It’s been almost a year since I received the news that I’d be on the 2017 team. So much has changed in a relatively short amount of time- I’ve become close with my teammates, I’ve studied and prepared for the MCAT, I’ve had one of my most favorite summers, I’ve moved into a new house […]
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. –Helen Keller This quote first appeared in my 8th-grade planner. Three days ago, I was sifting through books at a bookstore when I turned to a page that had this quote printed artlessly among the other words. I think that nothing could quite […]
Growth. It’s a term that’s often thrown around the conversation about Texas 4000 and it’s impact, however I never truly understood what it meant until recently. To me, growth is progressing in the direction to improving yourself so that you can be the person you want to be. All of my life, I have […]
Wow. So much has happened since the day I received the call that I had been accepted into Texas 4000. I remember that day vividly. They had told us that we should be expecting a notification of some sort by the end of the day and it was already 6:30 p.m. I had decided to […]
Time is something I have always struggled with. The idea of it really freaks me out –– the way that it moves by so quickly and things that felt like a lifetime away are now happening, and after they end, what’s next? I mean it feels like just yesterday that I was a freshman in […]
I’m unsure how this happened so fast, but it’s been almost a year since the 2017 Texas 4000 team was formed. I finally feel like I understand what people mean when they talk about how their kids grew up so quickly. Though it’s been a steady and speedy progression and we’ve come a long way since […]
At 5:00 AM I wake up to my alarm, roll out of bed, slide on my running shoes and walk out the gates of my apartment complex. As I walk through a barren West Campus, I take my time in preparing myself to interact with the 82 teammates I am about to see. […]
It’s official. I’ll be biking to Alaska through New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington.. Just to name a few of the areas I’ll be lucky enough to bike through. From the day I was accepted into the organization, I hoped I was put on the Sierra route. When it came to the day […]
I could not think of a more appropriate time to make a blog post then right now. I’ve had a lot of awesome things happens to me since I was accepted in this program almost a year ago, but none of them compare to how I felt this past Saturday and Monday! On Saturday morning […]
It’s application season right now for the 2018 Texas 4000 team, which brings back a lot of memories as to what led me to apply to be on the Texas 4000 team. Lately, I’ve been contemplating what being a rider means and more significantly, what being a rider has meant to me over the past […]
