…or is it I?
I’m a 25yr old pre-med in San Jose, CA. I graduated from SJSU last year with a BA in Communication Studies and a Minor in Aviation Operations. As an undergrad I took animal bio, physics, calculus, and g-chem…and graduated with a 3.851 GPA.
Now I’m a Post-Bac (still at SJSU) taking first semester O-Chem and Cell Bio. 
I work part time as Manager of Safety at a jet charter company, which pays the bills (been with this company 7 years…started as a fueler). I also work part-time at NASA in an Aviation Safety program (they let me set my own schedule, so I go there at night).
To get medical experience, I’m volunteering at a local hospital in patient services (soon to be in the ER) and made friends with an anesthesiologist which has led to my observing surgery this week.
I aspire to be a Flight Surgeon in the USAF, but I hear that 90% of students in medschool end up changing their specialty. We’ll see.
Just found this forum, and glad it’s here. Our pre-med club is run by freshmen. Every time I go to a meeting I die a little inside…
Hi there:
Welcome! You’ve come to the right place. Good luck to you in your post bac and your future endeavors. I’m doing cell bio and org chem now-enjoy!
You’re further along than I am. I’m in gen chem and bio II right now.
Good luck!
Welcom to the site, this site is an invaluable resource tool! I hope you become and stay active here, the more the merrier!!
I can feel the pain of dying a little inside when at the pre-med club…I joined my college’s pre-med club at the urging of one of my classmates who informed me that not everyone is young…(he’s like 20) and I think the oldest person is like 21…I’m 27 which I know is not old, but I’m seriously the oldest person there and they have the meetings in the middle of the day so if I want to make them I end up missing half a day of work…which I do occasionally just to be active in it because I know it will pay eventually. My bosses love it! At least we get free pizza at the meetings…
- RAdamson Said:
What are you actually getting out of these meetings that you aren't getting from here?
Cheers,
Judy
If you don’t like where your pre-med club is doing/ or what they are not doing, don’t waste your time. I was a part of pre-med society in my undergrad for a year or so, but I didn’t get much out if it so I just gave up. As you guys said - most of the kids there might still don’t know what they really want to do, or how to go about improving their resume/ look for opportunities to volunteer/ get involved etc. It looks to me like both of you guys (pballard and Rhonda) know what needs to be done and what you like doing…
Or I guess another option would be to get more involved and organize some cool volunteering events, shadowing program, invite speakers, have some resume workshop etc… it takes time tough, and again - they might not be there yet.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that… it’s not required to be a memeber of a pre-med club at your school to get accepted to a med school (at least I don’t think it is).
Kasia