#And ik id want to be doing this even if i were the richest person alive

[stuckinapril]

u are literally so strong for being pre med. im also 21 and ive just about given up on taking the mcat and doing extracurriculars after army crawling through all the prereqs 😭 much luck to you!!!!!! praying john hopkins takes u 🙏🙏 we need more lovely, kind and genuine doctors like you and u deserve the best of the best 💖💖

Thank you my dove <3 no it’s literally the most ruthless thing ever. People don’t understand the mental stamina it takes to fulfill all facets of the application med schools expect. It’s more than a full time job—sometimes it doesn’t feel like there are enough hours in the day tbh, between doing research and volunteering and shadowing and gaining hands on experience. And don’t get me started on the mcat lmao, preparing for it feels like I’m training for the Olympics. I’m into it most days, it’s fun to be consumed by something you’re truly passionate about, but I also completely get how it predisposes all of us to frequent burnouts. Add to that the stress of meeting the still more extraordinary, still more impossible standards of elite med schools…

#And usually I wouldn’t give a fuck for prestigious names but I want to become a surgeon #And surgery specialties DO care about the school you went to. They care ab the prestige #So I’m trying to score the highest I possibly can and just go above and beyond #To clarify a big part of it (the biggest part) is bc I’m passionate about everything I do #But I also know it’s what they’d want to see #I get the most shocked looks when I tell people I want to become a neurosurgeon LMAOOO #And even for someone like me who loves school it’s such an overwhelming thought at times #But it is unfortunately what I want to do w my life… I don’t think I’d be happy settling for anything else #And ik id want to be doing this even if i were the richest person alive #So im doing it for the right reasons & that’s why im sure of my trajectory