Doing a neuroscience BS degree with a double major in chemistry (BA, BS if I can make the time) at UC Santa Cruz.
Got a 3.99 GPA science (1 A- in genetics) and I'm getting A+'s in the hardest classes (ie: calc, astrophysics, anatomy, chemistry, etc), 4.00 in everything else. Had a 4.13 cum GPA at my previous school (A+ = 4.33 there). I've maintained a roll now (knock on wood) where I've gotten at least one A+ (3 last quarter) every quarter/semester for the past 3+ years, even the one summer class I took. I went to school initially doing applied computing, but then slept through a midterm and decided it wasn't the thing for me. Then became a philosophy major for a semester before switching to Bio. Had a scheduling issue which prevented me from getting into the chemistry courses I needed so I basically had to start over with chemistry when I transferred. (Would have had at least a year shaved off, if at the new school, they didn't slight me on picking classes I needed when I first arrived.) But the extra time does afford me the ability to add the double Major. My old transcript has a couple slights, like a C+ in Brief Calc my first semester in college, and a B+ in a biology class. But my current one is stellar. My high school transcripts are the opposite because I wasn't challenged and everything was based upon homework grades which I rarely completed.
My class list is incredibly diverse. I've taken everything from Animal Behavior, Philosophy, Music (History), Psychology, Sociology, Microbiology, All Advanced Math (Through Multivariable), Astrophysics, Earth Catastrophes, Advanced Renewable Energy, Nuclear Policy, Environmental Policy, Genetics and The Human Genome, and even a class on Greek/Latin Roots in Bioscientific Terminology. I will also have Advanced Organic Chemistry, Chemistry of Metals, Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy, as well as Functional Anatomy, Human Anatomy and Physiology, etc. to go with the usual Biochem, and other general classes like the basic physics, chemistry, biology, and so forth.
I founded a club for Students for Sensible Drug Policy (something I was thinking of omitting) at my previous school and was featured on Good Morning America once relating to Violence in Mexico. I now run an organization entitled "Framers of Neuro, Nuclear, and Space Sciences". I have only one official quarter on my transcript of independent research. I pursued the potential behind a manned Mars mission by working with one of the astrophysicists at the university. Basically planned out a mock design reference using current ISS and old Russian parts along with current launch vehicles to see what could be the "Cheapest way to get there" without getting into the issues of landing / return from the surface, only orbit. No published work from it though, it was more a pet project to tie into an overall thesis I wanted to write about space radiation effects and their attenuation.
I can even get a letter of rec from one of the discoverers of the Higgs boson - he's my landlord. I also work for the university and helped design part of the emergency response system. I do not however do anything in anyone's lab or shadow physicians. Never been much for that or volunteering.
I've been invited to work in some labs, which I will potentially start doing in the Spring. It will be in either x-ray crystallography, biochemistry, or physics. However, my schedules are already packed to around 20 hours each quarter. I don't go to class often which helps, and I never take notes. I just read the ebook on my computer a few times.
I've not taken the MCAT yet, but I'm starting to study now since a lot of topics are still fresh and involved in classes I'm taking currently. My father was a Stanford Alumni, and I really love the coast, which has made me want to consider Stanford Med. However, I'm also leaning towards pursuing a PhD in Particle Physics and then later doing Med School.
My main goal is to work with brain-machine interfaces and neural enhancement.
I sound more like a physicist than a doctor, but I feel i would fill a fundamental deficit in the field. There are a lack of individuals able to bring medicine and physics together.
Got a 3.99 GPA science (1 A- in genetics) and I'm getting A+'s in the hardest classes (ie: calc, astrophysics, anatomy, chemistry, etc), 4.00 in everything else. Had a 4.13 cum GPA at my previous school (A+ = 4.33 there). I've maintained a roll now (knock on wood) where I've gotten at least one A+ (3 last quarter) every quarter/semester for the past 3+ years, even the one summer class I took. I went to school initially doing applied computing, but then slept through a midterm and decided it wasn't the thing for me. Then became a philosophy major for a semester before switching to Bio. Had a scheduling issue which prevented me from getting into the chemistry courses I needed so I basically had to start over with chemistry when I transferred. (Would have had at least a year shaved off, if at the new school, they didn't slight me on picking classes I needed when I first arrived.) But the extra time does afford me the ability to add the double Major. My old transcript has a couple slights, like a C+ in Brief Calc my first semester in college, and a B+ in a biology class. But my current one is stellar. My high school transcripts are the opposite because I wasn't challenged and everything was based upon homework grades which I rarely completed.
My class list is incredibly diverse. I've taken everything from Animal Behavior, Philosophy, Music (History), Psychology, Sociology, Microbiology, All Advanced Math (Through Multivariable), Astrophysics, Earth Catastrophes, Advanced Renewable Energy, Nuclear Policy, Environmental Policy, Genetics and The Human Genome, and even a class on Greek/Latin Roots in Bioscientific Terminology. I will also have Advanced Organic Chemistry, Chemistry of Metals, Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy, as well as Functional Anatomy, Human Anatomy and Physiology, etc. to go with the usual Biochem, and other general classes like the basic physics, chemistry, biology, and so forth.
I founded a club for Students for Sensible Drug Policy (something I was thinking of omitting) at my previous school and was featured on Good Morning America once relating to Violence in Mexico. I now run an organization entitled "Framers of Neuro, Nuclear, and Space Sciences". I have only one official quarter on my transcript of independent research. I pursued the potential behind a manned Mars mission by working with one of the astrophysicists at the university. Basically planned out a mock design reference using current ISS and old Russian parts along with current launch vehicles to see what could be the "Cheapest way to get there" without getting into the issues of landing / return from the surface, only orbit. No published work from it though, it was more a pet project to tie into an overall thesis I wanted to write about space radiation effects and their attenuation.
I can even get a letter of rec from one of the discoverers of the Higgs boson - he's my landlord. I also work for the university and helped design part of the emergency response system. I do not however do anything in anyone's lab or shadow physicians. Never been much for that or volunteering.
I've been invited to work in some labs, which I will potentially start doing in the Spring. It will be in either x-ray crystallography, biochemistry, or physics. However, my schedules are already packed to around 20 hours each quarter. I don't go to class often which helps, and I never take notes. I just read the ebook on my computer a few times.
I've not taken the MCAT yet, but I'm starting to study now since a lot of topics are still fresh and involved in classes I'm taking currently. My father was a Stanford Alumni, and I really love the coast, which has made me want to consider Stanford Med. However, I'm also leaning towards pursuing a PhD in Particle Physics and then later doing Med School.
My main goal is to work with brain-machine interfaces and neural enhancement.
I sound more like a physicist than a doctor, but I feel i would fill a fundamental deficit in the field. There are a lack of individuals able to bring medicine and physics together.