Probably last post...adios and good luck!

[hopefulneuro]

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This might be my last post because I am soooo close to forgetting medicine forever. You people have given me some good advice, and after carefully weighing things it seems that medicine is just not right for me.

Once you get on that treadmill there's no way to get off without being seriously messed up, so I think it's important for everyone to make absolutely sure that they're doing the right thing. The adcoms are not joking when they say you should be aware of what the career is like. It's truly for our benefit.

So, I have finally grown the balls to move out to California and try my hand at screenwriting. This has been my skill and passion for a number of years but I have been too afraid to take the risk, given that it's such a tough business. However, people do make it and I am still young enough to play around with my goals before I "give in" and do something less than ideal. I'll probably go to a grad program (master's) since that's so much better than waiting tables (get money, housing, a degree, & a lot of free time).

I wish everyone good luck. To those from California, what are the nice areas to live? I will try Stanford, UCLA, etc..but given admission to some program or other, which area is the most pleasant and is the closest to LA?

Ok..take care. Adios and goodbye.

 

[firebird69guy]

This might be my last post because I am soooo close to forgetting medicine forever. You people have given me some good advice, and after carefully weighing things it seems that medicine is just not right for me.

Once you get on that treadmill there's no way to get off without being seriously messed up, so I think it's important for everyone to make absolutely sure that they're doing the right thing. The adcoms are not joking when they say you should be aware of what the career is like. It's truly for our benefit.

So, I have finally grown the balls to move out to California and try my hand at screenwriting. This has been my skill and passion for a number of years but I have been too afraid to take the risk, given that it's such a tough business. However, people do make it and I am still young enough to play around with my goals before I "give in" and do something less than ideal. I'll probably go to a grad program (master's) since that's so much better than waiting tables (get money, housing, a degree, & a lot of free time).

I wish everyone good luck. To those from California, what are the nice areas to live? I will try Stanford, UCLA, etc..but given admission to some program or other, which area is the most pleasant and is the closest to LA?

Ok..take care. Adios and goodbye.

Following your heart is what is important. Medical school isn't for everyone, and it definitely doesn't mean that you are that less intelligent. I'm sure you will find happiness in many other facets of life. A career is just a... career.

I live in California, and the places you mentioned both have good weather. Either one will be expensive though, so good luck with that screen writing. LA is probably better for that career option. Try westwood/santa monica if you can afford an apartment.

Best wishes from SDN!

 

[hopefulneuro]

Following your heart is what is important. Medical school isn't for everyone, and it definitely doesn't mean that you are that less intelligent.

Thank you...I just wanted to clarify. I am not someone who's giving up after applying three times with no luck. I haven't even finished the pre-reqs. This is purely a matter of recognizing that medicine isn't right for an almost 21 year old who has other aspirations. So, I just didn't want you all to think I was quitting because of a lack of success, and want to encourage those in similar predicaments to try whatever they really want to do first. Don't be that person who gets to 40 and has deep, deep regrets.

 

[DrBowtie]

What happened to Chicago and business?

 

[hopefulneuro]

What happened to Chicago and business?

Dammit, I just cannot make a decision. There are too many things that I want to do that it's become a serious problem. One day it's career A & every other day it's career B,C, & D. I'm growing very furstrated because each different path requires some degree of planning and preparation.

IF i go to chicago then I will immediately be involved in entrepreneurship, which is great. However, suppose two years from now I get the hankering for a grad degree, it's not going to look good to have spent a few years doing nothing academically oriented. So that makes me stuck. I constantly say "what if?" and it's paralyzing.

How to overcome that indecision, I just do not know.

 

[humuhumu]

Dammit, I just cannot make a decision. There are too many things that I want to do that it's become a serious problem. One day it's career A & every other day it's career B,C, & D. I'm growing very furstrated because each different path requires some degree of planning and preparation.

IF i go to chicago then I will immediately be involved in entrepreneurship, which is great. However, suppose two years from now I get the hankering for a grad degree, it's not going to look good to have spent a few years doing nothing academically oriented. So that makes me stuck. I constantly say "what if?" and it's paralyzing.

