“. It’s just I read from articles ppl kill themselves because of premed and from ppl saying that quit have all said it was miserable.”
-pre-med is not such a big grind as people are saying. Most pre-meds are involved in everything imaginable and un-imaginable, much more than the general student body at colleges. many pre-meds have un-related minor(s) in Music, Art, languages, some even graduate with several unrelated majors. Pre-meds work, intern in Med. Research, volunteer, shadow physicians, and involve in normal college activities like Greek and various events at college, they go abroad. They overall keep themselves more busy than others because of the nature of these students. They have to maintain very high GPA, study for MCAT, go to Med. School interviews. However, all along the degree of being busy has no comparison to Med. School. So, I say, pre-med is just fine. Frankly, I believe that there are other majors that are busier with academics, like Art and engineering, architecture, probably some others.
When you get to Med. School, then you really will know what busy is. But then, comes residency and you would wish that you had as much free time as you had in Med. School.
Pre-med is OK, it develops great time management skills that are absolute “must” at Med. School and beyond.