Hi everyone! As my blog says, my name is Taylor Marie Haddad. I am
a senior at OU, which is terrifying and exciting all at the same time. Luckily,
just because I am graduating soon does not mean I actually have to move on to
the real world quite yet, because I am planning to apply to graduate school.
This summer, after much hard work, including taking the dreaded MCAT, I applied
to medical school... and then about a month later, I withdrew my applications.
I had been pre-medicine ever since I got to college, so this decision was a
pretty big deal. A lot of factors went into the decision. I even made a list of
reasons for not going to medical school before I talked to my parents. Mainly,
I realized that my personality is not really that of a doctor. I prefer to be a
team member, rather than the team leader. I also don't think that I would
handle the death of patients well, especially due to how much responsibility I
would have. I think that doctors often give up some of their quality of life to
improve their patients' quality of life. I want to have time to be a present
mother someday, just like my mother was to me. So, instead of pre-med, I am now
pre-nursing. I hope to eventually become a nurse practitioner in a small town.
I am taking human physiology this semester, which is definitely going to be
difficult, I'm really nervous about it, because I'm already behind on reading! Oh,
I should probably mention, I have taken Mythology and Folklore with Dr. Gibbs
already and it has absolutely been one of my favorite classes!
Enough about school. My family is
incredible and I am so lucky to have them. I am the youngest of three girls. We
have lived in Shawnee, Oklahoma our whole lives, where my dad practices
medicine as a pulmonologist and my mom works at a local deli. My oldest sister,
Jessica married her high school sweetheart and they are now expecting their
first baby, my nephew, James! His ETA is November 29th and my whole family
can't wait! Niki, my other sister, just graduated and is at the OU Physical
Therapy school. I have been dating Austin, my boyfriend, for over three and a
half years, and he is like a part of my family too. Over the weekend, before
school started, my dad, mom, Jessica, Jake (her husband), Niki, Toby (her
boyfriend and Jake's cousin), Austin, and I went to Las Vegas to celebrate
Austin and Toby's birthdays! Austin and I went to the show Jersey Boys, which is
about the band, the Four Seasons. We also gambled quite a bit, because, well
it's Vegas. The night/morning before we left, the whole gang minus my parents,
gambled until 4:30 in the morning (we had to leave for our flight at 6:30
a.m.). Luckily, we all made it out ahead. However, our luck ran out on the
way home. Our flight was delayed by four hours, while our connecting flight was
not delayed at all. We ended up missing our connecting flight and having to get
a rental car to drive back here from Dallas. About two hours into the drive, we
get a flat. My dad, Jake, and Austin changed it and we finally got home at midnight,
the day of our first classes. It was totally worth it!
Image Information: Personal photos from our Vegas Vacation (August 2014)
First photo: Austin and I in front of the Paris hotel
Second photo: From left to right, Jessica, Mom, Niki, Dad, and Me
