# Did anyone else take the MCAT today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-take-the-mcat-today/171438 "2003-04-27T02:50:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-take-the-mcat-today/171438/1 "2003-04-27T02:50:18Z")
My brain’s beyond fried now. It’s not just me, right? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lapin\_de\_poussiere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@Lapin\_de\_poussiere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lapin_de_poussiere)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-take-the-mcat-today/171438/2 "2003-04-27T03:32:58Z")
Oh hell no. I took the French Content Knowledge PRAXIS test this morning. Stringing sentences together for the message board’s as coherent as it’s going to get. Which should make the 10-page paper that I’m writing for Monday all the more interesting. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-take-the-mcat-today/171438/3 "2003-04-27T05:22:19Z")
No, but I had to figure out how to treat a nasty case of lower extremity cellulitis all by myself. Working on Saturday is such a treat! I feel like I’m back in the wild west, giving people silver bullets to bite on and cleaning wounds with whiskey. ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-take-the-mcat-today/171438/4 "2003-04-27T05:39:42Z")
A friend of mine did. This is her second time as she has test anxiety. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-take-the-mcat-today/171438/5 "2003-04-27T06:59:49Z")
I took it on this day 11 years ago. I did really well too. I completely blew away all of my classmates, some of whom had been studying and preparing for over a year. And I hadn’t studied one bit. (It’s not the kind of test you _can_ study for.) Even more amazing, I only had about 3 hours of sleep the night before. I was up late at my girlfirend’s apartment drinking beer. Then I ran out of gas on the way home, so I walked back to gf’s apartment to get her truck and go to a gas station for a gallon of gas. Then I had to walk back to my car and drive home. I was so anxiety-ridden by the time I got home I couldn’t get to sleep without the help of about 6 Shiner Bock’s my mom had brought back from Texas the week before. I decided before finally going to sleep that I would re-take the exam at a later date, and this first attempt was merely a reconnaissance mission, just to get the feel of things. And I kicked ass! Oh yeah. IANAD. ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-take-the-mcat-today/171438/6 "2003-04-27T07:04:31Z")
My roommate took it a few years ago and got a 14 on the physics and a 13 on biology. He went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School.