Ask Jordyn (Part 2): Why I Quit Medical School

<p>Hello everyone, today we are continuing the series with Jordyn on her post COVID reflections. Let's get right into today's episode. </p> <p>_________________________________________________________ </p> <p> [00:00:00] Tuoyo Eresanara: Oh, wow. That is, that is really nice.</p> <p>[00:00:02] That's really nice. Wow. That's a, that's a mouthful. A bachelors in. Pre-medical concentration minors in chemistry and biology. Yes. Oh yeah. Wow. Okay. Okay. For those out there as possible. So, okay. So now let's get into this, the pandemic, I mean the whole world was on a stop. Like the whole world was on pause, like a really long pause.</p> <p>[00:00:35] So how did this whole thing affect you? Like how was the pandemic for you basically? </p> <p>[00:00:43] Jordyn Ruiz: Wow. There's a lot to unpack there. I think I want to start off with time. Time was a big thing that was very illusory to me at the time. And I think there was some sort of distortion going on. It feel, it felt like it went by really fast, also really.</p> <p>[00:00:59] [00:01:00] At the same time, because there's just so much going on and it bombarded by so many narratives, a lot of dialogue being thrown at me and my own internal dialogue going crazy. It was, it was really hard, like to premise my experience, at least through this pandemic, it, it was horrible in many ways, but it was also beautiful in many ways.</p> <p>[00:01:21] I think as a collective, like we all went through our own respective experiences and I think undertone of it, it was, it was really hard for everyone. And so for me personally, I went through, I think, an entire journey, like hero falls, it rises, maybe falls again and rises again. I had many peaks and valleys and I think now, and twist the end of 2021, I'm on the up end of a lot of the low points.</p> <p>[00:01:51] Of the pandemic. And so as a person, I think I entered the pandemic one way and as I'm coming out of [00:02:00] it, I'm a, I'm a different person. You know, I feel like it's a 180, like my heart posture has