It was a hard journey but I finally got my MLS ASCP certification!! Everything on here has been so helpful, thank you all 🫶🏻

So apparently I got a job. I’m not even sure how because everything happened so ridiculously fast. Honestly, I think I dissociated through that interview and just happened to say the right combination of words because they sent me an offer the next day. It at a cancer hospital, with the exact hours I wanted. Which is actually really cool and slightly terrifying. I’m still kind of in shock because, if I’m being honest, I wasn’t even planning on going into this field. But apparently the universe laughing in my face, and saying, “Cute. Anyway…” This has been a LONG road, and maybe one day I’ll be able to look back and say, “Wow, that was totally worth it.” 🫩For now, I’ll be over here trying to process the fact that I accidentally built a career while mentally buffering for the last walk At this point my therapy is now call "professional development."

Greetings Gang and Happy Monday, everyone! This month, I wanted to do something special to say thank you to the students who have invested in themselves and are working hard toward certification. I’m hosting an exclusive giveaway for members of the ✨PAID Microscope Views✨ community, and there will be 4 winners selected on August 15th. The prizes are designed to help make your journey to becoming certified a little easier. How to enter: ✅ Be a member of the paid Microscope Views community ✅ Head over to the paid community and follow the giveaway instructions in the giveaway post. 🎊 Bonus: To celebrate the giveaway, membership is on sale for just $87/month through August 15th. If you’ve been thinking about joining, now is the perfect time. You’ll get immediate access to all of the study resources, live support, and you’ll be eligible to enter this month’s exclusive giveaway before the sale ends. Join HERE https://www.skool.com/microscopeviews Good luck to everyone entering! I’m excited to bless a few of you this month. 🫶🏽 Xoxo, Marilyn

I'm currently typing this as I'm walking out of the testing center. lol. That experience made me question if I was fit for this career, but I ended up passing, first try. THANK YOU for all the resources and laughs! I coundn't have passed my MLS exam without them.

I passed!!! 🎉 I have NO idea how! Does not feel real..... That test was... I don't even know what that test was. I feel like I dissociated through the entire exam. The only thing I kept whispering to myself was, "Think it through," just like Marilyn @marilynthescientist always says. Meanwhile, my internal monologue was just the F-word every two minutes. 😂 I was fully convinced I was failing the entire time!!! I mean THE WHOLE TIME. I almost walked out🤣 I felt despair self-deprecation you name it but..... I clicked Submit, a few words I barely even comprehended appeared on the screen, and then I saw PASS. Ten weeks of nonstop studying paid off! Afterthoughts: I despised my program director and basically lived at school five days a week, 8 hours a day for two and a half years. It still feels like a fever dream. But somehow I made it through......