The medical school I want to go to hosted a "Premed Day" which consisted of the med school, pharmacy school, nursing school... and some others showing off their programs and their labs.
A couple notes from the day:
The Pharmacy Director is OMG Hot
At the beginning of the day there were presentations from each of the departments. The pharmacy director then comes on. Okay, she's pretty good looking. She starts talking and WOW, she just blew my mind away. She was a natural talker, comforting, and witty. I'm a sucker for these kind of people. I felt compelled to talk to her when everyone broke into small groups. Yeah. Hot.
Rural Areas and Service: Lead by Example
If you don't already know, I don't live in a metropolitan area. The medical school down here always looks for people who wants to serve the rural and undeserved areas of my state. Everyone who wants to apply knows this and everyone pretty much has the Pavlov-like reaction of saying "I want to serve in a rural area" when asked "what do you want to do after med school?" Unfortunately, admissions has caught on and has a slide specifically for this response. If you do say you want to work for the poor people, show it. Volunteer or do some service in a rural area to show that you are genuinely interested.
Why Do You Want To Be a Doctor
Before going into an interview or better yet, before starting any of the med school process, this is a question that needs to be answered. It's one of the main reasons why they deny an applicant. "Because I want to help people" doesn't count. Unfortunately, this is my answer because I haven't really thought about a more thoughtful and elegant one. I've always felt the need to serve back the community and family that has given me the opportunity to thrive. I guess that's a start, but it's better than my original reason why I got into the biological-related field to begin with. I don't think they'd appreciate "to bag a nurse" as an answer.
Kick Ass On the Interview
Good grades aren't the only factor that gets one into medical school. Work on interviewing skills, don't show anger or immaturity.
Kick Ass On the MCAT
On the flip side, a good interview isn't the only thing that will get one in either. It depends on the school but usually they will look at both the interview process (make sure you're not an ass) and the MCAT/GPA (make sure you have the capacity). In my case they look at the interview and academic scores equally. Speaking of which, I should get back to studying.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Pediatrician
***Note: I'm making up names and sex for all the docs I shadow to protect their privacy. All docs will be assigned a letter and will be referred to as "she" because I'm tired of "he". ***
So I started shadowing a pediatrician last week. Let the record state that I've never had an interest in kids. They drool, they make messes, and they get sick. As in the words of one of my professors, they're little walking disease bags. Hence, I've never thought about being a pediatrician. But do you know what?
Kids are so damned cute.
Kids don't usually have much to complain about, occasional tummy or ear ache here and there and it's pretty much taken care of. Then they go back to doing whatever cute thing they were doing before. I haven't given it much thought, but I find it fascinating how humans develop at that age. They are starting to develop their own immune systems, their bodies are developing, and all their systems are starting to gear up. It's also a very fragile time in life. Any foods ingested at the wrong time could result in an allergy or hyper sensitivity at a critical development time. That would worry the crap out of me constantly if I were a parent. Knowing what I know now, I'd probably be pretty germaphobic with my kids. So parents, I have to hand it to you.
Another aspect about being a pediatrician that the doctor brought to my attention. People will also make appoints even though the kids aren't sick? What? I mean isn't that what a doctor is there for? Not to a pediatrician. For those of you that aren't already parents, well-child visits are appoints you make with the pediatrician every couple of months/years to make sure your kid is developing properly and make they have all their shots. Dr. P loves these visits. In addition to the usual shots and physical, she believes that it is the perfect time to communicate with parents about how to raise kids. You know what? I agree. I mean there are parenting classes but those are rare. New parents already have the time sucked out of them by adjusting to a new person in their lives. How else are parents supposed to know at what age to start potty training their kids or what foods to feed them? I think that it is important that parents ask these critical questions because how else are they going to get credible information?
I've never seen this side of pediatrics and I find it extremely interesting. I like having knowledge and I love spreading it to benefit others. I find that this specialty is more about teaching as well as healing. Very cool.
There is a growing concern that Dr. P did bring up. She works for a big hospital and her boss told her to cut down on these well-child visits and see more sick patients. They get paid the same whether it be a 30 minute well-child visit to discuss development or 15 minute check for an ear ache. She grows increasingly tired of the bureaucracy and she told me to keep an eye out since it's starting to really affect how doctors operate and even deliver health care from when she first started practicing.
While I understand that concern, I never really knew how it was "back in the day" so all the regulations and red-tape will already be apart of my medical training. The thing that I do raise concerns about is if indeed getting through bureaucracy does affect the care of the patient, are current and future doctors providing less care for their patients than the old doctors?
