The Under M1 Club, Part II - COME ON IN!

[Biodude]

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Hello, everyone, and to those who are new to the club, I'd like to give a warm welcome. First of all, I'd like to lay down the ground rules (if you're wonderin', nobody made me leader, but trolls are really annoying). These rules are pretty common-sense type stuff, but if you still wanna read them:

1. NO FLAMING OR TROLLING ALLOWED! If you wanna go around making people feel like ****, there's plenty of other threads you can go and do that in. This is a club for pre-meds to support eachother through our undergrad years and classes. Oh, and another thing, if you decide to act like a punk, and then later on have a genuine question to ask us, then we will not help, because we will have the ignore function on by the time you start flaming us. Which means that we won't be reading anything you post.

2. FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS. If you have any questions at all regarding pre-med requirements, etc., you can ask around on the allopathic or osteopathic boards, but some of us are knowledgable about things over here. We're here to help.

3. EVERYONE IS ALLOWED, PROVIDING THAT YOU DO NOT COME IN TO START A FLAME WAR OR TROLL. Even over M1 people (hehehe). After all, we would like to see others' perspectives on health care, so pre-dents, pre-pharm, pre-opt, etc. are welcome as well. A lot of the requirements are similar, anyhow.

That's all. Come on in, everyone!


Okay, now I'll update on what's been happening with me...

On Sunday, I started up my second shift at HOAG Memorial Hospital. This 4 hours started slow then became fast and loaded (the opposite of my first shift). It was mainly due to the fact that the nurses were changing shifts when I came in and it was all disorganized. Everyone had to go and fill out the paperwork, and then we could see patients. I was pretty intimidated this time, mainly because the nurses weren't as nice (different set of nurses and staff people this time), and some of the patients were mostly suffering from mental illness in addition to cancer.

I didn't enjoy my second shift as much as my first. Hopefully my third shift will be a happy medium between them. Maybe next time I'll even be able to converse with patients. I also got to see a little more on the doctors, and though I do like running around and helping out the patients, I know now, for sure, that I would not want to work in the in-patient parts of the hospital. It's just depressing to stay there for longer than about 4 hours (my shift times). I definitely respect the people who can go and do it for 12 hours straight (nurses, PCA's, etc.) though.

Today is the first day of school for many college students on the semester system. It's been about 45 minutes since my first class (Calculus) was over. I have the textbook with me right now, and it doesn't look too intimidating...yet. The professor was young-looking (actually, he looked a lot like Vin Diesel), and he seemed like a common-sense dude. My next class doesn't start until 1 p.m., so I've got plenty of time to relax and kick back. My feelings toward school starting are somewhat ambivalent, because for one thing, I still haven't gotten over summer school, and for another it is great to be here again with loads of people and running into people I haven't seen since the end of the Spring 2003 semester.

If y'all are wondering, my last two classes for the day are Intro to Logic and Greek Philosophy. Greek Philosophy should be interesting (hopefully), because it'll be in the afternoon, when my morning energy begins to slow down (one of the reasons I put Calculus in the morning - I perform best in the morning).

Tomorrow, it'll be Calculus, then my first day of Cell Biology Lecture. It's been confirmed that I'll get the professor that I've been gunning for 😛 Her class should be pretty easy (one of the reasons why people keep picking her), which means that I'll have a good chance of scoring an A in a science class. Well, there's one less final exam to study for (she doesn't give finals).

Well, I hope everyone is doing well. I'll see y'all later!

 

[lisa13579]

Since this is a supportive thread... I need to find a way to not feel depressed every SINGLE day about this application process. My last letter of rec was sent last Wed., so I'm really hoping for an interview invite soon to keep me going. I am working full-time, so I can check my email and SDN constantly, and it's not a good thing. I took all my prereqs as a post-bac student, so I'm working full-time as an adminstrative assistant (boring) and I'll be taking Calc II in the evening also, starts tomorrow! Hopefully that will give me something else to thing about.🙁 Just feeling down....

 

[drumming207]

Why not post your thoughts in the original thread and b**p the thread?🙄 -- Just a thought

 

[lisa13579]

Since this is a supportive thread... I need to find a way to not feel depressed every SINGLE day about this application process. My last letter of rec was sent last Wed., so I'm really hoping for an interview invite soon to keep me going. I am working full-time, so I can check my email and SDN constantly, and it's not a good thing. I took all my prereqs as a post-bac student, so I'm working full-time as an adminstrative assistant (boring) and I'll be taking Calc II in the evening also, starts tomorrow! Hopefully that will give me something else to thing about.🙁 Just feeling down....

 

[Anka]

Totally know the feeling, Lisa. I'm in a lab job where I don't have any work because everyone's on vacation. It should clear up next week, but it just gives me *way* too much time to think. And I just cannot write any more secondary essays.

 

[DrSal]

Alright, so i'm glad i'm here to witness this very important event, the beginning of the under M1 part II thread
I know i'll be using this alot for the next 2 yrs at least.

School starts next week for me, so i have a couple more days to hold on to my sanity. This semester shouldn't be too bad. I'm just taking physics 1, human physiology, french, and a communications class. I was thinking about dropping french and adding BCHM (some of you may have seen my poll). It's funny 100% of the voters said it's realistic and do-able... except my mom She thinks i should keep the french and have a balanced load instead of burning myself out.

I guess having a long relaxing summer break makes me feel like i can take on the world...but i'm still thinking, so you guys feel free to let me know what you think either here, or vote on the poll (under fall semester courses.)

Good luck to all of us this year!!!

 

[Biodude]

Time for this thread to have a BUMP!

drumming207 - Hmm...you should check out how long the original thread is. It's quite impractical to keep that one up much longer, so that's why I started up this one. I felt like putting up some rules because in the last thread, a troll popped in and started attacking everyone verbally. I just didn't want it to happen again, and if it does...well, not like the troll will get far anyhow.

DrSal - Hmm...I would also say that your schedule is doable, but I wouldn't take your mom's advice with a grain of salt, either. Taking way too many science courses definitely will mess up your GPA unless you don't need to spend much time studying them, or you are just such a science buff that this is child's play. I didn't vote, but you can see my advice here.

lisa13579 and Anka - Well, I can't really say much, since I am not in your situation, but there are other people in the club who are also applying. They should be coming in soon, once they see my last post from the original Under M1 Club thread.


I thought that I would drop by again today to update my situation again.

My Introduction to Logic class went pretty smoothly, but there are a lot of students (relative to a normal-size class at my school)...84 of them. I wonder how discussions will be handled? Anyway, for such an obscure subject, the professor seems really energetic about it. She went to great lengths to be exciting to us. In fact, in the next class meeting, she will let us watch some Monty Python! Then we'll analyze situations that seem logical and not logical...

