School after acceptance

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Gotta get those cords at graduation 😉

Joking aside, my motivation would drop like a rock. I've seen it happen to older students and I'd imagine I wouldn't be any different.
 
If I had decided to apply this year and gotten accepted early in the cycle, straight Bs would be my goal. Since (historically) none of the classes give out grades lower than a B, this would take absolute minimal effort.
 
Unless you want to do well for the sake of doing well you really have no reason to continue working hard. With some exceptions I would recommend relaxing and slacking off a bit before med school starts.

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At the beginning of the year I really started to hate the grad program I'm in. Now I have almost no desire left to even do any of the work. I know as long as I just get B's and A's I will be fine and I can probably slack off a lot while I'm doing so. Even if I got a C it wouldn't be the end of the world now, other than irritate me.
 
I don't even care any more, and I don't have an acceptance. My classes are annoying, and I have like 3 labs I'm taking because I decided to wait till my last semester to do them, and I hate doing labs with incompetent group members. I'm praying I get an acceptance, because if my GPA goes down and I don't have one this cycle, then that will suck =(
 
Grades drop + no acceptance = predicament for coming cycles
 
andddddddddd this is why it's great to be in a gap year. (read: quit job, work out, read harry potter)
 
I'll still strive to be #1. ^_^_^
 
1289 said:
andddddddddd this is why it's great to be in a gap year. (read: quit job, work out, read harry potter)
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Gap year after being accepted is gonna be awesome. *fingers crossed*
 
In gap year and I am currently working. The question I have now is how long do you continue working after you get an acceptance?
 
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My motivation in undergrad didn't change. I was doing some of the most exciting stuff I did at that time, so it was natural to continue.

Now, after the match... my motivation dropped through the floor. It was next to impossible to make myself do more than close to the minimum. Most likely this was because I was on rotations about as far away from Vascular Surgery as you could get, but ya... the match changed thigns ;P
 
kpcrew said:
unfortunately you probably won't be able to make much of a dent in those med school loans
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As a med student, how much time off do you think one must have before beginning school?
 
kpcrew said:
unfortunately you probably won't be able to make much of a dent in those med school loans
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Yes and no. You may not be able to make a HUGE change, but with compounding interest, for every dollar that you don't have to take out initially will be potentially as much as $2 that you don't have to repay. This is esspecially true if you are going into something that will take you a long time to repay.
 
mimelim said:
Yes and no. You may not be able to make a HUGE change, but with compounding interest, for every dollar that you don't have to take out initially will be potentially as much as $2 that you don't have to repay. This is esspecially true if you are going into something that will take you a long time to repay.
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So knowing what you know now, would you take time off before beginning medical school?

Didn't you have a career before beginning school?

How much time did you take?
 
Using FV=Pe^rt, every dollar you pay off right away saves you a lot of money in the long haul.


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jay516 said:
So knowing what you know now, would you take time off before beginning medical school?

Didn't you have a career before beginning school?

How much time did you take?
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You are probably thinking of driz. I went straight through, HS -> UG -> MS -> Residency.

Personally, I wouldn't take extra time off unless I had a specific reason or activity to do. If I had a great opportunity to do something, I could see myself taking time off, but I don't think I would ever take time off just to 'relax'. You have that Summer and most people's second semesters as a Senior are relatively benign. It is important to have your life in order and minimize your outside stresses as much as possible before you show up in medical school. That having been said, taking extra time off to do that would be unusual.
 
This makes me wonder. Are reported stats of matriculant GPAs at the time of application or matriculation, and I wonder how different the two are.
 
I've had zero motivation since I got accepted :-(. I didn't study for my last rounds of exams at all but know that if I don't make Bs I might be in trouble so I better suck it up and make it through the semester.
 
Same here. Least amount of effort possible = studying minimally the night before. Luckily I'm in 2 psych classes and an intro econ class in addition to 2 bio classes, so this semester is pretty slack.
 
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