Oh man. Ha. Long enough to have been in med school and done with my residency.

I'm not kidding.

I've been in school on and off since I was 19. I'm 35. I have two "accidental" associates degrees because I've taken so many credits towards so many different majors. I think I've officially had four majors: Biology, music, nursing, and biomedical sciences. Don't ask about the music major; I think that was impulsivity at it's finest. I played violin since I was 9 and decided I wanted to teach all of a sudden so I majored in violin and minored in cello for a year and a half because my brain had had enough of biology and I was failing anyway.

I do very well in my classes when I'm stable. I had a 3.8 GPA in the beginning of my biology and biomedical sciences majors. Then I start getting frazzled, I get overwhelmed, I procrastinate, work piles up, I get all BPD about things and I freak out and blow off one test and there goes my GPA. I can go from all A's to failing pretty quickly. I'm either working my butt off or I'm not trying at all. There is no middle ground. I'm not a C student. I either ace the class or fail spectacularly.