Back in the Hometown

After a VERY hectic past rcouple of weeks, I am now back at home in Friendswood, Texas. The rest of the family is traveling around Russia with my family from India, and I’m stuck here in Friendswood, Texas . . . taking MCAT classes. Friendswood is a town with a cute little history museum, a principal who remembers teaching people’s parents, a couple of intersections of farm roads, and a mall on its outskirts. As you can see, there’s not much to do here but study!

Now to warn you pre-meds out there- the MCAT is going to ruin a summer, a semester, or both. Count on it, and factor it in somewhere. You are going to have to give up your travel and internship plans and sit at home and read your physics book while everybody else is having fun. That’s pretty much my summer this summer . . . . and honestly, I’m not used to sitting around. Because I’m so involved at Tulane, I’m used to running around from classes to work to meetings with a few gaps for meals in between.

And let me tell you . . . this is a strange feeling. I haven’t been here for this long since the winter of my freshman year and I’m about to start my junior year. This town has definitely grown up in the time that I’ve been gone and so have my friends. It’s a sad truth, but I feel like I’m not really a part of life here anymore. I moved here when i was about 8 years old, and this house was always the place of activity, of people running up and down looking for things, people needing rides places, and just a general hustle and bustle that comes with childhood years. 12 years later, this house is empty, and the memories float in the air. Though I have a few friends and extended family nearby, sitting here in this house without a single person to tell me to go to bed, to call me and ask me what I thought of some latest episode, or to wake me up in the morning because of inconsiderate yelling about who is going to be late where is just lonely.

So to all you kids about to start college- appreciate the noise of your lives this summer. You won’t realize you’re going to miss it until it’s gone. And then you’ll find yourself in a charming little Texas town with a long summer of MCAT studies stretched out ahead of you.

Welcome to Friendswood.