Being pre-med can sometimes feel like you're in a never ending cycle of work, tears and coffee, but it's not without the moments that make you glad you picked this wonderful, crazy field.
1. You take so much pride in announcing that you, [insert name here], are going to be a doctor. 
Maybe it’s the widespread acknowledgement that the journey to becoming a doctor is a long one, and maybe it’s the fact that you’ve finally figured out what it is that you want to do, but you’re proud when people ask you what you’re studying that you can say you’re pre-med.
2. But then, grades begin to consume you.
3. You befriend other sad looking humans in your classes because you are all in the same boat together.
It’ll be the most random thing, but you’ll be in the library late at night and see someone else who looks just as dejected as you do whilst looking at the same textbook and you’ll instantly bond because you already have the biggest part of your life in common.
4. You question your life choices.
After that impossible evolutionary biology test where you knew you didn’t do so well, but also you have zero idea how you could have done better, you decide maybe the medical life isn’t for you. It could be the bad grade, or the sleep deprivation, but you are convinced that even deciding that you want to be in the medical field was a mistake, and you’re not even cut out for college in any capacity. So, you just sit in the library and stare into space contemplating whether to even finish your homework or not.
5. You reaffirm your life choices.
Deep down, you know you know there’s nothing else you want to do with your life, so you try and rebuild the confidence your exam just killed. The real MVP of this step is the coffee you decide to drink. Before you know it, you are ready to pursue a good grade in any impossible class, because the only field for you is the medical one. You’re feeling pretty good, and you finally decide to do some work because hey, everyone has gotten a bad grade at some point and it’s fine.6. Time becomes a foreign concept.
You thought you were busy when you joined random extracurriculars and wanted to spend all the time in the world with the friends on your freshman hall, but classes like organic chemistry and physics II demand as much attention as what I would imagine a baby would.7. Also, what is this “syllabus week” concept?
This is not a thing of which you are familiar when you're pre-med. Every single science class has homework literally on day one, not to mention if you don’t pay attention, odds are (at least in my case) you will already be behind by day six.8. Summer activities are pretty few and far between.
No one lets you touch anything, so long as you’re a student. You’re lucky if you get to ask someone their birth date or take blood pressures. This then leads to binge watching "Grey's Anatomy" and "Botched" and then feeling qualified to lead surgery with no training except watching Dr. Nassif do rhinoplasties.
9. But any small experience you can get just makes you feel more and more sure that you are on the right path.
Any interaction with a patient, or any moment that you get close to the action reminds you how much you love the field and how you really are committed to do anything to be a part of it.
10. You develop a deep love for scrubs.
Why are all clothes not this comfortable?
11. Someone talks about how demanding their schedule is, because they have class all the way until a whopping 1 p.m.
Honey, have you ever heard of a thing called night labs?
12. Your roommates question your existence during finals, because you essentially go incommunicado.
When you finally do resurface, they’ll breathe a sigh of relief because they were pretty convinced you had either attempted to run away from school and your responsibilities, or died.
13. When you go out, it’s like learning how to act in a completely foreign country because it happens so infrequently.
You have to relearn how to talk to humans about things besides pipettes and how badly you want a curve. Odds are you'll find someone out that you haven't talked to in your class and, between dancing and trying to have normal person fun, you'll discuss grades pretty extensively.
14. You have little glimpses all the time of how right this field is for you, and it makes you feel like a million bucks.
Despite how difficult the classes are, or how confidence-shaking the advisers can be, at the end of the day, every time you stop and think about it, there is literally nothing else you want to do with your life. You chose this for a reason, and the road may be difficult, but the important part is that you are consistently reminded how great this field is.