So I started shadowing a pediatrician last week. Let the record state that I've never had an interest in kids. They drool, they make messes, and they get sick. As in the words of one of my professors, they're little walking disease bags. Hence, I've never thought about being a pediatrician. But do you know what?
Kids are so damned cute.
Kids don't usually have much to complain about, occasional tummy or ear ache here and there and it's pretty much taken care of. Then they go back to doing whatever cute thing they were doing before. I haven't given it much thought, but I find it fascinating how humans develop at that age. They are starting to develop their own immune systems, their bodies are developing, and all their systems are starting to gear up. It's also a very fragile time in life. Any foods ingested at the wrong time could result in an allergy or hyper sensitivity at a critical development time. That would worry the crap out of me constantly if I were a parent. Knowing what I know now, I'd probably be pretty germaphobic with my kids. So parents, I have to hand it to you.
Another aspect about being a pediatrician that the doctor brought to my attention. People will also make appoints even though the kids aren't sick? What? I mean isn't that what a doctor is there for? Not to a pediatrician. For those of you that aren't already parents, well-child visits are appoints you make with the pediatrician every couple of months/years to make sure your kid is developing properly and make they have all their shots. Dr. P loves these visits. In addition to the usual shots and physical, she believes that it is the perfect time to communicate with parents about how to raise kids. You know what? I agree. I mean there are parenting classes but those are rare. New parents already have the time sucked out of them by adjusting to a new person in their lives. How else are parents supposed to know at what age to start potty training their kids or what foods to feed them? I think that it is important that parents ask these critical questions because how else are they going to get credible information?
I've never seen this side of pediatrics and I find it extremely interesting. I like having knowledge and I love spreading it to benefit others. I find that this specialty is more about teaching as well as healing. Very cool.
There is a growing concern that Dr. P did bring up. She works for a big hospital and her boss told her to cut down on these well-child visits and see more sick patients. They get paid the same whether it be a 30 minute well-child visit to discuss development or 15 minute check for an ear ache. She grows increasingly tired of the bureaucracy and she told me to keep an eye out since it's starting to really affect how doctors operate and even deliver health care from when she first started practicing.
While I understand that concern, I never really knew how it was "back in the day" so all the regulations and red-tape will already be apart of my medical training. The thing that I do raise concerns about is if indeed getting through bureaucracy does affect the care of the patient, are current and future doctors providing less care for their patients than the old doctors?
Sunday, March 15, 2009
My First Observation
Note: This post is backdated from 21 Jan 09 but I feel like it was an important event in my medical career so I'm posting.
With nothing planned but making welcome packets for the day, I bunkered down and got started. No sooner than I started when the doc, who was in surgery when I got there, walked by. Normally I'm quiet and reserved. I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but from what I've seen, that won't get you anywhere. One thing you must do is be assertive and just go. Worst they can say is no.
I walk up to the doc and asked if I could tag along to whatever she was doing. She agreed and I tagged along.
Shadowing her after a couple of patients, she mentioned she was going to do another lapcoly. What the heck is that? I didn't know but she asked if I want to observe. HELL. YES.
I've never observed live surgery before, sure on discovery health they had those shows, but LIVE surgery? Never.
I followed her to the patient and she did the formalities. I introduced myself and thanked the patient for giving me the opportunity to observe. Hint to any people shadowing. When dealing with patients, always, I mean always give a genuine appreciation.
-These people are not just another case, if you give them a genuine thank you, that develops patient/healthcare professional relationship.
-This gives doctors insight into your bedside manner. If you're giving a timid and shy thank you, it doesn't give mentors any material to work with when writing a letter of recommendation. Remember, you are there for only a couple hours out of the week, you don't have a lot of time to show these people what you can do.
surgery was amazing. It was one of those procedure with the endoscope to minimize on healing time. They first cut incisions into the patient.
*disclaimer, this may or may not be the actual procedure but only from my observation. Do not reference this as any source of medical credibility.
1. incision
2. insert plastic valves to keep the incision open so they can stick instruments through it. Kind of looks like those things they put in cows that allows scientists direct access to the insides.
3. insert gas into the patient to open the cavity up.
4. use tools through the plastic channels to locate, cut, cauterize, and remove the gall bladder
This has got to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life.
Things I've learned today:
-A lapcoly is a procedure to remove the gall bladder
-Surgery is awesome. I'll seriously consider it if I ever get into med school.
