u/ComprehensiveSkirt17

I apply this cycle and feel my entire world coming together in more ways than one. Feels like i’m being drafted.

I’ve been emailing/messaging all my mentors who pushed me and helped me get here. I’m URM FGLI and it wasn’t easy at all, they made it easy. Especially medical students, yall are the GOATs. Young enough to be hip and fun, old enough to be my unofficial older sibling.

Love reddit, I remember during one sad clinical internship I had a breakdown and came here and got consoled by strangers which was nice.

Same thing to the patients, super grateful to them. they would always give me advice like don’t get married and tell me I didn’t do their blood pressure cuffs right.

Don’t wanna sound pretentious but the system is so 3.95 and 4 research internships, if I don’t get in AMCAS is seeing me next year lol.

Super grateful to everything and everyone! Love yall and wish me luck mwah 💗

In my humble opinion, everything about medicine is political especially in America and Im sick of people (esp other pre-meds) telling me it’s not. I grew up low-income but have had the privilege of growing up in an affluent community despite that. I wasn’t entirely spared from the impacts of being low-income and what that means for patients.

At like 13 when I was super sick and our family got a huge medical bill I learned that it doesn’t matter at all how sick you actually were. It matters if you have healthcare or not and that is dictated by complicated health policy no one understands. Your health has everything to do with how much power you have.

Hearing other pre-meds glorify medicine in America makes me sick. I get it, we all wanna be doctors I do too. Id rather be with the patients in the exam rooms or even leading residency programs to help inform future doctors than be in a lab running epidemiology projects. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that as doctors we will be in a highly (unfortunately) politicized field and system that burns a lot of people (even the doctors hehe role conflict).

A lot of physicians I’ve worked with have been burned and some of them are so jaded idek if I can blame them. Those were all the first gen ones, who have done a ton of work for patients that I deeply admire.

All this is to say, i’m applying this cycle and am optimistic but I hope I don’t become jaded either.

Hii,

I have the chance to take classes at MIT and the prison initiative really stood out to me :)

Wondering if anyone has taken these classes and what they think!! Also logistics like how was transportation, etc?

I’m a new grad and one of very few POC at my company. I’ve experienced microaggressions from my onsite team, I don’t feel comfortable with them due to this (I work with ppl overseas tho so I don’t work directly with them) so I’ve kept my distance, focused on my work, and built connections elsewhere in the company instead.

Now people are telling my manager they never see me and I’ve been confronted about it, even though I show up to the office on my hybrid schedule and I’m doing my job well.

It’s not part of my job description to socialize with specific people. How do I navigate pushback about visibility when the environment is part of why I distanced myself?

Hi everyone!!

I originally had my test scheduled for 5/22 but I’m gonna be pushing it back to 5/30. I got a 504 on my last FL 2 weeks ago (125/127/125/127). I’m hoping to get at least a 510.

I’m wondering if tutoring helps. I have 16 sessions scheduled for this week alone drilling on all my weak points.

Has there been any success stories and any advice on how I should utilize tutoring?

OMGGGG i’m so glad I got housing, I literally had to fight an entire war on that website this morning. I opened one unit, gone, another, gone. I wanted to die but in the end I won and i’m not gonna sleep on the library floor between the stacks (that was my literal emergency plan)😎

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR!