Comments on: Pre-Meds: Who Needs ‘Em? http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/ Advice on student style, collegiate dating discussion guides, relationship advice and women's studies. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:15:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: USCmed http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-126876 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 06:37:28 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-126876 I'm pre-med currently too – soph year. I'll admit – def doing the "get the grades/bodyshots in". It's unfortunate that relaxation isn't much of an option I suppose. My week is kind of like: Study, Study, Study, Bar, Study, Study, Internship, Study, Research, Study, Blackout, Blackout, Blackout, — all over again. I don't really attend any dinners, see movies, etc. I'll go to speaker events cause that's important, but other than that – study hard party harder. Sounds like fun? Can be…but it's taxing, and it's all because I'm goddamn paranoid about sacrificing my youth for the sake of an o-chem test. Yet i want the grades. Long story short – an unhealthy, compacted amount of partying to say I did it. Only time will tell what happens next….

]]> By: carrie http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-110090 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:21:56 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-110090 im a bio major, im pretty sure all of the first ones apply but not the last one.
we can have fun.

]]> By: Tom http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16328 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:29:22 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16328 I'm a bio major on a pre-med track, and i fit the stereotype to a certain degree lol. sure i study and care about the grades i get (bc sadly gpa determines where we can get the best education later). so i apologize for all the premeds out there for being anal and obsessive. most of us do make time for being normal though :)

]]> By: jes http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16327 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:19:11 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16327 My boyfriend is a Chemical Engineering major, and about to graduate next spring.

And one of my best friends is just about finished with nursing school, after it took him years of studying through almost every night just to get in.

I know for a fact they work just as hard (if not harder) than most "pre-meds," but they definitely dont go around flaunting it others faces either…

]]> By: ela http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16326 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:17:37 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16326 REE, wow they belittle you for being a journalism major? that's weak. journalism isn't an easy major my any means. there was nothing worse in college than people who would ask you your major just so they could announce theirs to everyone and claim superiority. business school is no candy land either trust me- finance blows.

]]> By: Belle http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16325 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:35:54 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16325 Haha, totally agree. I'm starting med school in 2 weeks and have prided myself on avoiding pre-meds other than in my required classes. Not everyone is like this but I am certainly glad I chose to be a well-rounded person rather than a medicine-obsessed one-hit wonder.

]]> By: Steph http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16324 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:56:40 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16324 I'm pre-med, and I'd say the only trait I have is number 4. Although, I have noticed that pre-med's always want to know what you're going to specialize in. And they treat you like crap if you're not specializing. I'm training in medicine so I can go to Burma, Uganda, and other lovely places. Why the fuck would I want to specialize in plastic surgery or podiatry. Money grubbing jackasses.

]]> By: Ree http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16323 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:58:35 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16323 Oh thank God – I thought it was just me… my two best friends are pre-med and this is seriously alllll they talk about. When I try to call them out on it, they simply don't understand what else I would WANT to talk about. They don't understand what life is outside of grades. And they think that if I do, I'm going to flunk out of school. (I'm a journalism major… which they also have no trouble reminding me that my major isn't NEARLY as tough as there's. In fact, they typically tell me that mine is a cake walk.)

]]> By: Christine http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16322 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:48:41 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16322 I actually find nursing students to be more high strung than Pre-Med students. I know a nursing student who literally studied every day for hours. She had a test supposedly every week and had to study for it. The poor girl tried so hard to have a life but just couldn't sometimes.

]]> By: ela http://collegecandy.com/2008/08/05/pre-meds-who-needs-em/#comment-16315 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:41:17 +0000 http://www.collegecandy.com/reality/10883#comment-16315 at some schools as far as i know, there isn’t even a ‘pre med’ program, you have to choose your courses based on a major (be it cellular biology etc). there’s no ‘pre med’ major. i went to a business school so maybe i’m not ‘in’. someone had told me this so when someone was asked ‘what’s your major’ and answered ‘pre med’- i’d always just roll my eyes. can anyone inform me?

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