1. Upon arriving on campus, you relay to everyone that you’ve been destined to save lives since the day you were born and are excited to take Organic Chemistry and write your groundbreaking thesis.
2. After the first day of LPSA, you meet a million and two people who have all done research before and cured cancer at 12 years old and you begin to question how you got into this school.
3. After your first chemistry midterm, you schedule a meeting with your TF, the CAs, and your professor to ask for how to improve in the class because you’re in denial about your grade.
4. You’re drowning in psets and three midterms in the same week/on the same day.
5. You’ve come to the realization that your stress levels will permanently be at the maximum and that this is all you can look forward to for at least 7 more years. You look at your roommate concentrating in Ec and wonder how they have the willpower to keep on living.
6. You reconsider everything you’ve ever been told in your entire life.
7. You eventually get a grade in a class that is above the average and things start to look up a little.
8. After countless hours spent flipping through the 49 book, you finally decide to stick with the pre-med track because it’s ultimately what you enjoy studying.
9. I’m sure this is how we’ll all feel come graduation: