Memory

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I'm currently an MS1, get As in all classes, and feel like when I look back at material from previous courses it is a foreign language.

I don't cram, get 8 hours of sleep a night and still feel like death after glancing back at notes from previous classes every once in a while.

Has anyone else experienced this and still done well on boards?

i feel the same way. however i don't get As in class. gunner.

The guns of the navarone for sure.

I think this is the norm. I would be suprised if many 1st or 2nd year students can automatically recall the majority of information without re-studying it. That is what board review books are for though..... (at least I hope it is that easy.....otherwise I'm screwed too, because med school IS a foreign language).

This is normal. Just wait until you start studying for boards, you'll feel like you're learning greek.

I don't feel this way really but I have to/need to study more than a lot of my classmates (80-90 hours/week). And I study the material over and over even if I feel comfortable with it already, read the textbooks, find clinical examples (i.e. people on Youtube sharing their story with a disease) and find ways to apply the material to myself/my life/others' lives. I have sacrificed my social life in many ways, stopped drinking and have been single since school started. So life isn't really that great right now but this is how I'm doing it