2014-2015 Panic Thread

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Dr Van Helsing said:
Well, considering I am 20 and I have busted my ass to take more classes, surpassing all my classmates, I would say I am a sophomore. This gif is silly.
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Do you plan to graduate early? If not, you are a freshman.
 
godawg300 said:
So you are just taking the pre-reqs and applying without a degree? Why are you in panic mode?
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I'm just so nervous to take the MCAF. I have only a year to study.
Yeah I'm taking classes to expand my mind.
It's not like I need a degree to go to medical school..
God.
 
efle said:
Why can't you just be normal like the rest of us
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I've always been different. Ever since I was a baby I had powers to bend spoons and read minds. My parents were naturally afraid, so they sold me into sex slavery. As you can guess, that endeavor didn't last long.. I had the ability to break dicks and twist nipples. My PIMP rolled me down a mountain straight into a river. I remember floating down that river for days and days and days. Finally, I was rescued by a ship of lesbian fisherwomen.. They caught me in a nylon net. They trained me to meditate, communicate with dolphins, and generally be one with the ocean. Finally, when I was 15 it was time for me to fly away from the nest. One thing led to another and I ended up in the desert. Here I am.
 
submitted/completed early July. Should I still expect interviews to come my way?
Applied 20, 1 II so far. 3.7 cgpa 31 mcat.
 
UCUCUC said:
submitted/completed early July. Should I still expect interviews to come my way?
Applied 20, 1 II so far. 3.7 cgpa 31 mcat.
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Either you applied to only selective schools or there's something other than your numbers causing you problems, that's more than enough for IIs at many many mid-to-lower schools
 
llamasarefuzzy said:
+1. Panic eating and not working out because I've been too busy doing secondaries. Gained 6 pounds while applying. Applying to med school is the unhealthiest thing I've ever done
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You gotta work out, man. I eat a lot of crap, but I make sure to get the workouts in.
 
NYCdude said:
You gotta work out, man. I eat a lot of crap, but I make sure to get the workouts in.
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Yup. Agreed. Was running 10 miles/ day + daily bikram before secondaries. Just finished my last one today ( submitted far too many because I'm neurotic, apparently). Planning on getting back into the swing of things now that I don't have any more secondaries to write
 
godawg300 said:
Still too early to panic.....really absurd that people that didn't even apply this cycle are in a state of panic. Seriously, enjoy college life.
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Actually, right about now, I kinda wished I didn't enjoy college life that much.:laugh:

NYCdude said:
Has anyone else been panic eating? I think I ate like 3 donuts today. Argh.
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I've been panic eating a lot these days, mostly at buffets. But then again, the stress causes me to lose weight so it balances out.
 
Lol, I'm not applying for 2-3 years and I'm panicking about ECs and classes.
 
altblue said:
Lol, I'm not applying for 2-3 years and I'm panicking about ECs and classes.
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Well at least you are panicking now, I was late to the premed game and am not excited about having only a year of clinical volunteering and less lab exp on my app. Better to get the neurotic motivation instilled early on
 
efle said:
Well at least you are panicking now, I was late to the premed game and am not excited about having only a year of clinical volunteering and less lab exp on my app. Better to get the neurotic motivation instilled early on
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I understand, I didn't consider pre-med until mid sophomore year.

I wish I had started earlier and taken stuff at CC while I was still there, lol. Now I'm taking orgo, physics etc. at a top 20.🙄
 
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If I could go back in time to my freshmen self. I would tell myself to:

1. Study hard and ace every class. Looking back, I could have aced every class if I studied hard enough.
2. Ace MCAT VR. The rest comes easily (sort of). I spent too much time on the sciences.
3. Start gaining some sort of clinical experience that is unique. e.g volunteering program/shadowing.
4. Try to get published in research. It gives credibility.
5. Explore hobbies more in-depth.
6. Explore back-up career plans more in-depth.
 
efle said:
Well at least you are panicking now, I was late to the premed game and am not excited about having only a year of clinical volunteering and less lab exp on my app. Better to get the neurotic motivation instilled early on
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You have a high MCAT...if you're really worried, then take a gap year, like most Wash U kids do.
 
efle said:
Yeah it's a running joke that nobody ever knows about WashU, and it's true. I've had people confuse it with Uni of Washington, george washington uni, and even washington and lee university
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Well actually the only thing I ever hear about WashU is premed related. I have never heard anything else about that school.
 
efle said:
While I was shadowing a neurologist back home over summer I had one of the PAs ask me where I went and then after hearing asked if it was an online college

mfw

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At least the people who know realize it's a difficult school and will respect that you go there.

I don't go to HYPSM or anything, but some people know my school, and I've been writen off as a "trust-fund baby" behind my back...
 
godawg300 said:
Well actually the only thing I ever hear about WashU is premed related. I have never heard anything else about that school.
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Yeah it's funny how certain things about a school get magnified, I'd only heard of Duke from sports and JHopkins from med/biomed as well
 
altblue said:
At least the people who know realize it's a difficult school and it will respect you go there.

I don't go to HYPSM or anything, but some people know my school, and I've been writen off as a "trust-fund baby" behind my back...
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If there's any good school full of trust fund babies its WashU so I don't judge. It's absolutely bizarre how few people I talk to went to public high schools
 
godawg300 said:
Well actually the only thing I ever hear about WashU is premed related. I have never heard anything else about that school.
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I wonder if, per capita, more people will have heard of Wash U on SDN than in Missouri. 😉

But I'm not from around there, so you know.
 
efle said:
Where are you from, the Hamptons? Or Aspen?
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TBH, I resent that. I'm by no means rich, or even UMC, but thank you for assuming that anyway....
 
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efle said:
Really? You don't think attractive people get massive benefits in life? I'd much rather carry the burden of a 1/16th Native American ancestry than be markedly ugly.

Good to see all the "do it for the helping people!!" vibes on SDN are reflected in the real world of medicine 😉
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Just letting you know that equating your experience as an "unattractive" person to the "burden" of being "Native American" comes off as slightly offensive and insensitive to other people of color. There is absolutely no comparison at all and I say this as someone who holds onto multiple statuses of disadvantage (woman, person of color, immigrant, gay) and as someone who was bullied as a child for being scrawny, needing seven years of orthodontic work, and being "too brown" for the kids in a white, affluent South American school.
 
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StayCoolIceCube said:
Do you realize you can click under the person's username to look at their recent (/entire) post history? NYMC.
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And even if they limit who can view their profile, if you simply do a search and enter their username under "Posted by Member", you see all of their posts, thereby essentially rendering that privacy option useless.
 
aprimenumber said:
And even if they limit who can view their profile, if you simply do a search and enter their username under "Posted by Member", you see all of their posts, thereby essentially rendering that privacy option useless.
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Or just click the messages number count link under their username, sorry that's what I was actually referring to before. The link works even for members who restrict their profile.
 
My aunt is an MD at URochester and asked me over thanksgiving if I was planning to apply DO as I didn't have any acceptances yet...

Good times.

StayCoolIceCube said:
Do you realize you can click under the person's username to look at their recent (/entire) post history? NYMC.
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Or you can actually ask the question because you know... it's a forum where people talk.
 
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