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Nontrad version.
This seems to come up. All the time. And for the first time, pokin your head in here, with lot's of anxiety about your decision, with lot's fast moving assertions, it can be confusing.
So what do you do?
You read. Not like a twittering tween, intimidated by your own audacity. But like a grown person. With discernment. With suspicion that everyone, including myself, just might be a 7th grader.
You know you. That's one of your greatest assets. So don't listen to any joker standing on the corner talking ****. When you don't do it elsewhere.
Use the search function. Use the post bacc forum. Block off two days and read a wide swathe of internet conversations. Pay particular attention to anyone scuccesful who seems like you. If you have three kids don't listen to the bachelor finance guy with a sports car telling you where to place your bets.
Here's your basic tools:
1. MSAR book. Google it. Buy it. Read it. That's your probability calculator. Not the random opinion of someone you do ro don't solicit.
2. Make calculative scenarios of what your gpa will be if you do A, B, or C. If you can't do that math. You're in trouble.
3. Talk to the people who run any program your interested in. They know your specifics and the track record of any of their graduates/particpants. Not us. Take it up a notch. Talk to people wh have done the program. Remember: Everyone, including your mother, might be jivin you.
4. Lastly. Your own guts. Your own gumption. Trust them. It will be always just you and that. Against the world. If I had listened to too many people. I wouldn't be in med school.
Now. You don't need a tour guide. Get your head clear. Make your own moves. You have no reason to not be bold.
This seems to come up. All the time. And for the first time, pokin your head in here, with lot's of anxiety about your decision, with lot's fast moving assertions, it can be confusing.
So what do you do?
You read. Not like a twittering tween, intimidated by your own audacity. But like a grown person. With discernment. With suspicion that everyone, including myself, just might be a 7th grader.
You know you. That's one of your greatest assets. So don't listen to any joker standing on the corner talking ****. When you don't do it elsewhere.
Use the search function. Use the post bacc forum. Block off two days and read a wide swathe of internet conversations. Pay particular attention to anyone scuccesful who seems like you. If you have three kids don't listen to the bachelor finance guy with a sports car telling you where to place your bets.
Here's your basic tools:
1. MSAR book. Google it. Buy it. Read it. That's your probability calculator. Not the random opinion of someone you do ro don't solicit.
2. Make calculative scenarios of what your gpa will be if you do A, B, or C. If you can't do that math. You're in trouble.
3. Talk to the people who run any program your interested in. They know your specifics and the track record of any of their graduates/particpants. Not us. Take it up a notch. Talk to people wh have done the program. Remember: Everyone, including your mother, might be jivin you.
4. Lastly. Your own guts. Your own gumption. Trust them. It will be always just you and that. Against the world. If I had listened to too many people. I wouldn't be in med school.
Now. You don't need a tour guide. Get your head clear. Make your own moves. You have no reason to not be bold.
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