With nothing planned but making welcome packets for the day, I bunkered down and got started. No sooner than I started when the doc, who was in surgery when I got there, walked by. Normally I'm quiet and reserved. I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but from what I've seen, that won't get you anywhere. One thing you must do is be assertive and just go. Worst they can say is no.
I walk up to the doc and asked if I could tag along to whatever she was doing. She agreed and I tagged along.
Shadowing her after a couple of patients, she mentioned she was going to do another lapcoly. What the heck is that? I didn't know but she asked if I want to observe. HELL. YES.
I've never observed live surgery before, sure on discovery health they had those shows, but LIVE surgery? Never.
I followed her to the patient and she did the formalities. I introduced myself and thanked the patient for giving me the opportunity to observe. Hint to any people shadowing. When dealing with patients, always, I mean always give a genuine appreciation.
-These people are not just another case, if you give them a genuine thank you, that develops patient/healthcare professional relationship.
-This gives doctors insight into your bedside manner. If you're giving a timid and shy thank you, it doesn't give mentors any material to work with when writing a letter of recommendation. Remember, you are there for only a couple hours out of the week, you don't have a lot of time to show these people what you can do.
surgery was amazing. It was one of those procedure with the endoscope to minimize on healing time. They first cut incisions into the patient.
*disclaimer, this may or may not be the actual procedure but only from my observation. Do not reference this as any source of medical credibility.
1. incision
2. insert plastic valves to keep the incision open so they can stick instruments through it. Kind of looks like those things they put in cows that allows scientists direct access to the insides.
3. insert gas into the patient to open the cavity up.
4. use tools through the plastic channels to locate, cut, cauterize, and remove the gall bladder
This has got to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life.
Things I've learned today:
-A lapcoly is a procedure to remove the gall bladder
-Surgery is awesome. I'll seriously consider it if I ever get into med school.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Small Towns
I get asked often about where I'm going to to school. I tell them the same small town where I got my bachelor's degree. Most give me a puzzled look. Really? Of all the places you could be, you chose a pit-stop* town. [*Pit-stop town - a town between two cities that one only stops by to get gas at. ] While I sometimes miss the bustling and life of a larger city, going back to this small town is very beneficial for me: Volunteering.
Let me give you an example. Tomorrow I'm going to be going in hopefully (assuming the patient gives me permission) observe a gall bladder removal. One of the doctors I normally shadow will be performing the procedure and it's very easy for me to get this experience. For those of you thinking it would be fun to practice medicine this is the tried and true method to tell if you can stomach seeing the guts. I was worried my first observation too. "Would I get dizzy?" "What if I feel like I have to throw up?" You'll have to find this out for yourself. For me, when they cut into the patient I was like "dude, awesome. Let's see more of that!"
I guess it's another reaffirming sign that I made a good decision.
But I digress, reasons for going to a small town to volunteer at a hospital.
1. Less paperwork/Less Redtape
Let me tell you about how I started volunteering at the hospital. I walked in one day and asked the gift shop lady if I could.
Me: I want to do something more hands on.
Gift shop: oh, we only have volunteers that want to sell flowers and comfort guests while they're waiting in the lobby. Let me send you to the nurses station.
After five minutes of waiting I'm talking to the HR person.
HR: I'm going to take your picture.
Me: Umm... for what?
HR: A badge. You'll need a badge if you're going to be volunteering.
Me: Sweet.
I got a badge and a task to do. I made welcome packets for the inpatients. I volunteered 3-4 days out of the week and got to know the staff pretty well. Afterwards, I started shadowing doctors and now I get to observe surgeries. One of the surgeons told me that one time he wanted to observe a surgery in the city because they were using a new method. He told me he was treated like a criminal when he asked because they were suspicious and wanted documentation and paperwork and a whole other assortment of things. In a small town, it's pretty easy to bypass that.
2. Less people to get to know
I hate meeting new people. In a city, the medical field is very compartmentalized. A heart surgeon here, a podiatrist there. To get experience in all those areas, you'd have to meet people. Another round of introductions, another round of ass kissing. In a rural area, they don't have the luxuries of compartmentalization. They have to do more and this is where the person shadowing gets benefit from that. Like I said earlier, one of the doctors I follow will be performing this procedure. In addition to that, I know pretty much everyone in several departments so I can hop around if I get bored. This is fantastic.
