As a college student, you are no stranger to cramming. Maybe you teach yourself the material one day, regurgitate it on the exam the next day, and forget it the next. This cycle likely sounds familiar to you. Doing it this way sucks and stresses you out. When you have … [Read more...]
Can You Get into Medical School with a Low GPA?
It usually lands like a ton of bricks. You're going along from class to class, week to week, one semester to the next. Then, you get back a midterm, a test, or a lab. Then it hits you -- you realize that your grades have slipped below what you'd hoped … [Read more...]
Five Medical School Application Productivity Tips
Even if you're not applying to medical school this year, the things you do in and out of school should be focused on fulfilling medical school application requirements that you're going to need to complete to be a competitive application. But there's one big problem: You don't have enough time. … [Read more...]
Struggling with a Class? Here’s How to Fix It
When I went to graduate school, I knew I wanted to "crush it" -- I wanted to get the best grades to show my capability and talent to potential employers. A high GPA from a well-respected grad program would help me a lot. I had a specific strategy for how … [Read more...]
The Most Effective Study Tip for Writing a Paper Quickly
One of my favorite quotes about writing is, "Write with your voice." The person who said that meant it literally. I'm talking about speaking out loud. I think the most amazing gift every Macintosh or iPad owner ever got from Apple was the dictation software that Apple has recently added … [Read more...]
Do You Multitask, then Feel Guilty? Advice for Premeds, and everyone else, too.
How many times have you heard this? "The key to getting out of procrastination is to stop multi-tasking. Just get a little momentum on your project, and you're all set." I think this is naive, and here's why. We've all spent many thousands of hours in multi-tasking mode. It's ingrained … [Read more...]