I’m excited to be attending tonight’s new member orientation for UCSD’s PASS http://ucsdpass.org/. I plan to volunteer at the club table tomorrow after attending tonight’s orientation. I’m trying to join all the relevant associations on campus to gain experience and learn about internship and volunteer opportunities.

“The Pre-Medical Association of Students for Service (PASS) is a student organization dedicated to serving the local community, and providing our members with useful information regarding medicine and health related professions and preparation. Each year PASS members participate in over 75 service projects and complete over 3000 hours of community service. Located in beautiful San Diego, California, PASS is open to all University of California at San Diego (UCSD) undergraduate students.”

moving forward

Fortunately for me my class was actually this diverse

Human anatomy was the most genuinely interesting class I have taken since my honors philosophy sequence, which included Kant, Fichte, Hegel, etc..here’s to questioning geological aetiology! I have calculus and chemistry to look forward to in Spring. Business law and financial accounting are not required by my major (cognitive science w/spec in neuroscience @ UCSD) or pre-med, but I will be taking these courses during the Winter session preceeding the Spring quarter/semester. I write quarter/semester due to the fact that I will be taking upper division cogsci courses at UCSD (quarter system) while taking pre-med course work (physics,chem,physio) at Mesa College (semester system).

After taking a practice MCAT yesterday evening I realized just how weak my real world application comprehension of physics and chemistry was. It was quite entertaining that the first question used a cyclist as an example to infer on everything from energy potential to thermo-dynamics. I still have at minimum 2 years to complete my undergrad and review, but prior to taking the MCAT I will be attending Kaplan’s MCAT prep course.