Well, I'm officially in my LAST semester as an Undergraduate! This semester COULD NOT go fast enough!!
First week was nice,yet a tad overwhelming. My second week however, consisted of two days!! It was wonderful!! MLK Day was on Monday..so no school, then went to lab on Tues, and School was on a delayed schedule on Wednesday due to snow. Then Thursday and Friday were declared snow days because we had massive storm systems all at once( about 3ft of snow over a day and a half or so..)So although I was snowed in for 4 days...it was a nice little vacation at home..watched some movies, got lots of reading done for classes and tried to use that time to get ahead!
This past week, was the first FULL week, included all labs and everything..so again, feeling a little overwhelmed..but hopefully if I just try and stay ahead and keep myself on a schedule, I should be okay...although it gets harder every week. Nothing new!
my close friend decided to come up for her bday weekend, which was tons of fun and lots of laughs as usual!! Sure do miss her being around!!
Hopefully in a couple weeks, I'm going down there for a Seminar..so we were discussing maybe meeting up!
OH!! and...in case I still have not mentioned this, I've decided to wait a little longer to take the MCATs. With school, volunteering, Club med and just having enough time to shower and eat.. is insane. I realized that I'm not a superhero, and can't do everything at once sometimes. (may have spread myself out too thin, once or twice before) So the plan now is to study and take it AFTER graduation, so that its my ONLY focus, which hopefully means I can excel as much as possible! This of course throws off my plan by another year. So if I apply in the summer of '11, I would start med school in Fall '12. So during that time, I'll most likely be back home(unless I'm tempted/have enough money to be somewhere else), volunteering and hopefully working at a hospital..somewhere...anywhere.
I did contemplate getting my masters in those two years..but then realized I would need to take the GRE's like now! and apply...like NOW...so not as much time as I would have liked. Another option I have is to get my Undergrad. Degree in nursing..? it would only take me a year and a half at the most! So many options, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN!! a bit scary..but i kinda love it. The girl with the plan, doesn't have one for a little while... its a new feeling..
Not quite sure what will happen. Whatever is meant to be..will happen, I always say. as for now,I'm taking life one day at a time :-)
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Hi, Maryann! I enjoy reading your blog :)
ReplyDeleteI was just wondering, though, why would pushing the MCAT off until after graduation push you back another year as far as applying to med school goes? I took the MCAT in July the same year I was applying, and I didn't have to push it back. I just filled out my application on and off during the summer (you can do AMCAS without scores yet - they'll add automatically) while I was studying for the MCAT. Do what you want, but just a thought :)
Good luck with everything!
Kim
Hey Kim!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoy these! hehe! Thanks! i love your advice!
Well I guess i did so badly on the first round of the MCATS that I'm now more intimidated. I started Kaplan online over Winter break but I'm not even close and wont finish by the deadline and school at the same time will drive me to go insane! So i wanted to enroll in an actual classroom setting in Vegas. and those go from May-August and taking the mcat in august and applying when i don't know my score for sure..is a risk i don't want to take.
True, although you could always just apply to a couple of schools this time around - what would you lose? Especially if you just did UA, a school that tends to look favorably on re-applicants anyway, which would help you out next year if you didn't get in in the next cycle. I don't know, I'm just saying, you could still do the classroom Kaplan, submit your AMCAS early, and if your MCAT does end up rocking, you don't need to wait! No real risk, IMO. :)
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