As suspected, people volunteer only for fulfilling a requirement. For the most part, almost everyone who wants to become a doctor hates the
route by which s/he must go through to become one. I mean almost all of us hate ochem, biochem, physics, and all the rest of the classes we have to take, but we do it
anyway because we want to get that M.D. I've said this before to other premeds at my school and some disagree. But I think I have a valid point because if let's say
medical schools suddenly changed their requirements and it became necessary for all pre-meds to volunteer at a junk-yard or garbage dump instead of the usual hospital
service, then I guarentee most of the pre-meds would go volunteer at the local junk-yard or garbage dump. Why? Because they want that M.D., and we only volunteer
because we HAVE to and not because we want to. So it makes no difference where we do it. But we must volunteer our time at a hospital to "impress" the commmittee
of our dedication to medicine. The point is that most of us don't care, for we don't treat it like something we truly enjoy. I mean none of us show up so enthusiastically to
an ochem class or MCAT review than, let's say, to a football game or some activity we truly enjoy. I know this to be very true for me. In short, all we're trying to do is
"prove" to med schools that we are good candidates for medicine, when in fact we don't care about any of the requirements we are fulfilling.
