What would you do differently..

[hammy143]

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I was just wondering.. If you could have done some things different in college pertaining to Pre Med what would you have done?

Thanks

 

[Pinkertinkle]

There was a thread exactly like this like 2 days ago, look for that.

 

[crazy250]

i would've stopped stressing out so much about grades and partied more.

 

[alleyez]

Originally posted by crazy250
i would've stopped stressing out so much about grades and partied more.

really why is that?




these days, grades are all I worry about... but that's because I messed up during my freshman year and I need to get back on track.

I haven't hung out/drank/meet people since this semester has started..... and I don't plan doing so til I graduate. Hopefully, I don't regret this.... ahah

 

[crazy250]

i'm not saying blow off your classes. neither am i saying that you should get drunk every weekend. but just keep everything in perspective. you have to have a balance between social life and academics. stressing out a lot about school will make your 4 years miserable and you won't have anything to look back on after you graduate. now that i've graduated i regret that i haven't done more social activities. all i can remember about my college experience was study, study, study. i blew off so many of my potentially good friends when i had to study and i haven't had many highlights or close friends during my 4 years. just remember to have fun once in a while. i know grades are important and hard to not think about them, but i wouldn't want to obsess over them.

 

[Adapt]

I would have scored higher on my MCAT.

 

[boomuntilnoon]

I wish I had done better on the April MCAT so I wouldn't have had to retake in August, apply to medical schools, and research/write my senior thesis all in one semester.... but hey, I aced the MCAT so my thesis is all but a formality now.

Also, I wish I would have been a more pretentious and disingenuous pre-med... I just don't seem to fit in with the rest of my shallow peers at school.

 

[superdevil]

Also, I wish I would have been a more pretentious and disingenuous pre-med... I just don't seem to fit in with the rest of my shallow peers at school.

well said! i would certainly be more obnoxious and far less genuine/friendly. these traits did not serve me well as a pre-med...😀

 

[Cerberus]

I wouldnt have been a sciience major.

 

[Street Philosopher]

I should have taken the LSAT instead.

 

[JunkintheTrunk]

i would have started volunteering before senior year....it looks like a desperate, last minute attempt to cram some volunteer work in 🙄

 

[Soccrtrela]

I wouldn't have let my profs and fellow classmates intimidate me so much and had more faith in myself those first two years...

 

[VentdependenT]

Live and enjoy your young life so you don't turn out to be a jaded bitter insensitive insecure slug in your professional life. Time goes by very very fast and it behooves you to have spent some time developing yourself into a well rounded person to not only be a better physician, but a better human.

The few medical students whom I consider friends, not just acquaintances or people to avoid, spent time doing this and I'm grateful that there will be docs out there like them. Hope you turn out the same way.



😉

 

[Tyler Durrden]

Ditto on Cerberus' answer - I would've ditched the Bio major.