<p>Pharm Students</p>
<p>Please share your admitted student day. We couldn’t make it and would like to know what you think of NEU and the PharmD program.</p>
<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>i went into the info session excited because i wanted to know more about the program and my mind was pretty set on NEU. however, i came out having doubts about going to NEU. everyones different and for me i want the college experience, meaning getting involved on campus and such. from the people that were presenting i got the impression that pharm majors have no lives because they didn’t mention anything related to living on campus and their activities except one girl who talked about a club.</p>
<p>simplyxcin,</p>
<p>It was very disappointing. You mentioned the Pharm students have no life - was it by choice or because their workload is too heavy?</p>
<p>How about the admitted students? What did you feel about them?</p>
<p>I was a bit disappointed too. The pharm students seemed very schoolwork oriented. The students at the honors presentation seemed a bit more upbeat and outgoing. They kept saying that they have lives, but they never really mentioned the social aspect of NEU/Boston. I wanted to talk to one of the honors student, but I didn’t get a chance because there was a tour of the honors dorms following the presentation.</p>
<p>I, as well, was very dissapointed. The speakers seemed really long winded and tended to repeat the same point over and over again. I swear that if I heard “co-op” one more time I was going to explode. I also was kinda turned off by the fact that I will have no social life, or that’s how they made it sound, due to the fact of co-op research, and studying. Unlike other pharm. colleges which seem to get us excited to go,NEU got me looking at all the negatives, 5 1/2 years with no breaks?</p>
<p>Was this the nature of the 6-year PharmD program or just NEU? I am referring to no-life and heavy workload…</p>
<p>No, the PharmD program is going to be difficult and have a heavy workload no matter I choose to go and I understand that, it’s mostly just the fact of the co-op and how after freshman year there is no more summer breaks.</p>
<p>I went there too with my family. I think the overall presentation was pretty good, considering how many school staff, students all gearing up for this event, although it could have done better. The student panel consists of 8 people with some different background to speak their own experience for school work and co-op. I would rate 5 of them excellent; the last student is at 5th year(Steve?), I believe he had a lot of things to talk about but did not have enough time because of the 7 speakers in front of him. </p>
<p>Yes, the coursework is heavy, but so does the other pharmacy colleges, otherwise they won’t be competitive in this working environment and school reputation. </p>
<p>The flowchart of the Welcome Day activities in my opinion, should have done better. I went to 4 other colleges campus visit last summer, and I think they had done better job to handle it, this was my first time to Boston and of course the first time to visit Northeastern, I should not based on a campus map to find the location of student center (which was the place for Welcome Day registration), and based on map to find the Richards Hall for dorm tour (I went to the Admission Office first as I did for the other school). Since the campus had a lot of different tours (some for regular HS jr. family), a lot of buildings had balloons in the front, it was quite confusing, and I thought that Northeastern should have treated admitted students’ trip differently. Probably I ask too much, or probably it was the way they want to teach the perspective students to be independent living in Boston? well, I don’t know.</p>
<p>WhySheit… i know exactly how you felt… i wanted to like pull my hair out after the like 3rd person… we get it… co-op is great</p>
<p>collegeproject im not completely sure whether or not if it was their choice or the workload because ive asked my pharm major friends and they said you just have to manage your work… but then again i think it might be the fact that its a 6 yr program with 2/3 co-ops so the curriculum might be more crammed i guess</p>
<p>idk… the welcome day just wasnt what i really expected either</p>
<p>Co-op gets beaten to death, definitely. </p>
<p>Science is hard. Pharmacy is hard. Anywhere. I’m a science major, so I have slightly less work than a pharm student. I probably put in about 40-50hrs/week between class and studying. This might be a little more than some of my peers, but not by a huge margin. Your coursework will be a full time job, at ANY school. But, if you got good grades in high school, it’s going to be manageable.</p>
<p>It really is all about time management. I play a sport 15hrs/wk, I work in a lab 15hrs/week, I put 40hrs/wk into class/studying, unless I have a big exam, in which case I put in more. So, despite a heavy courseload, I have time for other commitments. I also make it a priority to go out every single friday and saturday night, because without a social life, I’d go crazy. Sure, sometimes my friends feel like drinking on a wednesday and I have to pull the “I can’t I have lab at 8am tomorrow and haven’t started my lab report yet” or the “No, I’ve only studied 20 hours for this organic midterm, still need a few more hours to review”, but I definitely go out and see my friends. </p>
<p>What I don’t do is sit at home on a tuesday and watch TV and smoke weed with my roommates. I don’t have time to sleep in until 1:00 on a saturday, I don’t have time to shop the entire stretch of newbury on a friday. These are things my friends do, but I don’t have time. You can do those things if you wanted to make them a priority… my priorities are school, my sport, doing research, and partying. If I were to rearrange my priorities to, say, school, partying, and spending my days baking cakes while watching reruns of The OC, I could have time for that, but I’d have to sacrifice my sport (which I love) and my job (which pays the billz, is something I enjoy, and looks badass on a resume).</p>
<p>So yes, you can have time to have a social life. It just depends on how much you choose to take on. School work alone isn’t going to take up LITERALLY all your time. Just a lot of it, and a lot more of it than your friends in other majors.</p>
<p>When I read the initial post, I thought that NU had screwed up the meeting. Reading later posts made me wonder though. Remember that as a pharmacy major, you are not a typical undergraduate, you are studying for a DOCTOR of pharmacy degree. The meeting may have been a heavy handed way of weeding out applicants who are not committed to this. </p>
<p>At Northeastern, you are admitted directly to the School of Pharmacy. At many other universities, you are admitted to a pre-pharmacy program and must apply to the school of pharmacy in your sophomore year and take the PCAT. If you get too involved in the college experience in pre-pharm (you know what I mean), you may end up having to settle tor a science degree instead of a pharmacy degree.</p>
<p>I even have time to procrastinate doing real things by coming and writing long-winded posts here, so you should be fine!</p>
<p>emily2007… do you play on a sports team for NEU? if you do, what sport? ive thought about joining but i’m worried i wont be able to handle both school and the team… and while on co-op are u still allowed to play on the teaM? and it sounds great that u go out every single friday/saturday to party… pharm just sounds really intense</p>
<p>yeah, I play a sport for NU but don’t go into much more detail for the sake of staying anonymous…</p>
<p>I don’t personally know any pharm majors who also play sports, but I’m sure they’re out there somewhere. You should be fine, you’ll just have to make sure you’re managing your time well. And yes, you can still play while on co-op. For all practical purposes, while on co-op you’re still an NU student, you can do all the things you do while you’re in classes.</p>
<p>I know plenty of pharm students that play intramurals, though. But the ‘school’ team sports usually have really demanding schedules that can be hard for any person to complete, not just pharm students.</p>
<p>And I’d just like to point out that we had thousands of admitted students on campus during each of the welcome days and we did two or three colleges each day, whereas we only have two large lecture halls that come anywhere close to fitting enough people to hold a presentation. Why is a map a bad thing? You don’t know the campus. Students have to look at maps when they first get here to find their buildings, so it’s not like admitted students should be able to find their way around the whole campus. Registration was held in curry because it’s large, open, and very centralized among the parking lots and garages-- as well as having a hallway straight to blackman hall.</p>
<p>But if you got bad vibes from it, then that’s a good thing. Better you figure out you don’t like the campus (or whatever reason) now than after you send in your tuition money.</p>