Greek Philosophy...well, this class was pretty uncomfortable with the way the professor entered in. He laid down some things about what he expected (like every prof on the first day of class), but what got to me wasn't what he said, but the way he said it. He sounded like his class was going to be difficult, what with being a history and philosophy combined class...greek philosophy after all 😀

That didn't deter me. In fact, I was intrigued by what he expected from the students...to read and understand what the philosophers' viewpoints were, and then throwing in our own thoughts on their topics. Not just on paper, but in class discussions as well. My professor told anyone who couldn't do that to leave the class right then and there. All of the exams will be take-home ones, which means that I don't have to worry about studying for some one-day final, because he'll give us a week to do it in. That's two finals that I won't have to worry about coming in and taking.

Now all that's left is to head off to my Cell Biology class tomorrow.

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Howdy all! 😀

Start of another semester 😱 . My day started with actually waking up on time (I was a bit worried about that one hehe), and then having the bus running soooo late that I had to take a cab to school or be 20 minutes late to my first class. Talk about annoying!

My first class was Research Methods for Biologists from 9:25-10:40 (otherwise known as Bio Stats although we'll do very little actual math hehe). Dr Broker is cool. He's got an exercise science/biomechanics background so our class is very much oriented to that side of things which I think will make it much more interesting than it could be. The "point" of this class is to teach us how to take any research article, understand it, and disseminate it. And then also to be able to take ready made data and be able to draw good conclusions from that data. I think it'll be a relatively "easy" class, and I think we'll have fun.

Our campus activity board is sponsering meals and music all week on our quad. Today was reggae and burgers and brats so I had a nice lunch and then headed off to organic chemistry. One girl in my Research Methods class has exactly the same lecture schedule as I do (our labs differ) so we hooked up and will probably hang out in between classes and maybe even study some together. Organic will obviously be time-consuming, but it doesn't seem overwhelming either. So far anyway lol. Dr Anderson is an awesome prof, and we have prepackaged lecture notes so we at least don't have to write quite as much in class as we could. Research Methods is the same way actually which is awesome. Organic goes from 12:15-1:30.

My Cell Bio class starts at 1:40, across campus, up a hill, and up 3 flights of stairs from Organic so that's a hike to do in 10 minutes lol. Dr Wolkow seems totally awesome so far. He's straight out of his post doc, moved here a week and a half ago from Boston, so he's still acclimating to the altitude hehe. We have a ton of reading to do, but he said to just skim most of it as we'll only be tested on stuff he goes over in class. He's all about "bright colors and broad strokes" vs details 😀 . We get out of there at 2:55, and then I'm done with class for the day.

Mondays I'll typically be working in the lab. We decided for now that my schedule workwise would be to work in the stockroom T and F mornings and then use my afternoons in the lab. That means I'll still be spending most of my work time in the stockroom, but if she gets another person to work there I'll be able to do lab stuff full time. Today Dr Schoffstall didn't really have anything for me, and I couldn't find his main researcher to see if he had any distillations for me today so I just came home. Maybe tomorrow lol.

Anyway that's what my schedule will be Monday and Wednesday. Tomorrow I have to work in the stockroom from 8-12. Then I have my organic lab's lecture, and my physics lecture. Thursday I'll have organic lab, organic lecture, physics lecture, and physics lab, and Friday I'll work 8-1 and then have physics lecture. I'll work 3 or 4 afternoons for 2.5 hrs for Dr Schoffstall as well.

If the rest of the week goes like today I should have a fun and interesting semester 🙂.

Biodude - 1. Thanks for starting the new thread. We definitely needed it lol. 2. Sounds like you're getting to experience the extremes at HOAG which at the very least is a good learning experience. 3. Don't let calculus intimidate you. Despite my difficulties with the exams my school gives the concepts themselves aren't bad at all. Hope Logic and Greek Philosophy went well for ya too!

Lisa - Welcome to the club 🙂. Most of us are still at least a year away from applying, but we can definitely be a shoulder for ya to cry on....I can definitely relate to the boring aspect of "real" jobs lol. I did retail for 5 years before going back to school full time. What school did you go to? What did you major in? Where did you apply? Good luck in Calc II!

Dr Sal - Ok excuse my ignorance, but what's BCHM? I'm afraid I haven't paid attention to your poll yet, but I'll go check it out once this is posted hehe. If you mean adding in another science (BCPM) rather than french I agree with the pollsters...it's definitely doable and realistic. Personally I found my spanish classes burning me out way more than my science classes because it was soo time consuming. For Spanish II we had at least 5 1 page papers per chapter which meant spending at least 2 hrs/ paper with a dictionary finding vocab and checking grammar. I'm much more relaxed without the foreign language lol, and I try and round out my sciences a bit by taking very different sciences (ie. physics, organic chem, cell bio, and research methods this semester) or taking at least one non science class but also not a language. You've got the one nonscience with your comm class so personally I'd vote for dropping the language in favor of either another non sci or another sci...

I do agree with ya tho that a relaxing (read boring) summer makes you feel ready to conquer the world tho lol. So far I definitely feel like straight A's are very, very achievable this semester. I won't say it'll be easy yet cuz I don't want to jinx it lol.

Hope everyone has a good week!
--Jessica, UCCS

 

[DrSal]

Biodude- Wow, i myself have been eying an intro to logic class since my 2nd semester of college. HAven't gotten around to it yet tho, so it'll be fun to hear what yours is like. The greek philosphy sounds very interesting. I took a intro philosophy course and thoughti t was soo interesting. Cell biology is going to be really fun/interesting...so enjoy it!

Jessica- I'm glad you're day went well. You always seem so positive and upbeat about your lab job...i couldn't imagine working in the stockroom and being so cheerful about it..lol. I hope you get to spend time doing a project or something in the lab. One thing about orgo, the labs are really cool. BCHM= biochemistry. I've never done more than 2 sciences a semester, so i don't want to do anything new, especially now iwth my 6 credit physiology class..etc. But girl, you're going full-blast with that physics, orgo, and cell bio, then that research methods... A semester like that would totally scare me...i'm taking physics this year.. You were so right about that "relaxing (read boring) summer"..i was just trying to mask it and say relaxing...but it was boring as hell ...LOL

I'll let you all know how my semester is next week when school starts!

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Dr Sal ~ I must be doing a good job of faking my "enthusiasm" about the stockroom aspect of my job. I'm desparately keeping my fingers crossed that she'll find someone else to fill my spot so that I can just do the lab aspect instead. The only saving grace is that it'll only be 2 days a week if she doesn't find someone else lol. As far as a "project" for my work with Dr Schoffstall in his lab I won't be working on my own thing this semester. He runs an organic lab and I don't have enough experience yet lol. However I will be doing distillations and recrystallizations for the other researchers on his team at first, and slowly add in some of the other techniques I'll learn in organic lab as the semester (and year) go on.