How to overcome that indecision, I just do not know.

My understanding is that top MBA programs require a few years of real-world experience before you apply. I don't know if that's the grad degree you had in mind, but I wouldn't discount it just because you've been away from school a few years.

 

[MD1Day]

This might be my last post because I am soooo close to forgetting medicine forever. You people have given me some good advice, and after carefully weighing things it seems that medicine is just not right for me.

Once you get on that treadmill there's no way to get off without being seriously messed up, so I think it's important for everyone to make absolutely sure that they're doing the right thing. The adcoms are not joking when they say you should be aware of what the career is like. It's truly for our benefit.

So, I have finally grown the balls to move out to California and try my hand at screenwriting. This has been my skill and passion for a number of years but I have been too afraid to take the risk, given that it's such a tough business. However, people do make it and I am still young enough to play around with my goals before I "give in" and do something less than ideal. I'll probably go to a grad program (master's) since that's so much better than waiting tables (get money, housing, a degree, & a lot of free time).

I wish everyone good luck. To those from California, what are the nice areas to live? I will try Stanford, UCLA, etc..but given admission to some program or other, which area is the most pleasant and is the closest to LA?

Ok..take care. Adios and goodbye.

Best of Luck! Thats awesome that you're going to go to Cali and follow your dream. I wish you a very bright future, and a wonderful time!

🙂

 

[humuhumu]

Thank you...I just wanted to clarify. I am not someone who's giving up after applying three times with no luck. I haven't even finished the pre-reqs. This is purely a matter of recognizing that medicine isn't right for an almost 21 year old who has other aspirations. So, I just didn't want you all to think I was quitting because of a lack of success, and want to encourage those in similar predicaments to try whatever they really want to do first. Don't be that person who gets to 40 and has deep, deep regrets.

I was in a similar position way back in my first year of college. I started out premed but decided for various reasons that it just wasn't right for me and I pursued another career path. I have no major regrets about that path; I've had literally once-in-a-lifetime experiences that never could have happened if I had pursued medicine. Also, I probably had more fun in college than I would have had as a premed!

But now, after years of additional education, work, and life experiences, I've realized that I'm finally ready to take the plunge into medicine. Like a previous poster said, you've gotta follow your heart.

 

[Medikit]

I was in a similar position way back in my first year of college. I started out premed but decided for various reasons that it just wasn't right for me and I pursued another career path. I have no major regrets about that path; I've had literally once-in-a-lifetime experiences that never could have happened if I had pursued medicine. Also, I probably had more fun in college than I would have had as a premed!

But now, after years of additional education, work, and life experiences, I've realized that I'm finally ready to take the plunge into medicine. Like a previous poster said, you've gotta follow your heart.

I hope that you do really well humuhumu (I'm pretty certain that you will), and it's not just because you have the coolest name on SDN (as I've told you before).

 

[humuhumu]

I hope that you do really well humuhumu (I'm pretty certain that you will), and it's not just because you have the coolest name on SDN (as I've told you before).

Thanks! SDN rocks. 😀

 

[Rzarecta]

Thanks! SDN rocks. 😀

But only on the weekends.

 

[bigdan]

Hopeful-

Best wishes in whatever you decide to do. I admire your courage and foresight at such a young age.

I'm going to medical school this August at the age of 27. Do screenwriting. Come back to us if you decide that's what's better. Follow your heart in any case. And good luck with it! 20 is way too young to decide on what your "forever" will be.

Keep on keepin' on!

dc

 

[riceman04]

This might be my last post because I am soooo close to forgetting medicine forever. You people have given me some good advice, and after carefully weighing things it seems that medicine is just not right for me.

Once you get on that treadmill there's no way to get off without being seriously messed up, so I think it's important for everyone to make absolutely sure that they're doing the right thing. The adcoms are not joking when they say you should be aware of what the career is like. It's truly for our benefit.

