How about you get a job as a nurses assistant or something so you A) develop a worthwhile work ethic because if you're going to med school you're damn sure gonna need it and B) can confirm for yourself thats really what you want to do and understand when you get your med license what its like to change someone's shit pan so you don't turn into one of those dickheads that aren't compassionate or understanding at all of what its like to have to do something like that on a day to day basis. Because if you've never done it yourself then you're gonna be damn quick to forget and slowly turn into an over paid, priviledged piece of shit doctor. Who will most definitely demand more of the people under them without empathy then what they themselves are capable of?

You said you were taking rotations in a hospital? Is that just following doctors around and learning shit or are you actually going to be changing IVS and piss pans or whatever else?

Yeah GETTING INTO med school is hard because its alot of studying or whatever but if you don't apply yourself to the actual physical work and become a part of that and realize what it is and develop a good work ethic you could possibly end up just another dick that thinks because you got through med school you're too good to bust your ass and push the work on your peers because hey you went to school and got a degree, leave the grunt work to the stupid people.

I'm not trying to specifically say that you'd do that but I see it happen all the time by kids that went to college and never had to bust their asses like everyone else so they think they're better then that and don't carry their own weight and end up making terrible leaders, co-workers, and people in general.

just something to think about while you're at home playin' mass effect or whatever the fuck.

i've basically got the year off. i quit uni because i hated my course and i just got accepted into glasgow to do film studies in september. i am pretty much sitting around playing games right now. it's been a while since i've really played alot of games but i am playing a mess of games right now. i am going to australia at the start of april for 5 months, though. there's room for games and actually doing something. games are a blast, but really sitting around all day isn't actually fun.

It wasn't hard for me, and only me, to get into... it's hard for ANYONE to get into. Each school gets some 3000-4000 applications for a seat of maybe 70 students. I graduated with a 3.8 gpa, biology major chem. minor, with a 33 on the MCAT... I spent 10 months, poured in $3000 dollars worth of prep material, and studied some 4 hours a day to get that 33 score. I got in easy yes, but getting those stats are tough as hell (considering you need shadowing, years of research, volunteering, leadership, etc. etc. on top of everything to become competitive).

i don't want to be a dick but it's not hard for everyone. the fact that you love medicine answers my question though, i picked up from your post that you hated it and that's why it was hard so nothing made sense at all (ps brown i'm not doing chem eng.)

@Yugoslavian Ghoul: Yeah, I know what you're saying. I've shadowed doctors, but no I haven't done any HANDS on stuff (I did work in a pathology lab where I processed human placentas... blood bath work, but it was fun). Clinical rotations will be 3rd and 4th year of med school, and that's where you actually "train" in various areas and see which YOU like. There, and again in residency, you pretty much get pushed around by everyone - you're at the bottom of the chain even if you have that M.D. at the end of your name. So through that, if you're already a jerk, then you'll develop some respect for the nurses that are teaching you stuff (of course the attending physician teaches you most of the stuff but nurses are a big part). I'm not a jerk in real life, actually a really nice guy (if I come off as a dick in these forums, I'm sure we'd be best of pals in real life  ​) so I think I'll be a pretty compassionate person in the field. 

i don't want to be a dick but it's not hard for everyone.

Of course it's not tough for some people, but about 40% of applicants land a seat... which is on the low side. And some of them go to Caribbean schools or D.O. schools.

Each school gets some 3000-4000 applications for a seat of maybe 70 students.

That's not too bad if you think about it, 4000/70 = 57 people per seat, when I took my university entrance exam the competition was 60 people per seat, I guess it's difficult in your case because you had to go through the trouble of getting good grades your entire life

I currently have 6 months off since I can only start Uni in August/September because of what I chose to study. So far got rejected from one of the 3 universities. However, I need mucho money since I applied to study in another country so right now all I'm doing is working 6-7 days a week, playing 3-4h of drums per day, studying music theory, doing ear training etc.

I'm 22, I haven't done a single thing really since August 2009. Applied to med. school and got in, so I decided to treat myself and take a year off and do absolutely nothing until till August when classes start (and boy will they ever start).

