Anxiety about starting school...

[UTHoustonAggie]

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Is anybody as nervous as I am about starting med school. I start up tomorrow and I've just been getting more and more nervous the closer it gets. All summer I have been pumping myself up about it but then all of a sudden I've started questioning myself over the past several days. I've always wanted a career in medicine, but with the beginning looming on the horizon, all sorts of questions have come to me. I hope this is at least slightly normal. Anyone else having worries???

 

[pocahontas]

when you start you'll meet tons of ppl and i'm sure they'll feel the same way. in a sense, just hearing them agree with you will alleviate the anxiety. hey, you're not in it alone. as soon as classes start, your attention will be diverted to your studies. don't worry, it's natural 🙂

 

[UTHoustonAggie]

I think that's all I really needed...just to hear that I'm not alone in these feelings. That makes me feel a little better. We'll see how things go over the next week or so. 😳

 

[TexasRose]

No worries. Many of us feel the same way. I was so nervous about starting 2 weeks ago. Now it feels like I've been doing this for months! (okay, maybe that's because of all the studying...) But seriously, you'll settle in. Everyone in your class is in the same shoes as you are.

Good luck! 😀

 

[lilmo]

jealous, jealous, jealous! just finished my first week of actual classes and dreading the start of week 2. its like having my hardest undergrad class........4 TIMES A DAY!!! i definitely need to develop efficient study strategies. however, i love school so far. lots of cool classmates who are just as confused and curious as me. good luck!

 

[efex101]

No kidding the volume is intense.

 

[SexyLexie729]

Good Luck!!!

 

[Mossjoh]

Its not about the volume, honestly. All you need to do is learn to handle the work, and you'll be fine. Everyone figures it out..just give it time. I was stressed my first week, but then once I realized it would be okay, it was.

Mossjoh

 

[thackl]

I'm scared 😱 Start tomorrow

 

[UTHoustonAggie]

Thank you everyone for your advice and encouragement. It really has helped alleviate some of the anxiety. However, it isn't so much the volume or the work itself that has me feeling this anxiety. My worries come from the fact that I am having doubts as to whether I really want to practice medicine. I had always thought that this was what I wanted to do, but it seems that I had blinded myself with the goal of getting into med school...as if that was all I was focusing on, and I didn't really stop and take the time to investigate whether or not I truely want to be a physician. I don't even want to entertain the possibility of withdrawing this early in the game, but I feel that I'm truely stuck. Financially, I am involved in this more deeply than any other investment in my life, and I don't know if I could bring myself to tell all of my family and friends that I am having second thoughts about this. I guess I'll just have to trudge through the next few weeks and see how things go. Maybe I'm just having some sort of 'buyer's remorse' or something along those lines... 🙁

 

[Dr.Bevo]

I felt the same way you did when I started last year. It's only natural to be a little stressed out when school starts and you're up against a lot of work. Think of all the time you spent getting in to school; there must be something about medicine that attracted you to it.

I ultimately decided that I owed it to myself to stick it out for at least a year to make sure I wasn't doing anything rash. I'm much happier now and while I'm not looking forward to all the work involved in 2nd year, I know I can handle it. On top of that, I'm much more comfortable in my choice of profession.

One of the hardest things about 1st year is that the classes are very disconnected from the clinical medicine you'll one day be practicing. It's a good idea to contact some the doctors in Hermann and go shadow and talk with doctors. Seeing and experiencing the stuff first hand is the best way to know if medicine is really for you or if you should maybe look into to doing something else.

I'll pm you

 

[Howard Roark]

good luck