People told me that these volunteer experiences are crucial into getting into medical school. While I'm still debating how much it actually factors in, I'm covering my ass and volunteering regardless. And you know what? I actually enjoy it.
Let me give you an example. Tomorrow I'm going to be going in hopefully (assuming the patient gives me permission) observe a gall bladder removal. One of the doctors I normally shadow will be performing the procedure and it's very easy for me to get this experience. For those of you thinking it would be fun to practice medicine this is the tried and true method to tell if you can stomach seeing the guts. I was worried my first observation too. "Would I get dizzy?" "What if I feel like I have to throw up?" You'll have to find this out for yourself. For me, when they cut into the patient I was like "dude, awesome. Let's see more of that!"
I guess it's another reaffirming sign that I made a good decision.
But I digress, reasons for going to a small town to volunteer at a hospital.
1. Less paperwork/Less Redtape
Let me tell you about how I started volunteering at the hospital. I walked in one day and asked the gift shop lady if I could.
Me: I want to do something more hands on.
Gift shop: oh, we only have volunteers that want to sell flowers and comfort guests while they're waiting in the lobby. Let me send you to the nurses station.
After five minutes of waiting I'm talking to the HR person.
HR: I'm going to take your picture.
Me: Umm... for what?
HR: A badge. You'll need a badge if you're going to be volunteering.
Me: Sweet.
I got a badge and a task to do. I made welcome packets for the inpatients. I volunteered 3-4 days out of the week and got to know the staff pretty well. Afterwards, I started shadowing doctors and now I get to observe surgeries. One of the surgeons told me that one time he wanted to observe a surgery in the city because they were using a new method. He told me he was treated like a criminal when he asked because they were suspicious and wanted documentation and paperwork and a whole other assortment of things. In a small town, it's pretty easy to bypass that.
2. Less people to get to know
I hate meeting new people. In a city, the medical field is very compartmentalized. A heart surgeon here, a podiatrist there. To get experience in all those areas, you'd have to meet people. Another round of introductions, another round of ass kissing. In a rural area, they don't have the luxuries of compartmentalization. They have to do more and this is where the person shadowing gets benefit from that. Like I said earlier, one of the doctors I follow will be performing this procedure. In addition to that, I know pretty much everyone in several departments so I can hop around if I get bored. This is fantastic.
People told me that these volunteer experiences are crucial into getting into medical school. While I'm still debating how much it actually factors in, I'm covering my ass and volunteering regardless. And you know what? I actually enjoy it.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Stark Realization
I'm sitting at the coffeehouse gorging on a blueberry lemon cheesecake bar with my sugared up coffee derivative. Nothing soothes failure like gorging on sugar. For those to don't know, I rarely get sugared up coffee these days. Normally it's black for me. The occasion you ask? Today I the first practice test. Result? Not too good.
Coming into this I knew that not everything was going to be smooth sailing. It felt like being battered against the waves of question after question until it felt numb and my brain eventually shut off. It took me about 4 hours to finish the thing. Despite the near traumatizing experience, I did learn some things.
Background information:
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) consists of four main sections,
Physical Sciences - Chemistry and Physics problems from the first year of each class. 52 questions. 70 min.
Verbal Reasoning - Read some stuff and answer questions about it. 40 questions. 60 min.
Writing Sample - 2 questions, 30 minutes each, write some stuff. Go.
Biological Sciences - Organic chemistry and Biology. 52 questions. 70 min.
Things I've learned today:
-I work fast, I finish with about 10-15 minutes left in each section. Slowing down and thinking about the question will help.
-Should bring some fruit or almonds to keep up energy. Need to find some food source that can deliver me quick energy.
-Coffee helps but in small amounts. A sip every break should do the trick; enough to keep me alert but not too much to give me the jitters.
-Work on test taking stamina. Fatigue started setting in at about 2 hours so I need to work on that.
Results:
I'm one for full disclosure. I think it forces one to improve and it shows progress (and that is why there are semi-anonymous blogs). Unfortunately there was a Non disclosure agreement at the beginning of the test that I didn't quite read so I'm afraid to post any of my detailed scores but I'll give you the jist.
Overall correct: 58%
Physical Sciences: 62%
Verbal Reasoning: 57%
Biological Sciences: 56%
I would rank around the 25 percentile and definitely need improvement. I need a hard goal to meet. 25 percentile is low, I need to do as well or better than most of my class so my new goal is to get into the 75 percentile.
