The premed experience- in one line

[salemstein]

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The following describes only a small part of my experience. Feel free to add on.

"Enter altruistic, leave neurotic"
"The system is set up to filter you out... until you get in. Then everything's set up to keep you in"
"92% on that Calc II test? Starts celebrating. Party soon stops after finding out that the class mean was a 95 with st. dev of 2"
"Forgot to draw electron dots on that orgo midterm? Panic-mode initiate"
"1000 hours of volunteering won't get you in, but having only 1 will keep you out"
"100 emails to doctors for shadowing. 1 reply"
"Becomes excited after getting research position under PI who regularly publishes in Nature. Becomes bummed after fancy job description turned out to be a euphemism for the fishtank washing crew.
"The difference between a 30 and a 35 on the MCAT may very well be how anxious you're feeling that day"
"100 hours studying for the MCAT? 30. Studied 500 more? 29.
"Starts asking prof for rec letter. Starts analyzing every facial/vocal expression for what the letter's gonna be like"
"The more you mentally replay your interview, the more you think you sounded like Donald Trump"
"100 schools may have given you the cold shoulder, but one yes is all you need"

 

[freak7]

"Becomes excited after getting research position under PI who regularly publishes in Nature. Becomes bummed after fancy job description turned out to be a euphemism for the fishtank washing crew.

That's a two-liner.

 

[Fluffy123]

"To Do list: Do research, volunteer, tutor, work, maintain 4.0, have social life, and somehow maintain sanity."

 

[Doggo]

The following describes only a small part of my experience. Feel free to add on.
"100 hours studying for the MCAT? 30. Studied 500 more? 29.
"The more you mentally replay your interview, the more you think you sounded like Donald Trump"

Those 2 spoke to me on a deep level.

I'd also like to add: "2016 US presidential election"

 

[reluctantoptimism]

"This too shall pass"

 

[Dagrimsta1]

"The **** you mean I'm on hold?!?"

 

[Frogger27]

"I didn't even want to go to that school anyways"

 

[efle]

"It isn't that late in the cycle yet..."
-Me, submitting secondaries in October

 

[md-2020]

 

[mhagerman]

"I can't, I have to study."

 

[wysdoc]

The following describes only a small part of my experience. Feel free to add on.

"Enter altruistic, leave neurotic"
"The system is set up to filter you out... until you get in. Then everything's set up to keep you in"
"92% on that Calc II test? Starts celebrating. Party soon stops after finding out that the class mean was a 95 with st. dev of 2"
"Forgot to draw electron dots on that orgo midterm? Panic-mode initiate"
"1000 hours of volunteering won't get you in, but having only 1 will keep you out"
"100 emails to doctors for shadowing. 1 reply"
"Becomes excited after getting research position under PI who regularly publishes in Nature. Becomes bummed after fancy job description turned out to be a euphemism for the fishtank washing crew.
"The difference between a 30 and a 35 on the MCAT may very well be how anxious you're feeling that day"
"100 hours studying for the MCAT? 30. Studied 500 more? 29.
"Starts asking prof for rec letter. Starts analyzing every facial/vocal expression for what the letter's gonna be like"
"The more you mentally replay your interview, the more you think you sounded like Donald Trump"
"100 schools may have given you the cold shoulder, but one yes is all you need"

Eyes on the prize.

 

[MoDiddy]

*walking to the library on a Friday/Saturday night*
Random bro: "Yo MoDiddy why aren't you going out tonight"?
Me: "Huge exam on Monday bro, sucks"
*in reality, 3 weeks until the exam*

 

[Gurkhali]

Gotta out bull**** all the bull****ters

 

[Chelsea FC]

"I will make future ME worry about that"

 

[LizzyM]

Premeds: Most of us are going pro in something other than medicine.

🙁

 

[Doggo]

Premeds: Most of us are going pro in something other than medicine.

🙁

Goddamn that's dark

 

[Pixiwoman]

The following describes only a small part of my experience. Feel free to add on.

