Here, here.
There's been a lot of talk polluting pre-allo recently about prestigious colleges, prestigious med schools, best places to live, etc. etc. I'm starting to seriously wonder if some people around here take the USNews rankings to bed with them at night.
Friends, we need a return to normalcy. We need to take back pre-allo from the freshmen that can't stop thinking about if their college is prestigious enough. Debating an institution's prestige all day will do nothing for you because it's something you largely have no control over.
Can I get an amen?
Do we have any other people here that proudly hail from the midwest? The northwest? The southeast?
We need a thread to extol the virtues and values of the 99.5% of the US that isn't located on Manhattan Island. Don't get me wrong... I love NY and LA. But they are not the end-all-be-all of being an American pre-med.
So... from those that hail from the other 99.5% of the US, what do you like about where you're from or where you are now?
I personally love being from the midwest. I wouldn't want to move too far south because I like getting a decent amount of snow in the winter. My location is nice though because it's been in the 70's for a few weeks now. The football is great (Go Buckeyes!), the city has more ethnic restaurants than I could ever afford to eat at, and rent for an apartment in the cool part of town is quite reasonable.
Personally I'd like to get out at some point either for med school or residency, but I could see myself practicing here in the future. Chicago is by far my fav midwestern city - it's a shame, though, that the malpractice environment is supposedly terrible.
There's been a lot of talk polluting pre-allo recently about prestigious colleges, prestigious med schools, best places to live, etc. etc. I'm starting to seriously wonder if some people around here take the USNews rankings to bed with them at night.
Friends, we need a return to normalcy. We need to take back pre-allo from the freshmen that can't stop thinking about if their college is prestigious enough. Debating an institution's prestige all day will do nothing for you because it's something you largely have no control over.
Can I get an amen?
Do we have any other people here that proudly hail from the midwest? The northwest? The southeast?
We need a thread to extol the virtues and values of the 99.5% of the US that isn't located on Manhattan Island. Don't get me wrong... I love NY and LA. But they are not the end-all-be-all of being an American pre-med.
So... from those that hail from the other 99.5% of the US, what do you like about where you're from or where you are now?
I personally love being from the midwest. I wouldn't want to move too far south because I like getting a decent amount of snow in the winter. My location is nice though because it's been in the 70's for a few weeks now. The football is great (Go Buckeyes!), the city has more ethnic restaurants than I could ever afford to eat at, and rent for an apartment in the cool part of town is quite reasonable.
Personally I'd like to get out at some point either for med school or residency, but I could see myself practicing here in the future. Chicago is by far my fav midwestern city - it's a shame, though, that the malpractice environment is supposedly terrible.
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