Let’s get ittt!

Gonna keep it real with you. You aren't able to type a paragraph without making obvious grammatical errors, and you're worried about what degree to get before applying to medical school. You do realize that medical school consists mostly of people who were likely at the top of their class in high school and college. Here's what it'll take for you to actually be an anesthesiologist:

  1. Get into a respectable college and maintain a >3.7 GPA
  2. Volunteer and get exposure to healthcare
  3. Do some sort of research
  4. Do better than most people on the MCAT
  5. Apply and get into medical school
  6. Survive the first two years of medical school which is at least 10x the amount of material you were ever responsible for in college and do well on an 8-hour exam that compares you against your peers and determines which residency programs you'd be competitive for
  7. Survive the last two years of medical school which puts you in a hospital as the lowest person on the totem pole on top of studying for more 8-hour board exams.
  8. Apply and match to an anesthesiology program which is another four years of residency
  9. Survive residency which means studying for board exams nearly every year on top of working 60-70 hours/week for four years, spending most of that time physically in the hospital taking care of other human beings who often depend on your knowledge and dedication to the field to make it through surgery safely.
  10. Kick the fucking cocaine habit.

The odds are stacked against you.

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