For all you non pre-meds out there, let me console you. Actually, how about you console ME. I'm going through a horrible period of grief right now, due to future disappointment and hardship. Waking up as a pre-med, you don't wake up. You were actually in the library all night. The lib IS your home. In all honesty, I should have dropped my housing. I could have saved 10,000 by living in the library. I mean it's open 24 hours during the week. I could just crash at another 24-hour library for the weekend.

A lot of people have no idea what they're getting into as a pre-medicine student. In such a highly competitive field, it's like you're living in a pseudo-Hunger Games. I'm 95% serious when I say I've met the nastiest breed of human on Earth. And it's funny considering they're all on a track of becoming doctors. (and on track to trying to murder me). Yes, in the end we're every man/woman for themselves but can't we all be cute on the ride there. To describe a typical day with this group of being, let me share a personal anecdote:

It was a normal day in advanced neuro. The teacher was passing out our extra credit assignments, and I was one of the first ones there. In walks this blonde girl, late to class. What looked to be a seemingly nice girl, was the B word. "Hey she passed these back before," I said to her, handing her the form with a smile. "I don't want that," she said to me (as I went to slap her across the face). "You little bitch."

Okay so I never called her a bitch, or a little bitch for that matter, but I was thinking it. I don't understand how these people even have the time to be mean! Like I don't have time to breathe, let alone go out of my way to be nasty. Let's take, for example, the workload of the average pre-med. As a freshman, you take biology and sometimes chemistry at the same time; hard, but manageable. Then the real fun begins afterward. Cell biology, genetics, etc. Everyone's favorite is organic chemistry. I'm not even going to get into that because I could write an entire article by itself about it. There's physics, there's calculus. It's basically a death sentence. If you're thinking of becoming pre-med, answer this. Do you like crying every night? If you do, great! If you don't, that's great too. I don't know where I was going with this, but I cry every night.

The next step to the pre-med student are the extracurriculars. You need to be competitive right? Well, you better volunteer somewhere. You better get some kind of hospital experience. You better be the president of this and the chair of that. Are you a research assistant? You better be a doctor before you become a doctor.

Then there's the MCAT. LOL. That's all I have to say to that.

Now, don't get me wrong. Being a pre-med student ain't all that bad. You get to stay up late, eat millions of calories, and drink tons of caffeine. But in all serious, it's all about the challenge. For me, I want to learn. I want to know more about the human body. Science is such a crazy interesting thing. Making sense of the world makes it easier to live in it. It shouldn't be about the money or the MD next to your name. It should be about the passion and drive to help others. It should be about learning and experiencing things others aren't lucky enough to experience in their career. If you want those things, I would consider becoming a pre-med student. Even if you're going through "the struggle" every day, it's fun to tell all your friends cool facts they don't give a flying F(lorine)U(uranium)C(carbon)K(potassium.. lol) about.

Also, if you don't have some form of blepharospasm, you're doing something wrong.