Age range?

[njbmd]

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31 in M1, and married 4 yrs. The second anatomy lab, I went over to another cadaver tank to see what they had found, and a young students asked 'Are you the professor?' HA!

Hey there,
You should have said that you were the professor and enjoyed some major "suck up" from the students. Its kind of fun at times.
njbmd 🙂

 

[happy20003]

i can't vote because i am less than 25yrs old(now), i still have to do the post bac, that will be 1-2yrs and then i will need to apply to the med school.so in 2 yrs i will be 25

 

[arghimapirate]

I'm [hopefully] heading into medicine next year at age 16. That's relatively untraditional right? Lol. To cut a long story short I skipped a few years here and there in my education. I'm currently enrolled in B. of Science (Physics major) and have almost finished my first year, but as it turns out, I'm not as interested in it as I thought I would be. I was really ill at the time last year when we needed to enrol in UMAT- the Australian medical exam (I had Q Fever) and thus, although I had always wanted to do something in the area of health, I was unable to apply. I figured that as I liked physics alot then I should go into that.

 

[Empi]

48

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

How old am I?

• John F. Kennedy was the President of the United States when I was born. I believe Ike was still around when I was conceived, though.
• I don't remember losing JFK - but I do remember losing both Martin Luther King, Jr. and RFK. The 60's were not quite the fun, flower-power jaunt one hears about these days.
• I remember watching Apollo 11 - live, on television.
• We didn't have color television until I was in junior high.
• The elementary school I attended had no air conditioning - in the South.
• I know all about the "Greatest Generation." My father flew B-17 bombers, and my mother built them - I was their last child. Two of my grandparents were born before 1900.
• The first personal computer I used was an Apple II - and I was in graduate school.
• I know the bitter tears one cries when one drops a 2,000 punched card program deck in a computer science class - and one hadn't bothered to punch serial numbers on the cards. I can still run an IBM Model 129 cardpunch faster than darn near anybody - but I haven't seen a job posting in quite a while. I'm sure my Pentium quad core could run circles around the IBM System/370 that I trained on at Oklahoma State - which occupied an entire basement and was, at that time, the largest non-governmental computer installation in the world. It even had the dials and the blinky lights. At one time, I could tell you what the lights of the Program Status Word (PSW) actually meant.
• Disco, before it became a cliche of stupidity, was an absolute blast. You just can't even imagine, because you weren't there.
• I don't care which muscle car you drive. A 454 with no pollution controls could beat the snot out of it - and those engines were not unusual in boring sedans up until 1973.
• If you think Hillary Clinton was highly opinionated, you just don't remember Betty Ford.
• I've never owned a pair of "Tommy" jeans because both Calvin Klein and I have been there and done that. 501s were always more comfortable, anyway.
• "Streaking" was a brand-new fad when I was a Freshman in college. No, I didn't.
• I was shocked when I applied to medical school and found out that there's actually a vaccine for varicella. For my generation, chicken pox was never a question of if - just when.
• A small fact which seems to have been lost when "Mamma Mia!" came out - Abba, when they did their greatest original hits, did not speak a single word of English - they just learned the lyrics written for them.
• When I was beating the snot out of my medical school classmates at a party game of Trivial Pursuit, I was asked how I knew so many obscure details about Watergate. Because I would fake illness in junior high to stay home to watch the hearings on television, that's why.
• I took a Basic Astronomy course starting in August, 1979. It's a good thing I made an "A", because I had to report that grade on AMCAS and it did indeed figure into my BCPM.

I applied when I was 43, interviewed at 44, and turned 45 just after first year classes started. I'm now 47, a third-year, and having an absolute blast.

 

[student1799]

Today: 29
Tuesday: 30
When I apply: 30
When I start (hopefully) 31

Hey Dr. Mom, I gots me a wife and TWO daughters. Someone please help.......I need more male time in a non homosexual erotic way.

My girls keep trying to make me beautiful

I have the opposite problem: a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by men!

(I'm 45, BTW. Applying this year.)

 

[psychmama]

How old am I?

