Stories: School/Life Balance

“We are the guinea pig class.” My classmates and I often joke about this. We started medical school in the […] Read More

It’s 2011, and you’re in the first few weeks of college. You’ve just had this wonderfully lazy last summer of […] Read More

Medical school is one of those conversational references for comparison in tough situations: “Don’t be complaining about that tough client, […] Read More

I wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember. I always loved visiting the doctor (although […] Read More

At the end of my freshman year as a premedical student, I was jaded. I felt cynical about the pressure […] Read More

Once you make the decision to go on the journey of becoming a doctor, how do you acquire the skills […] Read More

Everyone knows that medical school is hard. It is renowned for requiring endless hours of studying and frequent, challenging exams. […] Read More

There is this mistaken notion espoused through our media that if we could just achieve a bit more, earn another […] Read More

As a single mother and a first generation college student who has to work full-time, I knew I would be […] Read More

“You can do anything, but not everything.” –David Allen I have shamelessly taken this title from Eckhart Tolle’s excellent book […] Read More

As a non-traditional pre-med who is also a wife and mother, and has a host of other titles, I sometimes […] Read More

In hindsight I attempted to mold myself into a one-sided, cookie-cutter version of the premed stereotype, losing sight of my true self. Read More