#pre-dent

Well well well… Here goes nothing!

I always wanted to do something like this. Diaries and stuff never worked out for me but I feel like this online format will be an interesting change of scenery.

Are you currently an undergrad interested in becoming a dentist? Or a full-fledged predental looking for an opportunity to boost your resume and learn the ins and outs of dental school? Predental ASDA sponsored Dive into Dentistry Day gives you the chance to get hands on, real life experience of what dentistry and dental school is all about.

This year’s Dive into Dentistry Day is going to be awesome! With current UW dental students and faculty running the show, you’ll get a chance to learn all about life at UWSOD. We’ll teach you how to drill and fill a cavity preparation, sculpt a tooth out of wax, suture, take an impression, and pour a stone model. By the time you’re done, you’ll practically be ready to work with your own patients! This is a great opportunity to learn about dental school, meet some fellow pre-dents, get all your questions answered, and build up those ever important resumes!

If that isn’t enough, Sue Coldwell, the UWSOD’s Assistant Director of Admissions will have a presentation about admissions here at the UW! Breakfast and lunch are provided! Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity!

WHEN: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PDT)

WHERE: D1 Clinic, Health Sciences Building, University of Washington

Ticket sales, cost is $60-80,available here until March 2nd with limited spots: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dive-into-dentistry-day-tickets-42680754285

Thank you and looking forward to meeting all of you all! Please support this event on Facebook at UWSOD Dive Into Dentistry 2018: https://www.facebook.com/events/1709209182469853/?notif_t=plan_user_joined&notif_id=1518045689150253

Since I got home pretty early than I always do, I am going to slip out of my reviewers and blog a quick update of what’s been up with me lately. 

I’ve been doing pretty good in college I guess, I am making a huge process into fully adjusting into the new environment I’ve put myself up in. My organization freak self has been a big help to my studies. I learned to managed my time effectively and avoid procrastination now. I have also built up my study habit that I have abandoned a long time ago again and my sleep deprived days are paying off for I have been acing my quizzes so far. (yay me!)

I still can’t cope up with the exhausting commute life. It infuriates me that whenever I get home I am already super grumpy that the tendency is I get mataray to everyone. (which I utterly get guilty about the time i realized how grumpy i get around my family). So what I do to forget about the traffic is I sleep on the way home. (Para din makabawi ng tulog. LOL) 

I’m frustrated too on how much I spend my allowance these past few days. Being surrounded with food stores everywhere, I am very much doomed. I couldn’t help it if my body craves for something. I just have to buy it. With my course, which is very costly, I need to learn how to save so I’ll be able to help my parents too. 

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1) Don't be intimidated!

Well, first of all, for some people, just forget this article. You can probably do whatever you want and get away with a bachelors or masters or whatever. No offense. Not to sound too elitist, but this is more for pre-dents, pre-pharms, pre-meds, and just about anyone who wants not to be proficient at academics but truly excel at it--I mean really embrace the academic environment of college.

2) Sleep well!

Well, it's important that you sleep. You need to really accept the fact that, to an academic, sleeping is a part of studying. Or have whatever mentality you need, to put sleep as one of your top priorities. The easiest way of doing this? have a constant sleep schedule. For people constantly bothered with frat parties and social events, yes you will need to give it up. But what if you REALLY can't live without those? Then you need to look back up at Advice 1. If you need motivation, think about it this way: by junior/senior year, Frats just look and feel lame. Yes. Yes it does. Do you have this anxiety that you didn't do enough today and just can't sleep until you can give yourself that satisfaction? I don't know what to tell you then. I feel you because I have this too. But at that point, just reflect on yourself. You were fucking around and brought this to yourself. Come on. Did you really think that you could get away with that? Karma is not a superstition; "It is practically Newtonian"-Rajesh Koothrapali. Lastly, ask yourself, why do you need that night time social life? if you need to be drunk to have fun around those people, they're prob not good friends to have. hang out with people in the afternoon. It's not that uncool.

3) Don't procrastinate!

You know how Americans complain about this apparent, huge disparity between the rich and the poor and how it seems like the rich are getting even richer and the poor are getting poorer? Granted, this is mathematically justified (thanks John (or Hank) Green!)-- but stiil sucks how fortune results in even greater rewards and misfortune results in even bleaker future. Well that's EXACTLY how procrastination works. When you're on top of your to do list and you're previewing your materials for tomorrow's class, you just feel happy about everything. You feel better looking. You feel cleaner. You feel calmer. You can actually enjoy the breaks that you choose to take. You want to talk to people. You want to help people. When you see the all A's on your final report, you understand the POINT of all this. Does that sound superficial? here's a quote by Sarah Dessen: "The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. In the end, though, maybe it’s not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all." After time passes, you'll realize; destination matters a whole fucking lot. Don't you dare tell me that A is just a letter. It's more than that and when you earn it, you know it. I'm not gonna go into details about the worse compounding repercussions of procrastination. I think most people have a first person experience of that.

  4) Exercise!

But fuck S lines and bulking up. You know, even at our age, couple of key stretches, some yoga, and 30 min of walking maintains our bodies much better than running in those new nike frees (which are much worse than asics and saucony but everybody wants to run in the swoosh) and lifting weights in muscle tees while fogging up the glass cause you're too fucking close to the mirror. Remember, I'm talking to the academic audience part of you. Walking/power walking are MUCH less prone to injuries and doesn't tire you out so much that it interferes with a healthy routine of studying. And we all know at this point that it is 80 percent diet and 20 percent exercise, regardless of what you're trying to achieve. If the six packs and firm ass are so important, then it scares me not only because you probably judge your well being on the eyes of others but also you're probably doing what I describe in number 5.

5) Don't compare yourself to others!

A peer asks me, "hey, how'd you do on that test? I say, " I did ok." I'm cool with that. you can ask me that. But I hate the kids who then asks "so HOW'D you do? A? B?" MOTHERFUCKER I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU SHIT. Seriously, mind your own business and tell others the same thing when this happens. Because once you start asking questions on how other people did, then it just ruins everything. Why? because comparison just inherently ruins things. This is not gonna help your social life or improve your own academics in any way. Trust me. This is not one of those piano competitions where two geniuses play their pieces like they're having fun while fully aware that they are competing for their everything. Just no. Competition is competition and competition is dead serious. You're not gonna earn anything by comparing yourself. Here's what works. Don't tell anyone what grade you got. Regardless whether it's good or not. Just say, I did okay. This works almost every time. And the situation above? Just tell him, I can't tell you, I have a weird superstition. If he/she looks at you weirdly, then fuck them. Chances are, no one else likes them either.

6)Time management is key!

Let's be honest here. We're memorizing day in and day out. colleges just came up with the euphemism "time management" because rote memorization has bad connotation.

7) Have a study group!

Boy if it were that easy...in theory, study group is one of the strongest tools you have. But it's unrealistic to have a good one in so many levels. I mean, how do you have a study group when people around you won't even share their notes?

8) Colleges do not just want numbers. Do extra curricular!

You know what? Do undergrad research. Holy shit, there is so much drama there, I had the best time ever. When you're reading your bio, genetics, chem, evolution, ecology, anatomy textbooks, you learn the science but you don't really EXPERIENCE the people of the science. That's where research comes in. The dead ends, the constant judging (Oh the judging), the fights, the competitions among professors, the miscommunication, the auditions to get into that last spot...it felt like I was in an entertainment business. Well science is business. Science is entertainment. and well, science is a sport-- a mental sport but nevertheless, a sport--you have a paper to publish? getting there first is everything.

9) You'll learn a lot in college so don't be scared!