• John F. Kennedy was the President of the United States when I was born. I believe Ike was still around when I was conceived, though.
• I don't remember losing JFK - but I do remember losing both Martin Luther King, Jr. and RFK. The 60's were not quite the fun, flower-power jaunt one hears about these days.
• I remember watching Apollo 11 - live, on television.
• We didn't have color television until I was in junior high.
• The elementary school I attended had no air conditioning - in the South.
• I know all about the "Greatest Generation." My father flew B-17 bombers, and my mother built them - I was their last child. Two of my grandparents were born before 1900.
• The first personal computer I used was an Apple II - and I was in graduate school.
• I know the bitter tears one cries when one drops a 2,000 punched card program deck in a computer science class - and one hadn't bothered to punch serial numbers on the cards. I can still run an IBM Model 129 cardpunch faster than darn near anybody - but I haven't seen a job posting in quite a while. I'm sure my Pentium quad core could run circles around the IBM System/370 that I trained on at Oklahoma State - which occupied an entire basement and was, at that time, the largest non-governmental computer installation in the world. It even had the dials and the blinky lights. At one time, I could tell you what the lights of the Program Status Word (PSW) actually meant.
• Disco, before it became a cliche of stupidity, was an absolute blast. You just can't even imagine, because you weren't there.
• I don't care which muscle car you drive. A 454 with no pollution controls could beat the snot out of it - and those engines were not unusual in boring sedans up until 1973.
• If you think Hillary Clinton was highly opinionated, you just don't remember Betty Ford.
• I've never owned a pair of "Tommy" jeans because both Calvin Klein and I have been there and done that. 501s were always more comfortable, anyway.
• "Streaking" was a brand-new fad when I was a Freshman in college. No, I didn't.
• I was shocked when I applied to medical school and found out that there's actually a vaccine for varicella. For my generation, chicken pox was never a question of if - just when.
• A small fact which seems to have been lost when "Mamma Mia!" came out - Abba, when they did their greatest original hits, did not speak a single word of English - they just learned the lyrics written for them.
• When I was beating the snot out of my medical school classmates at a party game of Trivial Pursuit, I was asked how I knew so many obscure details about Watergate. Because I would fake illness in junior high to stay home to watch the hearings on television, that's why.
• I took a Basic Astronomy course starting in August, 1979. It's a good thing I made an "A", because I had to report that grade on AMCAS and it did indeed figure into my BCPM.

I applied when I was 43, interviewed at 44, and turned 45 just after first year classes started. I'm now 47, a third-year, and having an absolute blast.

I pegged your age exactly! Why? Because I'm 47 too, finishing my last year of clinical psych PsyD. I will be just shy of 50 when I'm licensed.
Oh...and yes...I remember Calvin Kleins and Disco too (before it was retro).🙂🙂😀

 

[rxn]

It's possible I may be the oldest one here....certainly ONE of the oldest. I'm 48, just starting my prereqs...will be 50 by the time I apply....51 when I start med school....55 when I start residency.

I must admit to being quite envious of flighterdoc's credentials....much more impressive than mine. I majored in voice and minored in piano in my first college career. The last time I took any math or science (until this summer) was in 10th grade - 32 years ago. I DID manage to bring home a B in algebra this summer, though. Considering how long it had been since I'd last studied algebra as well as cramming a 16-week class into 8 weeks while working full-time....well, I'm pretty pleased with that B.

Go for it! I am 46 and was accepted into medical school for the class of 2013. So I will be 47 when I start, 51 when I graduate and 54 when I finish residency (IM). You can do it too!

 

[DrMidlife]

Go for it! I am 46 and was accepted into medical school for the class of 2013. So I will be 47 when I start, 51 when I graduate and 54 when I finish residency (IM). You can do it too!

So last year you were an MSII at DMU and now you're ALSO starting med school next August? Neat trick.

 

[rxn]

So last year you were an MSII at DMU and now you're ALSO starting med school next August? Neat trick.

Not a trick my friend. The key words in your statement are "were and MS II". I was a MS II and had some tough circumstances happen in my life and by the grace of God, prayer and an understanding administration and faculty I was given a second chance. So I guess you can say I was accpeted to medical school twice! Once at 42, and now at 46.

 

[krismichelle]

I turned 38 years young on 9/11! 😉

 

[lfoster]

27

 

[squiggle]

😀 looking forward to celebrating my 43rd birthday in first year medschool next winter!