So, I have finally grown the balls to move out to California and try my hand at screenwriting. This has been my skill and passion for a number of years but I have been too afraid to take the risk, given that it's such a tough business. However, people do make it and I am still young enough to play around with my goals before I "give in" and do something less than ideal. I'll probably go to a grad program (master's) since that's so much better than waiting tables (get money, housing, a degree, & a lot of free time).

I wish everyone good luck. To those from California, what are the nice areas to live? I will try Stanford, UCLA, etc..but given admission to some program or other, which area is the most pleasant and is the closest to LA?

Ok..take care. Adios and goodbye.

Everyone has pretty much said what I would have said already.
But it does take some balls to stand up on your own two feet and pursue what you feel will make you the happiest. I honor your dedication, perseverance, and your thought process (which is what led you to make the decisions you are making).

Good luck!

About Cali: I can tell you about LA since I am from here.
The overall rule out here for finding a nice area in which to live is: The farther west you travel the closer you are to the beach. The closer you are to the beach the nicer the area. There are a few exceptions to this saying, but for the most part it works. UCLA is a nice area (near Beverly Hills). USC is in da hood (was a nice area back in the day though)! All cities along (or near) the ocean in Orange County (or as you probably know it as: the OC) are really nice (meaning median home not lower than $1,000,000 nice).

Exceptions:
1. Venice Beach = gang hang out spot, crazy folks on that stuff (that jamaican ganja).

2. Santa Monica = nice area, but overrun by alot of homeless people

Hope this helps

 

[Turkeyman]

Good luck!

And who knows, you might even come back to medicine, or some other health care profession down the path... 😀

 

[hopefulneuro]

Hope this helps

Yes, it reeally does. Thanks Riceman.

 

[Mr PluM]

This might be my last post because I am soooo close to forgetting medicine forever. You people have given me some good advice, and after carefully weighing things it seems that medicine is just not right for me.

Once you get on that treadmill there's no way to get off without being seriously messed up, so I think it's important for everyone to make absolutely sure that they're doing the right thing. The adcoms are not joking when they say you should be aware of what the career is like. It's truly for our benefit.

So, I have finally grown the balls to move out to California and try my hand at screenwriting. This has been my skill and passion for a number of years but I have been too afraid to take the risk, given that it's such a tough business. However, people do make it and I am still young enough to play around with my goals before I "give in" and do something less than ideal. I'll probably go to a grad program (master's) since that's so much better than waiting tables (get money, housing, a degree, & a lot of free time).

I wish everyone good luck. To those from California, what are the nice areas to live? I will try Stanford, UCLA, etc..but given admission to some program or other, which area is the most pleasant and is the closest to LA?

Ok..take care. Adios and goodbye.

this post deserves some plum love. my diesel made me come out and play, she is so sexy.

okay to the scoop...

first, make sure your passion is not an illusion
second, you can write screenplays anywhere on the planet.
third, practicing medicine and writing comes from the same place,that is why chekov, sommerset, wiliam carlos, joyce i think went to meds, exist
fourth, the problem humans have today is that they think "medicine, doctor, ooooh weee" just by saying you are a doctor limits your mental development--
fifth, go into medicine as an artist practice the art of medicine...


sixth, if you have to move to caleefornia to write screenplays and experience the world or the businees-think about it, the i am going to go to hollywood to act or write is for the sheep, great screenplay writers usually write anywhere, serious writing is about memory kid (study proust and more recently garcia marquez), about understanding human nature (study faulkner by the way read his letters and biography you will learn alot about screewriting, you can add hemmingway), writing is about suffering or being exposed to human suffering, its about the gut (read james joyce), not the gut "i got balls" either--it is about the gut that orchestrates the stream of life into one grand piece of art....i could keep going, but really though, if you have not been traumatized in your childhood, or suffered deeply as a result of disease, or travelled the world-just to name a few then stay put...or go to school in some other country, not la, "dude!"

Lastly, see you later Bro.

 

[Mr PluM]

oopsy daisy

just read mr plum signature.. stop yappin and start creating like GoD dammit!

 

[fateema368]

Don't do anything that's not going to make you happy, however it from your tone it sounds like you may still use medicine as a fall back should things not work out in the "ideal". That's selfish to yourself and your current path, Hollywood is a tough game so go for broke and don't look back, don't even think about it.

