Same. You know, I thought time was going by faster and faster as I got older. I can say that I have found the antidote for that trend: waiting on a MCAT score.
Here's the thing: let's say you achieve your wildest MCAT fantasies and get the score of your dreams. Everything goes your way and a year later, you're sitting on an acceptance to your top choice medical school. You go there and it really is everything you were hoping it was. Years 1 and 2 are filled with success. Then, you have to take USMLE Step 1, the MCAT's bigger and much meaner brother, where the scores can take EVEN LONGER to release. The people who took the exam on May 12th have to wait until like July 9th for the scores to be released. Your future and hundreds of thousands of dollars in spent money are at stake, loans that will hound you until the day you die. Based on how you're feeling now, how will you feel then? How slowly will time pass?
A guy I know made a silly little social media app earlier this year with his friends. It blew up and he's now sitting on $75 million in venture capital funding, which is probably more than what five attendings combined will make in their lifetimes. Making that money did not involve taking a multiple-choice test filled with continuity equations and magnetic fields and linkage analyses. Sometimes, it seems like medicine is the hardest, most stressful path to a decent standard of living- and we haven't even started yet.