What I've Learned In Medschool

Last post…July 2011?

Wow, let’s get into it…

The 4th year is full of clinical classes, repeating 8 week exam intervals and studying. 

The 4th year is also more about wanting to fight than about studying. It’s about making yourself wake up to attend classes, forcing yourself to read the notes and lately it’s also about trying to ignore the fact that it’s still 2 years to go.

It’s hard to keep going if you pay attention to other people and their success. Most of my friends from high school are done studying by now. They work, earn money, have their own family or are in a masters program. 

I’ve been at this university for almost 5 years now and there are still two more to go. Is what I’m getting at the end really worth every second I’ve put into this? I’m turning 25 this year. This means i’ve spent 1/5 or 20% of my life at this place. As biology show’s me these 5 years should be the “prime years”. I’ve spent 20% of my life working on something that will only get me qualified for five more years of even more work.

It’s what I signed up for and I sure enjoy the moments I remember why I signed up for it.

This is not supposed to be a post about how you need to find those moments that keep you going. 

This is a post about how you start to question the choices you’ve made just because you or somebody puts that comparison in your head.

And stopping to question the purpose of your studies is even more important than knowing them while in question.

I simply had to accept that I can’t compare my friends life to mine.

Sure, I don’t really have anything except the 4 years of knowledge in my head, and even that I’m not sure of sometimes.

I might not have made the best out of my 5 years here and I sure made many mistakes over the past years. I don’t have a wife, kids, not even a stupid sheet of paper that sais “Half way done idiot, good job”. 

But how do you want to compare these things. They’ll never have a Dr. either….and they don’t care. And that is exactly the point!

Why should I?

For almost half a year nothing happend here except that one photo I took durring pathology class.

A lot did happen in that one semester. 

What i have learned this time is that, just like my last post…everything can get worse.

Semester 6 is over…its been just like the one before but more annoying. Everything was the same again. Same classes that already bored me durring the whole last semester.

It was better in a different way. I know why being a student, despite all the work you have to do, is still the time you will remember. I also know why I’ve struggled multiple times on the way, especialy in my first year.

Its all about balance.

I cant just study, and partying all the time seems just wrong since i failed a year. But combining daily studies (more or less effective in my case) and nightly bar visits turned out to be a great way to make me feel good and keep me productive.

Its the combination of hard work and a students party life that makes the time and work at a university still worth it despite all the struggle.

This session was just as hard as the one before and studying did actually feel worse just because of the boredom. But now its over.

My preclinical phase is over. I still cant believe that this was half the way. 

Cheers to that.

It’t time to finish this Semester.

With the session being over tomorrow I kinda feel like summarizing my thought on it  as it was the worst thing so far.

And if I say the worst then I also compare it to me failing first year, which was not one of my smartest moments but it still felt better (or lets say less bad).

I think the not giving a fuck back then made it easy.

“Ever semester gets easier because you know how to study after a while.”

Might be true. If you study Management or Social Science.

I personally don’t seem to understand how this semester was easy.

As for this session:

I was LIVING at the Amphitheater. Studied more than I ever did. 

Living healthy? Yeah….if the RedBull Vitamin overdose counts.

Lets just say there was not 1 day where I had less than a liter of energy drinks. There was not one day that I cooked proper food and ate at appropriate times.

Ordering Kebab after studying…sure…at 3AM just because my stomach wont let me sleep and I really need to get up somewhat early to continue this stupid cycle.

If you want to know everything about a healthy lifestyle study medicine. 

If you want to actually have a healthy life go and study something else. Anything else!

So…

Yes I did pass everything so far but my marks were not something you want to call glorious.

I guess thats what I get for not studying during the semester. And thats also something that HAS to change next semester. There is no way I can repeat this one more time. Theres also no way my kidney will survive another energy drink attack^^.

I already feel like this one week off wont be enough.

With this said. I’ll go to sleep, write my exam tomorrow (not caring if I pass or not) and sleep for about a week straight!

Goodbye Semester 5…You’ve been a bitch!

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A woodchuck would chuck as much as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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I also removed the annoying AdSense commercials and added the PayPal donation button… It’s just more honest if somebody likes this blog he donates money directly instead of me sneaking it in with Google ads.

To start off then…

Session is over in 3 days and I must say this was the hardest one so far. I spent tons of hours in the amphitheaters studying my ass off just to get “passing” marks in most of the exams.

My brain batteries are so low that at the moment I don’t even care if I pass the last exam or not. I just want it to be over!

With that said I’m going to sleep now!

Good Night

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I don’t think I have to explain what it does..

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