just spent 10 minutes talking to my cat about my frustrations with applying this cycle and still not having an acceptance. told her about me being on waitlist for two schools I would like to go to, but they have to want me to. spoke about all the things I’ve done at this point to get this far being three gap years deep. about just wanting my life to begin after feeling like it’s been put on pause and the frustrations around that. also told her about the fact that only 35% of Florida applicants matriculated last year and that just being another reason this feels like such an uphill battle.

every time somebody in my life talks about the fact that I’m waitlisted it’s always followed by “you’ll get in!”. but the reality is being in this premed space for so many years I know that even being waitlisted at multiple schools is not a guarantee especially with my low mcat score. so i’m kind of trying to not have too much hope about the situation. also worth mentioning that if this doesn’t work out, I have to reapply very soon which means another year of this horribly long process.

she meowed at me multiple times, but I appreciated her just blankly staring at me for 8 of those 10 minutes while I ranted. so it was nice to just talk about the situation to a living being that can’t really talk back and just get some things off of my chest. this was therapeutic for me so would recommend you guys take advantage of it, whatever kind of pet you have! Feel free to use the comments below to rant if you need to, this process can be so frustrating and it’s hard to have an outlet for it all :(