Med school, here I come!

This afternoon, I received an email from Mayo Medical School (Rochester, MN) with an appointment offer for the class of 2006. I'm ecstatic! After interviewing at Mayo, Duke, and Michigan, Mayo was my top choice. I was very impressed with their facilities and resources and I highly desire to be a part of the Mayo community. God gave me the desire of my heart!

This entire process has been a wonderful lesson in trusting God. Last June, Pastor Louie, my home church pastor, gave a sermon on the end of Matthew 6, the passage addressing worry. He said in his sermon that there are two keys to combating worry. First, you must work really hard and do whatever you can. Then, you must trust really hard and let God do the rest, according to His plan. This was exactly the process I went through. Of course, the hardest part was the second part, where nearly everything was out of my hands. Unlike most applicants, I didn't have much of a "backup" school. If I wasn't accepted to Duke, Mayo, or Michigan, I simply wouldn't be going to medical school this year. But God was faithful and came through. Not only that, but He blessed me with my top choice. Praise the Lord!

(Photo cropped from http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/departments-mcr.cfm)