#mcat2015

Nursing helped me gain the most valuable things to a pre-med; time management skills, a foundation of knowledge, and clinical experience. The ability to manage administering medication to over 50 people in about an hour and a half to two hours, how to balance all the tasks for a regular shift (orders, calling Dr.’s, families), with caring for the people assigned to my care, and overseeing the personal care attendants on shift with me.

Being a nurse is not always glorious; there are downsides to even the best careers. But the art of nursing is being able to keep a patients dignity intact when cleaning up incontinence, being able to comfort after being thrown up on, and being strong when caring for the dying and their family. Those experiences have shaped the type of nurse I am today, and the future physician I will be someday. Every experience is a learning experience, if you try to take something away from what is in front of you.

It helps when my undergraduate science classes relate concepts to drugs I’ve administered, microbes I’ve encountered, and diseases people in my care have had. In this competition towards medical school, I've encountered students who don’t think it’s fair that I came back to school. But I still wouldn’t have done it any different; the life can be stressful managing work, school, and trying to get involved around campus. But if it truly were easy, everyone would do it, and I am not everyone.

Hello. If anyone out there in the universe is taking the new MCAT and looking for some insight or advice, I created a blog out of all my journal posts that I wrote while I was taking the test. For me, getting other people’s perspectives was really helpful, so maybe this could be helpful for someone else :) 

so guys,,,I got my mcat scores back...and i got a 506 sigh.i’m going to write it again, because be considered competitive in canada you need atleast a 510. i’m not as devastated as i thought i would be, but still pretty upset lol. now the thing is deciding when to write it..January, or the summer again? i’m not sure what i’m gonna do because i’m also taking anatomy in the summer, but then again that would be better than taking all of my courses right now and studying for it..right? if i do it in the summer I wanna do it earlier on so the whole summer isn’t wasted like this time. kinda bummed out, but i’m going to use this as motivation to do well in school rn, because thats also a huge factor if i apply next year.