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17 Things That All Pre-Med Students Understand

A Major (Or Track) That Is Not For The Faint Of Heart

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17 Things That All Pre-Med Students Understand

If you are a pre-med student, you know that it is a major (or track) that requires you to devote 99 percent of your life to homework/studying, extra-curricular activities, community service, and semester and/or summer jobs because that is what it takes to get into medical school. Yeah, keeping up with all of this stuff is difficult, stressful, and time-consuming, but you stick with it because you can't comprehend a life in which you don't practice medicine. As you know, there are many things that only a pre-med student comes to understand during the course of their undergraduate career. Here are 17 of these things:

1. This is what you think of choosing to take a class that doesn't have anything to do with the MCAT or your major:


2. This is you if you don't get an A in a non-science course:


3. This is you when you don't get an A in a science course:


4. Your sanity has become as real as the Easter Bunny.


5. You thought about giving up on your dreams of becoming a doctor a million times, but you never actually do.


6. This is you when someone asks or assumes that you want to be a doctor for the money:


7. You try to do everything humanly possible to make yourself standout among the thousands of people that want to get into the same medical schools as you.


8. Staying up late to do your homework and/or study is more normal than going to bed at a decent hour or having free time to relax.


9. You before taking Organic Chemistry:


10. You after Organic Chemistry:


11. This is you immediately after registering for a physics class:


12. When you have to stay in to do homework while your friends are going out to have fun, you constantly remind yourself that all of your hard work will pay off in the long run.


13. This is how your non-science major friends respond after you try to explain what you are currently learning about in a biology, chemistry, or physics class:


14. Even if you're school doesn't have a pre-med major but a pre-med track instead, you still say that you are a pre-med major.


15. You constantly stress out over the thought of not getting into medical school.


16. You constantly suck up to your pre-med advisor because s/he plays a key role in the medical school application process.


17. Even though the road to medical school is difficult, stressful, exhausting, and time-consuming, it is impossible for you to picture yourself choosing a different career path.

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