Hi everyone,
I am a current student at Texas Tech University pursuing a degree in Business with a Pre-Med concentration. My freshman year was a complete success. I achieved Dean's List and joined an honor's society and ended with a c3.7. It was all good up until I was unable to afford to return the fall of my sophomore year. I worked two jobs and managed to return the following semester. Unfortunately, I seems as if the break in school hurt me as my GPA really sank. In both Gen Chem courses, I received C's (high C's, but why pity myself even more). The most ironic part about these poor grades was that I actually was interested in the material and enjoyed studying it all, yet performed terribly on the tests. I also worked this previous spring semester and volunteered at a medical clinic so I feel as if my adjustment to new time management took a toll on my performance in school. Now unlike the majority of Pre-Med students that end up changing majors after the daunting Gen Chem madness, I have actually spent this summer trying to question if the juice is worth the squeeze. My childhood dream was always to be a doctor. Helping people has always filled that void of happiness that I lacked. I spent long nights thinking if this is something I wanted to do, and researched many other jobs, and even took an internship at an office with my friend's dad who is the CEO of a big grocery chain during the beginning of this summer and quit it a week ago. As cool as that sounded, I was miserable. I do not want to be a businessman in a job where profit, exploitation, and negotiations were the goals and being a puppet of a giant corporate ladder. I want to help people, not exploit them for my own interests. That's when I realized that this is my comfort zone. Now this may sound ironic due to the fact that I am majoring in Business. The reason I chose this degree is because it is so versatile and figured this could help me properly run a practice if I was a part of one. Medicine is something I actually have a passion for and could not see myself in any other profession. I have such an interest in how the human body functions and nothing would make me happier in my life than to be a doctor for my community. Back to reality and I'm stuck with the knowledge that I got a 3.1 this semester. It almost brings tears to my eyes that my lifelong dream could be drifting away because I did not do as well as I thought I could. I refuse to do any other career. This is my pursuit of happiness. I gave it my all and gave it my best this semester but on paper it looks like I was nothing more than a lazy student. I have nobody to turn to as my parents criticize me and keep telling me to just give up, so I ended up here. Now I am reaching out and asking you guys, the community of SDN, to give me any advice as to what I need to do to really wow these medical schools. This upcoming fall, I am taking OChem, Biology, and Physics and plan on taking the second parts of those courses. Reason being is that I plan on taking my MCAT next summer before it changes to the new one and want to take a shot at it with the knowledge I'd get from these 3 courses. Is there any hope for me? My determination is strong, and it will never go away. I've tried other options and see myself in a different profession and it does nothing but make me run back to medicine again. Please do not put anything rude or discouraging on here. I hear enough of it from my family and I am simply reaching out for advice, not comfort. Thank you and I am sorry for typing up a novel.
I am a current student at Texas Tech University pursuing a degree in Business with a Pre-Med concentration. My freshman year was a complete success. I achieved Dean's List and joined an honor's society and ended with a c3.7. It was all good up until I was unable to afford to return the fall of my sophomore year. I worked two jobs and managed to return the following semester. Unfortunately, I seems as if the break in school hurt me as my GPA really sank. In both Gen Chem courses, I received C's (high C's, but why pity myself even more). The most ironic part about these poor grades was that I actually was interested in the material and enjoyed studying it all, yet performed terribly on the tests. I also worked this previous spring semester and volunteered at a medical clinic so I feel as if my adjustment to new time management took a toll on my performance in school. Now unlike the majority of Pre-Med students that end up changing majors after the daunting Gen Chem madness, I have actually spent this summer trying to question if the juice is worth the squeeze. My childhood dream was always to be a doctor. Helping people has always filled that void of happiness that I lacked. I spent long nights thinking if this is something I wanted to do, and researched many other jobs, and even took an internship at an office with my friend's dad who is the CEO of a big grocery chain during the beginning of this summer and quit it a week ago. As cool as that sounded, I was miserable. I do not want to be a businessman in a job where profit, exploitation, and negotiations were the goals and being a puppet of a giant corporate ladder. I want to help people, not exploit them for my own interests. That's when I realized that this is my comfort zone. Now this may sound ironic due to the fact that I am majoring in Business. The reason I chose this degree is because it is so versatile and figured this could help me properly run a practice if I was a part of one. Medicine is something I actually have a passion for and could not see myself in any other profession. I have such an interest in how the human body functions and nothing would make me happier in my life than to be a doctor for my community. Back to reality and I'm stuck with the knowledge that I got a 3.1 this semester. It almost brings tears to my eyes that my lifelong dream could be drifting away because I did not do as well as I thought I could. I refuse to do any other career. This is my pursuit of happiness. I gave it my all and gave it my best this semester but on paper it looks like I was nothing more than a lazy student. I have nobody to turn to as my parents criticize me and keep telling me to just give up, so I ended up here. Now I am reaching out and asking you guys, the community of SDN, to give me any advice as to what I need to do to really wow these medical schools. This upcoming fall, I am taking OChem, Biology, and Physics and plan on taking the second parts of those courses. Reason being is that I plan on taking my MCAT next summer before it changes to the new one and want to take a shot at it with the knowledge I'd get from these 3 courses. Is there any hope for me? My determination is strong, and it will never go away. I've tried other options and see myself in a different profession and it does nothing but make me run back to medicine again. Please do not put anything rude or discouraging on here. I hear enough of it from my family and I am simply reaching out for advice, not comfort. Thank you and I am sorry for typing up a novel.