Word: meds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins during the first year at Harvard: to be pre-med or not pre-med? If you have known since you were in your mother's womb that you wanted to be a doctor, then this is no biggie. But if you want to practice medicine, and yet you also love American history or French literature or John Locke, then this decision is monumental. Essentially it asks: Do I hereby hand over a significant portion of my college education to some intro-level science and math courses which will be tremendous sources of frustration and boredom? Or, phrased more generally...
Juggling the pre-med act with a non-science concentration can leave you regretful of the mediocre freshman seminar you took, a wasted elective. If only you had known the summer before your first year that a meaningless pass/fail class would mean one less elective when you were older. Or let's go back even earlier--if only you had known in high school that you would want to be pre-med and then had taken some chemistry, biology, math or physics AP tests so as to open more slots in college...
...interest) leaves one with little time to roam the college fields of study. Maybe I had dishonest parents or deceitful first-year advisers, but I was told to take a bit of everything--there is no rush to decide. Sure, I can take my time, maybe put off pre-med until after college and then add two more years to the already too-long trek to medical school. Why not grab a last minute Ph.D. in European history...
Moving beyond the concerns specific to pre-med students, I am struck by how rushed we are to make decisions. A Harvardesque standard of fluency in a language is required in order to study abroad. But what if you realize in the second semester of your sophomore year that you would love to go to Florence for your junior year but have never taken Italian? I guess you can take day trips to Florence from England, but most likely you will just shrug your shoulders and say, "Oh well, maybe when I graduate." And yet, there...
...Currier, the house notorious for being randomized, has a distinct character. It's not pre-med or athletic or gay; it's friendly. It's a place where the best ideals of the College come into play, because there are students of all different sizes, thoughts and backgrounds...