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Sep. 15th, 2006 10:17 pmMissouri Governor Matt Blunt is criticizing Missouri State University for adding a sexual orientation clause to their anti-discrimination statement.
*mumbles* Bloody red state.
Somebody walked into a house, stabbed this mother, and stole her 7 day old baby today. A total stranger, as far as the news has been reporting. It's been at least 6 hours, and they're going on nothing. That's sad.
Bio test was good (I think; I finished it in 12 minutes or so, and the next person to finish was 10 minutes later, and I'm always worried when I do that). Spanish test, not so much. I didn't know the irregulars in the new two tenses as well as I thought I did.
I don't know what I'm going to do with my life college-wise, and that makes me sad. I like University of Missouri Kansas City's 6 year BA/MD program. A lot. It's fast, and you start taking medical classes your first year. Add that to my AP credits and stuff, I could probably graduate with my MD at 22. I'd be a doctor at the same age as my friends are just getting their bachelor's. It's a state school, meaning like $4500 a year (plus board, obviously. It's almost twice the actual tuition, which just seems crazy.) and I don't know what the average scores and GPA are for the people in the BA/MD program (they're undoubtedly higher than the general school's, but perhaps not by much), but I could get into the university on the out of state scale (which is higher than in-state) with my SAT scores from when I was 12.
Which is why I'm wary. It'll undoubtedly be easy to stand out in that school, but I sort of feel that I'm selling out. Like, I can handle UC Berkley or Brown or Washington University St. Louis or Smith, but I'm being lazy and going for a state school. Being a doctor is all I have ever wanted to do my whole life. (Like, literally my whole life. My parents say that I had declared that by the time my brother was born, only a few months after I turned 2.) And something that will get me there sooner is great. But I'm afraid that the going straight into medical courses will end up with me skimping on other stuff, forgoing the liberal arts education that I want.
I'm going to apply to all of them anyway, but when it gets down to it, I'm pretty confident that I can get into the BA/MD program at UMKC.
So it's not a question of that.
It's a question of whether I would rather go to a better college to end up going to a better med school (I love WashU St. Louis's med school) to get me better residencies and go farther, or go to school at a less-prestigious university and med school and graduate quicker, but have the disadvantage of having been at a state school. I think that permaybehaps the advantage of a better school will get me up through the ranks of doctorhood faster, but I'll end up at the same level at the same time after some years because I've had longer to catch up with the state education.
Grr. This stuff is hard. I can't imagine what it's like for people who don't already know what they're doing in life. I'm only trying to figure out which MD program to do.
*mumbles* Bloody red state.
Somebody walked into a house, stabbed this mother, and stole her 7 day old baby today. A total stranger, as far as the news has been reporting. It's been at least 6 hours, and they're going on nothing. That's sad.
Bio test was good (I think; I finished it in 12 minutes or so, and the next person to finish was 10 minutes later, and I'm always worried when I do that). Spanish test, not so much. I didn't know the irregulars in the new two tenses as well as I thought I did.
I don't know what I'm going to do with my life college-wise, and that makes me sad. I like University of Missouri Kansas City's 6 year BA/MD program. A lot. It's fast, and you start taking medical classes your first year. Add that to my AP credits and stuff, I could probably graduate with my MD at 22. I'd be a doctor at the same age as my friends are just getting their bachelor's. It's a state school, meaning like $4500 a year (plus board, obviously. It's almost twice the actual tuition, which just seems crazy.) and I don't know what the average scores and GPA are for the people in the BA/MD program (they're undoubtedly higher than the general school's, but perhaps not by much), but I could get into the university on the out of state scale (which is higher than in-state) with my SAT scores from when I was 12.
Which is why I'm wary. It'll undoubtedly be easy to stand out in that school, but I sort of feel that I'm selling out. Like, I can handle UC Berkley or Brown or Washington University St. Louis or Smith, but I'm being lazy and going for a state school. Being a doctor is all I have ever wanted to do my whole life. (Like, literally my whole life. My parents say that I had declared that by the time my brother was born, only a few months after I turned 2.) And something that will get me there sooner is great. But I'm afraid that the going straight into medical courses will end up with me skimping on other stuff, forgoing the liberal arts education that I want.
I'm going to apply to all of them anyway, but when it gets down to it, I'm pretty confident that I can get into the BA/MD program at UMKC.
So it's not a question of that.
It's a question of whether I would rather go to a better college to end up going to a better med school (I love WashU St. Louis's med school) to get me better residencies and go farther, or go to school at a less-prestigious university and med school and graduate quicker, but have the disadvantage of having been at a state school. I think that permaybehaps the advantage of a better school will get me up through the ranks of doctorhood faster, but I'll end up at the same level at the same time after some years because I've had longer to catch up with the state education.
Grr. This stuff is hard. I can't imagine what it's like for people who don't already know what they're doing in life. I'm only trying to figure out which MD program to do.
