Posted by ireason on June 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
There’s the age-old debate among medical students, whether lecture is useful or a waste of time. Below, I present the major points of both schools of thought, after which I provide my personal experience with the matter. “Lecture is useful” – People who religiously go to lecture do so, because they either find some benefit … Read more
Posted by ireason on June 11, 2009 · 1 Comment
1. Rankings don’t really matter unless you’re very serious about research 2. The need to apply earlier than I did (my AMCAS was submitted in August) 3. How expensive the application process would be (cost me close to $3G) 4. How time-consuming the process is (I could have taken an lighter course-load that semester) 5. … Read more
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Posted by ireason on June 11, 2009 · 2 Comments
When I was in college, I could never understand why I needed to know where to draw the little arrows and dots for the Baeyer-Villiger reaction mechanism in organic chemistry, or why I would ever need to know circuits or hydrostatic pressure from physics. After all, I wanted to practice medicine one day, and I … Read more
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