Best wishes,
Kes

 

[SitraAchra]

I hope that you do really well humuhumu (I'm pretty certain that you will), and it's not just because you have the coolest name on SDN (as I've told you before).

seconded!

 

[sierra89]

About Cali: I can tell you about LA since I am from here.
The overall rule out here for finding a nice area in which to live is: The farther west you travel the closer you are to the beach. The closer you are to the beach the nicer the area. There are a few exceptions to this saying, but for the most part it works. UCLA is a nice area (near Beverly Hills). USC is in da hood (was a nice area back in the day though)! All cities along (or near) the ocean in Orange County (or as you probably know it as: the OC) are really nice (meaning median home not lower than $1,000,000 nice).

Exceptions:
1. Venice Beach = gang hang out spot, crazy folks on that stuff (that jamaican ganja).

2. Santa Monica = nice area, but overrun by alot of homeless people

Hope this helps

There are a few other, affordable places if living by the ocean is important to you. They have some nice parts, although there are shady parts too. I'd like to add the following to the list of exceptions:

3. San Pedro, a working-class area that is part of the City of L.A.
4. Long Beach

Other nice areas, inland from the coast but still near L.A., are Pasadena, San Marino (if you have lots of $$$), and parts of Glendale and Burbank.

USC has a cinema school if you decide screenwriting is for you and want to study cinema in grad school. If you want to take the MBA route, USC and UCLA both have MBA programs at their business schools. Good luck!

 

[superdavykinz]

This might be my last post because I am soooo close to forgetting medicine forever. You people have given me some good advice, and after carefully weighing things it seems that medicine is just not right for me.

Once you get on that treadmill there's no way to get off without being seriously messed up, so I think it's important for everyone to make absolutely sure that they're doing the right thing. The adcoms are not joking when they say you should be aware of what the career is like. It's truly for our benefit.

So, I have finally grown the balls to move out to California and try my hand at screenwriting. This has been my skill and passion for a number of years but I have been too afraid to take the risk, given that it's such a tough business. However, people do make it and I am still young enough to play around with my goals before I "give in" and do something less than ideal. I'll probably go to a grad program (master's) since that's so much better than waiting tables (get money, housing, a degree, & a lot of free time).

I wish everyone good luck. To those from California, what are the nice areas to live? I will try Stanford, UCLA, etc..but given admission to some program or other, which area is the most pleasant and is the closest to LA?

Ok..take care. Adios and goodbye.

Like the guy above posted..if you're serious about screenwriting USC probably is the best place to do it. It has five specialized programs and screenwriting is one of them. You'll learn how to survive being a screenwriter, business and legal aspects, get experience with actors, film equipment and most importantly a great place for networking. The bad stuff is the crappy neighborhood, a debt if you're not chosen to be a pa or ta. Anywhoo, gl.

 

[Flopotomist]

The wonderful thing about life is that a decision like this need not be a permanent one. Chase your dream at the moment, and if in 5 years you change your mind, you will still be young. I am applying at 31 and LOVE the fact that I had a number of years to do other things. Plus, if you do decide to come back to the pre-med life in a few years, imagine how much more interesting your interviews will be!

 

[riceman04]

There are a few other, affordable places if living by the ocean is important to you. They have some nice parts, although there are shady parts too. I'd like to add the following to the list of exceptions:

3. San Pedro, a working-class area that is part of the City of L.A.
4. Long Beach

Other nice areas, inland from the coast but still near L.A., are Pasadena, San Marino (if you have lots of $$$), and parts of Glendale and Burbank.

USC has a cinema school if you decide screenwriting is for you and want to study cinema in grad school. If you want to take the MBA route, USC and UCLA both have MBA programs at their business schools. Good luck!

Actually much of LBC has been revitalized. Have you been down there near the Queen Mary. It is sooooooooooooo nice down there now (it definitely needs to find a way to pop that bad rap that it is getting. But you know there are still some not so nice parts of Long Beach (further inland closer to lakewood and cerritos)