Pretty much content with it straight away. I got a 67 on my first anatomy test. I know I could've worked a little harder to get in the 70s, and a lot harder to get in the 80s, but it didn't seem worth it to me. My school is H/P/F, so if I have to bust my ass and give up every moment of free time to get the H, I'll gladly take the P. Once I'm getting the P, I don't really care if it's a 89.9 or a 65.1. I just rationalize it by saying I could do better if I tried harder. It's easy.
But being near the top first 2 years makes prepping for boards so much easier. Even if you aren't in the top 10% or whatever, pushing yourself to learn everything will make board prep immensely easier. Slacking in the first year will only limit your choices later.
Depending on what details are emphasized in your professor's powerpoints.
The wrath of SDN is now upon you. Prepping for boards in first year - blasphemy!!!
I know this helps people sleep better at night, but there are people who are the very tip top of the class in MS-1/MS-2 and again in MS-3. MS-3 isn't sudden magic where everything flips and the MS-1/MS-2 dunces suddenly catapult to the top of the class.
Yes, but unless you're someone who can do both at the same time or have a "true" P/F grading system, as a student, you will be more likely to study and master things when a professor presents it in class or it is in his course pack as those things are necessary to ace course exams. That's just the way the incentives are set up in the system. It can be difficult to juggle studying the details necessary for doing well in a class AND studying information that is high yield for boards but aren't present anywhere in class materials.
What does student government have to do with grades?
Or you're just studying inefficiently or you're not used to long periods of studying.
Your classmates aren't clairvoyant. I'm just saying it isn't this huge flip to where people at the very tip-top after MS-2 are social dunces who couldn't get thru rounds and clinical presentations to save their life. Like everything in life, the truth is always somewhere in between 2 extremes. Why you listen to your classmates about you is beyond me.
No one on SDN has said that you will fail MS-3. You've twisted what people have said (again) 180 degrees and then interpreted it. It seems to be a consistent problem for you of taking meaning of things out of context.
I agree there's a huge gap of knowledge between an 89.9 and 65.1, assuming the professor actually teaches. Not everyone can have Linda Costanzo as their professor.
You mean between 1st quartile and 3rd quartile? Your school truly sucks in its grading scheme.
Sorry, I thought the sarcasm in my statement was obvious.
we're trying to be positive for ark, remember?!
Yea that used to bother me. Don't get me wrong, some classes I'm still getting in the high 80s, especially when the lecturers are good and/or I am interested in the material. I pulled my anatomy average up to low 70s and that was my lowest grade of M1. But I can't constantly stress about not knowing enough. Bottom line is this is a job, I am my number one priority, and everyone else can f*ck off if they don't like it.
When are you optimistic?
Is it H/P/F at your school?
It could be argued that being distressed at not being the best is a far less healthy mindset to have, as you're competing, as you said, with intellectual heavyweights and thus you might never be able to be at the top and will end up in a cycle of perpetual self-loathing.
Yea. But I started board prep already. If there's one thing I know it's how to figure out a standardized test and kill it.
I'm just saying he needs to change his outlook on things long-term.
Coffee yuck. Soda great!
I was wondering how you did it. Nearly all dentists say not to drink coffee bc of teeth staining.
