Are you ever going to miss being a student

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You guys ever going to miss being a student? Meaning like high school, college, and grad school/professional school and after your done with all your schooling. Life as a student vs life in the workforce.
 
Fuarky said:
You guys ever going to miss being a student? Meaning like high school, college, and grad school/professional school and after your done with all your schooling. Life as a student vs life in the workforce.
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You will always keep learning as a physician, that's a great part of it
 
I'm in my gap year as well and honestly I miss school. Hell, I miss the exams and studying for said exams. Real life blows, outside drinking beer everyday after work and playing video games on the weekends.
 
I feel it must be hard too for kids who play sports at a collegiate level too having too stop playing their sport after college if they don't go professionally or anything like that.
 
I'll miss the parties and all of my friends. I won't miss exams or being poor.

Edit: This is coming from someone who works 20hrs/week while in school if it matters.
 
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I work nights as a security guard and I bring my books with me to work. I don't miss school because these days I keep learning what I enjoy. I look forward to going to work. I sit in some industrial container yard all night with a stray cat and study in a guard shack. I feel sorry for the working class guys that show up Monday morning to start painting, welding, and metal grinding. Real work.

I won't miss school, but I enjoy it while it lasts. School is fun depending upon how free you are with finances while you are doing it.
Some people have to work while going to school, and to them, I can't imagine it being something that they will miss.
 
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Hell yes. Primarily, I will miss being in marching band. I have already cried over this, and I will probably do it again. Leaving behind something that has been an integral part of my college experience will be extremely difficult.
 
I must be in the minority here but I don't miss school at all. I'm so sick of forcing my eyes open to keep studying for exams at 3am, nervously checking my grades online, being pushed around by my school's administration because I'm a "student", owing nothing but plastic furniture because they are easy to move from place to place, etc etc etc. I won't be going back to school unless it's for a career I strongly desire, like medicine.
 
Fuarky said:
You guys ever going to miss being a student? Meaning like high school, college, and grad school/professional school and after your done with all your schooling. Life as a student vs life in the workforce.
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Being a student will be the most fun you will have in life. Trust me once you go to the real world, its a pretty scary place out there.

Being young is better than being rich.
 
I'm still in school, but I know I'm going to miss it when I'm out, no matter what I end up doing. Where else besides college can you find someone to discuss the finer points of music theory with? Not very many places. :whistle::headphone:🤔
 
Seth Joo said:
Being a student will be the most fun you will have in life. Trust me once you go to the real world, its a pretty scary place out there.

Being young is better than being rich.
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I'll do my best to remember this during my last semester
 
kopftonmd said:
I'm still in school, but I know I'm going to miss it when I'm out, no matter what I end up doing. Where else besides college can you find someone to discuss the finer points of music theory with? Not very many places. :whistle::headphone:🤔
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You will definitely find fellow music nerds in med school and beyond.
 
I miss my undergrad days because all the questions I had to answer then actually had answers. Now, everything is a lot more gray rather than black-and-white. Oh, and I miss the parties.
 
In my gap year too with a full time job. I really miss school, there was so much more time and socialization. Now its just routine bs and your only free time is the weekend. You never know how much the real world sucks until you leave school.
 
Fuarky said:
I feel it must be hard too for kids who play sports at a collegiate level too having too stop playing their sport after college if they don't go professionally or anything like that.
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You'd be surprised. After four years of college football having my fall weekends for the first time in 15 years is unbelievable. And considering I wake up with a stiff back and neck everyday and have awful knees my body is very happy it's over lol. I miss gamedays but certainly do not miss 25 hours a week of practice and meetings. Most of my other teammates feel the same way. My answer will probably change in a few years though.
 
TightLines22 said:
You'd be surprised. After four years of college football having my fall weekends for the first time in 15 years is unbelievable. And considering I wake up with a stiff back and neck everyday and have awful knees my body is very happy it's over lol. I miss gamedays but certainly do not miss 25 hours a week of practice and meetings. Most of my other teammates feel the same way. My answer will probably change in a few years though.
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people like you astound me..in a good way. Playing college football and studying pre-med is heck of a feat.
where did you play if you don't mind me asking.
 
I miss learning everyday but I definitely don't miss undergrad. I will say I am bored to tears and I am excited for school to start up again. I wonder if that will change after med school is finished! I am a stay at home parent in my "gap year" and my friends are finishing their degrees complaining while I am here drinking coffee at 1pm being bored to death in my pj's as my kid takes a nap. August cannot come soon enough lol.
 
No one's stopping me from learning. I read books all the time and pick up a new hobby every summer.
 
efle said:
I'm in my gap year

I miss college already
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My man, I could not agree more. I'M BORED OUT OF MY ****ING MIND... Weed helps though.

There is always gonna be that nostalgia factor.
 
I finished undergrad in 2012, took 2 years off and had a "real job". Then did a 2 year post bacc, now I have another "real job". I've always said, being a student is the best. If I could make being a student into a full time career, that's what I would pick.
 
absolutelynot said:
I'll miss the parties and all of my friends. I won't miss exams or being poor.

Edit: This is coming from someone who works 20hrs/week while in school if it matters.
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I don't work or play sports. I agree that I am going to miss the parties and social scene that schools offer. It's like when one is done with schooling the chances of feeling lonely can increase.
 
Fuarky said:
I don't work or play sports. I agree that I am going to miss the parties and social scene that schools offer. It's like when one is done with schooling the chances of feeling lonely can increase.
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Ideally, I'll get plugged into a good social scene whenever I'm a resident/attending. Work hard, play hard. It will just take some extra effort once school is done.
 
Strange Peanut said:
I'm in my gap year as well and honestly I miss school. Hell, I miss the exams and studying for said exams. Real life blows, outside drinking beer everyday after work and playing video games on the weekends.
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Completely agree.

I miss being at a point in my life where my main job is learning.
 
I will miss J.R. Murphy's, formals, and little responsibilities.
 
Goro said:
Doctors are expected to be life long learners!!
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But being a doctor is different from being a student in high school or college because you have to juggle all your clinical/surgery duties during each workday with studying.

I feel like high school and college is usually cushier than doctor/resident life. If anyone knows otherwise, seriously please comment because it would be great to have a light at the end of the tunnel haha (I'm also factoring in the time/effort it takes to be a real adult with a family/kids and other responsibilities - I know there are exceptions but most college/high school students don't have kids)
 
Strange Peanut said:
I'm in my gap year as well and honestly I miss school. Hell, I miss the exams and studying for said exams. Real life blows, outside drinking beer everyday after work and playing video games on the weekends.
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I hate waking up. Sometimes I dream that I'm in the middle of a really difficult test and I'm like f I should have studied harder. Then I wake up and realize that I don't actually have to take a test and it feels amazing. Bye college see you never.
 
It's not that I miss learning itself, because learning is always ongoing. I miss learning being my only responsibility. Hard to start studying after already having worked 16 hours.
 
Teaching MCAT prep this year, so it'll be interesting to be on the other side of things in regards to pre-med stuff. But I miss being a first year student and the sense of security in knowing where you'll be in the next few years.
 
I do miss med school like crazy... I think it was the best time of my life as I had so much spare time to study but now working full time is hard , but I guess the good part is that now Im earning some good money finally... so It pays off :angelic:🙄
 
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