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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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 […]