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What were your biggest challenges as a pre-med student during first semester?
My main goals in college were to do well in my degree, get into med school, and study abroad.
The most helpful thing I did was to sit down and plan my entire schedule for all of college. I was a non-science major so it was extra helpful with logistics. I just looked up requirements for our core, my major, pre-med at the schools I was considering, and what I could do during the study abroad programs I was interested in and planned it all out - even if there were some blanks like "elective" it still gave me a rough idea of how it would all go and was VERY helpful in terms of getting things done so I could make things like study abroad and summer research happen and time my MCAT/application when I wanted them.
I think my main challenge/perceived challenge was time management b/c I'm a procrastinator haha. I was really hard on myself first semester which was good in some ways, but I also didn't sign up for any ECs, and I think I could've handled one or two and maybe have met some of my friends earlier (or had a job lol).
I feel like my HS did prepare me well for college but there were still some adjustments academic-wise, my advice would just be to take any feedback you can get from professors/TAs/older students and don't be afraid of going to office hours or the writing center if needed.
(This post was last modified: 20 Apr 2018, 01:08 PM by Shane.)
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RE: What were your biggest challenges as a pre-med student during first semester?
I can't relate with whatever you said cause I'm in highschool ;3
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RE: What were your biggest challenges as a pre-med student during first semester?
What is this, a thread for ants?
Praise Aqua~
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RE: What were your biggest challenges as a pre-med student during first semester?
I hated chemistry and loved biology. But I had to study both of them for science. Here I am studying BS in BioChemistry. Still hate the chemistry part but I cant do anything. I accepted it.
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