<p>Hey Everyone,</p>
<p>As a former CC junkie and facilitator of a new decal on campus (Pre-Health DeCal), I thought I'd come back to the site and help a few kids out during the turmoil before school starts. Ask me anything and I will respond as best as I can. </p>
<p>A bit of info about myself, I am a rising premed/pre-opto 3rd year and was MCB until I decided to switch to IB last semester. I am very thorough in premed prereqs as well as familiar with the pre-opto ones, and I also have been doing immunology research on campus, volunteering with a peer support group, been dancing on campus for fun, working at the Berkeley School of Optometry (#1 in the nation!), and be facilitating two decals in the fall. </p>
<p>For those who are coming in, I lived in Freeborn the substance-free hall in Unit 1. I have been exposed to the WONDERFUL (cough) dining hall of Crossroads many times. I've rushed for the premed/prehealth frats and sororities before only to drop out of rush b/c of the heavy perceived time commitment that I don't think I had for them.</p>
<p>For my time, I'd just want to let you know that there's a new decal starting up that will give you guys good info about the prereqs of applying to med, opto, pharm, nursing, dentistry, and physician's assistant fields as well as how to get good health-related extracurricular experiences at Cal (research, volunteering, letters of rec, etc). I'll be starting another thread about that, but please know it is listed as the "Pre-Health DeCal" as MCB 98/198 and CCNs are Lower Div CCN: 57880 // Upper Div CCN: 59125. Shameless plug, I know, but hopefully it will spread word to students who don't know about the program yet.</p>
<p>Please ask away!</p>