What's everyone up to this semester?

[PrincetonRocks]

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Other than medical school apps/interviews...what is everyone up to?

This is my favorite semester...the class load is low. Lots more time for partaeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy, research, and you know the boyfriend

 

[ForensicPath]

I'm still taking 17 credits this semester so I can really relax during my spring semester. My two hardest classes will be higher vertebrates and neurobiology.

 

[Hermeone]

I have 27 credit hours... so I can shun myself from life. Absolutely no parties, bars, tv, movies and bf's....😡

 

[Amy B]

Already graduated and just taking a 4 credit Biochemistry class for the fun of it

 

[bella_dottoressa]

Ochem, physiology and history...a new job and 2 new volunteer committments...looks like a busy quarter 🙂 but not like i have a life anyway! 🙂

 

[Hermeone]

Crystal,
You are not EEOB 232, are you?
🙂

 

[bella_dottoressa]

Nope, Physiology 311. 🙂

You're not a fellow Buckeye, are you? 😉

 

[Hermeone]

I am a buckeye!

Howdy buckeye!

 

[bella_dottoressa]

Hi!! Always nice to get to know another Buckeye! 🙂 What year are you? You can always PM me or send me an IM on aol instant messenger...my name is the same as the one on here.

 

[XCanadianRagwee]

Originally posted by PrincetonRocks
Other than medical school apps/interviews...what is everyone up to?

6' 1"

 

[CrazyPerson]

oh i am getting killed already. only the 1st week

molecular/cell bio
compar. verterbrat anat.
abnor psy
organic chem I
constit. Law
cost account


cant drop when on course overload....
somebody save me....

 

[PianoGirl04]

I kept my course load light so I can finish up my secondaries and skip some classes for interviews if necessary. I'm taking a lot of fun courses, like this great course called "Human Bonding." It's about relationships, attachment, and how people fall in love. I'm also taking a really interesting and fun Greek mythology course. Outside of classes, I'm still doing most of my extracurriculars and working 2.5 jobs starting in the middle of September. As for the social life...I wish I had a boy but I don't really have time anyway.

Next semester will be rough, though...I'm taking the dreaded genetics...

 

[ForensicPath]

Originally posted by CrazyPerson
oh i am getting killed already. only the 1st week

compar. verterbrat anat.

I took comparative vertebrate anatomy my sophmore year. It was easily the most difficult course I have taken so far in my undergraduate career. I spent a heck of a lot of time studying for that class, but it was well worth it. Despite the fact that it was so difficult, I found it incredibly interesting.

 

[Catalyst]

working 10 hours/week with the International Rescue Committee, taking classes on the civil rights mvmt, modernity, and globalization, writing my thesis, trying to enjoy life and relax more this year (hopefully that will happen starting in october)..

Sachin

 

[Thundrstorm]

I'm taking Genetics, Neurobiology, Italian 3, and Biomedical Ethics. I'm excited about my classes! I'm also working as a tutor, doing research, starting an aids action committee on campus (so siked about that!), and all my other usual activities and clubs. Should be a busy but fun semester. I'm also thinking of taking salsa lessons. I'm also spending alot of time <i>not</i> thinking about my MCAT scores that will be arriving next month. ha ha

 

[BerkeleyPremed]

Organic Chemistry (1st semester), General Biology (Ecology, Evolution, and Plant Biology), Intro to Statistics, and an upper division biology class called "Medical Ethnobotany." I'm also starting my own campus organization which will be a service organization to help Bay Area high school students apply to college. We're going to specifically target high schools in underprivileged areas. Yeah...I'll probably stay busy...

 

[cad_15]

updates...
Still alive....I started to have bad dreams about the only mcat i took (august).......my classes are alright, I do not want to study at all and I am having the worse grades of my life but it is alright...hope to pull them up. fortunately/ unfortunately I have basketball and october 15 is next week..........that should be fun to play for another year before I hope medschool..

 

[Wardens]

Hegel and p-chem may shortcircuit my brain, but my semester's pretty light too. If only I could use the extra time to start writing my thesis . . .

 

[UDbiochem]

biochemistry grad level
molecular bio
pchem 🙁
ethics in medicine (philosophy) (i'm a TA for this class)
calc 2

 

[LP1CW]

I have a new girlfriend. That's going well. She's teaching me a lot about being real. We're different, but it's great. One of her brothers doesn't like me. His name is Mario and he has a tattoo of an Italian flag on his arm, but he's never been outside of Boston and still lives at home. He told me if I hurt his sister that he'll take me for a long walk. I joked with him and said, "I have a car. I prefer driving. Would that be okay?" He just stared at me. She told me not to sweat him and just ignore him and he'll learn to like me.

I started tutoring kids from an economically underserved/disadvantaged community. It's a formalized after school program. Good kids, hard lives. I spend an hour a day on the x-box. I have a couple of secondaries that I haven't sent out. I'm on the fence about those schools. Spent 30 minutes debating a guy at a bus stop yesteray. He said he was a jew for jesus. I asked him if that meant he was a Christian. He said he was still Jewish. It's more than a religion. For me, being Jewish is an identity.

My girlfriend gave me a pastry that her mom makes. It was called a whoopie pie. It was fat dark chocolate cake thing with cream. Not bad, but not as good as she thinks. I never heard of it.

But you know, the main thing I've been feeling is uncertainty. I'm not sure where I'll be next year. And sometimes, I have to settle my self down and relax and accept things as they are. This weekend, I'm going away, to Maine, for two days, to be by myself. I'm going to brings some books, light reading, and spend time at the beach. I just want to take a break from emails, family, friends, life, school, all of it.

 

[premedi-kid]

I'm taking a relatively easy load this semester. Only 14 credits but still working hard at those A's.

