Elementary School: 5 years 🧒🏾📚 Learning my ABCs with absolutely NO idea what I signed up for 😭 Middle School: 3 years 🥴 Just trying to survive puberty and group projects High School: 4 years 🎓 “Okay now your grades actually matter” Excuse me??? 😭 SAT or ACT 📝😵‍💫 Pay money to prove I know how to take a test so I can pay more money to go to school College: 4 years 🎓📚 Biology. Chemistry. Organic Chemistry. Physics. Everybody getting weeded out and somehow you still standing 🧍🏾‍♂️ MCAT: 7+ HOURS 💀📖 One little exam asking me everything mankind has discovered since the beginning of time Medical School Applications: 1 year 💸🙏🏾 Applications. Secondaries. Interviews. Rejection emails. “Thank you for your interest” became a trigger 😭 Medical School: 4 years 🩺📚 Finally made it! SIKE. Now learn the entire human body by Thursday. USMLE STEP 1 🧠😵‍💫 Months of studying just to see PASS No score. No parade. Just PASS 😭 USMLE STEP 2 CK 📚🔥 Oh you thought we were done testing??? Residency Applications 💸🩺 Time to professionally beg somebody to let me work 80 hours a week Residency: 3 to 7 YEARS 🏥☕ Congratulations, Doctor! 🎉 Now come to the hospital before the sun comes up. USMLE STEP 3 📝 ANOTHER ONE??? 😭 Fellowship: 1 to 3+ YEARS 🩺📚 Because apparently I looked at all that schooling and said “I could use a little more.” 🤡 Attending Physician 👨🏾‍⚕️🙏🏾 After roughly 25 to 30 years of school and training Momma… I think we made it. 😭🙏🏾 #premed #medstudent #medicalschool #doctor #premedstudent - @dr.flexfit