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Hey,
It's been a while since I've posted. Anyone that can offers some adivce would be greatly appreciated. I graduated last October 2002 with a 3.6 GPA in honors biology. Last year, I was frustrated and perhaps burned out with the constant memory work that I was doing in Biol; thus, I questioned if I wanted to pursue medicine (I spent six terms straight in school).
Anyhow, I've always enjoyed biology and I'm very good at it. Thus, I started looking for alternative career paths that would allow me to utilize my biol degree. I did alot of research and I decide to apply to law school. I applied to law school because it fufilied certain goals that I was looking for: to develop critical thiking skills, improve me writing, earn a decent income, and become a professional in Canada. My resarch lead me to explore a career in intellectual property and patent law. Patent lawyers are lawyers who genrally need a science or technical background to practice patent law. Luckily, I gained admission to law school for September 2004. However, for the last few months I have been extremley anxious and losing many nights of sleep. I question if I'm making the right career move.
For some reason some voice insides me keeps telling me that I may enjoy medicine. I never wanted to pursue it before because i was afraid I could never do it. More specifcally, I guess I feared the MCAT. That's the main reason I never applied because I've been to afriad to write the damn thing. Now I realize that running away from your fear may haunt you for the rest of your life. I guess i've dream and prepared for medicine all my life but never really went for it. I can't say that I would hate law school because I have never experinced it but every time someone mentions it I get anxious. I'm afraid I may hate it. I can't say the same about medicine.
Thus I have decide to defer my admission to law school until next year - Sept 2004. In the meantime I thought it would be best to take the year off, find a job, take physics, and prepare for the April 2004 MCAT. Thus, next year I could attend law school for a year and if i hated it I could switch if i got in to med school for 2005.
The other option is to attend law school this year, and thus write the MCAT this August. The only ptroblem is I don't think I'll have enough time to prepare adequatley. My pre-req's were completed 4 years ago so I don't remember most of the material. Would I have enough time to write the MCAT and do well if started preparing now. I don't think I'd be prepared because I have not taken physics and I don't remember orgo at all. That is why I wanted to take the year off: to do the best MCAT that I can possibly do. I think that is the only way I will ever resolve the follwing:
AM I good enough to become a doctor in Canada? How badly do I want to pursue medicine.
It's been a while since I've posted. Anyone that can offers some adivce would be greatly appreciated. I graduated last October 2002 with a 3.6 GPA in honors biology. Last year, I was frustrated and perhaps burned out with the constant memory work that I was doing in Biol; thus, I questioned if I wanted to pursue medicine (I spent six terms straight in school).
Anyhow, I've always enjoyed biology and I'm very good at it. Thus, I started looking for alternative career paths that would allow me to utilize my biol degree. I did alot of research and I decide to apply to law school. I applied to law school because it fufilied certain goals that I was looking for: to develop critical thiking skills, improve me writing, earn a decent income, and become a professional in Canada. My resarch lead me to explore a career in intellectual property and patent law. Patent lawyers are lawyers who genrally need a science or technical background to practice patent law. Luckily, I gained admission to law school for September 2004. However, for the last few months I have been extremley anxious and losing many nights of sleep. I question if I'm making the right career move.
For some reason some voice insides me keeps telling me that I may enjoy medicine. I never wanted to pursue it before because i was afraid I could never do it. More specifcally, I guess I feared the MCAT. That's the main reason I never applied because I've been to afriad to write the damn thing. Now I realize that running away from your fear may haunt you for the rest of your life. I guess i've dream and prepared for medicine all my life but never really went for it. I can't say that I would hate law school because I have never experinced it but every time someone mentions it I get anxious. I'm afraid I may hate it. I can't say the same about medicine.
Thus I have decide to defer my admission to law school until next year - Sept 2004. In the meantime I thought it would be best to take the year off, find a job, take physics, and prepare for the April 2004 MCAT. Thus, next year I could attend law school for a year and if i hated it I could switch if i got in to med school for 2005.
The other option is to attend law school this year, and thus write the MCAT this August. The only ptroblem is I don't think I'll have enough time to prepare adequatley. My pre-req's were completed 4 years ago so I don't remember most of the material. Would I have enough time to write the MCAT and do well if started preparing now. I don't think I'd be prepared because I have not taken physics and I don't remember orgo at all. That is why I wanted to take the year off: to do the best MCAT that I can possibly do. I think that is the only way I will ever resolve the follwing:
AM I good enough to become a doctor in Canada? How badly do I want to pursue medicine.
