10 Reasons Not To Quit Med School

Exams are such a rollercoaster of emotions - I can go from feeling confident to clueless to hysterical to angry in a matter of minutes. I'm currently in a mood downswing and decided to look up a list of reasons why I shouldn't quit med school. This was originally written back in September 2007 when I started med school and found I didn't like it...at all. Fortunately, I had a fateful conversation on a park bench with someone that is now one of my closest friends here, and we mutually resolved to stay in school and fight the good fight.

10 Reasons Not To Quit Med School

1. One acronym: OMSAS.* We survived it.
2. If we quit here and get into another school elsewhere, it could be worse than this.
3. We would have to get a job at a fast food joint to start re-paying our numerous loans.
4. We would have to move all our crap again.
5. We're here to become doctors, not to be med students.
6. We did manage to survive high school.**
7. We would wonder "what if I never dropped out of medical school?" for the rest of our lives.
8. What else would we do with our lives?
9. Writing the MCAT would not have been in vain.***
10. It may get better from here on it...and if not, it might be fun to be the Daria of our class and make sarcastic remarks and witty observations.****
    

*OMSAS is the website through which you apply to Ontario med schools
**Med school often bears a striking resemblance to high school
***The MCAT is a horrific standardized test, designed to weed out pre-med keeners
****In my humble opinion, one of the only decent things to come out of MTV was the hilarious cartoon Daria.