Feel that prioritizing my relationship has made me a...boring...applicant?
For added context, I am engaged to my partner of 4 years, and we have a dog and own a house. And it seems that over the past few years, after all the long days of studying and rotations, I always would rather come home and spend what little time I have with my partner and our dog instead of devoting this time to ECs or other academic/professional ventures. Sure, I have been involved in a few ECs, a handful of research projects, and definitely DO have hobbies, but I still have this worry that prioritizing my relationship has made me a boring applicant? Like despite being involved in a handful of different ECs, I haven't served as 'president' of any student org, haven't won (or applied for) any awards or scholarships, or done much volunteering (seriously, how the fuck do y'all have time to volunteer?).
The biggest thing that I have going for me is that I crushed step 2 and got honors in all of my clerkships. But beyond that, I feel like I've sort of been 'going through the motions' as far as med school goes, if that makes sense?
And just to be clear, this is not me blaming my partner. Frankly, I have no regrets about how my medical school career has panned out. But looking back, I feel that devoting myself to my relationship has perhaps made me a boring applicant, just because I prioritized spending time with my partner more than being involved in ECs. Anybody else in a relationship feel this way?