So far, aside from interviewing and traveling here and there, I've seriously just been GAMING to no end. So far, I've played and beaten Magna Carta 2, Fall out 3, Uncharted 1 and 2, Army of 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Resistance, Bioshock, Last Remnant, Dragon Age, Resident Evil 5, and am working on Mass Effect right now. In the coming months, I plan on playing Mass Effect 2, FFXIII (obviously), Resonance of Fate, Dragon Age: Awakening, and MAYBE White Knight Chronicles and Bioshock 2... so I'll be busy before I have to lock up my game systems in a safe and throw the key out.

I've also been juggling LOST, FlashForward, V, Office, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, Parks and Recreation, Community, Modern Family, Important Things, Family Guy, and 24... which has been a lot of work, seriously.

Aside from interviewing, other productive things I've been doing are... keeping up with politics  ​, reading biochemistry/physiology/microbiology to prepare for classes, but definitely not finding a job cause work sucks.

What would you do if you have 1 full year to kick back and do whatever?

You're spoiling yourself man.. Keep that up and you just wont be entertained anymore.

I'm going to have to step in and offer how playing games constantly actually helped me not play them much. I use to have a unhealthy addiction to games and spent most of my times on them until I got to a point where I lost the addiction and did other things (like job and life crap). Not saying XxNemesis29xX is an addict, I'm saying I was... but it helped me "get it out of my system" in a sense. Also, it's still possible to do some of the things said here and carry a career, just not as much as it would be if we assumed we had a full year to do anything which obviously is what this is about. Life hits hard and fast, I can understand to some elements as to why he does what he is doing, perhaps because I would do the same on a similar scale. Also you appreciate such hobbies much more once you actually are faced with reality because there is so little time (depending on what you're doing.) to enjoy them, any hobby for that matter.

P.S, I saw you once XxNemesis29xX with your brother, but just stared because I felt it was impossible to actually see someone from the internet on a rare chance from the same state. I'm 80% sure it was you though, this was some years back.

This requires running out of money then saying to yourself "hey I cant pay for this year might as well take it off". I wish I was a trust fund kid, i'd be done college by now...

I said "how can you take a year off out of college" as in, you are out of college... finished with it, and you are no longer in college. kinda like how it was said in the original post(he's done with his undergrad and was accepted into medschool).  can you follow this?

Even taking a year off while you're in college. How do you do this? If you've run out of money, you would need to spend time working for or getting money some other way so it wouldn't necessarily be a year off.

P.S, I saw you once XxNemesis29xX with your brother, but just stared because I felt it was impossible to actually see someone from the internet on a rare chance from the same state. I'm 80% sure it was you though, this was some years back.

Whaaaat? Really? Haha, that's awesome, you should have come and said hey! Where was this? UAB? I once heard one of my friends saw some kid playing my game in the library, we never found the mystery kid again.

I gotta lay off the green ahhh

you're right dc I wasnt even paying attention to the original post. But in my case, I still see it as a year off because during school I would be "busy" all day everyday, I would have like one day where I didnt have homework and no work to do. Weekdays was 12 hours of school a day, then weekends were 8 hours of work per day. Now though, I actually have those days where I have it all to myself. good stuff.

I've been doing nothing for about 4 weeks now other than working on weekends and it's boring as shit. Actually makes you feel down.

yeah

ive been considering going to law school

have fun with your substance abuse problem you'll acquire by the time you graduate

everyone i know in and out of law school is either a alcoholic or coke/speed/add/stimulant addict

Whaaaat? Really? Haha, that's awesome, you should have come and said hey! Where was this? UAB? I once heard one of my friends saw some kid playing my game in the library, we never found the mystery kid again.

It was in one of those chain linked store places, you know, where several shops are put together, can't remember what part of Alabama it was. It was so far back though, I was still a teen I think. I was going to make a topic on it but never did...just sorta placed it in the "was that who I think it was" memory lane folder (this was back when GW was at its peek and everyone was working on 2k3). I've played rpg games outside the house, but not sure if I've ever did so in a library.  Oh and, also I didn't know your name and didn't wanna scream NEMESIS outside the window...lol