DONE with First Year!!!!!!!!!

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I just had my neurosci final today. I can't believe it's over. I am so overjoyed right now, words cannot express the way that I feel! I just had to come on here and share the 😍 !!

Anyone else finished? If not, hang in there. There's a 10-week light at the end of (most of) our tunnels.

I don't know what to do with myself!!! It's too early to start drinking...

Good luck, other 2010s, and have an amazing summer! 👍

See you in August for Round 2!
 
Woot! Me, too! We finished on Friday, and it still hasn't sunk in yet.

Eh, it's not too early to drink now unless you're on the west coast. 😀
 
Yup, we finished up on Thursday. Got all our grades back already too, so that's a plus! It's gonna feel great saying we're MSII's now, you know? Like we're into it a bit now.
 
You are lucky! Congrats on finishing up! I have 6 1/2 weeks left and then 5 weeks of summer. But I knew we were year round when I started school.
 
Its never too early to start drinking. That is just something people say who lack dedication
 
cfdavid said:
Yup, we finished up on Thursday. Got all our grades back already too, so that's a plus! It's gonna feel great saying we're MSII's now, you know? Like we're into it a bit now.
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Congrats!

We finished on Friday as well, but we've only gotten grades for one class so far. I won't be able to fully relax until I know I passed biochem (you have to pass every exam in biochem to pass the class at GW).
 
tacrum43 said:
(you have to pass every exam in biochem to pass the class at GW).
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That's how things work for all of my classes. You must pass every exam to pass the course . . . makes things more stressful than I would like. But it does keep me motivated.
 
I finished my first year too....


But then we had more classes right after the last examination was over!!!🙁


They were like "Way to go guys! Good job" and then handed us more notes and papers.:laugh:
 
4 more days!!!! 😀

Then it's a whole week off before I tackle my research again, which makes me 🙁 and 🙂 .
 
Congrats, you're now second-lowest on the totem pole! 🙂

Seriously, good job - I remember how big a relief it was to FINALLY be done with first year.
 
We have NBME cumulative finals all week in Phys, Histo, and Biochem but they curve the heck out of them (as opposed to the all the other tests). I'm not studying and am, therefore, considering myself semi-finished. Now on to a summer of dissecting rats for research.🙁
 
Not done until May 31st...........🙁
 
June 15th here...only 4 exams left...cant wait!
 
Dakota said:
That's how things work for all of my classes. You must pass every exam to pass the course . . . makes things more stressful than I would like. But it does keep me motivated.
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Wow. I'm sorry. I'm glad GW doesn't do that for every class. I think I would implode from the stress.
 
i finished my first year last march, and i have really enjoyed my summer vacation. first, because i know that i really worked hard to obtain the grades that ive wanted, and second, because i really enjoyed learning. med school is fun when u love what you are doing. now, ive already visited some of the places that ive havent been before, and i went to another country too which is so great. sometimes i read the emergency book ive bought so i wont completely forget the necessary things i learned during 1st year. 2nd year starts on june13. pray for me! : ) and God bless to those who still have exams!
 
Dakota said:
That's how things work for all of my classes. You must pass every exam to pass the course . . . makes things more stressful than I would like. But it does keep me motivated.
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Ouch. That bites. I failed an exam this semester, but made a huge improvement since then, so I'm looking to high pass the class now. So if somebody fails one of the first exams, do they just drop out right there?
 
TheProwler said:
Ouch. That bites. I failed an exam this semester, but made a huge improvement since then, so I'm looking to high pass the class now. So if somebody fails one of the first exams, do they just drop out right there?
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The policies tend not to be written out, I believe they do this to give themselves more flexibility in dealing with students. If you are really close and otherwise do well, they will usually overlook it (say 65+). Otherwise you get to retake all, or part of the course over the summer. Basically this means retaking exams (I don't think they are the same exam). It can mess up summer plans however. I do not know how all of this shows up on a transcript.

If you fail the retake exam then you get to repeat the year (but they do not make you pay tuition again). This year there were 3 people in my class repeating the year (i.e. should have been class of 2009).
 
June 23... counting my days!
 
I'm waiting for June 20th, the day we'll have our last final exam and the last day of first year of med school. Hooray!
 
I'll be done around 3:00 this afternoon.... although the exam today doesn't count towards our score, so I've basically been done since 3:00 on Wednesday.
 
