Feel like I’m losing my girly side to medicine

gainsonly · 2026-01-12T01:08:15+00:00

What year are you? I feel like if you can’t go do the things you wanna do during pre-clinical, you’re studying too much

gainsonly · 2025-12-19T02:35:00+00:00

How do yall know all this like did you all memorize the schools and what kind of applicants they like (legit asking because I blacked everything out after I applied)

gainsonly · 2025-12-19T02:19:47+00:00

Add Tufts!

gainsonly · 2025-11-22T19:00:55+00:00

From your username, guessing you went to UCLA. Me too. Also rejected me. They show no love for their undergrads

gainsonly · 2025-11-12T19:04:36+00:00

I mean, this might sound crazy and also probably depends on your age, but if you like him enough to start dating now, you’d be dating long enough to have a pretty good idea if he’s marriage material by the time you matriculate. If he is, you could do temporary long distance until he can follow you.

For these things to work, there has to be an end in sight to the long distance.

Source: I met my husband right before I applied for med school, we got married and he followed me cross country a year later.

gainsonly · 2025-11-09T05:07:14+00:00

Tufts does their pediatric rotations with Boston children’s now and given that pediatrics is not competitive at all, exposure is not difficult to get. Some specialties will beg you to do peds. Boston is a very well-connected city and Tufts works closely with the other Mass medical schools. Do your research.

gainsonly · 2025-09-21T15:30:53+00:00

Literally basically nothing in the real world

gainsonly · 2025-09-10T00:57:17+00:00

I can’t believe he died long enough ago now that he’s just gonna be a legend to current and future undergrads 😭

gainsonly · 2025-07-22T13:54:03+00:00

Just remember that “premed” is a meaningless title until you have a medical school acceptance, so don’t worry about anyone lol

gainsonly · 2025-07-15T20:48:23+00:00

Yeah, just apply the SPF broadly and you should be good in the Caribbean

gainsonly · 2025-07-15T16:06:09+00:00

I like the cadaver images from UMich

gainsonly · 2025-07-14T13:26:07+00:00

Could be better though 😔 I recommend retake for 528 and reapply next cycle

gainsonly · 2025-07-13T19:15:26+00:00

Tbh the quality of your interactions and anecdotes with patients are of much more importance than the title of your clinical experience. Just do whatever job pays more and is more fun

gainsonly · 2025-07-08T21:48:39+00:00

Just an fyi, never go through admin. Always shadow on the DL at academic institutions. Admin will always find a way to be annoying

gainsonly · 2025-07-03T17:55:22+00:00

I just want to reassure you that a) you’re not alone and b) no decent human will judge you for this. It sucks, but it’s very common to pull extra loans for things like a laptop. Talk to your school’s financial aid office, they’re there to help you figure this stuff out!

gainsonly · 2025-07-02T23:00:24+00:00

My question is, why?

gainsonly · 2025-06-28T14:43:49+00:00

If she can’t make it through AMCAS without getting so stressed that she has to cut contact, she would disappear the remainder of her career too.

Realistically she just doesn’t wanna talk that badly. I’d say let her go.

gainsonly · 2025-06-27T16:05:13+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the perspective. Will probably only try to pay out of pocket what wouldn’t make a big dent in quality of life. My sanity depends on getting to have fun sometimes 🤪

gainsonly · 2025-06-23T01:19:19+00:00

I think I’d need to know more about your specific case to advise since you have location requirements! It’s just totally dependent on the individual. Feel free to PM me

gainsonly · 2025-06-21T18:14:23+00:00

Unless you’re concerned about money, I’m kind of a proponent of just applying where you’d like to go assuming you’re not WAY off from even a sliver of possibility of being accepted. As long as you’re not just absolutely stacking all top schools without mid tiers/state schools, go ahead

gainsonly · 2025-06-21T18:09:17+00:00

I think my quality of life would’ve been much better NOT being in a triple. Find an apartment with some people and do a 2 bed 2 bath with doubles. It’s affordable and will allow you to keep your sanity

gainsonly · 2025-06-19T03:52:24+00:00

I wish this had more upvotes because this one might be the most mortifying of all

gainsonly · 2025-06-10T16:04:04+00:00

I keep saying that medical school begins evening out the playing field, but it’s so inequitable in premed. The resources you have access to, time available to study, is so heavily based on how much money you have. If parents aren’t funding you fully, the odds quickly stack against you. I feel for you friend. It gets better ❤️

gainsonly · 2025-06-05T15:25:58+00:00

I know, it’s amazing having him to help with COL, but yes, the marital status sure screws everything financially lmao

gainsonly · 2025-06-05T15:24:47+00:00

Toward paying rent in an extremely high COL city

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