I have submitted my Medical Application to TMDSAS

If you wouldn't mind, scroll back a few posts and take note of my entry in July of 2010.  On that historic day I was able to submit my AACOMAS applications for DO schools. If there has been one thing I have learned throughout my medical pursuit, it has been that each activity and experiences seems to build on one another.  The effort and achievement I put forth during my first effort seems to always be improved by the second.  Submitting my applications last year was a big feat. Rachel and I stayed up till the wee hours of the morning finishing that thing. I remember it as if it was yesterday...oh, wait, yesterday Rachel and I stayed up until 1:30 a.m. attempting to perfect my personal statement to submit it to TMDSAS.  Back to the point. Rachel and I did our best last year even though I submitted my applications all the way in July.  This year has been better. I began working on my personal statement in mid April and simultaneousness filling out my application. When we pushed submit today it was a much more real feeling for me. I was nervous as all get out, but confident that I had done my best in filling out every required, and optional, field for that application.

My success in Medical School will inevitably be determined by my ability to utilize other's abilities. Let me explain.  I have spent over 200 hours on my personal statement. Been through over 35 edits and requested more than 15 others to look at it. People that have helped me include, but are not limited to: Rachel Henderson, Steve Lee, Steve Larsen, Brock Kitchen, Jason Zippro, the girl in the pre-med office last year, Scott Petersen, Ashley Petersen, Tyler Petersen, Jesika & Robbie Harmon, Lizzy Ann Jensen, Taylor Henderson, Kurt Henderson, Lon and Carrie Henderson, and more.  I will not be accepted to medical school by my individual merits alone.  I will only be accepted by the thoughtful contributions, meaningful lessons, and diligent efforts of others on my behalf. Of this, I know.  My successful career in Medicine will continue that same trend. I will not remedy others problems without the research of professionals dating centuries ago, and I will not serve others compassionately without the Holy Ghost as my companion. I don't even want to know the difficulties life will present if I am not daily studying the scriptures and communing with my Heavenly Father.

Applying to medical school  this year has done more for me than teach me how to begin early and diligently complete what I've started. It has taught me a pattern and practice that will carry me throughout my life, a life full of service to my family and to loved ones I meet.

Thank you Everyone!

-Michael Lon Henderson