You know you are a Medical Student when…

I found thins list in the FB page of one of my friends..It may seem  funny to some..But  as a medico I think these are mostly correct:))  I’ve edited a few points which I thought were not so applicable and added some of my own..

1. You wake up at 6am on a weekend although you don't have   work.

2. You feel there is something wrong if you don't have an exam coming up.

3. Can’t relax

4. Can wiz through a 500 page book in a day

5. Are expected to know everything.

6. You know the size of a RBC.

7. You are always tired.

8. Watch scrubs and laugh at yourself.

9. When you write more than a thousand words a day.

10. When you look at a person on the beach and the first thing you notice is their appendectomy scar.

11. If you thought you have a disease you are studying about.

12. Right before exams, you have a hard time remembering why you want to be a doctor

13. You contemplate anything between dropping out and suicide after you finish each exam, even before knowing the results.

14. Your eyesight has worsened by 10 pts or more in the last year

15. You find yourself always carrying a pen even if you're on a night out.

16. You don’t understand why summer vacation is only one month, although summer itself is three months. 

17. If people call you doctor.

18. If you can't remember what you ate they day before! but still manage to remember the blood results of every single patient you have.

19. Don't understand what people mean when they talk about the "hospital smell".

20. You count the days till your next more-than-two-days-weekend-break, which is at least 4 months away.

21. You are always thinking about the next job.

22. Are expected to be in two places at the same time.

23. Use the phrase "I am a doctor" to get away with something

24. You are more familiar with last names such as Netter, Moore, Grant, Guyton, Robbins, etc than the last names of your classmates

25.  Have no sense of time, place, or matter!

Back to Blogsville..!

I’m back at last!! Just finished my phase 1 life sucking examinations. I did the exams very badly..Anyway, I hope to scrape at least a  ‘pass’ in every module.

Thanks to everyone who visited my blog even in my absence..even though I wasn't  visiting your blogs and Thanks a lot for allll your comments :) . Will reply to all of them soon. I’ll be catching up with all your posts from now on..

Have a nice Week end everyone! :)

Negligence and insomnia..

I’ve been such a big procrastinator…so that now I’m struggling to finish my revision in time before the exams..Already feeling overworked and exhausted..Every time I find myself in such a situation, I resolve that I would never ever leave my works till the last minute…But again..alas..I neglect my resolution..postpone things….and struggle with work load in the last minute and suffer with insomnia. Nowadays my brain is so full of physiology and pathology…and its buzzing all the time.. so that I’ve become an insomniac. :(

Well anyway, I hadn’t been much around in blogs Ville for weeks now..That's because I moved to a new place  and it took so long for the telecom people to move my telephone line and ADSL. They couldn't find a loop nearby my house. By the time they managed to give me the ADSL connection, I was on the verge of getting drowned by my studies..

I haven't read any of your blogs lately…I’m so sorry friends..I’ll catch up with allll your posts soon.  As for now, I have to finish revising for my semi exams which are scheduled next week and for my phase1 exams which will begin in August 1st week.

Here is a nice video about procrastination. Its funny..but very true :)

Have a nice week end..!

And...Another semester swings in..!

Heyya everyone! It feels good to be back in blogsville after 2 weeks. As you all know, I was freaking out with my semester exams..Since exams ended last Thursday (12th), I'm bit relieved now...

I said 'bit' relieved . Coz there's no time to relax. New semester has already begun. They started off the lectures for the new semester on the very next day after the exams. Not a single day to celebrate the end of exams! *Sighs* According to our semester plan and schedules, we should have got about 5 days of freedom before we burry ourselves in the books once again. But NO! NOT a single day of relief. They have canceled the leave.

I've been looking forward for those holidays so much. For one thing, I wanted to relax a bit and get some good sleep. But most importantly, i was looking forward to go home. I haven't been there since last October and I so badly wanted to see my mom :(. I miss her so much. And, its my most beloved grandpa's B'day on Monday- 16th Feb. I wanted to be with him on 16th...

It was all those happy prospects which kept me going...But on the last day of our exams..just before we did our last module they put up the new semester schedule along with a notice which announced that all our holidays have been canceled.My spirits sank so low after seeing that notice so that I could hardly concentrate on my last paper..

They are planning to finish about 3 modules in 2 weeks and then give us a week leave to study those and...exams again!! *Is it like this in all medical schools??!!*

Well, there is no point worrying. I need to gear up for another semester...Time to get going !! :)

The time when I least like myself..

My semi exams are looming so close. Exams will start on 5th. They put up the exam schedule this Friday. I feel lost. I feel like as if I'm in the middle of nowhere. I haven't finished studying. I don't think I can finish revising all before the exams. On top of this, we have lectures until 4th..Not a single damn day of study leave. This time we are having all the Neuro modules and..ohhh..I don't know what I'm going to do.

This is the thing about med school I think.. you can never know everything. Maybe It's planned to prevent that. You can only hope you know enough of the right things and have the balls to go in and take the test anyway..Or maybe its just me feeling this way!

I've been bit confident about some modules ..But now when I tried to go through them quickly..I feel like I don't remember anything...My self esteem is very low now..Its going down with every time I try to remember something and I couldn't ...and It'll be lowest just before the exam..and that's the time I least like myself - those 24 hours preceding the exams!

I wont be around here much till my exams are over. So everyone please excuse me for not being regular with posts or comments on your blogs...I'll catch up with ya all soon after the exams.