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I Passed!
I’m sure people are going to say “oh Josh, of course you passed!”, but the reality is that I barely passed. I got a 72% – you needed 70% to pass, and the class average was 82%. I could easily have been on the bad side of variance and failed. Oh, and oops, scored below [...]
I Think I Failed but Maybe it was Exactly What I Needed
The morning of Monday, November 9th, I gave up for the first time ever while studying for an exam. When I say give up, I mean that I knew I wasn’t completely ready for the exam, but was unable to stay up stay up all night long to make sure I was as close to [...]
Wow, has it really been a month…
…since I last wrote here? It honestly hasn’t felt like it. I’ll be honest, it’s not like I completely forgot about the blog. Well, I do sort of forget about it during the week with all the medical school stuff going on (it really feels like a full time job, and that actually sort of [...]
I’m Really Lucky
It seems like a pretty common occurrence for us to overestimate how unlucky we are and underestimate how lucky we actually are. If you think about it, “luck” evens out in the long term (unless you believe in some outside force that controls “luck”, in which case, I can’t change your mind). But if you [...]
Medical School Week 3 Reflection
I sit and type this on my brother’s 9 inch netbook because my Dell Inspiron 1420 seems to have basically crashed. It started off yesterday when I started seeing flashing zig zag lines and flashing blue and green screens, and it culminated in basically crashing or whatever you call it last night. I basically can’t [...]
Medical School Week 2 Reflection
Courses I realized I probably never actually explained how medical school, at least here at the University of Toronto, works in terms of courses/curriculum. For this first year, we are doing three courses at a time, with two of those courses running throughout the year while the third will change a few times during the [...]
And so Medical School Begins… Day 1
So yesterday I am wearing the T-shirt I got in my orientation week package. I am showing my dad the front, which says “Canada’s Next Top MD”. My dad responds by unbuttoning the front of his shirt and revealing the T-shirt he has underneath: “So You Think You Can MedSchool”. Oh, and then he says [...]
UofT Meds Orientation Week Day 1
Wow what a tease that title is. Came home super tired, and unable to type. Will probably end up doing some really long write up at the end of the week, unless I find some odd time during the week when I’m not completely exhausted.
Major Change Coming and Pre-Med School Update
I’m sorry for not having written so long, and for my writing being quite sporadic this summer. After writing a ridiculous amount during the three month strike last fall, you’d think that with another three months off I would be churning out a ton more content. As it turns out, I’ve admittedly been quite lazy [...]
Mastering the University of Toronto Medical School Essay – Part 5: Putting it All Together
Disclaimer: I will be a University of Toronto medical student starting this fall, but I am not on the admissions committee and never have been. All of the advice I will provide here is based on my own opinion and personal experience with the application process, so please take anything I say with a grain [...]
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