Quite honestly, the numbers scare the hell out of me. I know it shouldn't, I know enough about statistics. I don't know the percentage I have to get right in order to get into that 75 percentile range. For all I know, it could be getting 10 more correct in each section to boost me up there. The raw scores kind of scare me as well. Could show that I do slightly better than eliminating two possibilities and guessing randomly. Analyzing the scores in depth won't help me at this point. I need to go back and see what I got wrong and why I got them wrong.
I have a baseline, now it's time to show improvement.
Coming into this I knew that not everything was going to be smooth sailing. It felt like being battered against the waves of question after question until it felt numb and my brain eventually shut off. It took me about 4 hours to finish the thing. Despite the near traumatizing experience, I did learn some things.
Background information:
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) consists of four main sections,
Physical Sciences - Chemistry and Physics problems from the first year of each class. 52 questions. 70 min.
Verbal Reasoning - Read some stuff and answer questions about it. 40 questions. 60 min.
Writing Sample - 2 questions, 30 minutes each, write some stuff. Go.
Biological Sciences - Organic chemistry and Biology. 52 questions. 70 min.
Things I've learned today:
-I work fast, I finish with about 10-15 minutes left in each section. Slowing down and thinking about the question will help.
-Should bring some fruit or almonds to keep up energy. Need to find some food source that can deliver me quick energy.
-Coffee helps but in small amounts. A sip every break should do the trick; enough to keep me alert but not too much to give me the jitters.
-Work on test taking stamina. Fatigue started setting in at about 2 hours so I need to work on that.
Results:
I'm one for full disclosure. I think it forces one to improve and it shows progress (and that is why there are semi-anonymous blogs). Unfortunately there was a Non disclosure agreement at the beginning of the test that I didn't quite read so I'm afraid to post any of my detailed scores but I'll give you the jist.
Overall correct: 58%
Physical Sciences: 62%
Verbal Reasoning: 57%
Biological Sciences: 56%
I would rank around the 25 percentile and definitely need improvement. I need a hard goal to meet. 25 percentile is low, I need to do as well or better than most of my class so my new goal is to get into the 75 percentile.
Quite honestly, the numbers scare the hell out of me. I know it shouldn't, I know enough about statistics. I don't know the percentage I have to get right in order to get into that 75 percentile range. For all I know, it could be getting 10 more correct in each section to boost me up there. The raw scores kind of scare me as well. Could show that I do slightly better than eliminating two possibilities and guessing randomly. Analyzing the scores in depth won't help me at this point. I need to go back and see what I got wrong and why I got them wrong.
I have a baseline, now it's time to show improvement.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Game Plan
Every endeavor has a game plan. Whether it be a small get together involving wine and cheese or a huge software project, we'll need some kind of organization. Here's mine.
background: Association of American Medical Colleges offers practice MCAT tests (#3 is free if you would like to know how well you would do and have a couple hours Click Here).
All the forums and sites I've been to have told me that nothing will prep better than to actually take practice exams. This will help gauge which subject areas are lacking and will build stamina for the actual test. The test itself is 4.5 hours and with breaks thrown in between, the sit down time is 5.5 hours.
Days until MCAT: 52
Weeks: 8
Week1:
Thursday: AAMC test #3
Week2: (my spring break)
Finish Kaplan prep book
Take practice exam on Kaplan prep book
Week3:
Really finish Kaplan prep if not already done
Start ExamKracker books (should be in by then)
AAMC test#4
Week4:
AAMC test #5
Week5:
AAMC test #6
Week6:
Finish Exam Kracker books
AAMC test #7
Week7:
AAMC test #8
AAMC test #9
Week8:
AAMC test#10
MCAT
Hopefully by then, I will have taken all 8 practice exams and do some of the practice tests that came included with my prep books.
Edit: Following one of my friends suggestions, the Game plan will now be referred to as the "Victory Agenda"
background: Association of American Medical Colleges offers practice MCAT tests (#3 is free if you would like to know how well you would do and have a couple hours Click Here).
All the forums and sites I've been to have told me that nothing will prep better than to actually take practice exams. This will help gauge which subject areas are lacking and will build stamina for the actual test. The test itself is 4.5 hours and with breaks thrown in between, the sit down time is 5.5 hours.
