Sohee Carpenter

And then you start doing the thing and you're like, I don't want this anymore.

You know what it was?

It was physical chemistry that did me in.

That was the straw.

Really?

P-Chem, I was like...

I absolutely hate this class.

I was like, I'm going to fail.

I don't understand any... It was so abstract to me.

I hired private tutors.

I was getting extra help.

But obviously, we know it's not one class that's going to... It's not like you have to know physical chemistry as a practicing medical doctor.

And even my aunt, who's a doctor, she's like, you will never... She's like, you don't have to know O-Chem.

You don't have to know P-Chem.

their classes sometimes sometimes they do do classes they kind of like thin the herd and I was like well I didn't make it but but besides that it really made me think about okay am I actually even enjoying this or am I following this because I think this is what I'm supposed to do and a third of my graduating class are all pre-med or they're all like you know the human biology major is a popular path and you never had a backup it was always no I had no black you were you were gonna be a doctor when I quit that I was I was completely lost I was like

I have nothing else.

And I hadn't considered fitness as a career because again, at the time, having an online career or being something other than a full-time personal trainer, which I didn't want to do, wasn't really a well-known or even well-accepted concept.

So even when I would kind of talk about it, I would get pushback.

Not because they didn't understand.

They'd be like, wait, you're going to go to Stanford to become a personal trainer.