Professional School, The First Year: What You Need to Know

Posted on August 29, 2007
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Professional School, The First Year: What You Need to Know


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  1. Emmanuel S Blimie on September 14th, 2007 9:08 pm

    What advice would you give someone like myself. I majored in public administration with excellent GP.I am planning to soon enroll in pharmacy school after completing the pre-requisites within two years. I should add that I’ve worked as a pharmacy tech for the past five years. I am also interested in Medical school. I am planning on taking the pre-requisites for pharmacy and medical school within the two years. After the pharmacy school about four years from 2008 I will work part-time and enrolled in Medical school. The pharmacy school would serve as a stepping stone to pay for medical school expenses. By the way, I am 22 as of 2007. Stupid me, I still cannot figure out why I did not just do the pharmacy school instead of the public administration, but again the decisions making had me against the wall. Anyway, I would be done with pharmacy school in 2012, which I am sure of. And after two years of graduation from Pharmacy, I would like to start medical school ASAP after meeting enrollment requirements. Well, as one can see, I am all over the place. I’ve lost my sense of direction the moment that I lost my dad and now it is even worse in deciding medical school. I really need someone experienced to help me figure out an effective decision.
    My dad was a doctor back home in Liberia, but he died in the civil war. In fact, my dad prophesized over me that I was going to become the world best doctor. Everywhere we went, Daddy told people that I was going to become a doctor. Mind you, at the time, I was just eight years old. Now a day, I hear Daddy’s voice taken effect inside me. Whenever I visit a hospital, I feel a strong sense of belonging. My spirit connects so well with the Doctors. I feel as though God is calling me to this profession. Last summer, while on a vacation in Northeast Philadelphia, I went to use the pulic bathroom. An older man, perhaps spanish, came in the bath room while I was exiting and told me “you are a doctor?” I pretended as though I never heard him, so I asked him for the second time, he looked me in the eyes and said in broken english,”you-a-doctor” and walked passed me in the door. I was stunned. Another instance, an older lady saw me and told me to be I think, “neuron surgeon” after she aked me if I was in college and I said yes.
    Few days ago, an old classmate I tutored at Collge saw me and asked me what I was pursuing, I told him Public Administration. He asked me don’t you work in the pharmacy, becasue he had seen me worked there before. He called, “E-man!” I said yes, he said, “be a Doctor” and I said O.K. I agreed to him without knowing that I said because I was in hurry. I strongly feel God wants me to go to medical school, but I want to know if the choice I got going is good enough. I have serious interest for medicine,precisely surgeon (type of surgeon will be decided upon enrolling).
    Due to limited parental and financial support, I could not enroll as a Pre-med student in college because I realized that everything about science was expensive including text books. The schalorship I recieved after high school was not adequate to cover expenses so I enrolled in Public administration which at the time to me was broad enough to fit anywhere.

  2. Hi on November 8th, 2007 10:00 pm

    I am not experienced but I just wanted to tell you that I loved reading your story ,and good luck with it all!

    What does your heart say? DO IT!

  3. Blessing on April 16th, 2008 9:59 pm

    Hi E-man,
    Go for what the spirit is telling you.
    I have been in the same situation as well,deciding what to.You are a young man and Liberia,Africa and the entier World needs us for its recovery.

  4. Lara on July 3rd, 2008 3:27 pm

    I am in the same exact position…almost exact. My dad passed away two years ago. From that point on, I have been torn between medicine and pharmacy. I wanted to do medicine before my dad died. It was his dream to see me become a doctor. But after he passed away, I didn’t know if medicine was right for me. the path seems so long and expensive. Financially, we’re not doing so well after my dad died. So medicine will be such a huge sacrifice for me and my family because it takes so long. So I switched over to pre-pharm. I worked in a pharmacy and hated it. Now i’m back to medicine and studying for the mcats. I need to do what my heart is telling me to. Good luck and follow your heart! Our fathers are watching over us!

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