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Nicole, sometimes I miss being a college student and doing whatever I wanted with friends while hanging out on campus meeting random people. I also miss staying up late at night just to gossip or play on the Xbox while complaining about RAs and classmates.
Now that I'm in pharmacy school, I spend most of my time studying and talking to other pharmacy students and some pharmacists. If I were still in college, I would have a lot more time to socialize and experience college the way I want to.
You have to realize that this could be the most difficult 4-year commitment of your life. It definitely is for me. Once you're in, you stay until you're done. Then, you're pretty much on your own with even more responsibilities. I know it sounds great working as a pharmacists with a doctorate and making a lot of money, but you have to realize that you're going to be serving your community and helping patients every single day for the rest of your life. When people see you outside of work, they'll see you as a pharmacist first, and then maybe a friend second. At my interview, this was one of the things I had to talk about, because if you're a professional, people will see you as a professional first if they do not know you. They will have standards and ideas about what a pharmacist should do, and you might have to live up to that. If you don't, you can lose credibility.