 

[MedicJ]

It is almost 2:30am. Today is my 30th birthday. I have 3 tests on Monday and 1 on Tuesday. No biggie because those classes are easy and I have an A in all of them. I am awake because I am working on a research paper for my calculus class. I think my math teacher wants me dead,lol. O-well. Hopefully, I will be finishing my premed classes in about 2 more semesters.
I am loving it.🙂

 

[Orthodoc40]

How old am I?

I applied when I was 43, interviewed at 44, and turned 45 just after first year classes started. I'm now 47, a third-year, and having an absolute blast.

That list was so awesome! Definitely could relate to many of those - being just a little bit younger, but not much.

Our high school had ONE new computer, stuck in a tiny 10 x 10 room for us to try to figure out how to write all kinds of weird symbols and letters to get it to do anything (?), and it's green screen.

We had rotary dial phones at home and color TV was a big deal.

My favorite was the way we made copies at school with those special ditto papers with purple carbon paper in between and you had to write backwards, and then you put 'em on that big roller machine thingy and get the copies, and then everyone loved to get them right away because they were warm and smelled cool.

 

[eforest]

I thought I was so old (at 26) when I started medical school I wasn't!

 

[eforest]

That list was so awesome! Definitely could relate to many of those - being just a little bit younger, but not much.

Our high school had ONE new computer, stuck in a tiny 10 x 10 room for us to try to figure out how to write all kinds of weird symbols and letters to get it to do anything (?), and it's green screen.

We had rotary dial phones at home and color TV was a big deal.

My favorite was the way we made copies at school with those special ditto papers with purple carbon paper in between and you had to write backwards, and then you put 'em on that big roller machine thingy and get the copies, and then everyone loved to get them right away because they were warm and smelled cool.

The ditto machines! I remember my teacher didn't know what to call copies (actual black and white copies) and thought we should call them "re-pros" We also had a computer lab where "floppy disks" were actually floppy. I remember computers prior to mice, when we learned to draw a square on the screen by writing a series of commands. And at home it was a big deal when we got a word processor. And email? What was that?

 

[akinetopsia]

28. I'll be 29 in May, most likely 30 when I'm applying, for the class of 2015. If all goes accordingly, I will be 35 when I graduate. 🙂

 

[PunkmedGirl]

It is almost 2:30am. Today is my 30th birthday. I have 3 tests on Monday and 1 on Tuesday. No biggie because those classes are easy and I have an A in all of them. I am awake because I am working on a research paper for my calculus class. I think my math teacher wants me dead,lol. O-well. Hopefully, I will be finishing my premed classes in about 2 more semesters.
I am loving it.🙂

Happy Belated BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!😀😀

 

[PunkmedGirl]

28. I'll be 29 in May, most likely 30 when I'm applying, for the class of 2015. If all goes accordingly, I will be 35 when I graduate. 🙂

I am also 28. 29 in March of next year. I am also applying for class of 2015. It seems SOOOOO far away now. I'm also a single mom of an 8yr old daughter. I've notice there are not alot of single moms going this route, I guess I have to set the trail a blazing😀😀

 

[StanfordDropout]

didn't know that some of you guys are pushing 40s.😎

 

[PreMedMomma]

Just turned 27 and (should) will be applying when I'm 29. I'm an August baby, so I'll be barely 30 if I start med school when anticipated.

My mother graduated with her BS when she was 50, so I have had great motivation to return to school. I feel I'm in the cusp here though - I'm too old compared to a lot of the undergrads, but the other nontrads here think that I'm still young.

 

[StanfordDropout]

I know what you mean about the age difference compared to the undergrads. The thing about life, as I've learned, is that you appreciate the time spent as a student a lot more as a returning student than some undergrads, who tend to take what they have for granted. I think the realization that you're growing old, although at 27 that's hardly the case, makes you look at life completely differently. If I could do it all again, I'd definitely drink less and actually read all the assigned books on Nietzsche and Aeschylus for the intro. to humanities courses.

Just turned 27 and (should) will be applying when I'm 29. I'm an August baby, so I'll be barely 30 if I start med school when anticipated.

My mother graduated with her BS when she was 50, so I have had great motivation to return to school. I feel I'm in the cusp here though - I'm too old compared to a lot of the undergrads, but the other nontrads here think that I'm still young.