Word: meds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though I dove into pre-med classes and fulfilled the requirements, I always felt that pre-med was just an excuse for me to put off deciding what I really wanted to do. Being pre-med gave my life the stability and security I thought every Harvard student should have. I knew what classes I had to take and when to take them. But more importantly, I knew the path the rest of my life would follow--I would go to medical school, complete my residency and begin to practice...
Having my life plotted our for me so nicely gave me the sense of fulfillment for which I was searching. But as my junior year drew to a close, I made a startling realization: I didn't enjoy being pre-med. I was never the first to rush to see the grades when they were posted. I never understood how to synthesize an ester. And I never could calculate the force and friction of an object sliding down a ramp...
...measure of how things will change, for the better and the worse, only diligent Crimson reading will prevent me from completely losing touch with the campus. Some things are inevitable: I will miss the first year of Lowell's excellent new Masters, and will return to roommates weighing med school applications and theses as I start to pick a junior tutorial leader. Who knows if they will even want to room with...
...administration was put in an even more difficult place because many members of the student body and the faculty demanded that the members of the Med. Fac. be punished. If they were expelled, however, many wealthy alumni of Harvard would be alienated. In the end, President Eliot agreed to allow the members of Med. Fac. to graduate only in return for an assurance that the club be disbanded...
...notices that he is "peeing a lot and feeling really awake." Taking a cue from the TV commercials, he adds, "Well, every time I drink Surge, I feel compelled to ball my hands into fists and shout "Surge!!!!" to anyone I know who is passing by." Weiss, a pre-med student, also remarks jokingly that Surge may cause "short-term memory lapses...