During my gap year, I had the privilege of working for an AmeriCorps organization called City Year. It is a one-year commitment to 1,700 hours of mentoring and tutoring inner-city kids. I was placed at South High School in a 9th-grade math classroom in Columbus, Ohio. It is difficult to describe entirely how this year […]
Motivations for Medicine
My decision to apply to medical school was motivated by a broad range of factors stemming from both my academic and extracurricular experiences. My work first as a mentor and later as program coordinator for STRIVE, a program for teens with sickle cell disease (SCD), offered me insight not only into the lived experiences of […]
Ah, To Be a Pre-Med Again
During M1 and the following summer, I spent a fair amount of time as an MCAT instructor for biology and physics. For those undergrads and/or med students looking for a side job, I highly recommend it if you enjoy teaching. Interacting with future physicians has been exciting, engaging, and intellectually stimulating. In addition, a fair […]