As far as my schedule being scary I had the advantage of being able to access most of the syllabi for the courses last year so I kind of saw what I was in for. I honestly never thought that Research Methods or Cell Bio would be that difficult, and judging by today they won't be. The semester that scares me at the moment is next semester. I'll end up with 4 lectures and 4 labs lol....Physics II + lab, Organic II + lab, Genetics + lab, and Microbio: Bacteriology/Mycology + lab. Micro and Organic will probably be the "hard" ones for me tho. I've already had an intro to genetics class that I aced, and alg-based physics just isn't that awful lol. I haven't taken more than 2 labs or even 2 science before either, but looking at the physics lab book that one won't be too awful other than having to word process everything lol. After this year I'll add in exercise science classes to mix with my "hard" classes but this was the only way to take the year of Biochem and the year of Micro before the MCATs which will hopefully end up being a major benefit. At least that's the plan lol. 😉 Have fun in your last week off!

--Jessica, UCCS

 

[minx]

Hi everyone I just about to start school again for another semeter😛

I will also doing cell biology and 😱 calculus: i hate it because i find really intimidating😱 but i make me feel better that you say it not that bad. I say I am un friendly math person. If anyone wants I bought this study guide from the the Internet which is really good.
The Complete Idiot guide to Calculus.

Jessica-Good luck with your semeter by way i will also be taking Organic . I telling you it not that hard just lots lots of memorizing. It always good to start well as you did.

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Hey Minx - glad ya made it over here 🙂. Work intensive is kind of what I meant by a "hard" class. lol. I don't expect any of my classes to be particularly difficult this semester or next, but think I'll be spending most of my time on organic and physics this term and organic and micro: b & m next term lol.

I also wanted to clarify something. Several of us are taking cell bio this year. However, I know Biodude is taking his lower division cell bio (or Gen Bio I). I'm taking an upper division course that is required for all bio majors at my school called Cell Bio, but it isn't a Gen Bio I course. There's no lab for this course either. Which cell bio are you taking Minx? I assume the lower division one that will count as your gen bio credit, but I thought we should clarify it 😉 .

Anyway I better get going. Need to leave for work in a half hour. 🙁 This is just way way too early for me lol. It'll take me a couple weeks to get used to getting up this early hehe.

Have a good day!
--Jessica, UCCS

 

[minx]

Jessica
I taking upper division biology course because I skipped my general bio I & II as i got credit transfered from my spainsh univ.

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Yay Minx lol. You and I can commisserate together then hehe. Actually I don't think my class is gonna be that bad even tho our book is kind of dense I don't think the class will be 😎

--Jessica

 

[agent]

I'm so glad to see you guys start this up again.

An update on Manna -- her hubby is possibly moving and taking a new job right by her state's med school.

Who knows if she will stick with the nursing route or go back to pre-med.


An update on me -- I start my 1 class tonight.. nothing special just a communications course 😉

 

[harrypotter]

hi Biodude! cool to see a nieghbor! i'm in gg too...

i was wondering about hoag. are you doing just volunteer work or it is some special kind of program?

thanks!
al

 

[Biodude]

Hey agent, glad to hear from ya again. Well, it's much easier to keep it going in the regular semesters because of the fact that people have classes and have so much more time to study and party and have fun. Plus, I've got more access to most of the campus here.

harrypotter - Hey there, neat username 😎 Welcome to the club. HOAG Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has a special volunteering program called COPE, and the volunteers are known as CCE's (Clinical Care Extenders). Basically, what we do is what a CNA would do, I guess. Um, anyways, if you are wondering, it's quite a large amount to invest in...first, you have to schedule an appointment for an interview. Then you get an application form (via e-mail) where you have to fill out your standard info, but also have to answer questions like, "What skills are required for patient care? How do you rank yourself?" and "How do you solve problems?" etc.

After the interview, and assuming that you get accepted, you have to make sure to have these things ready: immunizations (Hepatitis B and MMR), Tb test from 3 months ago at the very latest, and CPR certification (preferably AHA, but Red Cross is okay). After turning that in, you have to go through a 3 day training session, and then take a quiz (I'd call it an exam), where you have to get at least 80% correct to pass.

Here's the website if you're still interested:

http://www.copepartners.org/CCEhome.html

The next orientation/interview session won't be until about October/November, I believe. I'd try to schedule the interview as early as possible.

You live in Garden Grove, eh? Wanna meet sometime?

Skaterbabe74 - I hope that you're not overloading yourself with science courses over there. By the way, since I am also taking Cell Bio now, why not share notes online? 😀 I didn't start my Cell Bio class yet...it starts about an hour from now (this post).

minx - Hey there, I'm taking Cell Bio and Calculus right now. Need any more support? Calc doesn't seem bad so far, except maybe the professor assumes that the students don't know jack. But that's cool, I'll just show 'im how much I know. As for Cell Bio, um, see my post to Skaterbabe74 above 😀

DrSal - I'd say, definitely take some type of a Logic class in the Philosophy department at your school. I've heard numerous times that it helps the most on the MCAT from all of the philosophy courses you could take (according to pre-med Philosophy majors). Probably helps on the writing section, I suppose, since it is supposed to teach how to break down arguments to the point of being able to analyze their validity.

I'll let you know how my class turns out. I've got a young and energetic professor of course, who's a huge fan of British comedy. Well, on the plus side, I will be seeing some MONTY PYTHON tomorrow 😀 Not sure yet how that will apply to an INTRO TO LOGIC class, but I'll just have to wait and see.

Right now, I'm re-checking the classroom and lab room for Cell Bio. I don't wanna end up in the wrong room, hehehe

Cell Bio is the last class for the day, and I'm anxious to see what my professor is like, and why exactly people are telling me in droves to take her for Cell Bio. Oh well, one hour, I'll be seeing...

Oh, yeah, and here's my plans for Spring 2004 semester. Let me know your thoughts on it (I expect that most of you will think that I'm crazy, of course 😉 )

Genetics and Molecular Biology...5 units
General Chemistry II...................5 units
Physics I......................................4 units
Advanced College Writing............3 units

That's 17 units, so I'll have to obtain permission to sign up for 17 units. But that's mostly science classes, and some pretty hard ones too, I suppose (Genetics and Calc-based Physics). I would like to put in College Writing too, with a specific prof, so that I can secure a letter of rec from a non-science prof (most people seem to recommend getting letters of rec from sophomore-year professors...)

I'll let y'all know of my results from Cell Bio when I get home today.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Hey everyone! I have returned. I start classes tomorrow, and to say that I'm less then excited is an understatement. I have Organic at 11, then Orgo Lab at 12:30, where I don't expect to do anything(please please), and Physics at 7.