"Enter altruistic, leave neurotic"
"The system is set up to filter you out... until you get in. Then everything's set up to keep you in"
"92% on that Calc II test? Starts celebrating. Party soon stops after finding out that the class mean was a 95 with st. dev of 2"
"Forgot to draw electron dots on that orgo midterm? Panic-mode initiate"
"1000 hours of volunteering won't get you in, but having only 1 will keep you out"
"100 emails to doctors for shadowing. 1 reply"
"Becomes excited after getting research position under PI who regularly publishes in Nature. Becomes bummed after fancy job description turned out to be a euphemism for the fishtank washing crew.
"The difference between a 30 and a 35 on the MCAT may very well be how anxious you're feeling that day"
"100 hours studying for the MCAT? 30. Studied 500 more? 29.
"Starts asking prof for rec letter. Starts analyzing every facial/vocal expression for what the letter's gonna be like"
"The more you mentally replay your interview, the more you think you sounded like Donald Trump"
"100 schools may have given you the cold shoulder, but one yes is all you need"

I feel you, this system is made to break you to the bones, is so sad 😳😱

 

[Princeton Medical Student]

"Man who previously thought he lost all hope, losses additional hope that he did not even know he previously had"

 

[iris11]

Will this be on the exam?

 

[premedicalstudent]

"I didn't even want to go to that school anyways"

LMAO!!!
Too too too real!

 

[Astra]

I can always be a DO.



( just kidding)

 

[premedicalstudent]

"You really think we have to know all this?"

"So is there going to be a curve?"

 

[dafuturesurgeon]

"I could always downgrade to business or something"

"7 years and 1 semester left "

The thought of not studying isnt even a temptation because you know your fuqed if you miss one day of studying

Takes test: WHERE THE HELL WAS THIS IN OUR BOOK????

<EDIT> "7 years and 1 semester PLUS residency... "

 

[holdthemayo]

For a non-trad nervous about the time commitment, from an older doctor: "In ten years you'll be 40. You can be a 40 year old doctor, or 40 doing something else."

 

[PugsAndHugs]

"I think every school lost my application because I've been complete for a month and still haven't heard anything."

 

[Cauchy1]

Work harder, learn faster.

 

[Ampharos]

"I just need to get into one school."

 

[CLB_MD]

Toxic levels of stress (at least during the application cycle)

 

[oopsaloo]

"I'll leave tomorrow's problems to tomorrow's me."

 

[kopftonmd]

Them: "So, where do you want to go to med school?"
Me: "Anywhere that will take me."

 

[redsox93]

*walking to the library on a Friday/Saturday night*
Random bro: "Yo MoDiddy why aren't you going out tonight"?
Me: "Huge exam on Monday bro, sucks"
*in reality, 3 weeks until the exam*

If you have to study three weeks before an exam you're college-ing wrong

 

[Ho0v-man]

Gets an interview: "Can't wait to shove down all of my neuroses long enough to pretend that this process hasn't turned me into a walking mass of complexes for a 30 minute interview that costs a thousand dollars to travel to and from."


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[619959]

"Procrastinate hard, cry even harder"

 

[MoDiddy]

If you have to study three weeks before an exam you're college-ing wrong

It was a joke relax, I think I know how to "college" brotha

 

[Doggo]

Gets an interview: "Can't wait to shove down all of my neuroses long enough to pretend that this process hasn't turned me into a walking mass of complexes for a 30 minute interview that costs a thousand dollars to travel to and from."


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I laughed harder than I should've at this.


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[Gilakend]

*Laying in bed at night*

"Today wasn't very productive, I'm gonna do so much work tomorrow."

Rinse, repeat.


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[Lucca]

"For sale: MCAT books, never used."

 

[efle]

*Laying in bed at night*

"Today wasn't very productive, I'm gonna do so much work tomorrow."

Rinse, repeat.


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*laying in bed at night replaying that weird handshake with intertwined pinkies at the end of interview*

"At least you didn't knock over a chair like that other time"

Study guilt just gets replaced with interview stress during gap, ugh

 

[tessellations]

"How do people have time to go out on Thursdays?"

"Studying, Sleeping, and Socializing: Choose Two."

Them: Why didn't you like your physics professor - his class in an easy A?
Me: I didn't learn anything. MCAT.
Them: that doesn't apply to me.
Me:

 

[GrumpyGus]

Rejected again?

Applies to both schools and women. I don't know what's harder -- navigating Tinder or AMCAS.

 

[eteshoe]

"I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead"

 

[redsox93]

"The difference between a 30 and a 35 on the MCAT may very well be how anxious you're feeling that day"

Truer words have never been spoken. I dropped significantly from my AAMC practice test scores because I couldn't sleep and had some serious test taking anxiety.

 

[Doggo]

*googles schools that don't have secondary application essays*

 

[Gilakend]

"If the average GPA for matriculation is a 3.6 that means half the people got below that...Right?"

 

[Psai]

F*ck I need to get into med school

 

[LivingLikeLarry]

Good thing I'm an adult, I do my crying on the inside now