Weird stage of pre-med

[PreMedAdAG]

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Ugh...... I'm a fifth year student, graduating in December.... and i'm in this weird stage. I haven't applied yet, but I've taken the MCAT. I'm excited for my time off, but I just wish I could get this application stuff out of the way. I'm kind of unmotivated in my classes too. It's like.. I like my GPA where it's at... my MCAT is okay... so now I feel like a high school kid that can't wait until summer vacation again. Man.... school sucks!

Okay.. I'm over it now.. I have a midterm on Monday in endocrinology... I'm underprepared and I'm bitter.... thanks for tuning in...


Christine😀

 

[jlee9531]

well if it is any consolation...

i really like your homer quote 😉

 

[mattorama]

Originally posted by PreMedAdAG
Ugh...... I'm a fifth year student, graduating in December.... and i'm in this weird stage. I haven't applied yet, but I've taken the MCAT. I'm excited for my time off, but I just wish I could get this application stuff out of the way. I'm kind of unmotivated in my classes too. It's like.. I like my GPA where it's at... my MCAT is okay... so now I feel like a high school kid that can't wait until summer vacation again. Man.... school sucks!

Okay.. I'm over it now.. I have a midterm on Monday in endocrinology... I'm underprepared and I'm bitter.... thanks for tuning in...


Christine😀

I feel your pain. I graduate in December as a fifth year too and have almost completly given up on school this semester. I actually started off the semester at 18 credits and quickly went down to 12, because I just don't care. 🙂 I HAVE applied though and interviewed at my top choice. Now I am just obsessive and depressed over the whole waiting game. It SUCKS knowing that there is nothing I can do anymore to help out my chances of getting into med school. My future is in the hands of strangers and I hate it.

Getting the grades to get into med school is easy....it is just a matter of time and effort (regardless of major). The wait/uncertainty is what is bringing me down.

Spring semester come soon, I need some time off!

 

[Bones2008]

Go out to a bar and have a few drinks. Enjoy your last year in college. Nothing cures a boring weekday night like drinking games and tequila shots!

 

[LUBDUBB]

Your only motivation for doing well in school should not be getting into med school. Hard work and discipline is something that must be maintained at all times. That being said, take your skirt off and hit the books.

 

[PreMedAdAG]

Originally posted by LUBDUBB
Your only motivation for doing well in school should not be getting into med school. Hard work and discipline is something that must be maintained at all times. That being said, take your skirt off and hit the books.

uh right.. thanks mom...

PS .. med school is defintely not my only motivation for doing well.. there's this thing called self satisfaction... No offense, after five years in college, the last thing I need is study advice from someone I don't know. re-read what you wrote.... yeah.. it's kind of lame isn't it? 😛

 

[acab]

I feel the same. It's been very hard for me to concentrate on my courses....surf SDN whenever I have to study. It's like I have 2 lives: 1 that's all about med school interviews and waiting, the other is senior year courses that are really interesting. I've been making very simple mistakes in lab reports and exams that I have never made before. My best friend in school is trying hard to keep me going....

Just hang in there PreMed.....I think next semester will be better since we'll probably know we got accepted somewhere.

 

[mattorama]

Originally posted by LUBDUBB
Your only motivation for doing well in school should not be getting into med school. Hard work and discipline is something that must be maintained at all times. That being said, take your skirt off and hit the books.

🙄 After nearly four and a half years of learning material that will never really matter, be it solving diffeqs for some ******ed engineering class or learning some obscure bio pathway, yeah it gets old. I have worried about getting straight A's long enough. My only motivation for doing well in school right now IS to get into med school. If not I would be out doing something meaningful with my life instead of reading textbooks or doing homework. You don't have to be in school to study and work hard. Before this semester I DID enjoy learning for the sake of learning/hard work..this application/waiting process has at least temporarily changed that.

As of now, undergrad IS just a stepping stone to get to where I want to be...medical school. I can't wait to start learning things that will be applicable to what I want to do (before you get your panties in a bunch, I study/read about things I am interested in on my own....for fun. You don't have to take a class to learn).

In the mean time I am stuck waiting to have my fate handed down to me from people who only have a couple of pages of info on me and it bugs me a LOT (I am confident I will at least get into my state school, but you never really know...).

Are you applying right now LUBDUBB? More power to you if this process isn't getting to you. I am jealous if so. The few people I know who are applying (or did last year) feel/felt the same way I do. Maybe keeping up the hardcore caring about school takes your mind off it....who knows.

 

[BerkeleyPremed]

Originally posted by PreMedAdAG
uh right.. thanks mom...

PS .. med school is defintely not my only motivation for doing well.. there's this thing called self satisfaction... No offense, after five years in college, the last thing I need is study advice from someone I don't know. re-read what you wrote.... yeah.. it's kind of lame isn't it? 😛

LOL. That was funny. What med schools are you applying to? Also...you're at UC Davis..right?

