<p>Hi! </p>
<p>So i haven’t even stepped into my official premed curriculum yet…and I’ve already found myself with these troubled feelings in the coming years on specific courses. </p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong i’m a hardworking and dedicated individual that strives to over-achieve…but I’ve heard some dreadful stories about premed students in some classes like organic chem/inorganic, heard some calculus, and so on. </p>
<p>I’m wondering if i may have some experienced students takes on which courses you’ve found most rigorous while on this track? Any tips possibly? Or how have you dealt with it. </p>
<p>If u are already anxious, then maybe u don’t have the temperment to be a doctor</p>
<p>@GMTplus7 Well, that’s a stretch. It’s perfectly normal for a student to feel somewhat uncertain before entering college.</p>
<p>@Rocky101 All you can do is wait for classes to start and take it one semester at a time, one exam at a time, one assignment at a time. Which classes are difficult varies from school to school and professor to professor and student to student. Different students have different strengths and weaknesses, and a bad or difficult professor can make what is considered an easy class hard just as a good one or easy one can make a “hard” class easy.</p>
<p>I’m a few years out of college, but the courses that immediately jump to mind as having been difficult were organic chemistry lab (not organic chemistry, which was challenging but fun), which was a lab class with written exams taught by an overly difficult professor, and biochemistry, in which our professor wanted us to memorize the structure of every intermediate molecule in biochemical pathways for exams (eg, memorizing all the structures and reactions of molecules in glycolysis, the TCA cycle, the Calvin cycle, etc. as well as memorizing the structures of the amino acids, among other things). Both classes were difficult because of the instructor. On the other hand, I had a great instructor for organic chemistry, which made that class a joy to take. Nothing else really stands out in my memory as being either too difficult or too easy or fun.</p>
<p>Just take one trouble at a time, one exam, test at a time. Worrying is not going to solve anything. Pre-med is NOT the hardest at all, the hardest part is to get very high GPA. there are much much harder academic classes in engineering (as one example). Everybody has a set of easier (for a person) and harder for the same person classes. Would it help you if I mentioned that D’s hardest class was History and she took care of it in HS, so she did not need to spend time in college for Hisotry. Nope, it does not help you at all. So, do not listen to anybody, see how it will be for yourself and take every single class very seriously, yes, Paper Making class also deserves an A if you are going to Med. School (as an example.) Your goal is an A in every test, in every class. To have a lower goal is to set yourself for failure. So, have a smart schedule and make sure to remember that even pre-meds require some hours to sleep every day and more so before exams. Smart schedule and time management is the must. Nope, you should not feel anxiety, but you have to be ready to adjust upwards in your working habits, no matter what was your HS and your stand in your class. </p>