Aspiring Docs Diaries

Stories by: Med Students

Mar 17, 2017

Match Game

I found myself waking up at 2:00 a.m. with great horror two days before I submitted my rank list for […] Read More

Feb 27, 2017

The Whistleblower’s Guilt

I could either not report it, breaking my school’s honor code, and becoming an immoral person myself, or tell. Read More

Jan 30, 2017

Board Games

As a party staple and go-to for family fun, board games have a knack for bringing people together as well […] Read More

Jan 23, 2017

P/F

Within our first 5 months, the Mount Sinai Class of 2020 has taken 5 exams and 16 quizzes as well […] Read More

Jan 17, 2017

Lessons From the Cadaver Lab

The smell was unbearable at first. It hit me like a wave when I first entered the cadaver lab and […] Read More

Jan 9, 2017

Pero, Like…

I never thought much about my story, let alone how sharing it would benefit anyone. Among the thousands of applicants […] Read More

Dec 21, 2016

Being Present

As I forcefully exhaled against an errant strand of hair, I wished I were anywhere but there. My hands – […] Read More

Dec 19, 2016

How Shadowing Pulled Me into Medicine

In my junior year of high school, each student in my Biomedical Research class had to give a presentation on […] Read More