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09 Tuesday Apr 2013
09 Tuesday Apr 2013
29 Monday Oct 2012
Posted Medical School
in1. What are you planning on specializing in?
I’m a first year, I don’t know. And quite frankly, I don’t care. Stop asking that. I should get that tattooed on my forehead.
2. Is it really that hard?
To this I say DIE HUMAN RACE DIE. Seriously? Seriously? Yes it’s that hard, actually it’s even harder. I don’t even know what ‘that’ refers to, maybe I should slap you with my 5 pound textbooks and then we’ll see if it’s ‘that’ hard. Idiot.
3. How many years do you have left?
Oh umm you know, FOREVER. Seriously, from day 1 I’ve been lectured about keeping up with updates and always learning new things. Yipeee, who wants to arrange a group suicide? None? I will have access to morphine and what not, still no?
4. *Insert Medical Question Related to Something I’m Clueless About*
*Blank Stare* I’m sorry what? I couldn’t hear you over this gabble I keep hearing coming out of your mouth about your eyes being too watery? And no, I don’t know a freaking doctor for that. Go away.
5. Your Parents must be so proud
This isn’t exactly a question but I thought it deserved to be mentioned. What does one say to that? Yes, they are? Ummm … I don’t care because I’m too busy cursing my life, we’ll talk when I’m graduated, done with my lovely internship, residency and well … meet me at my retirement party. Deal?
23 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted Medical School
inSo I got into Medical School …. Yay? It’s been almost a month since I started and I’m already feeling swamped and over worked, even though my longest day is 4 hours. The rest of my day is usually spent trying to revise what I took, reading my material and recovering from the deathly 6 am wake up I have to do most of the time. And when I don’t study, I’m usually staring at my books trying to. Oh .. did I mention my weekend is only 1 day? ONE DAY.
It started off interesting, with a whole new environment and meeting loads of new people, but eventually the pressure settled in. First two weeks I was in the seniors clinical (years 4 through 6), and I loved it there. The campus was a bit older than the one I’m in now, and since there was a hospital there were patients rolling in and out all the time, but I still prefer it over the pre-clinical campus. For starters, it was near the beach, and I love the beach here. It’s so cool and refreshing, and instead of having to take a taxi, I just took the tram, which reminds me of trains, which I love.
I’ve gotten to know a lot of the kids in my class, well, sort of anyway (we’re a little over 1200 students in Year One). It’s a whole different environment, all these kids you’re with, they’re just as smart as you, just as hard-working, and just as ambitious. It’s pretty strange knowing that no matter what these kids look like, they’re all after the same thing. And thanks to that the competition is suffocating, it’s almost impossible to NOT study since everybody does. The last quiz we had, everybody I know scored between 17 to 18 out of 18. We’re all a bunch of smartasses.
I’m rambling, it’s been so long since I’ve written anything, mostly because I barely have the time, but I’m hoping somehow I’ll manage to find the time soon enough. I did manage to finish 1984, but I was so tired the point of the ending didn’t really hit me, probably going to try it, soon enough.
Conclusion: Medicine is a pain in the ass, Grey’s Anatomy lied.