Hey Everyone! This blog was initially meant to be a diary of sorts, an account of my experiences as I step into professional graduate studies as a medical student and beyond. It has been almost a month since I joined medical college, and I tell you the amount of study I've done this past month is more than I've ever done in an entire year ever before!!! My, has it been hectic!! Today is the first day since I joined medical college that I've come online at all. Weekdays have been spent worrying about assignments and weekends preparing for tests...it seems like I've lived an age since the 3rd of January, 2011.
It feels like I'm in class prep again...what with daily homework, keeping copies for every subject and getting them corrected by teachers, and everyone treating 'first years' like babies. I guess I don't really mind all that, but the fact that everyone assumes we are too naive to follow simple instructions is just salt over injury!
Every teacher began her class by briefing us about the format she expected us to follow in our journals, which was necessary if she wants to correct our copies like kindergärtners; but to give painfully obvious details such as drawing margins and column widths was almost an insult to our intellect!! People approaching 20 should be expected to be able to decide these things on their own. To top it all, a month into the system and they still don't trust us to do it right X)) I could die with the shame XD
I've also grown fat, sitting on my gluteal region all day, studying. I tried the age old method of walking while cramming, but it didn't work out for me. I was too busy navigating to concentrate and understand, let alone cram, and I ended up tripping over my own feet... luckily I only fell on the soft mattress on the carpet in front :\ Plus all the worrying makes me so hungry! =P I ate so many chocolates for the nerves... I'm sure some of you will understand.
The best part about joining medical studies though, was getting a bone bag! At first I thought we'd get the whole skeleton and I'd be able to assemble it all by myself and hang it in my bedroom. But I'd also thought the bones would be plastic! We got real human bones--only lower limb for now, but its cool anyway!!
The weirdest part is that there's hardly anyone in my class who seems to be enjoying their graduate study in medicine. Like they're not doing it because they want to do it. Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore is an all-girls college. For most of them M.B.B.S. is another burden of life. Something they need to do to get marriage proposals from respectable and rich families. Only a few are likely to choose to pursue a career in medicine later on, which is a great pity. They have interest in the title but not in the work that comes with it, so they are not committed, and not likely to excel later in life. And yes, when I say I'm doing it only for the sake of the noble responsibility, no one believes it, or at best they think I'm immature to the reality of life.
Well, enough with the dark reflections for now. I really need to go do some biochemistry cramming for yet another test. But I've still got lots to share about my 'new class prep'. So 'later!
Update: Finally....I have passed a Biochemistry test...cuz it was all mcq's:P....Cheers!!! :-)
It feels like I'm in class prep again...what with daily homework, keeping copies for every subject and getting them corrected by teachers, and everyone treating 'first years' like babies. I guess I don't really mind all that, but the fact that everyone assumes we are too naive to follow simple instructions is just salt over injury!
Every teacher began her class by briefing us about the format she expected us to follow in our journals, which was necessary if she wants to correct our copies like kindergärtners; but to give painfully obvious details such as drawing margins and column widths was almost an insult to our intellect!! People approaching 20 should be expected to be able to decide these things on their own. To top it all, a month into the system and they still don't trust us to do it right X)) I could die with the shame XD
I've also grown fat, sitting on my gluteal region all day, studying. I tried the age old method of walking while cramming, but it didn't work out for me. I was too busy navigating to concentrate and understand, let alone cram, and I ended up tripping over my own feet... luckily I only fell on the soft mattress on the carpet in front :\ Plus all the worrying makes me so hungry! =P I ate so many chocolates for the nerves... I'm sure some of you will understand.
The best part about joining medical studies though, was getting a bone bag! At first I thought we'd get the whole skeleton and I'd be able to assemble it all by myself and hang it in my bedroom. But I'd also thought the bones would be plastic! We got real human bones--only lower limb for now, but its cool anyway!!
The weirdest part is that there's hardly anyone in my class who seems to be enjoying their graduate study in medicine. Like they're not doing it because they want to do it. Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore is an all-girls college. For most of them M.B.B.S. is another burden of life. Something they need to do to get marriage proposals from respectable and rich families. Only a few are likely to choose to pursue a career in medicine later on, which is a great pity. They have interest in the title but not in the work that comes with it, so they are not committed, and not likely to excel later in life. And yes, when I say I'm doing it only for the sake of the noble responsibility, no one believes it, or at best they think I'm immature to the reality of life.
Well, enough with the dark reflections for now. I really need to go do some biochemistry cramming for yet another test. But I've still got lots to share about my 'new class prep'. So 'later!
Update: Finally....I have passed a Biochemistry test...cuz it was all mcq's:P....Cheers!!! :-)
