When it was time to choose where to go to medical school, I didn’t think all that hard. Indiana is unique. There is only one medical school in Indiana, at least there was when I was applying. (There is now IU, offering an MD degree and an osteopathic program affiliated with Marian University in Indianapolis.) […]
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Excelling During an Orthopaedic Surgery Rotation
Trying to get a job in the middle of a pandemic is less than ideal. Given that, when you get an opportunity to work with residents and faculty one-on-one, it is crucial not to waste that time. Don’t get black-balled before you’ve ever even walked into the hospital! It’s essential to understand who is usually […]
I Don’t Understand Guns
This post is different from what I’ve been posting so far, but I want to share my thoughts. This post is my opinion. Some people may not agree. That’s ok. We don’t all have to agree. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to […]
Academic Failure Is More Frightening
It’s one thing to fail at a goal to participate in a sports program. It’s quite another for a student interested in getting into medical school to experience academic failure. There’s no place where this is more likely to happen than in battle with every pre-medical student’s arch-nemesis: organic chemistry. I was a good general […]
Success Doesn’t Come Without Some Failure
Not everything we try will be successful. I wasn’t necessarily used to failing in high school. The competition was stiff among many of my classmates, but hard work paid off. I graduated as the salutatorian of my class and won plenty of academic awards and scholarships. Things change when the pool gets more substantial, and […]
Navigating a Large University
Indiana University was absolutely the right place for me to go for my undergraduate education. I’ll never regret the experience, the knowledge I received, and the friends that I met there. I chose biology as a major, not because I felt that I needed that education to enter medical school, but because it was the […]
Planning for and Navigating the Medical School Application
I wanted to take a brief break from telling my story to discuss medical school admissions and the AMCAS – the standard medical school application. My hope would be someone in the pre-med years, or perhaps earlier, who is planning to apply to medical school would read this and start to think ahead. Applying and […]
Choosing Where to Go to College
Deciding where to go to college was a bit of a struggle. As I mentioned, I went to a small high school. I graduated with about 65 people. After my experience with high school, I was looking forward to going somewhere bigger. I wanted a place that offered a wide range of experiences and some […]
Gotta do Work!
My parents expected me to go to college and fulfill the goals I had set for myself. They didn’t have the means to get me there, however. That was never a secret. If I wanted to go to college, I was going to have to work hard and get some scholarship monies or perhaps get […]
Back to Indiana and High School
The summer before 6th grade, we moved from Kentucky to Edinburgh, Indiana. My dad took up a job helping our aunt and uncle run a Waffle House. My dad would eventually go on to work for Cummins, maker of Diesel engines, headquartered in Columbus, Indiana. The remainder of my primary and secondary education occurred in […]