Days until MCAT: 52
Weeks: 8
Week1:
Thursday: AAMC test #3
Week2: (my spring break)
Finish Kaplan prep book
Take practice exam on Kaplan prep book
Week3:
Really finish Kaplan prep if not already done
Start ExamKracker books (should be in by then)
AAMC test#4
Week4:
AAMC test #5
Week5:
AAMC test #6
Week6:
Finish Exam Kracker books
AAMC test #7
Week7:
AAMC test #8
AAMC test #9
Week8:
AAMC test#10
MCAT
Hopefully by then, I will have taken all 8 practice exams and do some of the practice tests that came included with my prep books.
Edit: Following one of my friends suggestions, the Game plan will now be referred to as the "Victory Agenda"
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Holy Crap, what did I just do?
I'm sure everyone has these, those lofty goals/timelines where one doesn't have to do much planning. Five minutes of internet searches and one has a reasonably good idea of where they want to be in the next year.
Medical school was my lofty goal. As for a timeline? Here's the game plan:
1.) Take college pre-reqs: year or two: 2009 should be done.
2.) Take MCAT: 2009ish? Possibly early because I so want to go to Peru for the summer.
3.) Apply to med school: Finish 1 & 2.
Number 1 is still on track. I'm enjoying my sweet time as a part time student and living off savings/working part time. I can do that, it's like reliving my undergraduate all over again but instead of playing games all day and hanging out with friends, I feel disconnected with all those young-ins and have replaced all that with Digg, reddit, and the bar.
This morning I re-evaluated item 2 and decided to go to the AAMC website (where you register for MCAT) and decided to check out the dates and availability. Sweet, they have some in March, April, and if I don't feel ready, August. Awesome, I won't have to look at this for at least another couple months. Availability? I have to register? Fine. I registered and checked out the availability for these test dates. Oooh, available for the dates. That's when the tick happened.
The tick - as I'll call it is that phenomenon when that slacker co-worker (you know, the one where you always wondered why anybody would hire this guy) shows his worth. This coworker transforms into a machine and starts cranking out work...say all of the year's requirements in two weeks. Unfortunately this kind of inspiration is unsustainable and most often unpredictable. It's like a muse for engineers.
So checking for dates and availability turned into me paying the $225 fee to take the test on April 24. Holy crap, what did I just do? I'm not even remotely prepped for this thing. I've kind of been half assing this MCAT prep book for the last month but nothing serious and now I've committed. Okay today is March 1. I have 53 days to prep. I need a schedule of what I'm going to do and a list of what I'll need to prep.
We'll see how long this tick lasts.
Medical school was my lofty goal. As for a timeline? Here's the game plan:
1.) Take college pre-reqs: year or two: 2009 should be done.
2.) Take MCAT: 2009ish? Possibly early because I so want to go to Peru for the summer.
3.) Apply to med school: Finish 1 & 2.
Number 1 is still on track. I'm enjoying my sweet time as a part time student and living off savings/working part time. I can do that, it's like reliving my undergraduate all over again but instead of playing games all day and hanging out with friends, I feel disconnected with all those young-ins and have replaced all that with Digg, reddit, and the bar.
This morning I re-evaluated item 2 and decided to go to the AAMC website (where you register for MCAT) and decided to check out the dates and availability. Sweet, they have some in March, April, and if I don't feel ready, August. Awesome, I won't have to look at this for at least another couple months. Availability? I have to register? Fine. I registered and checked out the availability for these test dates. Oooh, available for the dates. That's when the tick happened.
The tick - as I'll call it is that phenomenon when that slacker co-worker (you know, the one where you always wondered why anybody would hire this guy) shows his worth. This coworker transforms into a machine and starts cranking out work...say all of the year's requirements in two weeks. Unfortunately this kind of inspiration is unsustainable and most often unpredictable. It's like a muse for engineers.
So checking for dates and availability turned into me paying the $225 fee to take the test on April 24. Holy crap, what did I just do? I'm not even remotely prepped for this thing. I've kind of been half assing this MCAT prep book for the last month but nothing serious and now I've committed. Okay today is March 1. I have 53 days to prep. I need a schedule of what I'm going to do and a list of what I'll need to prep.
We'll see how long this tick lasts.
An introduction
Let me first introduce myself. I don't like the idea of sitting in an office for 8-10 hours a day with minimal tasks. Being mandated to sit in an office despite finishing up work sounds like baby sitting for adults. "When do we get to go play outside for the hour a week suggested exercise?" some would ask. I felt like preschooler again.
This is not me and I quit that job.
I went back to school, and am taking the prerequisite classes needed to get in. Here's were my story begins.
This is not me and I quit that job.
I went back to school, and am taking the prerequisite classes needed to get in. Here's were my story begins.
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