Premed will require you to do about 200 hours of studying a week. Wait a minute, there are only 168 hours in a week.

Still, my analysis is not that far off, at least in principle. If you use all your time commuting (or partying, as some students do) then you will fail to learn your mathematics, chemistry and physics, and might as well not bother trying for medical school.

Your dad is on target here. Get living quarters close to school.

PS: A physics major at my college, long ago, applied to med school by presenting a notebook in which he had worked all the problems in Goldstein's Classical Mechanics. He sailed right in!

Advice wanted on transport in Glasgow?

I'm going to live in the Southside, Glasgow (probably Shawlands or Govanhill) and I'll probably have a job in or around the centre, so I'll need to take a train or a bus back and forth from Southside to centre like 4-6 days a week. Which is budget-friendlier, buses or trains? Should I look into travelcards? If yes, then what duration travelcard should I get? I'm going to be a full-time student, any discounts for that? Thanks.

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