You Know You Are A Neurotic Premed When...

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When you see an empty table in the library and you ruunnnnnnn toward it so no one takes it and you feel an immense joy inside.

(like it happened to me now) 😀
 
Aidan said:
When you yell at yourself in your notes... scenario: your professor goes over a section, then tells you to work out a problem yourself. After you *somehow* get the problem wrong, you write next to the problem, in caps, "DON'T EF THAT UP AGAIN!", underline it, and highlight it seventeen times in four different colors. 🙄 "Some guy" did this, not me.😉
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hahaha I've done stuff like this. What's funny is when you're swapping notes with a friend...suddenly they make a weird face and you remember what you wrote to yourself :laugh:
 
PlsticSurgWanab said:
After a long week, instead of going out, you stay in and go on SDN
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to further...
you're excited about the weekend not b/c of all the parties, but that you can finally catch up on sleep & get ahead for next week.
 
when you cry yourself to sleep while masterbating at the same time.
 
jane123 said:
When you see an empty table in the library and you ruunnnnnnn toward it so no one takes it and you feel an immense joy inside.

(like it happened to me now) 😀
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😆

I do this all the time! It actually brightens up my day when I've got the "good" table. Kind of sad really.
 
...when you put funny chemistry jokes on your facebook status!

(Name) is dreaming in cyclohexanes
(Name) is starting a band called "The Lactones"
(Name) is throwing a party! Be there or be a cyclobutane!
(Name) is Sn-2-ing someone

LOL I'm seriously procrastinating studying for my genetics final :O
 
PrettyLadyDoc said:
...when you put funny chemistry jokes on your facebook status!

(Name) is dreaming in cyclohexanes
(Name) is starting a band called "The Lactones"
(Name) is throwing a party! Be there or be a cyclobutane!
(Name) is Sn-2-ing someone

LOL I'm seriously procrastinating studying for my genetics final :O[/quote]

Don't worry, we're probably procrastinating from somethig. 😉
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Character said:
nope. i dont think its normal. ah well, watever puts us to sleep i guess
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My Linear Circuit book. I think when I become a doctor, I'm going to start prescribing that book.
 
theserbatron said:
when you program your gmail account to forward any e-mails to your cell phone that come from a domain ending in ".edu" (somebody on here posted a thread about that... 😱)
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::logs into gmail to make changes to cell phone forwarding...::

LOL I LOVE THAT!!

You know you're a pre-med when... you read ingredient labels and suddenly understand all of it and randomly think of chemicals...

You get sick or have new symptoms and self-diagnose yourself with something that every 1 out of 1,000,000 get.

You know you're a premed female when you look in the mirror and realize you've neglected your eyebrows and you're hair is long enough to wipe your buttocks.

Last weekend I was getting ready to go out for a night for the first time since xmas and I realized.. I needed a hair cut BAD.
I then spent money I shouldn't have on a cut n color..

Ah... It's going to get worse in a few years though! YAY!
 
Last weekend I was getting ready to go out for a night for the first time since xmas and I realized.. I needed a hair cut BAD.

If it is life vs. good grades, choose life my friend.
 
you can't sleep because you're worried you got the bonus question wrong on an exam.
 
If your transcripts aren't in at AMCAS yet, you're worried you'll be considered late in the cycle...

(I finally got em in this morning,but until then... i was quite neurotic)
 
when your glued to SDN, thinking I should be doing something more productive, still scared/shocked/insanely nervous
 
when you sent your transcripts in 2 weeks ago and they still havent verified them??

Or is this just AMCAs being lazy and/or busy?
 
gradu8in2003 said:
If your transcripts aren't in at AMCAS yet, you're worried you'll be considered late in the cycle...

(I finally got em in this morning,but until then... i was quite neurotic)
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Wow. It's June 2nd. You are nowhere near late.

I think AMCAS got my transcript and verified me around August 10th or 11th. Yes, I was considered late. Bad move on my part.
 
Aynsl156 said:
you start losing all of your friends because all you ever think about are applications anymore, and you have to mentally stop yourself and make an effort to focus on the other person in the conversation.
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Wow. So very, very guilty. My friends are so sick of me mentioning how little chance I have of becoming a doctor, how much I want to do it, what the cool kids on SDN did, how many essays I'll have to write, the fact that I can't go out to dinner cause I'm broke ("do you think 30 applications are gonna be cheap???!"). Poor friends. I do hope they love me A LOT.
 
Stalk the waitlist threads for schools you aren't even waitlisted at...just because you're bored, you're rooting for somebody who you only know through SDN, and it's just so exciting when somebody gets in, heh..
 
