Wow, I haven't updated since December... I guess its time to update on my boring med student life.
First half of biochem/metabolism/histo/embryology sucked. Second half wasn't so bad. I missed the High Pass cut-off by like 3 points so I wanted to strangle something after the class was over. Eh, P=MD afterall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X2bMzf7udA&NR=1
Micro/immunology is cool. The first half was nearly all immunology stuff with a little bit of bacteriology thrown in, and the immuno stuff got pretty confusing until I wrote out everything and drew diagrams of everything. That definitely helped. Umm right now its not too bad... We've had parasitology, mycology, epidemiology, and semi-toxicology. It sounds bad, but its really not.
My other class that's going on at the same time is STUPID. I hate it. The concept of it is nice, if we got to practice more. We're expected to be able to do a physical exam by now and we've only really practiced once or twice. So instead of depending on that lame-ass class, I've been going to the student-run clinic where I get to practice taking histories and doing physicals and coming up with my own differentials. Woohoo. Its fun.
We had a lecture about insurance and about all the ways we're not going to get paid and all the ways that everyone is going to screw us and how we'll get blamed for all of it. It kind of made us not want to go into medicine anymore. Its like, they want us to come to med school, but they don't tell us the reality of it until after its too late. Anyways, I don't want to think about it; its frustrating and it makes me sad.
Ummmm what else...
Wanna know my schedule for a normal day (meaning, a day not during exam week)
Wake up at 7
Class at 8 (or lab at 10 and I get to campus at 8 bc no parking after like 9)
End at 10 or 12 depending on the day
Lunch & Study on campus
Go home at like 4 or 5 -- but it depends on my mood that day. Like I came home at 1 today bc my back was hurting.
Workout about 1 hour
Shower
Decide if i'm hungry or not
Start studying again at around 6ish
Eat by 8
Study
Try not to fall asleep on top of my books and laptop
Bedtime at 11:30 & pass out cold
Mhmm sounds about right. I do that everyday. Unless its exam week, then all I do is study.
Actually, all I do IS study.
*sigh*
I need a spring break, but nope, we're going straight to the end of May.
Umm yea, that's everything going on with me.
Exam in 2 weeks - micro/immunology final!!
Then neuro starts - neuroscience & human behavior (I think that's what it stands for... I know its neuro and psych though)
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I forgot to mention that I have a jinn cockroach somewhere in my apartment :(
I saw it on Monday or Tuesday morning when I stumbled sleepily to the kitchen in the morning to make myself some breakfast. I turned on the lights, turned towards the counter, saw a giant cockroach like 2 or 3 inches long, SCREAMED, ran to get the roach spray, but when I came back, it disappeared. I wasted a good 20 minutes looking for it, and I was late for class that morning. WHERE DID IT GO??? I can't sleep peacefully knowing its still around somewhere. Agh, FML!
Until the next one then.
