I want to be a doctor, but the extra years of schooling and the timing just don't seem to be right. I want to start a family somewhat soon, as my boyfriend is a bit older then I am and is not getting any younger, and I don't want to be in medical school with young children. Maybe I will take a page from your book, Birdgirl, and get my medical degree when my children are grown...but that just seems like putting off what I want to do for so long.

I can't seem to reconcile the two issues, having a family and going to medical school. I desperately want to do both, and I am entirely unsure that it will ever happen. I have almost resigned myself to just getting my B.S. and my Masters and then starting my family and that be the end of it, but I really hate to give up the dream.