. . . June 29. And between then and now are 3 lecture exams, 1 path lab exam, 1 path oral exam, 1 micro exam, a 20+ page autopsy report, and a 7 page pharm essay.


*cries*

At least go have a beer for me. I'm sticking with the coffee for now.

EDIT: I see burnsie has already complained for us. Well done.
 
unnnhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

oh, mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn


four straight hours of a phys final is brutal
 
lol Prowler, I feel for you. They allocate 3 hours for our exams, and I've taken that full amount on a few of em, but never 4.....

That's probably the one area that took me by suprise in med school, being the length and depth of the exams. Then, we'll get a 1/2 day "study day" and take another exam the next day.... It's pretty intense, as I'm sure most would agree.
 
cfdavid said:
lol Prowler, I feel for you. They allocate 3 hours for our exams, and I've taken that full amount on a few of em, but never 4.....

That's probably the one area that took me by suprise in med school, being the length and depth of the exams. Then, we'll get a 1/2 day "study day" and take another exam the next day.... It's pretty intense, as I'm sure most would agree.
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Eh, try going to law school and taking 4+ hour all essay exams, or even worse -- a 24 hour take home exam where you know all your gunner classmates are going to spend every second of those 24 hours working on it, and you are graded on a curve. 😱 Seriously, the all multiple choice exams at my school are a breeze compared with that.
 
Doctor Bagel said:
Eh, try going to law school and taking 4+ hour all essay exams, or even worse -- a 24 hour take home exam where you know all your gunner classmates are going to spend every second of those 24 hours working on it, and you are graded on a curve. 😱 Seriously, the all multiple choice exams at my school are a breeze compared with that.
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Yeah, essay exams take the cake. I had an immunology course and it was 100% essay, which meant you had to know it cold. However, I've found that most of our exams, while multiple choice, still require you to know the material very well. I'm sure I'm not alone in that my school doesn't make a habbit out of putting down no brainer answers etc.
 
cfdavid said:
Yeah, essay exams take the cake. I had an immunology course and it was 100% essay, which meant you had to know it cold. However, I've found that most of our exams, while multiple choice, still require you to know the material very well. I'm sure I'm not alone in that my school doesn't make a habbit out of putting down no brainer answers etc.
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We usually have a mix of really basic and fairly challenging questions. The worst are the oddly worded ones where you go back and forth trying to figure out what the heck they're asking. I'm not saying medical exams are easy, but after law school, I don't dread 'em.
 
Doctor Bagel said:
Eh, try going to law school and taking 4+ hour all essay exams, or even worse -- a 24 hour take home exam where you know all your gunner classmates are going to spend every second of those 24 hours working on it, and you are graded on a curve. 😱 Seriously, the all multiple choice exams at my school are a breeze compared with that.
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🙄 🙄 🙄

I'm glad that you find medical school exams to be so simple. Some of us non-J.D. simpletons actually found multiple choice exams to be difficult. Are comments like yours really necessary? I was trying to start a thread celebrating our mutual accomplishments in completing a difficult first year, not a lecture on how easy-breezy the medical school exam format is in comparison to exams covering completely different subject matter. I will never understand why some people find it necessary to try to make themselves feel superior by posting comments like these.

Medical school exams are HARD. Congrats to all of those who have made it through exams, period, whether they be multiple choice, essay, or whatever format your school employs.
 
LadyWolverine said:
🙄 🙄 🙄

I'm glad that you find medical school exams to be so simple. Some of us non-J.D. simpletons actually found multiple choice exams to be difficult. Are comments like yours really necessary? I was trying to start a thread celebrating our mutual accomplishments in completing a difficult first year, not a lecture on how easy-breezy the medical school exam format is in comparison to exams covering completely different subject matter. I will never understand why some people find it necessary to try to make themselves feel superior by posting comments like these.

Medical school exams are HARD. Congrats to all of those who have made it through exams, period, whether they be multiple choice, essay, or whatever format your school employs.
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Wow, I didn't intend for my comment based on my personal experiences to be so offensive to you. I just don't have as much of the dread factor for medical school exams as I had for law school exams because it's less taxing for me to take a multiple choice exam than to create, write, edit, etc. several essays.

