thank you SDN! (week 1)

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I've been a lurker on SDN for about 6 years now. I graduated from a top 10 engineering school and have had a great couple of years in the engineering profession. I've told myself that I've always been interested in medicine. During my undergraduate, I use to sneak into our medical school library and gaze at immunology books until midnight. Money, uncertainty, and short shortsightedness always prevented me from taking the premedical coursework.

I put in my two weeks at my engineering firm yesterday, and i'm enrolling in the beginnings of pre-medical coursework come January.

Through all the hurdles found in the pre-med, non-trad, medical school, and residential forums. Thank you for always being a source of inspiration. The path ahead is going to be difficult, and i've read that this process and this field sucks the very marrow from our bones with the experiences we'll have. I'm scared, but none-the-less; thank you SDN!

I'm looking forward to growing and maturing together with you.

 

[mspeedwagon]

Immunology was your choice book to stare at till midnight... wow! I'm speechless! Do you know all your cytokines? Have the Classical, Lectin and Alternative pathways memorized?

Alright, I'm giving you a hard time, but I'm still in shock with your choice having just gone through a med school immunology course. Normally people are excited about physio or something else...really anything else.

But, good luck to you on your journey and I wish you all the best!

During my undergraduate, I use to sneak into our medical school library and gaze at immunology books until midnight.

 

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Immunology was your choice book to stare at till midnight... wow! I'm speechless! Do you know all your cytokines? Have the Classical, Lectin and Alternative pathways memorized?

Alright, I'm giving you a hard time, but I'm still in shock with your choice having just gone through a med school immunology course. Normally people are excited about physio or something else...really anything else.

But, good luck to you on your journey and I wish you all the best!

Oh jeez! hahaha, I appreciate the hard time. Probably an apt entry into the profession! 👍

 

[Dral]

True, most of us I think were interested in anatomy, physio, or at least micro books...immuno is a new one.

Maybe you are a budding immuno/allergist.

We have a lot of immuno in Derm, but typically we don't like to have to study it.

Well, I have a PhD in Molecular genetics...most people glaze over/shut down when I tell them that and start going off about it...so I get it a little bit.

Anyway, best of luck.