Saturday, December 29, 2007

Camp/School/Medical School Prep

It's rolling around my head once in awhile. The idea that I may go back to being a counselor or just going to Counselor Training (CT) is a constant nuisance.

As of right now, my current plan is to transfer to the University of Washington (UW), start spring quarter, continue there for summer quarter and till I graduate.

This leaves me in a couple predicaments. Does that mean if I don't get into UW for spring, will I skip summer quarter at college and try to be a counselor? If I do go with my plan, does that mean I will never return to camp?

I don't think I want to be a counselor for children anymore. As fun as it was, I feel that I have gained all the experience I would be able to. That's why I am leaning towards just returning for CT. I would like to see a former camper of mine as a counselor.

A problem that I had run into this summer was that I was fired from camp (let go as they put it) for lack of campers. As most people could deduce from me being "let go" is that there were probably other problems that went away when I was fired. I won't go into the details of it, but I am not sure if those problems would persist if I was to return.

Another reason is that I have realized that I want to be a doctor. From the advice that I have been given by a doctor to get into medical school, I need to job shadow a couple of physicians as a way of showing that I have the idea of what I will be getting myself into. I would probably do this starting spring break or during summer break/quarter. Thus it could either work out nicely with the camp schedule or not work out at all with the school/camp schedule.

I have a couple of months till I hear from UW, and a couple of more months till I would need to apply to camp.

Any advice?

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