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i just finished the sophomore year of college and i hit the "oh god what am i doing with my life" set of crises that everyone seems to be hitting around this time. i'm not the best pre-med, and i've resolved to change that. let me explain my background before telling my grand proclamation.
i have a 3.1 cGPA and my sGPA is less than that (i don't even want to calculate, it'll bum me out too much). i'm double majoring in neuroscience and linguistics. i think my biggest fault going into college was knowing that i was premed but still wanting to try a whole variety of classes. i took the prerequisite music major courses freshman year (which were theory 101 + lab, totally unmanageable combined with gen chem + lab and other fresh prereqs), and i also took an accelerated emt licensing course, and so many other things. sophomore year, i tried doing the bio + physics thing while also tacking on my intro neuro courses and intro linguistics courses. i've never taken less than five classes a semester since i've gotten to school, and this past semester i took seven classes (two of which were labs and one of which was a PE, but still).
i'm also all over the place. i was on a club sport freshman year, and i drove the campus van for work study. sophomore year i worked at the library / started in a lab, worked with a magazine on-campus (going to be editor-in-chief starting the fall), was arts editor of the weekly school paper, and also worked with the on-campus EMT group pretty frequently. my plate was pretty full.
i have two years to recover my GPA / learn how to calm down. i know that pre-meds are supposed to be crazy busy all over the place, but jesus christ, it's not supposed to be like this right? i'm going to take no more than 4.5 classes a semester from now on -- i'm no longer going to take classes i think i might be interested in. i'm going to commit to my majors and not wonder what it's like to be majoring in something else. i know what i'm good at, i just need the focus and drive to get what i want.
that being said, i'm going to get straight As the four semesters i have left in college. i know, i know, that's what everyone says. however, this statement has a catch: if i so much as get an A-, whatever the reason, no matter what the class, i'm going to give up my doctor dreams. i've read so many posts about people who do post-bacs, SMPs, and so many other things to bring up their GPA and their reasoning is always "i'm going to actually try now, and prove what i've got." and, being that this is SDN, they usually succeed! or if they don't, they don't post about it, and slowly pretend they never were premed.
that's all fine. i'm just saying, i don't need to wait til i've graduated college to make that choice. i'm making that decision right now, with all you guys as my witnesses. if you have any advice on how to slow down while also keeping up to speed, or how you've motivated yourself to start doing well, please enlighten me! i'll need all the help i can get.
i have a 3.1 cGPA and my sGPA is less than that (i don't even want to calculate, it'll bum me out too much). i'm double majoring in neuroscience and linguistics. i think my biggest fault going into college was knowing that i was premed but still wanting to try a whole variety of classes. i took the prerequisite music major courses freshman year (which were theory 101 + lab, totally unmanageable combined with gen chem + lab and other fresh prereqs), and i also took an accelerated emt licensing course, and so many other things. sophomore year, i tried doing the bio + physics thing while also tacking on my intro neuro courses and intro linguistics courses. i've never taken less than five classes a semester since i've gotten to school, and this past semester i took seven classes (two of which were labs and one of which was a PE, but still).
i'm also all over the place. i was on a club sport freshman year, and i drove the campus van for work study. sophomore year i worked at the library / started in a lab, worked with a magazine on-campus (going to be editor-in-chief starting the fall), was arts editor of the weekly school paper, and also worked with the on-campus EMT group pretty frequently. my plate was pretty full.
i have two years to recover my GPA / learn how to calm down. i know that pre-meds are supposed to be crazy busy all over the place, but jesus christ, it's not supposed to be like this right? i'm going to take no more than 4.5 classes a semester from now on -- i'm no longer going to take classes i think i might be interested in. i'm going to commit to my majors and not wonder what it's like to be majoring in something else. i know what i'm good at, i just need the focus and drive to get what i want.
that being said, i'm going to get straight As the four semesters i have left in college. i know, i know, that's what everyone says. however, this statement has a catch: if i so much as get an A-, whatever the reason, no matter what the class, i'm going to give up my doctor dreams. i've read so many posts about people who do post-bacs, SMPs, and so many other things to bring up their GPA and their reasoning is always "i'm going to actually try now, and prove what i've got." and, being that this is SDN, they usually succeed! or if they don't, they don't post about it, and slowly pretend they never were premed.
that's all fine. i'm just saying, i don't need to wait til i've graduated college to make that choice. i'm making that decision right now, with all you guys as my witnesses. if you have any advice on how to slow down while also keeping up to speed, or how you've motivated yourself to start doing well, please enlighten me! i'll need all the help i can get.
