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I just finished my first year at Hopkins back in May and remained on campus to take two courses (orgo 1 & 2) over the summer. I’m a neuroscience major on the pre-med track.Here’s my thoughts.Academically, I have never been so tested. High school was pretty easy for me, and I thought that ease would also be present at Hopkins. LOL. My confidence in my academic abilities has taken quite a hit, especially this summer with organic chemistry where I felt incompetent most days. Ultimately, despite the difficulty, I feel like the challenge has helped me to grow not only as a student but also as a person, the main reason I chose the school in the first place. The rigor has developed several traits within me, from perseverance to diligence.The social side of Hopkins, to me at least, is present but can be nonexistent honestly because most students are dealing with the academic rigor in addition to the clubs and research they participate in. Personally, I spend a lot of my free time exploring the city and trying new restaurants with friends.Research-wise, we are one of the best there is. Everyone is doing research. The faculty, the students, all of your friends. Everyone does it. It’s our culture. Most students do research at the medical campus, but there are also opportunities on our undergraduate campus, at the Applied Physics Lab, or even Peabody, our music conservatory. If you want to do research, there is no better place. The only con with research is that we have a lot of graduate students, so working directly with a PI of a lab is more rare than it is common.Ultimately, I’m very glad I chose Hopkins. I have been challenged like never before not only in my classes but also in my extracurriculars, like research. Being constantly tested has sparked immense growth within me.I have developed life-long relationships with a couple people already, relationships I wouldn't trade the world for.It’s incredibly easy to find research opportunities, even in areas that seem very niche.I have already been taught by experts in their respective fields, like Dr. Peter Agre, a Nobel Laureate who won the prize in 2003 for his work in chemistry.I have come to love the city of Baltimore and am fascinated by the inequality plaguing the city. I want to do my part to help, no matter how small.If you have any specific questions, comment below.—KH

A2A by User-10950515587983244537. Thanks for asking.My study routine on Sunday (with no exam prep)Before 9 a.m: Wake upEven I wake up at 7 I don't hit the books right away, but I atleast get my life in order enough to hit the books by 9. I create a to-do before 9.9:00 to 11:00 a.m: A big chunk of the day.For example if I take Aldehyde and ketone lesson as a chunk then I study its preparation, physical properties, chemical properties, named reactions if any etc.11:00 to 11:30 a.m: A kinda refreshing time.11:30 to 2:00 p.m:I always do math since I feel sleepy after lunch. So I do math which includes work for brain and hand :p2:00 to 2:30 p.m:Language exam prep. I used to have a language test on Monday or on Wednesdays. Sometimes this period is merged into previous math session.2:30 to 6:30 p.m:These 4 hours are my “get stuff done” time.This is what I do in ‘get stuff done’ timeMath- 45 bits in 45 minutes (my target)Some self notes (esp. Orgo-chem)Reviewing previous chapter self notesCompleting last week’s goals if there any.6:30 to 8:00 p.m:I just relax on bed and listen some songs or I watch some part of movie or a cricket match highlights.8:00 to 11:30 p.m:First priority:- Doing math to beat week's challenge.Second priority:- Reading my own notes(theory) or preparing self notes from NCERT.11:30 to 12:00 a.m ish:Making a weekly spread for next week (BuJo)12:00 to 12:30 or 1:00 ish a.m:Dairy entry and sleepMy study routine on weekdays (with exam prep)Poojitha Namini's answer to What is/was your daily routine as a college student?cheers!

I know a lot of premeds who recently went or are currently going through the year long orgo sequence.I myself have taken a semester of it, though it was sort of an easier mix of the two semester sequence instead of the “real deal”. I was never a premed myself, but I did toy with the idea when much younger.With that perspective, here is what I thinkPremeds in general are extremely GPA conscious since it's important for med school applications. That goes double for “premed courses”, like intro biology and, you guessed it, orgo. That means the course inherently has some intense pressure just by being a “premed course” in and of itselfIt commonly is graded on a curve, so you have to do better than your peers to get your A or B you need for the above.At least at my university, it seems the orgo professors for the full sequence are kind of horrible to learn from. They may not write fair exams, for example. And one, the most infamous one from what I hear, has literally never had a student get a 100 in his exams in I think decades of teaching — that is insane, as many college exams, even with low averages in the 60s, can still get one or two freaks who still get a 100.It is somewhat tough material. You can't memorize it that well and still expect to ace the test off that alone, but you still need some degree of memorizing stuff. Many premeds try too hard to memorize and forget that it can be simpler than they think at a deep level — if you can think through where negative and positive charges are, that is half the battle of figuring a reaction mechanism out won without memorizing, but that is missed by many premeds.I only got a B+ in my semester myself, but that was indeed with mostly running with just that one instinct. If I had studied as hard as premeds do for theirs and run with that instinct, though, I would probably have aced it.The mere fact that the textbook for it is so huge is scary in and of itself. You could use those books for self-defense, I swear…It honestly is also almost a cultural icon at this point to be a premed hating or being scared of orgo at college campuses, in my opinion. Or at least mine!