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To get to the point where I am today, I had to get through last semester. On top of school, work, volunteering and free time I also had the added pressure of my MCAT prep course. I lived on a very tight, precise schedule for 5 months but ultimately it ended up being all worth it. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I worked 8am to 5pm at Specialty Clinic of Austin. At work, I am personally in charge of all our prior authorizations, our email for controlled refills, locating and uploading our labs, giving shots and scheduling south new patients in addition to answering phones and helping check in and out. Mondays and Wednesdays after work I would race home just in time to start my MCAT prep course that lasted from 6-9pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays were strictly school …show more content…

I spent my Sundays either taking practice MCATs or prepping for the week. What I ended up boiling it all down to was putting school, SCOA and Princeton at the top of my to do list. The one thing that those three could not trump was family. The two times that I let myself leave Austin and my very defined schedule were for Easter and two weeks later when I found out my uncle has stage four cancer. Easter weekend I sat out at the baseball field with my laptop and a hotspot Saturday morning that way I wouldn’t have to miss my family reunion or my MCAT class. The weekend of my uncles benefit I spent every hour besides the three hours of my MCAT class helping serve BBQ plate to help offset the cost of his chemo treatments. While I can not say that I had any free time or fun last semester, I can say that it ended up being a successful 5 months. I was there for my family, I was there for my patients, I finished the semester with all A’s and I one-and-doned my MCAT. What that experience taught me is that I can handle anything that is thrown at me and that I am prepared for the very rigorous path that I hope to have ahead of

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