...when due to this forum, you start looking around your bedroom, and you realize that:
1) you have EVERY MCAT BOOK ever written.
2) you have both the MSAR and the US news book, highlighted and with post-its sticking out.
3) your art consists of a beautiful picture of stained bovine intestinal cells (in my defense, they're pretty), and a poster of the anatomy of the larynx, next to your vocal scores (in this HIGHLY theoretical situation, you're a singer).
4) You have both the Physician's Desk Reference (which you stole from work) and the Merck Manual, which you bought on that special day that you got a 100 on your physiology exam and you felt like a doctor already. Also, that exam is on your fridge.
5) You have a teddy bear in a doctor outfit with your name stitched on that you got when you were like...12.
6) You have a white coat, a stethoscope, a mask, and booties, all of which you brought home as a souvenir from a summer shadowing the most badass doctor ever...and which you occasionally wear and then stare at yourself in the mirror, while making a harried, I'm-too-busy-to-talk-to-mere-mortals face.
7) You're pretty sure you could keep going...but you won't, because you care what SDN people think of you, and you don't want them to know you're the biggest nerd that ever walked the Earth. You want to seem like a "cool" premed.
 
Yes, I know what you're thinking, I am a gigantic tool and SDN addict for kinda resurrecting this thread. Sorry 🙄 I have a few of my own...

1. When you give advice to freshmen pre meds about studying and are scared because you know you never used that advice yourself.

2. When you are hanging out with your friends and come to the horrific conclusion that:
a. they are all pre-med
b. all you talk about is medical school
c. you are competing against all of them and yet still act civil, somehow

3. You take a practice MCAT "just to see how you do"...after you take the MCAT. Just to know you're capable of getting a 45. Then, when you do, your first instinct is to make a PDF of your test and score and send it to AMCAS even though the application cycle is over, just in case WashU has a spot left.

4. You relate everything you smell, hear, feel, touch and taste to medical school.

5. You wear scrubs/booties/mask/etc on your way back from OR shadowing and "make a quick stop at the grocery store" so you can look like you just rushed out of surgery.

6. You shadow too much. (shadowing rates in excess of 75 hours / week)

7. When you have different shadowing experiences that you list as separate activities on AMCAS/AACOMAS...such as "surgical shadowing" and "clinic shadowing"

8. You keep textbooks from undergrad, that you know you'll never use, but just in case you need to "look something up".

9. When you can form entire paragraphs out of application/medical acronyms/jargon.

10. When you use these acronyms in your personal statement/secondaries. ("Hello JHU! 3.89 BCPM 3.94 AO 🙂. I am URM + 3 pubs, MSTP?? Interested in IM/EM/CCM, maybe ROAD? ASL?? LOL!!!"

11. Regardless of the fact that it has no relevance to human medicine, you slave over a one page abstract on plant-virus RNA recombination, hoping your name will be on the citation so you can put it on AMCAS, then freak out when your interviewer questions your lack of clinical experience. While thinking quickly of a BS excuse, you know full well it is due to your superficial and recent "fascination" witih biochemical plant pathophysiology (for the wrong reason).

12. When you block SDN from your browser find yourself opening another browser to go on SDN. Undoubtedly to check if there is waitlist movement.
 
when your a sophomore in high school and addicted to SDN.

when your a sophomore in high school and trying to study a minimum of 4 hours a night.
 
metalhead1023 said:
when your a sophomore in high school and addicted to SDN.

when your a sophomore in high school and trying to study a minimum of 4 hours a night.
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If you're still in high school, you are definitely not a "pre-med".
 
In O-Chem II last year, we were doing benzene reactions, and one night I was working through an entire chapter of benzene substitution problems. I must have drawn about 200 benzene rings that night alone.

But that's not the messed up part.

That night, I had a dream that a gigantic toluene molecule was chasing me around campus and spontaneously self-nitrating. It eventually became tri-nitrotoluene (TNT) and blew up my school.

Hahha, I told my friends about it and they were like "you need to lay off studying for a while".
 
...when you save all your notes from any science class you've ever taken... including high school classes


...when you get stressed out when older pre-med friends of yours are taking MCAT


...when all you do is talk about pre-med stuff with your other pre-med friends


...when you find out one of your co-workers is pre-med and the first thing you ask is "have you ever been to SDN?"
 
This thread is appalling in the most utterly fashion.

If you are this neurotic about pre-med work, you're probably going to be like that your whole life.
 
