost on an applicant’s resume) a day after my hematology final, they cringed at the thought of having to draw blood. Or they work and just don’t have the time to do this and that… And I ask them, not to their face, “Dude, how bad do you want it?”