Classes:

Biochem (self taught/autotutorial)
Human Bonding like Pianogirl
Oral Communication (basically giving speeches NOT bjs)
Research position
Honors in reseach

Maybe TA for orgo?

 

[Sonya]

I graduated 1.5 years ago, and am still working in a lab.

I'm no longer volunteering at the juvenile detention, but that was really interesting. I've learned I really LOVE and need to do the volunteering/mentoring thins, so I have been helping some kids I I met online. man, i just can NOT imagine living like the girl I mentor.... she gets beat up at school every other day, and heck more I just can not imagine having to go through.

I've finally, after a bit over a year in chicago, started to accept this place as "home'. I'm always moving, so I know there is no such thing as a "place" call home. But, i'm feeling a bit more like i belong here, and less sick of always moving around.

A few weeks ago (maybe a month), i met this AWESOME boy. He's a grad student. We have had so many awesome conversations/debates. Like most good friends, we have a lot in common, but a lot starkly different. We just really get along and have a good time together. He lives off in the suburbs, about 40 miles away from me, so that kindof sucks. but, you know the song "this is how you remind me of who I really am...". It TOTALLY applies here. 🙂

so, i'm still doing secondaries, chasing schools, and so far one interview. other then that, i'm poking cells and doing re search.

so far lab has NOT worked out for me. It's not like I think (my PI really wishes I would, and I really wish there was a NEED for me to). and the only places there are to think, i'm incapable to that (i've never done that kindof stuff before, defining a project/goal, so I have no idea how to begin). So, quite naturally i get stuck with stupid projects that even I know don't have direction.. yeah, my project needs direction. but, i don't have e nough exprience to give it direction... oh well, a lot would be helped if I tolk my PI something to this effect. instead, i just sit here gather data (which I sortof feel like is what I am supposed to be doing). I try to remind myself this is my last chance for real in depth research, so I should make somehting good out of it. buti don't. oh well. I DO try to develop new techniques, but that is Soooo aside to our project.

Sonya

 

[essbe]

I graduated 1.5 yrs ago, too. I had told myself, "No more labs!" So now I do health policy research & pt case management by day and fight crime by night (eh, sort of -- homeless outreach).

Sonya -- congrats on the awesome boy. It's so rare that one ends up in a good match. I actually broke up w/ my serious BF 2 months ago, but I've been too stressed to think about it much. Which is a blessing.

On that note, I have no idea how people work full time/overtime, volunteer, and finish these secondaries so quickly. It was different in college when I could choose how much time to devote to my classes, etc., vs. work deadlines. I feel pretty overextended, and I still have a few 2ndaries to finish. Is anyone in a similar position willing to share secrets??

 

[SticknRudder]

Just started a new research tech job (1/2 time, but full time pay!), a two-a-week tennis class, classical guitar once a week, and intensive spanish on Wednesdays.

I'm lovin' life 🙂

I figured I deserve it after my hellish four years of undergrad - I'm enjoying my one year before starting on another brutal four year path.

 

[Thousandth]

Light Load My a$$! I am taking 21 Semester units just to graduate in the spring (I still have to take 17 more in the spring). UGGGHH! Fricken Cal State System!
My Courses:

Biochemistry
Comp. Animal Physio.
Molecular Cell Bio.
Developmental Bio.
2nd Semester Physics
and Research

Interviewer: what EC experince did you have this semester?

Me: I resisted the urge to play with sharp objects!

 

[Sonya]

Originally posted by essbe
I graduated 1.5 yrs ago, too. I had told myself, "No more labs!" So now I do health policy research & pt case management by day and fight crime by night (eh, sort of -- homeless outreach).

Sonya -- congrats on the awesome boy. It's so rare that one ends up in a good match. I actually broke up w/ my serious BF 2 months ago, but I've been too stressed to think about it much. Which is a blessing.

On that note, I have no idea how people work full time/overtime, volunteer, and finish these secondaries so quickly. It was different in college when I could choose how much time to devote to my classes, etc., vs. work deadlines. I feel pretty overextended, and I still have a few 2ndaries to finish. Is anyone in a similar position willing to share secrets??

HI,

Yeah, i chose to work in a lab, b/c if was going to choose MD PhD, i'd better know i wanted it. Well, so I've chose not to (I think). Anyway, i had a great time in lab in undergrad... good days. 🙂

me... don't like health policy stuff, no way.

For one, I don't do the secondaries quickly. I should. oh well.
For two, research is flexible. I could be really unproductive when in lab when it came to time for writing the AMCAS essay, or some difficult secondaries.
Basically, you have to set out some time for medical school applications. Anyway, this is how I did it for MCAT studying. Let's say you come home at 6:30. Then, promise yourself 6:30 to 7:30 each day is for medical school applications. Then comes dinner& gym/relaxation/whatever you do. I did volunteer work in the weekends, b/c I needed something to make the days more exciting then. and you NEED to use your weekend time also.

 

[chapinsita]

Don't know what I was thinking when I signed up for classes:

Molecular Bio Lab
Physiology Lab
Developmental and Cell Bio Lab
CNS & Endocrinology
Plus a comparative lit class for fun 🙂confused: don't ask)

Add to this 20hrs/week of research and ofcourse my regular clinical EC's.

Currently dying, and I'm barely on the second week (quarter system). Scheduling interviews has proven to be hell, but also a problem I will gladly deal with

 

[bigbaubdi]

Lets see...

Intermediate Hindi
Genetics Lab
USA as Empire
AIDS
Research Problems

The research involves about 15-20 hours/week. While going on interviews, I have temporarily suspended some of my normal ECs but in the meantime I have started a couple new ones, volunteering at my local temple and trying to start up a free MCAT tutoring program. I am working about 4 hours a week also.