When you yell at yourself in your notes... scenario: your professor goes over a section, then tells you to work out a problem yourself. After you *somehow* get the problem wrong, you write next to the problem, in caps, "DON'T EF THAT UP AGAIN!", underline it, and highlight it seventeen times in four different colors. 🙄 "Some guy" did this, not me.😉
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sieve said:
hahaha I've done stuff like this. What's funny is when you're swapping notes with a friend...suddenly they make a weird face and you remember what you wrote to yourself :laugh:
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I know!! Or someone that was absent the day before will ask you, "Hey do you mind if I borrow your notes?" and you reply, "Sure!"... ..."Oh wait NO!!!!" hahaha:scared:
 
cdmccart said:
...when you save all your notes from any science class you've ever taken... including high school classes


...when you get stressed out when older pre-med friends of yours are taking MCAT


...when all you do is talk about pre-med stuff with your other pre-med friends


...when you find out one of your co-workers is pre-med and the first thing you ask is "have you ever been to SDN?"
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wow! you know me so well it's scary.
 
When you study organic chemistry in most of your free time in the summer before you've even taken the class.

When you started taking full-length practice MCATs two years before you were going to take the real thing.

When you use your free time to take practice USMLEs.

When you can't think of anything to talk about with people who aren't pre-med.
 
..when every decision you make in life (regardless of size or importance) comes down to "will this help me get into medical school?"
 
...when you start laughing at science jokes..
...when you start using scientific concepts in pick up lines..
"hey baby, my name is helicase, let's get together so i can unzip your pants 😉"
 
^^true. Also the one about writing notes to yourself. I have times when I write "NO NO NOOOOO that is NOT why the current is going in that direction. RHR my goodness use the RHR". I'm harder on myself than anyone else can ever be.

Edit: my "true" statement is in regards to the person saying everything you do somehow relates to you getting into med school. I even have my parents on that bandwagon. They always say "...and this is going to help you get into med school how?"
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...when you not only save your notes from HS and college, you have them organized chronologically by semester/quarter, year, prof, and course ("just in case")

...when you're that kid with the 5 colors of highlighter and 20 different pens (to keep everything color coded)

....when you've gone through every school in the tattered MSAR, giving each a color coded designation (unlikely, likely, possibly, never)

...when you've bolted up awake at 5am because you came up with yet another piece of inspiration for your PS (only to scrap all 5300 characters 3 days later and rewrite for the 8th time)

...when you keep your notepad and/or laptop next to your nightstand to jot down possible sentences for the PS

...when princeton review's MCAT biological science review is also on your night stand for light bedtime reading. (but you instead spend time on SDN)

...when SDN is fuels your insomnia

...when you discriminate campus libraries by major (never go to the humanities library on during finals if you want to get any studying done.)

...when you realize you have to stop talking about ____ (fill in MCAT, AMCAS, MSAR, LORC, BCPM GPA, SMP) otherwise you will lose your non-pre-med friends

...(for the women) when you realize you value that extra 30 minutes of studying over shaving, eye brow plucking, waxing or etc.

and a last random one...when cooking you realize that heating oil and garlic is just another form of extraction in an organic solvent
 
When you start wearing scrubs you stole from volunteering at a hospital to your OChem class.
 
When your favorite music to listen to is by a band called Stereoisomers and you also spend a lot of time listening to science songs on sciencegroove.org.
 
When you submit your AMCAS on June 5th and freak out because you think it's too late to get accepted anywhere.
 
Sonnet43 said:
...when you're that kid with the 5 colors of highlighter and 20 different pens (to keep everything color coded)

and a last random one...when cooking you realize that heating oil and garlic is just another form of extraction in an organic solvent
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Yes, Yes, Yes!
 
2nd best out of a class of 300 pisses you off.
 
after read some of this.. i am very happy (and glad) that i have no premed friends.
 
Anyone else find it so much harder to talk to non-Pre-med people... I mean not judging (my apartmentmates are Art School and Anthro majors) but I can sit for hours making jokes and saying things that other people would find totally lame or miss entirely.

Funny thing is that at the gym at my school this summer everyone there is pre-Med... it's hilarious that from 5-6:30 90% of the people in the weight room have been in loads of classes with me.
 
rowerlauren said:
Anyone else find it so much harder to talk to non-Pre-med people...
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Definitely. Wow. Thank god I'm not the only one.

I'm guessing nobody on these forums is "undecided". I find it terribly hard to talk to these people. I guess that goes without saying though. When you're in school, and studying/classes/research/etc etc is what your life currently revolves around, you talk about it. If medicine is what you love, you talk about it. What do you talk to "turfgrass management" people about? I'm not trying to be funny, this is a serious legit question. 😀

I love how we refer to them as "(major/area of study) people and not majors".
 
Uh.. You talk to them about current events, music, movies, tv, personal problems, etc?
 
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