It's definitely been a hectic couple of weeks since I last posted. Work picked up for a bit as I raced to finish my project and the pressure of endless secondaries began to weigh me down. However, things have gotten better since then.
Although med school secondaries are definitely challenging, it's not terrible since a lot of them are asking the same question. It's just a matter of adapting each prompt to make sure I answer the question. What's really annoying is when two or more schools ask the same question but they have different word counts.. Then the whole process of figuring out what to delete/add gets a little bit cumbersome, but it's honestly a good problem to have. The worst is when a me school will ask a completely new question. For instance, the NYU secondary asked me how I defined respect. I didn't think it would be too hard until I started trying to actually write. I'm pretty sure I've never thought that hard about respect but I'm pretty happy with the definition I came up with (thanks Caleb!),
Otherwise, I've actually been enjoying this process (up to an extent). It's been interesting learning about all the different med schools and it feels like every time I research a new one, I add another "dream school" to the list. Maybe I'm lucky and all the schools I picked somehow magically align with what I want to do, or all the schools just do a really good job at selling themselves. If that's the case, then I'm really gullible... But I'll assume that's not the case until proven otherwise.
Anyways, I'm going to keep it short and sweet on this one. My brain is mentally fried and my end of internship presentation is tomorrow. I'll write a longer post on the weekend on how God (I think) affirmed my pursuit of medical school. As for a quick progress update, I currently have two secondaries submitted (Washington University in St. Louis and Dartmouth).
See you all later!
