What was your most INTENSE semester? (i.e., grades, ECs, etc.)

[ianis1609]

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These were all for undergrad?! What were your majors and schools??

 

[ianis1609]

My entire fourth year was ridiculously hard. My program, microbiology and immunology, had 400-level courses that were GPA killers. I had to take two bacterial pathogenesis courses, a virology course, an environmental microbiology lab course, and a microbiology genetics lab course. I was lucky to get an A- out of all of them, except the virology course where I got an A+ and the environmental microbiology lab course where I got a B+. I busted my ass off day and night studying. I've never studied so hard in my life, not even for med school. I managed to boost up my 4th year GPA taking easy electives, but it was still my worst year in my undergrad in terms of GPA (although better than my 1st year in terms of % average). On top of all that I had to work 20 hours a week to pay for tuition.

What was your major? How did you learn to manage time so efficiently? How much did you sleep? I'm doing an ADNursing at a community college, and I'm torn between doing BSN, then biology "minor" (take a pseudo-post-bacc approach), or RN-BS(Biol)-MD, with lots of volunteering and ECs along the way.

Also, how do you find these opportunities for research, volunteering, etc?/?

 

[Chamomile Tea]

This past semester was my most intense

17 Credit Hours
Exec Board member of an honor society
3 committee positions for 3 different organizations
Research
Tutoring
Got sick
Made it out with 3.8 semester gpa...

 

[packersfans]

Worst semester was 23 credit hours including ochem with lab and an upper division bio class. Engineering Senior Project and another upper division engineering course. Leadership in 2 student organizations. Partying A LOT! Somehow got the best grades of my college career, 3.9x. I'm not sure how I did it and doubt I could recreate such success.