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Hello all,
Congratulations to all of those who have recently been accepted. I am in the process of applying to an MPH program and keep getting a little disheartened. Let me explain. I decided to go into an MPH program because I loved aspects of international health, and ultimately, because of a choice I made my junior year of college.
I became very depressed at the apparent cutthroat nature of my colleagues and the fact that many of my pre-med counterparts seemed to only care about themselves, and had already pre-programmed themselves to be doctors via their parents instructions.
With all this in mind, I became sort of an anti-premed, choosing to not associate myself with this path.
Now that I am aiming to work in the public health arena (applying to an MBA/MPH program) I wonder if I made the right choice. I aknowledge this is a very personal choice, but I would hate to look back on this decision as me foolishly making a decision, based on how I felt others were like.
Sorry for the rant, but I would love any feedback, especially if anyone fought with this decision.
Congratulations to all of those who have recently been accepted. I am in the process of applying to an MPH program and keep getting a little disheartened. Let me explain. I decided to go into an MPH program because I loved aspects of international health, and ultimately, because of a choice I made my junior year of college.
I became very depressed at the apparent cutthroat nature of my colleagues and the fact that many of my pre-med counterparts seemed to only care about themselves, and had already pre-programmed themselves to be doctors via their parents instructions.
With all this in mind, I became sort of an anti-premed, choosing to not associate myself with this path.
Now that I am aiming to work in the public health arena (applying to an MBA/MPH program) I wonder if I made the right choice. I aknowledge this is a very personal choice, but I would hate to look back on this decision as me foolishly making a decision, based on how I felt others were like.
Sorry for the rant, but I would love any feedback, especially if anyone fought with this decision.