nontradmunmed

hey all i just had to share my experience because i am a non-traditional non-traditional non-traditional medical student! or future medical student - i got my acceptance a month ago and i'm starting this fall. i am 39 years old, a parent, a PhD graduate who did a humanities PhD (and a humanities masters, and a humanities undergrad). I've been working as a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years, and got myself into some occupational health and safety research, but otherwise i've entirely been a theorist whose focussed more on philosophy than on data. i bombed my first two years of undergrad, dropped out for 3 years, and then went back to school. after my masters i worked internationally at women's rights organisations for a couple years, then with women's organisations in canada for a couple years, then a PhD (in philosophy of technology, basically). throughout my phd i felt uncertain about what i was doing. i wanted to go back to working in women's organisations and internationally, but felt like i didn't have much to offer without specific training. i love research, but missed working with people. i have NEVER, EVER, in all my years of post secondary education, taken a science course. NONE. i began studying for the MCAT in 2015, entirely self taught. bought a book called Organic Chemistry as a Second Language which I cannot recommend enough. i did abysmally on my first MCAT and wasn't invited anywhere for an interview. I did better on my second MCAT, got an interview, and just received my acceptance. seriously - i self-taught myself science, while working full time on research and raising a kid. i have mediocre cGPA because of two bad years in undergrad. i have no science back ground. i am (relatively) old. AND I GOT IN! if i can do it you can. i am so excited. this is a dream come true. every day i pinch myself because i feel like i am so lucky to be allowed to study medicine and one day be a doctor and care for patients and do meaningful work that incorporates both research and working with people. seriously: if any of you out there doubt yourselves please contact me because i got in and so can you!