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. Applying to your state school (in-state tuition!) should be done first
6. How long it would take to put together the final personal statement (took me 2 months!)
7. More about health-care politics
8. How to overcome procrastination
9. Getting into medschool is not the end-goal; it’s just the beginning.
10. How much material was really coming my way
11. There’s always bigger fish in the sea
12. How much drama there’ll be in the class!
13. Discipline to exercise regularly and eat a balanced diet
14. How to spend money and time more efficiently
15. How people’s perception of you change once they know you’re a medical student
16. How disturbed and sad I’d feel, looking at pictures in lecture, of individuals suffering from various diseases
17. Some material being learned pushes the brink of knowledge in that particular subject – professors don’t always have the answers
18. How professors treat you as though you’re their colleagues, rather than upholding the barrier between teacher and student (a pleasant surprise)
19. How useful my iPhone would be!
20. How creative I would need to become to mentally store and organize information
21. How quickly a day can pass by when you are focused on your work
22. How quickly you get hungry after your previous meal, while studying!
23. How much money I’d spend on Jamba Juice
24. How people’s personalities change under heavy stress
25. How sleeping at least 6 hours per night is important to maintain focus the following day (unlike college, where I could get away with 4-5 hours a night).
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