2010-10-02, 10:07 PM
Swerve Wrote:Research mixers. Attend them. Now. You. Attend them. Now. Look for professors and brush up on information relevant to their studies. Approach with a shotgun and aim for at least 6-7 every two weeks and see if you can get any to hit. Laboratory work may seem mundane but it will be the best exposure, especially for you as a freshman.
Leviathan. Those are the easiest course requirements to accomplish. The hard part is balancing five or six other courses, studying for an MCAT, doing research, pumping out your resume, and jumping through hoops like it's nobody's business and learning how to lie and apply to a system that is likely skewed against you.
Exactly. Why should we have to balance all these crappy classes that don't matter? :o
Too be honest, balancing all that isn't very hard. The only tough part is trying to 20+ hour a job and 15+ hour research. Yeahhh. I find time for my job, plenty of volunteer and more extracurriculars than I probably need, as well as ace-ing all my tests and classes in general. Research...eh, will start that next year. Have been told it's the least important thing next to the other things listed, but have already started looking into some medical research on campus.