Detroit Mercy Alum and now Medical Student Marco Ciavaglia stopped by to recall his time as a Titan and to discuss life as a 1st year Medical Student.
You’re learning new things every single day and then your afternoons, you have to study but you have to be involved with extracurriculars…all of that you still have to write down for your CV cause when you go to apply for Residency, its a huge part. So having that time management skill, being able to publicly speak or present yourself to other people; those are all keys to being successful!
Marco had some wonderful memories about being a Detroit Mercy Titan, including spontaneously engaging in Detroit Mercy’s Decade Dash a few years ago!
“One of my fraternity brother and I decided the morning of, saying you want to go run in this and were like I guess so, we could and we missed the start…so we sprinted to try to catch up with all these people and by the time we did that, we were gasping! We were like we can’t do this anymore…then we walked.”
“We had a blast doing that!”
When asked what graduate school has been like during the pandemic, the Alum explains that he’s in medical school in a rural area, where there is not a lot to get into.
“I’m kind of in a rural area so you wouldn’t even know COVID was a thing; were like in a bubble.”
“Its a lot harder here to get distracted and to get things done.
Marco credits his time at Detroit Mercy in helping him to develop and succeed in Medical school. From his time being a Biology student to being an member of a Fraternity; he found that he was prepared not only academically but socially as well.
“Physiology with Grabowski overly prepared me for this. His class was harder than what were doing here. It makes this like a breeze right now cause I already know how to do these things, I learned it!
“So academically, everything at the time it seemed like man this sucks, I don’t like this, why is this so difficult? Now looking at it, its like wow, this is easy!”
“Greek life, it really pushes you to get involved, teach you time management skills, that’s an essential part now.”
Marco Ciavaglia graduated from Detroit Mercy in 2019 and is now a Medical Student at University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine of Osteopathic Medicine.
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