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Ugh, the pre-med grind is real but don’t let anyone tell you biochem is the be-all-end-all—your brain will melt before med school even starts idk

First time posting but biochem is the be-a, fight me 😩

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ngl, organic chem is the villain everyone loves to hate but somehow it’s the one that actually sticks with you later. like, why do i still remember the mechanism of aldol condensation when i can’t recall what i ate yesterday?

I get why people push bio and chem so hard, but what about the fact that med schools don’t actually care if you aced organic chemistry as long as you passed? I took it twice just to be safe, and honestly, the real grind was learning how to study efficiently—something no one ever mentions. Also, isn’t it wild how much weight they give to research experience when half the docs I’ve shadowed barely remember their undergrad stats class?

Oh man, I’ll never forget my first biochem exam—panicked, crammed, and still bombed it because I didn’t actually *get* why the Krebs cycle mattered beyond memorizing steps. Turns out, understanding the *why* behind the "what" is what stuck, not just the textbook blitz.

No but seriously though

the bar was on the floor and you still managed to trip

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First time posting but biochem or bust 🔥

yeah sure, take all the bio classes but good luck when YOU realize half of med school is just memorizing random drug side effects you’ll forget by next week

ok this is actually a really good point

this needs more upvotes

OP should pin this

once flunked histo, now thriving

THIS exactly

couldn't agree more

someone finally said it

Pre-calculus vs. organic chem? why? 💯

so if biochem is the most important, how exactly does that play out in clinical years? like, we're all just going to magically retain some..

First TIME posting but Biochem explains drug mechanisms. *(edited)*

oh man, I still remember the first time I had to draw the ETC from memory during a mock exam and my brain just blanked—turns out staring at flashcards for 3 hours doesn’t help when you’re exhausted at 2 AM!

Oh, the classic pre-med panic—"What if I don’t memorize every Krebs cycle intermediate by heart?" Spoiler: med schools care more about whether you can suffer through organic chemistry without losing your mind than whether you know the exact pH of lysosomes *(edited)*

so i remember taking a psych exam during my junior year and totally bombing it, only to walk out and find out my professor was a neurosurgeon who'd also gone through med school, and she just told me to focus on science and calc instead of psych.

Oh no, that’s rough—what ended up being the biggest hurdle for you in psych? was it the content or the exam format itself lmao

skill issue tbh

i completely disagree with the idea that organic chemistry is the most important subject for pre-med students - while it's true that med school curriculum focuses heavily on it, the key is understanding the foundational biochemistry principles that it's built upon, specifically mechanisms of enzyme kinetics and regulation.

i was all about biochem when I was pre-med, convinced that if I just master the Krebs cycle, I'd ace any exam, including the MCAT. But what about the countless hours I wasted in lab not actually getting hands-on experience like I thought I would?

ngl that krebs cycle grind got me too lmao

not me crying at this

this is literally me

wait so why do you think orgo gets so much hate then? like is it just the workload or is the content actually that brutal lmao *(edited)*