I bought my books yesterday, but I'll be able to return my Analytical and Physics books, because a friend of mine who is applying to med school is letting me borrow those for free
That means I'm spending less then a hundred bucks for this semester's books, which rules.

 

[Biodude]

Cozmosis - Hmm, you lucky dog! I've spent at least 252 bucks on books so far, myself, and I'll have to go and spend another 120 on one stupid Biology book as well.

I got back from Cell Biology. First impressions: the professor's voice and mannerisms seem oddly familiar. Maybe it's just me. Anyways, all throughout the lecture, I figured that I was in deep doo-doo. I understood the concepts a bit, but then the rest of the class was leading when it came to asking good questions and answering the professor's.

Note to self: Need to read the bio book more critically this time around...

 

[DD214_DOC]

Hey all,

I started classes last Thursday; I'm not an active poster on this thread, so I forgot to stop by 😀

I guess I'll just "review" my classes and schedule. My original schedule looked like this:

PSYC 400
PSYC 420
PSYC 227
STAT 201
PHYS 201
PHYS 201L

PSYC 400 - Survey of Learning & Memory
This course is taught by a professor I met at last semester's Psi Chi meeting. He's a really fun guy, very personable and down to earth. His lectures are incredibly entertaining. The material seems to be somewhat interesting and useful. We have 2 exams, 8 quizzes, 3 labs, and a final exam to determine our grade. Our labs consist of a virtual laboratory called, "Sniffy, the Virtual Rat" which is incredibly entertaining. Keeping this one.

Professor: What can I say? This guy rocks! (A)
Course Material: It's semi-interesting stuff, but learning and information processing mechanisms make a dull read. (B)
Difficulty: Very detailed material to learn, and can sometimes be boring. The only pictures in the book are graphs and charts. (6)


PSYC 420 - Developmental Psychology
The same professor teaches this as my PSYC 400 course. The material is VERY intersesting and the book is excellent. It divides up each stage of life (infancy, early childhood, late childhood, adolesence, teenage, early adulthood, middle adulthood, late adulthood, dying) and subdivides each period into biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial development. I found myself actually reading the text before the class even began! Keeping this one.

Professor: Same guy as PSYC 400! (A)
Course Material: Really interesting and enlightening stuff; book is well organized, informative, and easy to read (A)
Difficulty:The amount of material needed to know for this class is INSANE.(8)

PSYC 227 - Statistics for Behavioral Science
I was supposed to take this course my sophomore year. It's a lower division psychology course, but it's pretty lame and stupid so I keep dropping it. This semester was no exception: I skipped the class and went home to drop it. I will probably pick this up next semester since it's pretty easy. It shouldn't stress me too much during MCAT time.

Professor:(N/A)
Course Material:(N/A)
Difficulty: It's statistics, for behavioral science. (2)

STAT 201 - Elementary Statistics
I had heard the instructor I had signed up for was incredibly hot and very friendly, plus she's easy. (as an instructor). I thought, "what the hell" and signed up for the 8AM class. I walked in the first day and standing in the front was a young asian man. He turned out to be pretty cool. He setup the course so we don't need the book, and the lame and incredibly easy "statistics lab" every monday is almost 1/2 of our grade.

Professor:He's pretty friendly and laid back, and he saved me $80. (A)
Course Material:This class is math for *****s.(A)
Difficulty:Hooray, easy A!(2)

PHYS 201/201L - General Physics I
I have always liked physics, so I was looking forward to taking this course. The material doesn't seem that bad and the professor is hella cool. He's an older man, probably in his 60's, who is a theoretical physicist by trade. He said he's going to devote about 33% of our class to the philosophy and history of physics, as well as other issues and problem solving -- all stuff we wouldn't be tested on. So far we have covered the concept of time as cyclical or linear (infinite or finite), time's relation to the expansion of the universe, and a physics calculation on the distance one could throw a positively-charged cat. He actually ends up devoting about 80% of our class to stuff we won't be tested on, but I don't care -- it's interesting as hell. Plus his tests are all multiple choice, but tricky. They go like this: (A) 24.31 (B) 24.32 (C) 24.33 (D) None of the above. This class will be fun though.

Professor:Reminds me of my inorganic 2 professor; interesting as hell, and makes class fun. I probably learn more about life in there than I do anywhere else.(A)
Course Material:I like physics, I like theoretical physics, I like astrophysics. I like philosophy. This class combines them all(A)
Difficulty:Professor is very supportive; tests aren't that bad. He gives us past exams to study from. Have to teach self most of material because of Professor's side-tracking, but I did that with chemistry anyways.(6)

CHEM 550 - Principles of Biochemistry
I was going to take this class instead of PSYC 227. Bought the book and everything. I realized that it would (A) count towards nothing for my degree/graduation (B) I don't really need the GPA boost (C) Could potentially screw-up my GPA, (D) Doesn't help as much on the MCAT as genetics, which I'm already taking next semester, and (D) Don't really feel like taking it. Plus I didn't learn much in organic II. Dropped it.

Professor:(N/A)
Course Material:(N/A)
Difficulty: It's statistics, for behavior science. (2)

PSYC 522 - Psychology of Early to Mid Adulthood
This class happened to open up just this afternoon. I haven't been yet, so I have absolutely no idea what it's like. It looked interesting though, and its professor is one of the psi chi advisors. She's cool.

Professor:Professor is one of the few female professors at the university; cool woman.(A)
Course Material:(N/A)
Difficulty: It's a 500-level psychology course.(7)

That's about it for me. I'll update as I go along. I predict my grades will be something like this:

PSYC 400 A
PSYC 420 B+
STAT 201 A
PHYS 201 A
PHYS 201L A
PSYC 522 B+

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Hey all 🙂

Tuesday is done...woohoo! Ok I'm most definitely not liking waking up hehe, but I'll get over it. Today started with me working in the stockroom from 8:30-12. There were a couple of us today so we got stuff done pretty easily. Had very little glassware to wash, only one biohazard bag to autoclave so it was a pretty easy morning. We finished filling out our paperwork specifically for the stockroom, helped set up a couple labs, and put away chemicals lol.

I had lecture for my Organic lab from 12:15-1:05 this afternoon. It's pretty pointless to be there since they post all the notes from it online anyway lol but at least it's only 50 minutes.

From 1:40-2:55 I have Physics for Life Sciences I. Dr Milazzo is a blast 🙂. Today we did intro stuff, why study physics stuff, and went over units. He'll assign about 10 problems/week which is 10% of the grade. He doesn't care about sig figs either on the exam unlike our chem profs which is cool. I loved physics in hs, and think I'm gonna enjoy it this year just as much 🙂.

