Many years ago, from 1995 - 1997, during the last two years of medical school and my surgical internship, I was the official purveyor of MCAT review for Princeton University working with their Princeton University Health Professions Advising office delivering a one week MCAT Intensive Review session during Spring Break. The campus was absolutely empty and the class was held in an otherwise deadly quiet Jadwin Hall, the home of the Princeton Physics Department. Here are some pictures from that time. Many of the students went on to outstanding careers in medicine, some of whom I've kept in touch with.
During one of the breaks, I would sometimes wander the halls taking a look at the interesting history of science exhibits along the walls. The corridors were empty, except for one time when I came across a elderly man who likewise seemed to be wandering the halls. He was tall, somewhat disheveled, and looked at me with an unforgettable stare. And then, just like that, he shuffled away. I returned to the lecture but the experience stuck with me. It was, like the stare, unforgettable. A few years later, after watching the movie "A Beautiful Mind," I decided to look up the main character (those were the early days of Google) and realized that I recognized that man. I had seen him before and I remember exactly where it was. It was in Jadwin Hall during that rest break. It was John Nash.
Anyway: I would love to reconnect with some of those students. As you can see, we were, as Henry V once said, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ..." If you were pre-med at Princeton from 1995 - 1997 and attended the MCAT Intensive Review (or know someone who did) feel free to reach out and message me. It would be great to catch up after all these years.
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And students in Florida now a-partying
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their minds cheap whiles any speaks
That studied with us upon that Easter day.
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4yWell done Ogan Gurel MD