I'll concede that I misspoke when I said they were a "breeze" -- no, they're not a breeze, but again to me, they're easier than other things. I'm sorry that you feel like that's knocking your (and mine and the other posters') accomplishments. And my intent certainly wasn't to make myself feel superior. I'm sort of puzzled as to how it's bragging to say one test format is harder for me than another test format.
 
I'm going to back up Bagel on this one. She was just sharing her experience which I happen to agree with.

I don't have a J.D., but I spent plenty of time in graduate school before starting med school. At least with the MC exam, I can always narrow down to 2 options. In grad school, it was a series of oral exams in front of a committee or writing grant proposals. Definitely more stressful.

I have been adamant that med school MC exams require more study because more memorized detail is required to do well on them. On the other hand, M1/2 performance is evaluated relatively objectively, and you can always improve by simply spending more time memorizing. Essay exams, on the other hand, tend to require a higher level of application and assimilation which are perhaps better reflected on something like the step 2/3 licensing exams.
 
How about medical school exams where you have to submit an essay before it starts, you have a multiple choice section, and then you have a free response section.... THOSE suck.... which is what my life has been like for the past few months...blah...Oh, and we have them every 2 weeks along with a huge autopsy report/presentation and pharmacology paper and other random busy work...
 
We have three more weeks to go before I get to join you lucky people (last day is June 15). Not that I'm counting or anything. And at least we have no finals. 😀
 
Dookter said:
How about medical school exams where you have to submit an essay before it starts, you have a multiple choice section, and then you have a free response section.... THOSE suck.... which is what my life has been like for the past few months...blah...Oh, and we have them every 2 weeks along with a huge autopsy report/presentation and pharmacology paper and other random busy work...
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Add an oral exam to that, and you'd have the worst of all situations. As it is, it sounds pretty miserable. 👎
 
Doctor Bagel said:
Add an oral exam to that, and you'd have the worst of all situations. As it is, it sounds pretty miserable. 👎
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Add an oral exam to that = me quitting...ha ha ha.

On second thought, I do have one oral pathology gross organ final exam... 👎
 
I'm done too 😍😍😍😍
 
Congrats everybody! I'm trying to study 1st year stuff now for step 1 and I forgot how BORING it is!! The worst is behind you 🙂
 
Man...was i happy to finish 1st year or what? I know this was coming but the feeling after finishing the last exam was just amazing. It was a tough year and it felt really glad to get done with it.
 
Blanket said:
Man...was i happy to finish 1st year or what? I know this was coming but the feeling after finishing the last exam was just amazing. It was a tough year and it felt really glad to get done with it.
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I heard you got a B in Phys, Rishi! Just Kidding!
 
We have ten exams 😱, cumulative for the term (from Jan to end of May). First exam was on the 31st, Histo and Anat. Had an OSCE two days ago...

Now, we're into the good stuff....seven exams, in 3 days. It's gonna be absolute hell and I really wonder if I'll pass.

But, I am done on the 6th of June so I'm REALLY looking forward to that.

Ok, now back to studying 🙁
 
Finished last about a week ago, went out/celebrated nearly every night since then, but I'm already starting to get bored. I'm doing research, but I was going at such a high tempo for the last couple of weeks that I feel like I'm in withdrawal or something. Anybody else relate?
 
Tiger26 said:
Finished last about a week ago, went out/celebrated nearly every night since then, but I'm already starting to get bored. I'm doing research, but I was going at such a high tempo for the last couple of weeks that I feel like I'm in withdrawal or something. Anybody else relate?
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haha, that's kind of why I planned a trip right away. I'm sitting in a hostel in London right now (it probably looks like I'm posting at 3:45am based on the timestamps, and I've even got the £ key on my keyboard 😛). I still can't believe I haven't cracked a book in about 9 days at this point. I'm wondering when my school is going to hunt me down and inform me that I have an exam on Wednesday or something. 😛
 
i thought we had a raw deal with our finals until june 15th until i heard about the june 20/23rd people... yikes! i'm still pretty bitter though. a school year from aug 7th - june 15th pretty much blows
 
FenderHM said:
i thought we had a raw deal with our finals until june 15th until i heard about the june 20/23rd people... yikes! i'm still pretty bitter though. a school year from aug 7th - june 15th pretty much blows
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We go from the end of July until June 29th. Then we start again around July 23ish.... FUUUUUUN.
 
I finish tomorrow 😍
 
ME TOO!!!!

Just two more exams (and two more passes) and I'm done! *crossing fingers*
 
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