I officially start working for Dr Shoffstall tomorrow, and will do 3-4 afternoons/week for 2.5 hours for him. Woohoo! I'm soooo glad that part of my job is working out!

I got my study guide for physics in the mail yesterday so I was hoping I'd get the textbook today but it didn't come yet so I don't have a whole lot to do homework wise tonite. I have everything read that I need read for tomorrow so I'll start working on prelabs for Physics and Organic, and working thru Organic problems. If this workload keeps up I'll be able to add in converting to judaism no problem😎 . I'm gonna wait a couple weeks before deciding for sure to do it this year tho.

Agent - Have fun in comm! I hope things work out for Manna the way she wants them to!

Biodude - If you have questions about your Cell Bio class I'd be happy to try and help but it's also been like 6 years since I took that class. I don't know how much my class notes would help you and vice versa since we're taking 2 very different classes. All the stuff you're gonna be learning will be stuff that we're expected to already know for our class. As far as not leading questions/answers in your class the people who did lead probably got the book early and already read the first chapter. Don't worry about it yet.

And I'm definitely not overloading myself on science. I love science. I do better when I don't have boring, unmotivating non-science stuff in there lol. Plus Research Methods isn't really science....it's more a mix of english comp and critical thinking lol. I'll end up spending most of my time working on organic and physics I think but I don't think either of them are going to be especially "hard". Next semester most of time will probably be spent on organic and micro instead lol. Honestly tho other than a 300-level humanities class and a comm requirement (for which I'm taking a lit class) I'm done with all my non-science requirements. I'm adding stuff in here and there during the summer and the fall of my senior year that's non-science just cuz i want to, but I don't actually "have" to once those last 2 requirements are done (which probably won't be until the fall of my senior year lol).

Cozmosis - Have fun tomorrow. I doubt you'll have to do anything other than check in/diagnostic tests (if you have those)/maybe a scavenger hunt type thing tomorrow in orgo lab. That's what our first lab is. Way cool on being able to return your analytical and physics books tho!

JKD - Wow.....sounds like you'll have a fun semester anyway Seems like all your profs are cool too!

Tomorrow is Research Methods, Organic lecture, Cell bio, and then working in the lab 🙂

Have a good one!
--Jessica, UCCS

 

[hrusky17]

i don't post very often on this site but the couple times that i do i get great advice...so i have a small problem i could use some help with. school doesn't start for me until the 2nd so i still have some time to sort things out...my schedule so far:
racquetball 1 credit
latin/greek terminology 3 credits
trig. 3 credits
CHEM II 3 credits
chem I lab 1 credit
genetics 4 credits
TA class 1 credit

along with the 16 hours, i will be teaching a 2 hour chemistry discussion class...hopefully that will make me standout a little from all the other applicants later down the road. back to my question, i'm pretty set on majoring in biology and trig will suffice for the math credits along with statistics, but instead of trig should i consider taking a more difficult course such as intro to logic? would it be better to take the trig class which would be an easy A for me or take the more interesting course(logic) which probably wouldn't be a definite A? i'm sort of torn between the two and could use some help to push me in either direction.

on to another subject...does anyone else have one day that they are really dreading? for instance, on thursday i have chem. from 8-9:20, then genetics lab from 9:30-12:20, then trig. 12:30-1:50, and then genetics 2-3:20.......i can already feel the misery of that day, and hunger as well.

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Hrusky - I'm a little confused....is intro to logic a math class at your school? Either way I think I'd stick with trig...an easy A with your schedule would be very nice cuz TAing will probably take up more time than you've been thinking lol. I think an intro to logic or logic philosophy course would be an awesome class to take at some point as it will help with your critical thinking skills but I don't think an intro to logic math course is needed. That just seems to go way beyond anything any of us would ever really use as biology/premed majors lol. Some schools require a semester of calculus for both a biology BA/BS and med school admissions so you may want to pick that up at some point, but I don't know what good intro to logic (as a math class) would do really. Good luck whatever you decide...

As far as dread day that's Thurs for me. I'm not working at all on Thurs because I have Organic lab from 9:25-12:05, Organic lecture from 12:15-1:30, Physics lecture from 1:40 - 2:55, and Physics lab from 3:05-4:45. Plus this week anyway there's an ACS meeting at 4:30 that I'll be 15 minutes late to if lab goes the whole time lol. Other than making sure I bring lunch or munch on chips and stuff all day I'm not totally dreading it tho cuz in some ways it's only 2 classes so my backbag won't be totally full, and I'll have the weekend to write both of my lab reports or several days during the week to get them done if I'm reading all weekend. Luckily I don't have to go totally across campus for any of those breaks either like I do on Mon and Wed between Organic lecture and Cell bio.

--Jessica, UCCS

 

[harrypotter]

biodude: thanks for the link. it sounds like an awesome experience! hmmm about meeting.. how do i know you aren't a psycho killing sociopath? 😱 haha just kidding

everyone else: just looking at your schedules is killing me! wow! good luck to you all!

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Originally posted by hrusky17

on to another subject...does anyone else have one day that they are really dreading? for instance, on thursday i have chem. from 8-9:20, then genetics lab from 9:30-12:20, then trig. 12:30-1:50, and then genetics 2-3:20.......i can already feel the misery of that day, and hunger as well.

I'll go with every day for 500, Alex.

 

[agent]

Id like to have 1 credit of racquetball

 

[minx]

<b>Hi everyone <b>, 😛
I have started to give at my school i sheduled to work at the bookstore and in admission it be OK. I just messed up with the tranfering as an int. issue to the Us next year;thankfully I managed to get some help from an Admissions counselors but clases start on the 2nd of Sept.

Finally I Drop Calculus I,i feel really unsecure about it and i was going to be a load so I exchanged for easier classes(for me). I just a horrible mathematician i take me ages to get to the problems the right way around.<br>
<br>
CellBio _upper div bio
intro to philosophy
General Psyc.
Organic chem I
History II(1600-present)
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Biodude-I agree that i a good idea to share notes throught the net( althought i don't know how useful this will be to you) , you seem a little puzzle about your first cell bio class. Don't worry I not that bad if you need I give you a hand.
<p>
WElcome to the Club harrypotter & hrusky17
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JkD Med -WElcome. I see you are to have fun this semester.You seem to really good at math & physics. Prof are cool too.

 

[Biodude]

hrusky - Hey, now, is Intro to Logic that hard? It didn't seem so hard for me when I went into it. Today I'll be sitting down to some Monty Python. Personally, I think that it may be the instructor who makes it hard...anyway, I'll let you know about my experiences in Intro to Logic, alright? 😛

Just wanted to stop by and bump this baby up. I'll respond to everyone else later on, when I have time. Today is packed. Calculus at 8 a.m., Cell Bio Lab at 9 (ends at around noon), one hour to go grab lunch, then Intro to Logic from 1 to 2:15, and finally Greek Philosophy from 2:30 to 3:45

Tomorrow I only have one class, so that's a good trade-off, I think.

