<p>How did it go friends??
I ended up w/ a 3.00........C in Chem101 :(
I'm premed.....is Med School impossible????</p>
<p>Though I am still a senior in high school, numerous friends of mine are finishing up their first semesters as well in college, and have spent the year telling me interesting tips and anecdotes about their experiences. And the one thing they tell me over and over? Freshmen pre-med students manage to make themselves more miserable than anyone else on campus.</p>
<p>Are you seriously under the impression that a single grade in a single introductory course, designed to weed out the hundreds of students who have the slightest inkling that they want to be a doctor, will be the deciding factor in medical school admissions?</p>
<p>If you are that easily discouraged, then maybe you are not cut out to be a doctor. Consider this: If rounding out the first semester of your first year with an average GPA, at a school where every student entering was 'above-average' in high school, is enough to make you question your future, how do you plan on handling notoriously difficult courses like Organic Chemistry? Competition for internships to earn work experience? The deaths that you will invariably face while working presumed internships? </p>
<p>A doctor's job isn't easy, but that's why earning that MD isn't a walk in the park either. But if you are determined that you want your future to be in medicine, make your future in medicine.</p>
<p>What do they call the person who graduates with the lowest rank in Med School?</p>
<p>Doctor.</p>
<p>You'll be fine -- enjoy the holidays, find some extracurricular opportunities, beef up your resume in other ways. And maybe killing yourself with chemistry courses isn't the path to being a doctor for you. My mother's boss is world-renowned in public health circles, and it wasn't until after he had a Master's in History did he decide to go to Med School. At Yale.</p>
<p>3.276 for me. Barely enough for Dean's List with 17 hours taken my first semester.</p>
<p>I probably could have done a lot better but I was and am dealing with a personal crisis that started the weekend before exams.</p>
<p>I was still disappointed with the B- I got in Linguistics but can't really complain since I skipped too many classes to fully understand the homework.</p>
<p>Oh well, I have next semester to pull up my GPA.</p>
<p>Scuba......I was expecting some sort of reply like yours. Before I started my freshman year, I remember reading all these posts on how hard UNC is.I thought, it won't ever happen to me.I'll have the perfect GPA, I'll attend every class and try my best..its college,I'll have a fresh start!
But as college started things were not working the way I expected.There were so many things I did wrong...
Anyways,now I'm again hopeful about my next semester......I'm planning a fresh start!But what if it turns out to be another semester of mistakes/ end up w/ a C in Chem102....or a GPA even lower......
Still hopeful but afraid.....</p>
<p>I did pretty horribly actually, and on only 12 credits. I mean, I did get pretty sick for a month, but that's really no excuse.</p>
<p>Incoming freshmen, be warned, just because you had to do nothing to get As in high school does not mean you won't have to work your tail off in college.</p>
<p>I was happy with my first semester because I think I balanced everything well, even if that meant not getting the best grades possible. Here's what I'm thinking, though:</p>
<ol>
<li>Five cookie desserts at Lenoir is not healthy.</li>
<li>Going to bed regularly at 3:30 and taking naps throughout the week is a gross way to live.</li>
<li>I should eat breakfast. Breakfast is awesome.</li>
<li>I should run more - walking to and from classes (even though I lost ~10 lbs this semester) is not adequate exercise.</li>
<li>I should rekindle the bond I had with my Palm Pilot and schedule visits with the study abroad office and my profs' office hours.</li>
</ol>
<p>Even though I came out of the semester with a new roommate, I'm so happy with everything else at this campus. I think once I figure out how to go to bed on time, everything else may fall into place (or at least want to do so more easily).</p>
<p>Happy Holidays fellow Heelies!! :)</p>
<p>How do you know if you are on deans list? Is it on student central?</p>
<p>If you took at least 15 hours, you'll need a 3.2 GPA to make it on the Dean's List. If you took less than 15 hours (but at least 12) you'll need a 3.5. I've been looking for the Dean's List but have been unable to find it... My Student Central says I'm not on it (wrong), so I don't think it has been updated yet. Maybe they are still compiling it?? Haha.</p>
<p>OK Thanks! I was wondering that also because my gpa should be but student central said no. i agree wrong!</p>