When making the transition from high school to college, it is important to develop your organizational skills and stay organized in college. You will have your own space, whether it is a dorm or an apartment, and your professors will not remind you about assignments all the time. Everyone has Read more…
Technology is so incredibly useful in college, but it can also hinder your learning if you don’t use it correctly. I have perfected the integration of technology into my college curriculum and have worked out the kinks to create this simple guide to help you use an iPad in college. Read more…
The MCAT {Medical College Admissions Test} is one of the biggest hurdles a premed student has to conquer. Your MCAT score definitely does not define you, but it can open doors for you. The MCAT is a 7.5 hour long exam consisting of 4 sections: chemistry/physics, biology/biochemistry, critical analysis and Read more…
Growing up, I loved to read, you could always find me with a book! As I grew older though, life got busy and I couldn’t find as much time to read for fun anymore. So I found these perfect books for premeds! One of my New Year’s resolutions is to Read more…
Letters of recommendation are one of the many parts of applying to medical school as well as many other graduate schools. If you are anything like me, you feel completely intimidated by asking a professor or physician to do something for you. I just asked my letter writers to write Read more…
Every premed knows how important GPA is; we hold it close to us as if our lives depended on it. When it falls, it’s scary and maybe people think it is the end of their dream of becoming a doctor. Well I’m here to tell you that they are wrong! If Read more…
So you have decided you want to become a doctor, great! No matter what your reason is for choosing this path, hold onto it and never forget it because this journey will tear you down at some points and you will constantly have to think about why you are doing Read more…
As a premed, we are given all these “boxes” to check off to get our applications ready and to do what medical schools want their future students to do. But then, the medical schools also tell us that medical school applicants should not think of this experience as “checking boxes.” Read more…
One of the “requirements” for being premed is to shadow doctors to see if you actually want to devote your life to medicine. It shows medical schools that you have a general understanding of what a doctor does day-to-day and can also give you an idea of what specialty you may want Read more…
One of the first things I had to learn when I first started college was how to actually study. In high school, I discovered I could get B+’s and A-‘s with minimal studying the night before the exam and that was perfectly fine with me! Reading books and articles was Read more…