 

[PreMedAdAG]

Berk,
hey.. i'm not applying right now, I'm applying in June... I'm still trying to put a list together. I have no idea. oh yeah. I do go to UC Davis.. I assume you're at UCB

 

[Harps]

PremedADAG,
How's it going over there? How was the midterm in Endocrinology? I thought the 1st essay question was hard since Dr. Adams didn't really explain or focus on vasodilation and its relationship to beta-receptors. However, the handout he gave did mention that little fact. Oh well, I looked at it after the exam. Water under the bridge now! Well, see you in class 😉

-Harps

 

[PreMedAdAG]

Harps,
Yeah I felt the same way. It's like Dr. Adams spend so much time on other important thing and then he asked us about something he spend 10 minutes on... ugh.. whatever. I dont think I did very good on the multiple choice.. I didn't have any time to go back and recheck my answers. yikes.. oh well.... I need a study buddy for this class.. you up for it?


Christine

 

[UCSBMed1]

Hang in there...its just called SENIORITIS. I had it last year. I think its highly infectious in undergrads nearing the completion of their degree. 😉

And one more thing...GO AGS!

 

[carrigallen]

Originally posted by Bones2008
Go out to a bar and have a few drinks. Enjoy your last year in college. Nothing cures a boring weekday night like drinking games and tequila shots!

err for some i think this is a CAUSE of weekday boredom. 😀

 

[PreMedAdAG]

And one more thing...GO AGS! [/B]

AWWWWWW YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH!!! 🙂

Thanks for the reminder about senioritis.. i really need to get over it.. I don't think my current grades would go well with adcoms right now 🙂

ha ha

 

[Harps]

Well, DUH...how could I meet you? I don't know what you look like...someone told me though...

hmmm...were you were a green shirt and a khaki skirt in class?

 

[PreMedAdAG]

harps, were you talking to me??? Anyway, no I wasn't wearing that... just look for the really tall brown haired girl who sits in the second to last row on the left hand side of the classroom.

 

[Harps]

GOT IT...
I'll try to find you in class. Its exciting to see a fellow aggie on here...VERY COOL!

Oh yeah, I'll be in blue jeans...white addidas hat and a white/green collar shirt


-Harps

 

[Harps]

Well, I tried to find you today.....


I saw a tall girl with brown hair (as you described) waiting in the hallway before class. I was pretty sure it was YOU (premedADAG).

But..........



I decided to wait to see if you would go sit on the left side of the room in the second to last row.

AND that tall girl with brown hair DID SIT in that row. Then I was sure....BUT....


Then I saw another TALL GIRL with BROWN HAIR come sit in that second to last row as well.....





Were you wearing a blue hat???? If so, then I know who you are.....

Otherwise, my waitin continues to meet the 1st SDNer...I might get to meet UCLAMAN tho at NU..




I am the guy wearing a silver chain with scimitar hanging from it....I am sure that will help you find me...


😀

See ya in class (hopefully!)
-Harps

 

[SaltySqueegee]

Originally posted by Bones2008
...Nothing cures a boring weekday night like drinking games and tequila shots!

... Or, Nothing cures drinking games and tequila shots like a weekday night and homework!

 

[PreMedAdAG]

Harps... sooooo close.... but no cigar. I was sitting next to the girl in the blue hat 🙂 She's hella tall too and I was thinking about that. ha ha.. Anyway, I have no idea what the hell I'll be wearing tomorrow, but I sit in the second to last row, second seat in... there ya go! I'm still bitter about the test!!!


and due to the one on Monday, I bombed my plant 144 class today!!! 😡

 

[Harps]

HAHAHAH....you're posting at 5 in the morning....girl you're an...

SDN ADDICT



That test sure took the bounce out of me...the multiples choice aside, that 1st Q was annoying as hell...aaahhhh well, we can redeem ourselves for the next one

I am sorry you THINK you bombed plant bio...I am sure you'll be FINE...

So you were the girl wearing the white shirt...seemed quite fashionable from my angle

-Harps

 

[MeowMix]

Originally posted by PreMedAdAG
I haven't applied yet, but I've taken the MCAT. I'm excited for my time off, but I just wish I could get this application stuff out of the way. I'm kind of unmotivated in my classes too.

This happened to me in the last semester of undergrad. I just lost the drive to do course work, and I could not get it together to submit my grad school applications. I spent all my time having fun, playing music, drinking, and amusing myself with a series of unsuitable guys. It was great.

So I ended up taking a year off, working, and submitting my apps a year later. By that time I was really motivated to go to grad school because I was living in a town where every guy over 18 was married with children, and I needed a social life. And my job was wretched.

If you start in May, you will have a great early start on the 2005 AMCAS, and a nice vacation in between. Go do all the things that a good pre-med just does not do, during those 4-5 months. Find some unsuitable guys! Join a death-metal band! Stay off your computer for an entire month or more! Visit foreign countries with no intention of being of service to anyone!

good luck