About how many hours of free time do you have a week?
Please indicate
1) # of hours in the gym/week
2) # of hours "playing" on the weekend/week
I hear of how time consuming med school is (1st and 2nd yr). I just want to get a feel for it.
What about for the 3rd and 4th yrs? How much free time do you have per week as broken down as above?
I'm a First year...It's really not that bad until the week before exams
(as a head's up...we started with Anatomy, Biochemistry and a Cell Biology/Histology class with a little Physiology in it, so we have three classes...some schools just start with anatomy)...
I go to the gym every day for about 1-1.5 hours
I go out Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights until the week before exams...going out means I don't do any work from 5 or 6 until the next day..and sometimes not the next day cuz I'm too out of it
I still to go football games on Saturdays, and plan to go to basketball games when the season starts (aka tomorrow night)
I play IM sports
The key is to figure out if you need to go to class or not..I don't and it saves me time because I can sleep then make up the lectures on my own time in less time than the lecture would take.
Basically the only thing I miss is sleep...going out on weekends doesn't exactly help the catching up on sleep cause...Actually, I've found exam week to be the best time to catch up on sleep because we just have exams in the afternoons on Mon and Wed, and one exam on Friday morning...the rest of the time is for study and...sleep!!
Now..second year is supposed to be much harder, though many second years still go out, it may not be as often. Third and fourth years I almost never see...third years probably because they have rotations and many of them are not in Charlottesville, and fourth years probably have better things to do than hang out with first and second years...but they definitely have a lot of free time.