10 tips for succeeding as a premed at Cornell

norcalguy
Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:02:11 +0000

Tip #11 would be to have fun and have friends. I think most med students had pretty happy undergrads and genuinely had fun. The ones who study day and night or tear pages out of books in order to sabotage others…those are the ones who usually burn out or get weeded out. If you want to party as much as your hotelie or AEM friend, it’s probably not going to happen. But, you can and should have a social life. Even in medical school, where some weeks I was at the hospital for 90 hours/week and studying for another 10-15 hours per week, I still managed to get out and have some fun (at the sacrifice of sleep).