I don’t deny it.. Yes, I am a first year medical student - repeater. But I guess of all the repeaters ( there are alot), I think I had the most valid excuse to fail, I was pregnant. I couldn’t look at the Embryology lecture slides coz i was scared that my baby would turn out to look like the ones they were showing, those with diseases and disorders. (Thank God he turned out to be the cutest angel!) And my nose couldn’t stand the smell of formaline so I hadn’t had any much time with my cadaver. Biochemistry became my siesta time while Physiology became my morning nap. It was like that way the whole year. And after I gave birth? Well, that was the worst. I had sleepless nights, not studying, but calming a crying baby or changing his diaper. I’m not blaming him though, I love him.
So anyway, here I am again, repeating my first year in medicine, My second year as a first year student. And now, I just want to share some tips on how to survive it as I have learned to do this year. (These arent mine though, I just borrowed them.) So here they go:
1. Figure out your learning style and figure it out fast. This one seems like it’d be common sense. But sometimes students find out that their way of studying isn’t working and instead of changing their approach, they go at it harder. If you thrive in a good group study, seek out some classmates and make a group. If not, then don’t be forced into one. However, even lone “study-ers” can benefit from the occasional discussion with classmates.
2. Seek help. Students who make it into medical school are used to being near, if not at, the top of their respective classes. It might be hard to ask for help. If you need help, put aside your pride and ask for it. Don’t wait until it’s too late to get help.
3. Make time to do other things. It’s really easy to get caught up with studying when the pressure starts piling up. But it’s important to remember to make time to do things outside of schoolwork. Volunteer to tutor high school students. Take up a new hobby. Continue an old hobby. Go to the gym. Or even go and volunteer at a free clinic so you can get patient interaction. Don’t let studying define who you are.
4. Study hard. Push yourself — at least through the first semester. Then, you can decide how much you can afford to pull back while still attaining acceptable (in your eyes) scores. It’s easier to “ease off the throttle” because you’re studying more than you need to, than to “floor the pedal” trying to catch up at the end of the school year.
5. Finally, visualize. Remember the reason you wanted to go into medicine. Don’t forget it. Then, picture yourself done with medical school and residency, and practicing medicine. Aim for that goal. Try not to let the stuff in between — the grueling hours of studying in medical school or running around in residency — get you down. They might be necessary parts of the journey, but they sure aren’t the destinations.
Gossip girl is back and the season premiere is just so great that the grin on my face won’t go away. I’m already wondering what will happen next week though I have already seen some spoilers. See, I am addicted. It’s just so sad that I have to wait for Tuesday every week.
and what do we have after Tuesdays? Wednesdays of course, the day of the Biochem exams. Now, that Gossip girl is back I can’t concentrate on studying… If I don’t watch it right away then I’d be thinking about what happened on the show but if I watch it, then I’d be thinking about what would happen next. Big Dillema.
“She swallows your time.
She makes you feel stupid.
She saps all desire to do anything.
She makes failure seem inevitable.”
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I took my Neuroscience exam 8hours ago, and i tell you that it was pretty hard. This is one department I don’t understand. They give you a book to read, and when the exam comes, the answers are not even there. Oh well, yeah, its my fault, I skipped that part coz the coverage was too looooooooong. But, they never said that it was going to cover one-half of the exam.Oh God! Only prayers can save me now. I’m down to my last shifting and I dont think I’ll survive.
The world’s smallest snake, averaging just 10cm (4 inches) and as thin as a spaghetti noodle, has been discovered on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The snake, found beneath a rock in a tiny fragment of threatened forest, is thought to be at the very limit of how small a snake can evolve to be.
Females produce only a single, massive egg - and the young hatch at half of their adult body weight.
The snake - named Leptotyphlops carlae - is the smallest of the 3,100 known snake species and was uncovered by Dr Blair Hedges, a biologist from Penn State University, US.
In total, Dr Hedges and his herpetologist wife found only two females.
its this time of the year again.. the first of the four exam weeks. cramming, samplex borrowing. argh! wish us luck. tomorrow is our biochemistry exam.
The day started out great. We had our case synthesis for Physiology about Gastroesophageal Relux Disease with esophagitis, had lunch and then went on to attend the Biochemistry lecture. We only had one lecture for the day that finished at 2pm. I was so excited to get home. At last.. an early dismissal.
But the weather did not cooperate with me. It rained hella hard. Flood filled España and the traffic was slow as hell. I had to cross about 2 benches just to get to the gate of UST and another one to get down the overpass. I had to pay 50 bucks for a pedicab ride to Legarda and got stuck in a 3 and a half hour ride home.
I swear to God, I will never pass by España when its raining.. I never expected it to be that way. It was a beyond horrying experience.
