After 3 long, crazy, and challenging years, I'm thrilled to be wrapping up my didactic pharmacy career and moving on to my P4 rotations: APPEs (Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience)! My transition into pharmacy school was rough. I spent 3 years working on my pre-requisite classes, at a local college where I ended up meeting some of my very best friends. I sacrificed undergrad graduation to move into pharmacy school sooner rather than later, and ended up with whip-lash trying to adjust to grad school life. Practically over night I went from a homework coaster to a "how late is the library open?" person (24/7 in grad school apparently). I went from a few exams a semester to three exams every week. On top of the academic expectation differences, I struggled with making friends in pharmacy school. We were all frantically trying to keep a float, stresses were high and free time was infrequent.

Fast forward three years later and I can say that I have many friends in my pharmacy program. I'm sad that it will be months before my entire class is together again. We've grown together, loved together, leaned on each other, lifted one another, stressed out on each other, messed up with one another, laughed, cried, and most importantly had a BLAST these past three years. In our P1 year, one of our professors told us that "no one gets through pharmacy school alone" and I've found that to be one of the most solid pieces of wisdom I've received. I got through pharmacy school because of the support my friends and family have so wonderfully gifted me with.