Class of 2022
Kyle Duke
Austin Foster
Charlotte Leblang
Ross Lordo
Class of 2021
Dory Askins
Connor Brunson
Keiko Cooley
Mason Jackson
Class of 2020
Megan Angermayer
Carrie Bailes
Leanne Brechtel
Hope Conrad
Alexis del Vecchio
Brantley Dick
Scott Farley
Irina Geiculescu
Alex Hartman
Zegilor Laney
Julia Moss
Josh Schammel
Raychel Simpson
Teodora Stoikov
Anna Tarasidis
Class of 2019
Michael Alexander
Caitlin Li
Ben Snyder
Class of 2018
Alyssa Adkins
Tee Griscom
Stephen Hudson
Eleasa Hulon
Hannah Kline
Andrew Lee
Noah Smith
Crystal Sosa
Jeremiah White
Jessica Williams
Class of 2017
Carly Atwood
Laura Cook
Ben DeMarco
Rachel Nelson
Megan Epperson
Rachel Heidt
Tori Seigler
Class of 2016
Shea Ray
Matt Eisenstat
Eric Fulmer
Geevan George
Maglin Halsey
Jennifer Reinovsky
Kyle Townsend
Medical school is hard. I heard a lot of people say that when I was applying, and even when I expressed I wanted to be a doctor from the time I was three.
I was never really bothered by people saying this though. People said that BIO 198 would be hard, but I didn’t have to study. So when people said medical school was hard, I just assumed it was hard for some people, easy for others.
The actor Matt Damon said recently that his favorite piece of advice was, “Don’t become an actor. It’s a really difficult field.”
There are a lot of naysayers when it comes to dreaming big. Whatever. I ignored them. Matt Damon got motivation from them.
A lot of people who read this blog are considering going to medical school, are probably applying here and maybe will get in. So here’s what I wish I had read on the student blog when I was applying. A little insight from my tiny perspective:
Some days medical school is easy.
Some days it’s harder than I ever imagined school could be.
I’m not just learning what phosphofructokinase 2 is; I’m learning how to study in a group and how to talk to difficult patients and how to ask the right questions and how to motivate people to exercise more and stop smoking.
If I were just memorizing science, medical school wouldn’t be too bad (don’t get me wrong, learning metabolism in one week is a lot).
But I’m learning how to be a physician, which is more than just changing my intellectual brain; it’s changing me.
I’m grateful to be going to a school where the professors care about who I’m becoming. I’m glad I go to a school where my classmates care about that too.
I anticipate the day I can look back and be proud of what I’ve accomplished because I’m working pretty hard.
Megan Angermayer is an M1 from Kansas. She doesn’t have a lot of interesting facts about herself, but her husband has endless patience for flashcards, her dad is a peach farmer, her mom is an awesome accountant, her best friend is an opera singer, and her brother is an aspiring sword blacksmith. So far no one has been impaled.
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