Hi everyone,
I’m currently doing my final year of school in Victoria. I guess it’s good to know a little about me first. I’m the eldest of 5 siblings, an ex-swimmer and an aspiring medical student!
Why medicine?
Honestly, when I was younger I had dreams of doing a lot of things on the creative side: fashion designer, interior designer even a lawyer at one point. I don’t know why since I got a D in art so that was never going to happen. Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint just one defining moment where I decided that I wanted to do medicine. Honestly, I don’t have one. I love science, helping people and making a difference in the world. Also, I really want to make my parents super proud after they’ve given up so much for me. My dad especially has been working overseas for around 4 years now. I guess doing medicine would be my way of making all of that worth it for him. I’m not choosing to do medicine for my parents, I genuinely believe it’s the best career path for me. Being an older sister to 5 siblings makes you pretty protective. At one point my little sister had to go through a surgery on her heart. At the time, it was a really foreign thing for someone in the family to have anything wrong with them. I was yet to experience any deaths of grandparents or uncles or aunties. So it was a really scary thing for me. I remember I went to some appointments with her and the doctor was really nice and supportive and helped her recover quickly. I also remember thinking that I wanted to be the one to help my little sister get better. Soon after, one of my aunties was diagnosed with cancer and she passed away. It was the first time I saw my dad cry. My dad has 7 sisters and 4 of them have had cancer. Thankfully, no one else has passed but it’s really sad sitting back and seeing someone you love become really sick and not being able to do anything about it. For that reason I really want to go into family medicine or paediatrics, I want to be able to help families and children get better. The doctor who helped my sister didn’t only help her, he helped an entire family by making her healthy again and I can’t think of another career that’ll be as fulfilling as that.
What subjects are you doing?
• Chemistry
• Psychology
• Biology
• Methods
• English
What are you aiming for?
I don’t like to put numbers on things and jinx it. But of course I’m aiming for pretty high if I want to get into med. I think I would be truly happy with a 97 ATAR. I do not expect at all to get anywhere near a perfect score, I just want to try my best and hopefully get something high enough to get me into med. A 97 would be great though
. My strongest subjects are definitely biology and psych. Not only do I enjoy them but I also excel at them and I’m hoping to get 45+ for both. My weakest subject is definitely Methods! I honestly used to love maths but when I rolled into year 11 I got smacked in the face with some bad scores and ever since I’ve been struggling to get anything over 70%. I’m not too worried, I only want a 30 and I’ll try to make it up with doing well in my other subjects. English and chemistry are my middle subjects. I’m not sure why since I average similar to bio and psych in them but I do enjoy them a little less. There’s time in English where I want to fall asleep but I do enjoy writing. Chemistry can be super super interesting and super super dry at times so it’s a bit of a mixed subject for me, I still do enjoy it though. Aiming for a 40+ in Chem and English hopefully
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What is my backup option?
I think it’s important to think about this because I don’t want to put so much stress on me getting into med. I really want to and hopefully I do but the chance is so slim and I’ll be sure to work at it with everything I’ve got but I know sometimes things don’t work out. I’m going to apply all over Australia for undergrad med just to increase my chances and I’m also thinking about applying overseas. I’m hoping that at least one of the uni’s will take me. I really want to go to Monash though, the people there are really nice and I love the environment there. If for some reason the med gods decide not to get me into medicine, I want to get into Monash pharmacy/pharmaceutical science. Through that if I still want to I can go into medicine but pharmacy and pharmaceutical science are the next best thing to med for me, it would still be amazing to create medicines that could save people’s lives or at least numb their pain.
I guess that’s all for my intro, hopefully I’ll keep this updated throughout the year