Chi Omega at the University of Florida: Anna Beth's Dream

When I was four years old, I told my parents I was going to be a doctor. When I was in 6th grade, I did a project on the antigenic inheritance of blood types. In 2011, I became the first person in my immediate family to attend college, and this year I was accepted into the Junior Honors Medical Program at the University of Florida. It's a been a long road, but I have never stopped being obsessed with medicine.

When I came to UF, I immediately joined two organizations: Chi Omega and UF Pre-Med AMSA. Both groups of people have had a great influence on my life these last two years. In Chi Omega, I found my support group, the people I could spend hours on the couches with and talk about life. In AMSA, I found tons of people just like me, sharing the same interests and obsessing (commiserating really) over the same classes. All of these dynamic relationships made and helped me mature into the person that will hopefully make a caring physician.

Over the next year, my third and final year as an undergrad at UF, I will be taking a couple classes, writing a thesis, and most importantly, soaking it all in. I can't wait to see what the year holds, with my sisters, my friends, and my own development. I look forward to football games and Physical Diagnosis seminars, and really enjoying the campus that I have just committed the next five years of my life to. I'm thankful for all the opportunities UF and its people have given me, and I look forward to the future it's preparing me for.

- Anna Beth West