A little about me

This blog is going to be kind of a reintroduction of me. I am 28 (almost 30 as my wife would put it) I am married and a father of three great kids. My oldest son is now nine and is in the third grade. My little girl is five now and is beautiful and my princess. My youngest boy is almost two and completely spoiled rotten. We are a happy family and as most families do we have our ups and downs. With three kids it can get kind of hectic from time to time. My wife and I are both in school full time here at southern and that alone can get kind of stressful. She is an English education major in her third year so she is taking a lot of writing intensive courses that require her to do a lot of reading so a lot of her free time is spent with a nose in the books.

 I am a Biology pre/med major. I plan on going to med school as soon as I graduate Southern. My future plans are to become a surgeon of some sort. I lean towards either plastic surgery or trauma surgery.

I won’t really know what for sure that I will do until I get into med school and do some rotations in the different fields that I will have to chose from. I am trying to leave my mind open to the possibility of changing my plans. Who knows I may find a place in medicine that I didn’t know that I wanted to go into. My hopes are that one in particular field really stands out to me once I get there. I hope to have one of those “ahh ha” moments that tells me yea this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. This is what I hope at least but I don’t hold that as a major possibility. I have never had that deep desire for anything in my life. I have always been good at anything that I do but have never really said “yea this is what I love doing” Don’t get me wrong I do love medicine and the fields related to it. Biology has always been a special interest of mine and figuring out how things work has been a knack I have had all my life.

I love being in school and learning. I have spent the last ten years of my life working from job to job and doing things that most people wouldn’t be able to handle. I have worked construction in the hot sun and I have worked in the freezing cold. I worked in a foundry for a year. That place was so horrible that most people didn’t make it through orientation. The plant was 140 degrees most of the time and you worked with aluminum that was close to 2000 degrees so it could be a daunting job from time to time. Being in school is the best thing that I have done with my life besides my family. I really enjoy learning and also not having to work at some factory is nice too.