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Introduction: New Year, New Me--But Don't Roll Your Eyes Just Yet

If you go to college and don't have at least one breakdown, did you really go college? October of my Fall Semester of 2015, I was a junior on the premed track. While studying for a genetics exam, I suddenly reached my limit and absolutely lost my mind. I very distinctly remember crying in a corner in the common area of my dorm where I was studying at around 3 am because the pressure had become too much. It wasn't just the class, or even being premed. It was that I had lost my way. Not knowing how I would get to my destination was not new to me, but not knowing what my destination would be is not something I was accustomed to. Ok, I wasn't Kim Kardashian meme-crying. It was a gentle "just rammed by pinkie toe into the side of the dresser but I'm a G so I can't let you see me in pain so imma turn my back real quick" cry. In that moment of weakness, though, I had a slight breakthrough. See, in my mind, I was going to drop my Biology major and go study actin