Putting things in Perspective

[RSalha17]

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Isn't it crazy that everything we have worked for comes down to one day, December 3rd, 2012. All the long, LONG nights spent studying for tests that we thought would make or break our college careers. All the hours spent helping others through community service, all the time spent coaching youth sports teams, or volunteering at food banks and homeless shelters, or organizing events for your school's pre-dental club. All the time spent sitting awkwardly in dentists office, feeling like you are in the way, but knowing that you have to get hours shadowing to improve your application . The amazing feeling you got the first time you watched a dentist fill a tooth, or prep a crown, or teach a kid about how to floss and brush. All the patients whose lives you saw change from getting their smile back, and KNOWING that this is what you will do for the rest of your life. ALL of this comes down to one day.

It really is a crazy feeling to put all these things into perspective, and realize that your whole life comes down to a few interviews, and one phone call, or letter in the mail, or email.

Good luck to everyone. We have laughed together , cried together :cry:, fought together , celebrated together , and hopefully on Monday, we will find our future classmates and continue our careers and dreams together. Yes I am corny, but from the bottom of my corny heart....

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE

 

[kejs]

Isn't it crazy that everything we have worked for comes down to one day, December 3rd, 2012. All the long, LONG nights spent studying for tests that we thought would make or break our college careers. All the hours spent helping others through community service, all the time spent coaching youth sports teams, or volunteering at food banks and homeless shelters, or organizing events for your school's pre-dental club. All the time spent sitting awkwardly in dentists office, feeling like you are in the way, but knowing that you have to get hours shadowing to improve your application . The amazing feeling you got the first time you watched a dentist fill a tooth, or prep a crown, or teach a kid about how to floss and brush. All the patients whose lives you saw change from getting their smile back, and KNOWING that this is what you will do for the rest of your life. ALL of this comes down to one day.

It really is a crazy feeling to put all these things into perspective, and realize that your whole life comes down to a few interviews, and one phone call, or letter in the mail, or email.

Good luck to everyone. We have laughed together , cried together :cry:, fought together , celebrated together , and hopefully on Monday, we will find our future classmates and continue our careers and dreams together. Yes I am corny, but from the bottom of my corny heart....

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE

Very well put 👍 Everything we've done culminates up to this point. No matter what happens, it's been one eventful roller-coaster ride!

 

[NDPitch]

Very nice. It's been a gut wrenching roller coaster ride for me too. I've gone from studying hard in college to maximize my chances, taking a job after graduation and working full time, studying for the DAT while also working full time for months on end, panicking over my reading score, hoping I get interviews, getting interviews, being nervous about the interviews, traveling to all of the interviews, and finally here I am.

It's been a long road to get here. Hopefully the hard work pays off. Ironically, if the hard work pays off now, there's a whole boat load of even HARDER work waiting to be tackled over the next 4 years.

 

[shootingstar7]

Thanks buddy! Good luck to you!!

 

[Seahawk]

Interesting ride it was...SDN community has been integral to my application to say the least. Lot's of very helpful people.


It is crazy to think that it's just a day or two away after these years...


Good luck guys

 

[Seahawk]

Good luck to everyone. We have laughed together , cried together :cry:, fought together , celebrated together , and hopefully on Monday, we will find our future classmates and continue our careers and dreams together. Yes I am corny, but from the bottom of my corny heart....

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE

👍 🙂

 

[ttpharm]

Chills.

 

[ddsmission]

Isn't it crazy that everything we have worked for comes down to one day, December 3rd, 2012. All the long, LONG nights spent studying for tests that we thought would make or break our college careers. All the hours spent helping others through community service, all the time spent coaching youth sports teams, or volunteering at food banks and homeless shelters, or organizing events for your school's pre-dental club. All the time spent sitting awkwardly in dentists office, feeling like you are in the way, but knowing that you have to get hours shadowing to improve your application . The amazing feeling you got the first time you watched a dentist fill a tooth, or prep a crown, or teach a kid about how to floss and brush. All the patients whose lives you saw change from getting their smile back, and KNOWING that this is what you will do for the rest of your life. ALL of this comes down to one day.

It really is a crazy feeling to put all these things into perspective, and realize that your whole life comes down to a few interviews, and one phone call, or letter in the mail, or email.

Good luck to everyone. We have laughed together , cried together :cry:, fought together , celebrated together , and hopefully on Monday, we will find our future classmates and continue our careers and dreams together. Yes I am corny, but from the bottom of my corny heart....

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE

Is it just me or does this also feels like the process of applying to undergrad college? hahaha

 

[1122334455]

Is it just me or does this also feels like the process of applying to undergrad college? hahaha

NOT at ALLLLLLL! haha, undergrad was, might I say, not stressful at all? The thing about undergrad is... If you don't get into school A, B, or C, you'll get into school D or E. With dental school... there are no "backups." There are no open-enrollment/community colleges of dental school. Well, as of now. haha!

 

[UCSFx2017]

It's crazy how fast four years went by. I'm certainly not the same person as the freshman from a few years ago. I can't imagine how much more I'll change during the next four years. Although undergrad can often times seem like a stepping stone to dental school or an expensive hula hoop to jump through, the exercise was far from being as pointless and arbitrary. Hopefully, we've all become more socially-conscious, better students, more curious, and better people in general.

 

[Member902507]

Very well written! 🙂

 

[asdfray]

best of luck to you as well!!👍👍

 

[fellforit]

NOT at ALLLLLLL! haha, undergrad was, might I say, not stressful at all? The thing about undergrad is... If you don't get into school A, B, or C, you'll get into school D or E. With dental school... there are no "backups." There are no open-enrollment/community colleges of dental school. Well, as of now. haha!

Exactly. Applying to college was stressful, I thought, but I knew that no matter what, I was headed off to college the following year. Even if my safety safety (yes, I had a back-up safety to my safety school) rejected me, I could always enroll at CC. For dental school, there's a very real chance that I might not get in anywhere. Way scarier.