Hi everyone,
I was hoping some advice could give me better perspective. I'm about to graduate with my BA in Biochemistry, and I've been having conflicting feelings. I was excited to volunteer at the beginning of this school year, but the training was so lacking and the environment so toxic that I haven't returned in months. Then, I managed to get signed up for outreach volunteering at my school's dental school, but that moved slowly and events are not as frequent as expected so I've yet to participate.
I've always planned on taking a gap year and am now considering two if I do apply, but the anxiety of having accomplished nothing is debilitating. I'm thinking of slowing down and shadowing to see if it's really for me, but I feel like I'm beyond late in the game now. Volunteer opportunities are sparse, and I have no interesting extra curricular activities because my free time was spent working as a writing tutor.
In my gap year(s), I'd try to find other volunteering experiences (possibly outside dentistry) and to find work as a dental assistant. Would you all recommend taking more time off to really build my app? I think I'd need the experience to compensate for a 3.2 GPA, but then I don't know what I'd do for LOR. I feel like I started this path unprepared and now it feels like a mess that I can't salvage.
I was hoping some advice could give me better perspective. I'm about to graduate with my BA in Biochemistry, and I've been having conflicting feelings. I was excited to volunteer at the beginning of this school year, but the training was so lacking and the environment so toxic that I haven't returned in months. Then, I managed to get signed up for outreach volunteering at my school's dental school, but that moved slowly and events are not as frequent as expected so I've yet to participate.
I've always planned on taking a gap year and am now considering two if I do apply, but the anxiety of having accomplished nothing is debilitating. I'm thinking of slowing down and shadowing to see if it's really for me, but I feel like I'm beyond late in the game now. Volunteer opportunities are sparse, and I have no interesting extra curricular activities because my free time was spent working as a writing tutor.
In my gap year(s), I'd try to find other volunteering experiences (possibly outside dentistry) and to find work as a dental assistant. Would you all recommend taking more time off to really build my app? I think I'd need the experience to compensate for a 3.2 GPA, but then I don't know what I'd do for LOR. I feel like I started this path unprepared and now it feels like a mess that I can't salvage.