In October 2000, Jennifer Hawke was a 23-year old data entry monkey and assistant to a not-super-important president of a small start-up company in Vancouver. She created this website as a way to pass time and keep her far-flung friends and family updated. She thought she was pretty smart to teach herself HTML and has aggregated a wonderful network of friends across the continent and around the world that are still important to her 11 years later.

But today, that girl does not exist.

She has been replaced by a much kinder and more impatient superhero that can leap long hospital shifts in a single bound. She can change a diaper with one eye closed and empty the dishwasher with kung fu moves that would make Jackie Chan proud. She has evolved into a doting wife, adventurous mother, caring doctor, ambivalent dog owner, and amateur gardener. She has traded her fiercely guarded independence for lift-the-flap choo-choo books and her eccentric spontaneity for crowded clinic schedules.

Jennifer Hawke doesn’t exist anymore and the presence of this website is no longer an accurate representation of her online presence.

Her archives will stay online and there are keywords for sale on old blog pages. You can purchase links within old posts to enhance your search engine terms and feed her addiction for buying her son new books. She will honor previous sales for the length of the commitment previously determined.

Many of you come here looking for information about Medical University of the Americas. Jennifer’s short answer to every email is always the same: it’s not for everyone, but it helped her achieve her dreams. Any of the details about what life is like on Nevis or what you can expect on the island and during clinical rotations in the US can be found in the archives. She doesn’t know any secrets of The Easy Way To Become a Doctor and all of her advice is summed up nicely in two words: work hard.

If you know her married name, please add the extinct Jennifer Hawke on Facebook. The 2.0 version is excited to keep up with you on a more personal level. It’s weird to say that Facebook is more personal than a blog, but with fun-filled privacy features, it’s true.

Good-bye, Jennifer Hawke. I will think of you often and miss you like an old friend.

Love,