Two week wrap-up, volunteering and Interviews

Hi everyone I've gotten a little behind, but I'll try to catch-up here. Last week we had an anesthesiologist schedule, but he had to cancel because he was sick, so hopefully we'll have him re-scheduled for sometime in the coming future. I know that comes as a surprise, but yes doctors can get sick. To improvise we chose to cover volunteer work we have done and what we hope to be involved with. Some up coming volunteer activities are Science Saturdays and continual work with the Gear-up program.

Science Saturdays: last Saturday of each month, help out with an activity for kids and families, 2-3 hours commitment (if you can only do it for an hour that would still be a big help).

Gear-up: Mondays at 3pm, I think we're doing once or twice a month, go to the school and help out with an after-school activity, we need like two students for each time if anyone is interested.

This week was Greg Nielson, our amazing career services mock interview guy. Seriously though Greg does an amazing job preparing pre-med students for their interviews. if you need to contact him his info is:

email: gnielsen@weber.edu

phone: 801-626-6393

He really does a great job explaining how you can prepare and succeed in your interview by being prepared, practicing, and by being yourself. He mentioned that being prepared allowed students to feel more comfortable and confident in an interview, but he also mentioned that you don't want to rehearse answers. He also mentioned that by knowing why you want to apply to a certain school makes it easier to explain to your interview why you want to go their particular school and ask relevant questions. Above all else he stressed being yourself and to be confident in an interview. He had hand-outs with really good advice, which unfortunately I can't post on this blog, because apparently technology isn't advanced enough (I don't understand the world sometimes), but I'll see if I can get them up some how.