Dear Readers, For those of you who are hesitating and still planning to take your MCAT, let me say one thing: JUST DO IT! I haven’t been able to add any sciency postings mostly due to the fact that I was slaving and studying for the MCATs early mornings and late at night, then work [...]

This topic pops up a lot when talking about the nervous system. It is this action potential that allows us to have any sort of feelings in our senses! No kiddin’. So, I hope this will help it stick in your mind! Our neurons work by an all or nothing method. This means, the action [...]

I felt silly after realizing what I thought would be water soluble, wasn’t. So, I decided to look into finding a general rule to go by and lucky me, I found info on that as well as their exceptions. I’m not certain though if these are the ONLY exceptions, that’s always going to be hard [...]

We have previously discussed the structure of our bone macroscopically, and we have discussed how strong compact bones are compared to cartilage bones. However, we have yet to delve into why our bones are strong. Hence, this post is focused on further explaining the bone matrix, how bones are formed, and the concept of bone [...]

The overall function of the musculoskeletal system is simply to provided us with movements and structure of our form. In this post we will focus on the skeletal system covering the macroscopic and microscopic bone structure, bone formation, and bone remodeling. Related posts soon to come are: Microscopic Structure of the Skeletal System: What makes [...]

This article will focus on: what is tested in the MCAT, how are the questions asked, how is it scored?

The Beginning In search for the right profession for yourself is probably the hardest thing to do (for most people). I have been dilly-dandling for quite some time and finally decided that I’m just going to go through with taking the MCAT before giving up on medical school all together. I wanted this page to [...]