Thoughts of the future

The first full week of classes after break has finally ended and life is officially back to normal. You may remember me discussing the practice MCAT last week; I did indeed end up taking it and let me tell you, it was easily the hardest test I've ever taken. My performance set the tone for the week and my feelings of worry were only made worse by my junior seminar class on Wednesday. Every biology major has to take junior seminar in the fall of their junior year. Junior sem is a class that meets once a week and is taught by all of the biology professors. We do a variety of things in class, all designed to give us guidance in planning our post-college careers as well as an advantage over biology majors graduating from other schools.

This week in bio sem we had an assignment due where we had to look at various graduate or professional schools (medical school in my case) and find out what the requirements were. We then had to analyze where we stand in relation to these requirements and begin to make a plan that we can follow to improve our standings. You can see how this can be a stressful, yet necessary, experience. In doing my assignment I found that I am actually closer than I though I was to the requirements. The areas I need the most improvement on are volunteer service as well as my internships (or lack thereof). So as of late most of my energy has been devoted to searching for internships, as well as studying for my developmental biology test earlier this week.

In happier news though, the weather is finally getting colder! Ski season is right around the corner and I couldn't be happier. In fact, I actually just ordered a new pair of skis for this season from Berger's Ski Shop in Corning! Hopefully they'll get here soon so I can stop daydreaming about them.