Average day in Pod school?

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Would you current pod students share your school, year and what your average day looks like?

Ex) 6a-8a:_______
9a-12a______
etc...

Very interested to see! Thanks!
 
Would you current pod students share your school, year and what your average day looks like?

Ex) 6a-8a:_______
9a-12a______
etc...

Very interested to see! Thanks!

It depends on the day, but here is my gameplan today for example:

7am: wake up, eat breakfast get ready.
8am-1😛od med 1
11-1 lunch/study
1-2 gross anatomy lecture
2-"5" gross anatomy lab.
5-6: review notes from previous classes in the day
6-7:30 see family.
7:30-12 study.
 
DMU's class schedule is never the same each week. I've uploaded two weeks of my schedule. Usually it's a safe bet we're in class from like 9-12. But some days we don't have any class, some days we have 8-12 and 1-4. It really depends.
 

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Early Morning: get up, get ready, eat, and do a little studying
Mid Morning: study the days material and listen to the classes that have been recorded or go to class and then study the days material
Lunch
Mid Afternoon: either go to labs (if I have them that day) and then continue studying the current days material
Evening: eat, have a responsible amount of personal time doing what I want
Night: Study the next days material


It's really an all day thing for me.

I'm a first year so take it with a grain of salt...
 
Up at 5:30 and study before class. Lunch around 12 and study between class. After final lecture around 3-4 I stay on campus for tutoring and more studying. Get back to my apartment around 7:30-8 and study until 9-930 and go to bed around 10. Repeat 5 days a week.
 
Your social life must be booming.
 
M-F I get up at either 7am or 8am, depending on what time class starts. Weekends I sleep in until 9:30am-10am. I don't study before class, I get most of my studying done either at night or on the weekends. With lecture in the morning, lab in the afternoon, and review sessions in the evening by the time I am done with the day and have a shower/dinner it's around 8pm. Thursday and Friday there are no review sessions so I'm able to get a little more studying done.

We have only had 2 exams so far but my method seems to be working alright.
 
The schedule will vary depending on what year you are. The general trend is that it gets harder and more time consuming.

Right now I have classes from 9-1, lunch 1-2, then class or lab from 2-4 or 6. A few times a week, class starts at 8am.

2nd year will have even earlier classes at 7am sometimes and very late nights due to Anatomy labs that are 4 hours in length.
 
Your social life must be booming.

Social life? What's that? Haha. 🙁. But I study hard during the week so that I can afford a day off during the weekend to hang out. Plus either a Friday or Saturday night if I feel like it. It is hard sometimes, but I have to remind myself that I'm not in professional school to have a great social life that I enjoyed before school started. Sacrifice is what it's about at this point in the game. That and finding a balance between studying/going out too much.
 
For 1st years at NYCPM, classes run 9am-4/5pm daily. Our classes are two hours each with a 10 minutes break at the end of every hour. Lunch from 1pm-2pm then back to classes. Mondays and Wednesdays are alternating lab days. After 5pm, I go home, watch tv, shower, and clear my head. Then back to studying. AAAAnddddd repeat the next day. woot woot.
 
Your day is entirely what you make it.

At DMU, lecture material is posted online, as well as MP3's/Videos of the actual presentations, so if you want to wake up whenever, study at your leisure, you're able to do so.

At the same time, if you want to get any sort of human contact from the people in your field, it would behoove you to attend classes (generally 4-5 hours/day depending on the course load).

This is also entirely dependent upon where you are in the program. As you progress, you'll need to attend more and more for interactive things, like biomechanics/anatomy and the like, but I basically attended no actual classes the entire first year. I'm not lazy, far from it, I just found it pointless to attend lectures that contained extremely dense material that I would be lost in about 10 minutes in, and found my time better spent going over the material at my own pace, making study materials as I went. No sense in seeing the same material twice if you didn't understand anything the first time.


By and large, during intensive points in the program, I'd spend 40-60 hours/week doing school related studying/reviewing, and had no problem making the grades. Some weeks require less, some more, but it's tough to generalize an "average" day when courses are in blocks and some are far easier than others.

You'll spend a lot more time studying than you did in undergrad (or the exact same amount but with lower grades). The running joke my first year was if we'd put in the effort required here in undergrad, we'd all have had a 4.0, easily.
 
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