What to Buy Your Pre-Med Friend for the Holidays

The holidays are upon us, and with them the yearly dilemma of what to buy your loved ones for the holidays. You want a gift that shows your love but is also useful. Don’t worry, Flyby can help you out with that. Here are some gift ideas for the very stressed pre-med in your life, broken down by class year.

Freshman

1. Connect them to a successful life sciences consultant for mentoring. Bonus points if they’re at ClearView or Trinity.

2. An LSAT book.

3. Stock Trader’s Almanac 2025 (Almanac Investor Series)

Because let’s be honest, your friend is most likely going to drop pre-med and choose a different soul-crushing career to stress about. LS1A tends to have that effect on people.

Sophomore

1. A weighted blanket

2. A six-month subscription to a therapy service (so that it lasts all semester!)

3. A Squishmallow

Orgo and/or physics is crushing your friend’s soul. They would appreciate it if you could help return a little bit of joy to their lives.

Junior

1. A giant YouTube playlist of study motivation

2. Spotify or Apple Music subscription (for those who like music while studying)

3. Noise-canceling headphones

(FYI, your friend is supposed to be studying for the MCAT right now and is not, in fact, studying for the MCAT. Help them out, would you?)

Senior

1. A planner (for when the senioritis hits).

2. A fun keyboard mat that matches their aesthetic (for your pre-med friend who is typing a thesis for whatever reason)

3. A couple of nearby hotel rooms for graduation (because they definitely forgot to book a room for their families)

Your senior friend is mentally checked out and dreaming of their white coat ceremony and might need to be snapped back to reality. But hey, at least they made it!

Gap Year

1. A winning lottery ticket.

2. A time machine that can take your friend back to the ‘80’s to buy Apple stocks.

3. A check for $1 million.

Between gap year expenses, medical school application fees, and the looming specter of medical school debt, your friend on a gap year desperately needs money.

We hope this list was useful for you! You have our permission to copy and paste these items into Amazon — you don’t even need to credit us when the pre-med in your life is crying tears of joy. You’re welcome. ;)