 

[XT777]

is not that hard...i would take that anyday over Trig...however, i do not think that anyone considers Intro to Logic to be a substitute for Trig or any math for that matter. Certainly, some of the Classical Logic is very math like (truth tables, etc) but most of the class will likely be covering infomal logical fallacies...not really much like math at all.

Having said that, you should still take logic cause it is fun.

 

[hrusky17]

skaterbabe - yeah, for some reason intro to logic will work for math credit. i think i'll take your advice and stick with the guaranteed A. i'm about 20 credits ahead of schedule so maybe my senior year i'll have some time to take courses of that nature, solely on interest. i know texas tech does not require calculus, but does anyone know which med schools do? i will probably be applying to most of the schools in texas and maybe a couple out of state.

i can't wait to go to my racquetball class in hopes that i will be better than the teacher. on the other hand i also hope that he will be able to teach me something new because i haven't been getting much better in the past 6 months

biodude - as far as i know, intro to logic could be as easy for me as intro to philosophy...for some reason anything that has to do with philosophy just seems to stick in my head and never deteriorate. one lesson i definitely learned the hard way in college is to always use pickaprof.com to make sure i don't choose a ****ty professor because they make the most immense difference

XT777 - i'll be sure to take intro to logic later on but for now i'm going to take the easy grade because my GPA could really use the help. right now it's around a 3.3 but after this next year i predict it to be over a 3.65

 

[manna]

Originally posted by agent
An update on Manna -- her hubby is possibly moving and taking a new job right by her state's med school.
Who knows if she will stick with the nursing route or go back to pre-med.

An update on me -- I start my 1 class tonight.. nothing special just a communications course 😉

Thanks for the update on me! I doubt anyone cares since I was such a lurker anyway, but... I'm still lurking, just rarely ever post and don't get over to the pre-allo thread much if at all. 🙂

I'm still staying in nursing... as much as I want to say I'm a pre-med, I don't think it's fair to my kids, and the whole ego trip thing, yadda yadda yadda. Had this conversation before.

Just hearing my husband say he was moving within 5 miles of the state MD school.. was tempting there for a moment. 🙂

How'd your comm class go?

 

[Biodude]

Hey all...

hrusky - you use pickaprof.com...I use whototake.com, but it's the same thing. Tells from the students' points of view which profs are bad and which ones are cool. Oh yeah, no matter which classes you plan on taking, I hope that you don't end up with bad profs. 😀

The day that I dread would probably be today...or rather it would be today if the classes ran on schedule. I got let out early from lab, so I have time to type this up. But next week, yeah...

8 - 9 Calculus
9 - 12 Bio Lab
1 - 2:15 Logic
2:30 - 3:45 Greek Philosophy

I still don't like lab, by the way. I'm probably not going to like labs in med school, either. Well, pathology's out for me (lab work and interpretations...), and so's a career in research.

manna - good to hear from ya. Hope that your husband and kids will appreciate later on that you decided to go the nursing route for them.

agent - Same as above, except replace husband with wife 😛

XT777 - Logic sure doesn't sound as fun as it actually is Anyway, do you have any other words of advice for us all, dude? I know that I've said this numerous times before, but...two words...MONTY PYTHON! It shouldn't be too difficult to cover logical infallacies there, I would think.

Minx - That schedule looks pretty balanced. I would definitely not want to take O-Chem with Calc in the same semester. I guess I was over-reacting a bit yesterday...I'm going to read up on Cell Bio stuff tonight and tomorrow morning before class.

Okay, so here's my situation so far. I got the second Cell Bio textbook (123 bucks! GRRR...😡 ). I also went to lab, and I would say that my lab instructor appeared to be a latina, but I took a look at her name. Hmm...nope, Indian (Asian kind). She spoke in an accent but wasn't too terribly difficult to understand, except that she should speak more loudly (I was sitting in the front row and had trouble hearing her). Now I have to go and buy even more books and stuff for lab. The lab text was all sold out by the time I got to the bookstore, so now I will have to go to the library and make copies of a reserve book, because the lab instructor expects us to be done with some of the questions in the book by the time next lab rolls around (Friday).

That's all so far. Hopefully, Logic will be interesting, and Greek Philosophy...well, I'll just have to wait and see what my feelings are towards the class and the professor! 😀

I'll be back later, if I have time.

 

[agent]

I have my comm class tonight... and i dont even have my book yet, i feel so unprepared!!🙁

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Hey all 🙂

Well I knew it would happen once this week while getting used to my schedule. I way overslept lol. At least it didn't happen tomorrow when I have my labs 😉 . As a result I'm gonna wait until Friday to start working for Dr Schoffstall.

I got my physics text today tho. Yay! I hate not having all my books before I head to a class! Feels like I'm behind from the start lol.

harrypotter - Sorry I neglected to welcome u earlier😱 so welcome! 🙂. What's your schedule like?

Minx - I don't blame ya for dropping calculus lol. Looks like you have a very well rounded schedule 🙂. Congrats on the bookstore/admissions job!

Hrusky - I think you'll be fine with trig and stats for the TX schools....double check Baylor tho. I know UCHSC (U of Colorado) requires a semester of calc, but have no idea yet about other regional schools. I'm just working thru the various schools indidvidually and alphabetically lol. I think I'm on maybe C so far hehe.

Biodude - How can you tell if you're going to like a lab from the typical check in first day activities? I'll admit I wasn't as keen on general bio labs as the other labs I've had so far cuz it was pretty boring, but I have the most fun and end up learning the practicality of stuff I'm learning in lecture in the labs. That's why I like them anyway.

Manna - Of course we care about updates about u!! Have your classes started yet? If so, are you enjoying them? You are always more than welcome over here 🙂.

Agent - I know exactly how you feel lol. Most of our profs dive right into the first chapters on the first day of class so I hate not having the book already and at least skimming, if not reading, the chapter first. For a comm class you should be fine tho. You'll probably do more intro activities for that then u do in a typical science class lol. Have fun!

Later all
--Jessica, UCCS

 

[agent]

yeah if this was A&P I think i'd sh1t a brick!!!

 

[UCLAstudent]

Hi, guys. Can I hang out? I'm going to be a third year this fall, and I'll be taking the 'CAT in April. 😀 I don't start school until Sept. 25 (quarter system), but I am really excited to go back. I'll be taking genetics, my final physics class, and psychology. I have been taking an English class this summer, as well as volunteering.

So that's that.

 

[hrusky17]

do most people take the MCAT their junior and senior years?

