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I'm sorry I couldn't really seem to get this answered in my thread about what my chances are.
What is lifestyle like in medical school? Is it really like 0-4 hours of sleep every night, no social life, etc? I'm a chemical engineer so I arguably am in one of the hardest undergraduate majors available, but I get 7 hours of sleep most nights with some good time management. I really can't handle getting 0-4 hours of sleep most nights, I would break/crack. I have tried, but really. I don't like pulling all nighters, I only did one last semester. I do everything within my power to avoid those situations by managing my time fiercely. My health isn't that great and if there's no reasonable way to finish medical school without living a healthy lifestyle with decent sleep, exercise, and food possible to time management then I seriously doubt I'd be able to do it. People make it sound like it's impossible to live a lifestyle that isn't just 19 hours studying/at the clinic all day. I don't know if I could do that lifestyle even if the science of medicine interests me so much. In that case I might want to do a graduate degree in biomedical engineering of sorts instead of going to medical school, since I could study the fascinating science of the body in a different way.
Thanks your help!
What is lifestyle like in medical school? Is it really like 0-4 hours of sleep every night, no social life, etc? I'm a chemical engineer so I arguably am in one of the hardest undergraduate majors available, but I get 7 hours of sleep most nights with some good time management. I really can't handle getting 0-4 hours of sleep most nights, I would break/crack. I have tried, but really. I don't like pulling all nighters, I only did one last semester. I do everything within my power to avoid those situations by managing my time fiercely. My health isn't that great and if there's no reasonable way to finish medical school without living a healthy lifestyle with decent sleep, exercise, and food possible to time management then I seriously doubt I'd be able to do it. People make it sound like it's impossible to live a lifestyle that isn't just 19 hours studying/at the clinic all day. I don't know if I could do that lifestyle even if the science of medicine interests me so much. In that case I might want to do a graduate degree in biomedical engineering of sorts instead of going to medical school, since I could study the fascinating science of the body in a different way.
Thanks your help!