Trust me?

Now that I've been accepted into medical school, the process of deciding when I need to leave NASA begins. Classes begin August 18th, but on August 15th we have a mandatory white coat ceremony. What's that you ask? It's a ceremony where we get a white coat with our name and the University seal embroidered - apparently, we are supposed to wear this whenever we are acting as stewards of the University in public.

So to summarize, three days before my first medical school class, I will be given a coat which I can wear to make everyone around me think that I know what I am doing. For those of you wondering whether or not I do in fact know what I am doing, let me assure you - I don't. At this point, I have taken two biology classes in which everything I touched was already dead, and a couple of organic chemistry classes in which I learned how to convert one unpronounceable chemical into another by drawing stick figures on a piece of paper.

On a serious note, thank you to all of you for your support and well wishes over the course of the last year and a half - they are very appreciated.