 

[Biodude]

UCLAstudent - welcome in! We sure can use more 3rd year people in the club. Most of us are still in the "taking pre-reqs" phase of pre-med. Hopefully you'll help us out as we stumble along...

You're welcome so long as you don't troll, which shouldn't be difficult 😀

hrusky - If you are talking about traditional students (like me), then most would take the MCAT in the Spring of the Junior year. Applications and interviews come in the Senior year, and then start med school after graduation from college. Some people of course, wait a year, or a few years, and then decide to apply. But if you want to start med school soon after finishing your Bachelor's degree, then you have to take the MCAT in your Junior year.

RPW - Taking Chem first, eh? As for College Algebra, if you took Algebra 2 in high school, this is just review. Easy as pie for me. For which medical school I want to go to...well, I'm a CA resident, and based on location alone, I'll go with UC San Diego...located close to the beach, the surrounding urban area has a nice atmosphere...what more needs to be said about the location? I would like to live close to the beach, mainly because of the appearance of the ocean during mid-day.

agent- hey dude, it's just a COMM class. Besides, I went to every single one of my classes (with the exception of Cell Bio) on the first day without buying the textbooks first. Usually, the first day is more of introducing the syllabus and the instructor's expectations of the students, for most classes, right?

Skaterbabe - It's just a thing I have about labs. I realize that they're supposed to be fun, but well...I dunno, I just don't jive with it, I guess. The TA this time around seems nice enough, and I suppose that I may have made an unfair call on my impressions of it, since it was only the first day...but I will have to keep some things in mind...like asking the TA to speak a bit more loudly so that I could hear her more clearly. So, how are you feeling about your barrage of classes tomorrow?

One last thing before I document the rest of the day -

Where is everyone else? I'd just like to know! Valinor, BallerinaTina16, 2badr, jenni4476, and all the rest...please stop by sometime to let us know that you haven't died or anything 😀

Now then...

Well, for Intro to Logic, the prof began the class by talking about what constitutes to an argument, and what is confused with the word "argument". For example, having a shouting match of "I'm right!" "No you're not!" "Yes I am!" is not an argument.

And then came a short clip of a Monty Python sketch, called "The Argument Clinic". You can pretty much guess why my prof chose that specific skit...

Well, I found myself becoming bored with Intro to Logic this time around, but I'm not sure of why. Maybe next time things will improve, but I guess it's because I like to be in a smaller class...my Intro to Logic class is pretty huge.

Greek Philosophy didn't go as planned (for the professor teaching it). He accidentally assigned us less reading than he wanted us to complete, so he had to change his lectures a bit. I've talked to people who have had him before for different philosophy classes. It seems that the prof is an easy grader and he rambles a lot in his lectures. The latter turned out to be true, so I assume that the former is as well. Yippee! Looks like this'll be another easy A if I keep up with the readings and throw in my interpretations to the professor.

Of course, now I have to read 4 Chapters by next class meeting for Greek Philosophy, since we're so behind (according to the professor).

Speaking of which, I checked out my grades for summer school. Hmm...looks like my Psych prof was a bit more lenient this time. I got a B in the class Yippee! Now no more stupid social science GE's (no offense, socialscience ain't my thing).

Later everyone!

 

[Jasminegab]

Hello,


Well the 3rd day of school went well. My schedule is full and I haven't figured out how to study yet. I'm a commuter so it takes me about 1 hour and a half to get to school and get home. By the time I do get home....I'm in no mood for studying. So, I try to study during my breaks in between classes.

Here's my schedule:

Monday:

9-950am Aleg/Trig
11-1150 Gen Bio (second go at it...got a C in it last semester)
12-1250pm Transcultral Hlth
Break Eat lunch/ 50 min study session
3-350pm Effectivee Writing 2


Tuesday:

8-930am Humans & Environment

Wensday:

Same as Monday


Thursday:

8-930am Humans & Environment
study sessions until 12pm then lunch, then back to study sessions until 3:30pm

330pm-630pm Bio Lab

Friday:

Same as Monday


I just found out from financial aid that if you have 64 credits...your considered a jr. 😱 I'm no where near ready for the MCAT's. Best part is that even though I'm a jr now....I still have 2yrs to go before I graduate. That's counting my pre-med courses, not my degree requirements.

To the previous post, my med school of choice is St. Luke's school of Medicine. It's an international school based out of Africa. It's has campuse in Pune, India. I choose this school because I can double major in MD/NMD.....naturopathic medicine. My dream is to work in an integrative medical clinic.

Well bed time...nite all....any study advise would be helpful.....😀

 

[2badr]

just dropping in to say hi and hello to all the new posters/members!! 🙂

glad to see everyone is getting off to a good start this semester. i will post more after winding down a bit.🙂

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

First day: horrifyingly long, and its not going to get better. I really should drop a class...being there from 9:30 or 11 all the way to 10 at night is going to kill me.
Organic was kinda cool, and my Physics teacher isn't bad. Analytical is tomorrow, and so is Sociology. Physics or Sociology is going to go...

 

[midwest_turtle]

Hey all, I'm glad to see that you're enjoying most of your classes, and that you have a positive outlook on the semester.

Cozmosis, that is crazy! I think you have to drop a class. It looks like you're taking a night class, and if that class is physics or sociology, I think you should drop it. If not, then I think you should drop sociology since physics is a prereq.

I can't wait to write about my classes. Less than a week.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Physics is a MW 7-9:45 night class, and Sociology is Thursday 7-9:40.
I'd only be taking 3 courses, but I could deal. Physics isn't so much a concern as I can take it later as its not on the PCAT(leaning in that direction). I don't know, I'll go to sociology tomorrow and see how I feel.

 

[Miss155]

Hi

I was wondering does my schedule look balanced?

MWF
Calculus
Political Science
Physics I
Physics workshop

T
Biology I

Th
Biology lab

F
Physics lab

Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Welcome RPW, UCLAstudent, Jasminegab, and Miss155!!

RPW - looks like you've got a good schedule. I hated math too lol. As for where I want to go to school I really have no idea yet. Thinking about TX somewhere in IL, Einstein and UCSF (dreams), and some DO schools too.

Biodude - Actually I'm totally fine with tomorrow. After all it's only two subjects lol. We should get out of Organic lab early so I'll have time to eat (most of the time I'll take something and stash it in the chem depts food fridge before lab and then eat it on the way to organic lecture after). We have a full lab for physics tomorrow but it's just measuring stuff so it's not bad...only had 3 prelab questions to do for that. Then I have the ACS meeting, which I'm really looking forward to being a part of this year. They always have soo much fun...hehe. Sounds like your weekend will be chock full of greek philo tho lol. That sux... Congrats on your B in psych! How did history go?

