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25 Thoughts While Taking The MCAT

The most dreaded exam out there will drive you crazy.

Brittany Cook

May 23, 2016

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It’s summertime, AKA MCAT season, and thousands of pre-medicine students are frantically reviewing all things relating to their undergraduate studies. The score you receive on this exam dictates your entire medical future, and the exam, as we all know, is a brutal marathon you must mentally prepare yourself to take. Every student taking the exam will experience a collection of thoughts until the moment they walk out of the testing center with a little sealed paper verifying that they completed the MCAT.

The following is a list of 25 thoughts all pre-meds have while taking the MCAT.

1. Why do I have to take my shoes off, go through a security check and get my fingers scanned. Do they think I am some kind of criminal?

2. Man, they really keep people from cheating here.

3. Hmm... I wonder how I could cheat?

4. Fifteen minutes into the first section: Do I even want to go to medical school now?

5. Why is it so damn silent in here?

6. It’s getting hot in here, let me take my sweater off.

7. Ten seconds later: Why did that lady just tap me on the shoulder to tell me I had to keep my sweater on the entire exam?

8. Great, now I am sweating.

9. What kind of reaction is this?

10. “Choose the correct answer: I, II, III, II and III, or I and III.” No. Just no.

11. I have absolutely no idea what any of these answers are.

12. Whose idea was it to add psychology again?

13. I know all of the answers to this section!

14. I have to pee so bad, but those finger print scanners take too long.

15. These earphones are starting to irritate me.

16. I really should have prepared more.

17. My brain is so dead I can’t even tell the difference between oxidation and reduction anymore.

18. Should I actually go take a break, or just get this exam over with?

19. Someone tell my why I paid more than $300 just to put myself through misery?

20. Also, I spent years learning this information, and weeks reviewing it. How am I completely lost?

21. This is not fair.

22. I’m tired and hungry.

23. On the last section of the entire exam: I give up, this is too hard.

24. Just kidding, but I better not have to take this ever again.

25. After seven and a half hours:

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25 Thoughts While Taking The MCAT

The most dreaded exam out there will drive you crazy.

1. Why do I have to take my shoes off, go through a security check and get my fingers scanned. Do they think I am some kind of criminal?

2. Man, they really keep people from cheating here.

3. Hmm... I wonder how I could cheat?

4. Fifteen minutes into the first section: Do I even want to go to medical school now?

5. Why is it so damn silent in here?

6. It’s getting hot in here, let me take my sweater off.

7. Ten seconds later: Why did that lady just tap me on the shoulder to tell me I had to keep my sweater on the entire exam?

8. Great, now I am sweating.

9. What kind of reaction is this?

10. “Choose the correct answer: I, II, III, II and III, or I and III.” No. Just no.

11. I have absolutely no idea what any of these answers are.

12. Whose idea was it to add psychology again?

13. I know all of the answers to this section!

14. I have to pee so bad, but those finger print scanners take too long.

15. These earphones are starting to irritate me.

16. I really should have prepared more.

17. My brain is so dead I can’t even tell the difference between oxidation and reduction anymore.

18. Should I actually go take a break, or just get this exam over with?

19. Someone tell my why I paid more than $300 just to put myself through misery?

20. Also, I spent years learning this information, and weeks reviewing it. How am I completely lost?

21. This is not fair.

22. I’m tired and hungry.

23. On the last section of the entire exam: I give up, this is too hard.

24. Just kidding, but I better not have to take this ever again.

25. After seven and a half hours:

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Run Around Clanging Pots and Pans in Everyone's Face

Eat the Last Few Pigs in a Blanket

Pop Twelve White Grapes

Burn Something

Smash Things Against a Wall

Spontaneously Begin an Irish Jig

Call Your Mother

Throw a Coffee Table Out a Window

Sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the Top of Your Lungs

Do Some Squats

Swan Dive into a Nearly Freezing Body of Water

Take a Shot

Time to be merry and bright.

"First Noel" by Leslie Odom, Jr

"A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Kelly Clarkson

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home" by Michael Buble

"Last Christmas" by Taylor Swift

"The Christmas Song" by Josh Groban

"White Christmas" by Idina Menzel

"O Holy Night" by David Archuleta

"Believe" by Josh Groban

"Les cloches du hameau" by Celine Dion

Or at least try to do.

1. I will wake up (sorta) on time for class.

2. I will look decent for class.

3. I will go to the gym more.

4. I will go to the library and study more.

5. I will meet new people.

For those long nights that turn into mornings when the struggle is real.

1. Walk in motivated and ready to rock

2. Disappointed you let it get this bad

3. Distracted: When a 10-Minute Break Becomes an Hour

4. When the Yearning for Sleep Sneaks Up

5. In the words of Lorelai Gilmore "Coffee, Coffee, Coffee"

Oh, so done.

You need sleep, but also have 13 things due in the span of 4 days.

1. When it's December 1 and you have seven things due, three exams, and haven't slept in three days.

2. So you stress.

3. And cry.

4. Then call your mom to cry some more.

5. After the pep talk, you feel determined to get everything done.

6. But, now you're tired.

7. And really hungry.

8. Suddenly, it's 2 a.m. and you have only written three sentences and your paper is due in the morning.

9. You've made it to Friday... somehow.

10. Then Sunday hits and you find yourself back at the Lib.

11. So you cry some more.

12. But, you fight through the tears to get everything done because you're determined.

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