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LAST WEEKEND I made two decisions. I quit the premed track and I moved to the right politically. The two, surprisingly enough, are related.
Less stress is also a plus. It's a truism that sitting in a large room with 570 other stressed-out students is inherently more stressful than being in a library or your own room. Besides, then you don't have to put up with that dork in the row...
Nonetheless, in the upper reaches of the meritocracy, there have been glints of truth to the "science nerd" generalization. Of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search this year, 18 were Asian American. Yet while there are no statistics on the shift among Asian Americans away from...
I presented a premed friend with the above data, which I claimed indicated that we are living in an exploitative environment where sinister forces conspire to keep us disoriented through fatigue. I urged her to help end the Tyranny of Wakefulness, but she refused: "But then the geeks who don...
The Gonzo (Premedicus Enthusiastus)--These premeds define their lives by how far they have advanced in the premed sequence. Their strategy is simple: They choose those courses they have taken, and aced, in high school. For those classes they haven't already mastered, they read the entire textbook the previous...