Jasmine - Ouch...I hate long commutes. I travel about 40 minutes each way, but by bus so I can study on there everyday 🙂. Seems like you've scheduled in a decent amt of study time tho at school, and then you have some time once you get home before crashing too. Since you have such a long commute maybe you could buy a few blank tapes or CD's (if you have a CD-R drive and a mic) and record your notes into them at nite and then listen to them on the way to and from school?

Miss155 - Your schedule looks good to me. MWF are definitely full but having such light TTh will give you plenty of time to get stuff done for MWF....You'll definitely have tons of problems to practice between calc and physics, but it definitely seems more than manageable! Good luck!

Cosmosis - Hope our chat earlier helped a bit, but I don't blame ya at all for wanting to drop something lol.

--Jessica, UCCS

 

[AspiringDoctor9]

Hi Guys,

Well, I guess I'm new to this thread, so I'll say hi to everyone first! Gosh, I'm really stressing about med school. I took most of my science classes Freshmen and Sophmore year (I'm starting my 4th year soon) - and needless to say, I could have used some better studying habits back then. I seemed to tag mostly Bs in my science courses, and for every A I got, I seemed to pick up a C (well, almost). I'm wondering if you guys think it's worth it for me to retake organic chemistry I where I got a C+? It's kinda my fault - I ditched 2/3 of the lectures, and didn't do 40% of the labs - sometimes I wonder how I even passed.

I guess what bothers me most is the discrepency between my science and overall GPA. I'm most afraid that adcoms will look at my application, and ask themselves - your science GPA isn't so good (3.1 or so) - shouldn't you be doing something else? Does being Phi Beta Kappa help any? Help guys? please? advice or anything? ^_^;;

 

[minx]

Welcome to the cLub RPW, UCLAstudent, Jasminegab, and Miss155!!

Thank you for your support , i had though that taking o-chm and Calculus was a Bad idea. I actually feel a lot better since I dropped it.

Biodude - thank for your valueble info about the MCAT because i was unsure whether to take it in August or April. I most probably going to tranfer to CA college ,more or less near the Bay Area.
Any recomendations ( fall 2004)
I already checked SainT Mary,University of San Francisco, Berkeley(dreaming..).....
and Claremount.

Jasminegab- I now what to mean for my previous school i had to do the exact same thing I didn't get home sometimes before ten.
Agent -happy to hear from you.

Skatebabe_ the thing about labs sometime they will kind of boring(esp. when the write up appers to take for ever)and others fun.

 

[jenni4476]

No, Biodude, I haven't died.....yet😀 I'm just running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get ready for school to start next week...

So, I go to get my books on Tuesday. I figure if I show up a half hour before they open, I'll be OK, right? WRONG...there were already about 200-250 people in line. So two and a half hours and $569.79 later....I get my books-of course all the used ones were gone by the time I got up there. Then I wait another hour in line at the county health dept. to get my last Hep B shot (in hopes that I can land a healthcare job someday 😉 ) So I decided to end the day by meeting another non-trad premed that I met on the Internet for coffee, which cheered me up a whole lot. Makes me feel like I'm getting somewhere, you know?

Anyway, here's my schedule since everyone else is posting theirs:

Monday

9-10 Chem lec
10-11 Chem disc
1-2 Pre-Calc

Tuesday

8-10 Anatomy lab
1-2 Pre-Calc
2-5 Chem lab

Wednesday

9-10 Chem lec
1-2 Pre-Calc
5-8 Greek/Latin Origins of Medical Terminology

Thursday

8-10 Anatomy lab
1-2 Pre-Calc

Friday

9-10 Chem lec
10-11 Anatomy lec
1-2 Pre-Calc

I purposely tried to balance it all so I didn't have too much on any one day although Tuesdays will be crazy. But then I have a light Thurs and Fri to make up for it 😀

Other than that, I don't have much going on. I feel like I can't contribute much until I actually start classes next week, tho I'm reading the first chapters of the books. Amazingly, I'm finding that I already know most of it-I know that'll change really quickly though.

Welcome AspiringDoctor-I think that realistically, you'll face that question a lot and you're right to ask it. Whether to retake Organic or not depends on how strong the rest of your package is. If you've got a lot of other things besides GPA showing strength in the science area and a decent MCAT, then I'd forgo it. But if the rest is rather weak, then you're probably better off either retaking it or trying to demonstrate your stuff in some upper division sciences. Granted, I'm only starting out, so this advice is simply what I've been hearing from everyone else on here so take it as you will....Good luck to you tho😀

Skaterbabe-I so had to laugh when I read that you overslept. That's my number one worry too...I haven't had to keep a regular schedule in a year and a half so I'll probably do that too once...I just have to make sure it's not on Tues or Thurs

Welcome Miss155-I gotta agree with Skaterbabe, your schedule seems quite manageable.

Biodude-OK, now you've got me adding Intro to Logic to my "must-take" class list. Methinks it'll be a nice counterpart to next year when I need to take Bio 2, Organic 1, and Physics 1 in the same semester...I'll need something like that for stress relief cuz dancing isn't always enough...

OK, why do all my posts get so long? Maybe I should just start checking in and posting every day, then they wouldn't get so long..

4 days and counting down...

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Morning all!

Welcome Aspiring Doctor! I say go ahead and apply. Unless you're totally against it maybe throw a few DO school's in there too. I'd say a C+ in one organic chem I class isn't going to kill you. Heck at our school we're only allowed to retake if it's a C- or lower. If you don't make it in on your first try get some feedback about what was holding you back and work on improving it for the next time. If that's the C+ in organic then retake it. But if you have a good MCAT you shouldn't have to worry all that much about the "lower" sci gpa...they'll balance each other out. Yes I'm sure Phi Beta Kappa would be noticed and help. Good luck!

Minx - I totally agree with ya about labs. Some are very boring, some are very time-consuming, but I think that I've lucked out in my chem labs so far anyway to not have too many of either of those lol.

jenni - There you are! lol....looks like a lot of people had the same idea you did about books lol. Oh well, at least you were able to get your books, and it seems like you got an average price for them anyway! Your schedule looks cool...The earliest I get out on any day is 3 lol. Have a good last few days off!

I have to leave for my day in about 10 minutes. I have classes from 9:25-4:45 and then an ACS meeting that starts at 4:30 (I'll be late, but at least I'll be there this time lol).

Later all!
--Jessica, UCCS

 

[UCLAstudent]

I'm so excited, it's my last day of English today. 😀 I was supposed to have fulfilled the requirement last quarter at UCLA, but I didn't (bad girl), so I am making up for it this summer at UC Riverside.

After class, I'm going to the hospital to volunteer. I'm not sure if what I am doing qualifies as research or not. I'm screening patients' files to see if they qualify for different research studies. Any ideas on this?