How much sleep do you get? How much do you study?

[blueclassring]

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For you pharmacy students, how much sleep do you get per night? Also, how many hours do you study a day? Can you work? 🙂

 

[pinkyrx]

It really all depends on how you are as a student. Some people can work and still get good grades while others do poorly if they try to work more than just a few hours.

 

[dgroulx]

For you pharmacy students, how much sleep do you get per night? Also, how many hours do you study a day? Can you work? 🙂

I got a full 8 hours during my first 2 years and averaged 6 hours during year 3. You can work if you don't spend 3 hours a day commuting to/from school.

I chose not to work. I'm going to have a lifetime of working in a pharmacy. This is my time to not have to work.

 

[Glycerin]

I sleep on average 6 hours per night. I work anywhere from 7-15 hours a week. I study on average 2 hours a day, always more the day before a test. However, last semester we had a minimum of 2 tests per week and a maximum of 4 or 5/week, not including exam week, so basically I study A LOT.

 

[Requiem]

For you pharmacy students, how much sleep do you get per night? Also, how many hours do you study a day? Can you work? 🙂

During the average weekday I would sleep from 12/12:30 until 7:30 A.M, as we often had classes starting at 8:30 a.m. That's roughly 7-8hrs of sleep a week, but I still would find that 8:30 am classes really destroy you, every person in our class was getting seriously fatigued by the end of it.

I don't really "study" daily, I just don't simply feel the urge to go home and start studying for a test that might be over a month away. With 7 courses, I was often way too busy with labs, lab write-ups, assignments and other homework problems to do anything resembling "studying ahead". I, and many of my classmates, could only do things as they came.

Working for me was simply out of the question, I think only a couple of students actually worked - they were people who had some course exemptions as they had degrees prior to getting accepted, so they had more spare time. I'm pretty sure by year 2 no one will be able to really work above a shift a week if you intend on surviving the workload.

Again, this is a Canadian school and our programs are different from yours - it seems to be a more rigorous courseload as our 5 year B.Sc is essentially equivalent to your 6 year PharmD, so take that into consideration. Most people in the U.S don't have to do 7 courses per semester.

Anything else, just ask.

 

[crossurfingers]

I'm a PS-2 and sleep really depends on what I have going on. At the beginning of the quarter (first 2 weeks) when we have nothing but lectures going on, I average maybe 7 hrs of sleep. Towards the middle of the quarter it might go down to 6, and if it's a really busy week exam-wise (say 2 exams that week) I could go as low as 3-4 hrs sleep the night before. Horrible, I know, but that's the only way that I finish everything that needs to be done. I also work about 9-16 hrs/week so that takes up a lot of my time too- it's not all just procrastination! I'm also the type of person that can't study ahead too much- I usually just end up not remembering things and have to invasively go over it again a second time. I try to make up little study schedules but I never stick to it- I mostly end up cramming for an exam 2-3 days before.

 

[spacecowgirl]

I try to get at least 8 hours because I can seriously tell my brain function decreases when I don't consistently get a full night's sleep. I gauge this by my performance on Text Twist, not by my test scores 😀 I worked 20 hours/week my first semester of my P1 year but quickly changed that to 24 hours/pay period instead. I don't have a choice - I have to work. But, it's very doable, IMO and I'm a world-class procrastinator. I study by priority and tend not to study far ahead of time.

I found that not skipping class really helps you decrease the amount of study time you need 😉 I know that probably sounds simplistic, but it's a lot easier to study something when it's the second time you've seen it. I've also made peace with making Bs and found that stressing really hasn't helped me do better anyway. I am Rho Chi so I figure I'm doing something right.

Oh - and I think a big key - I don't have cable TV. I would probably be doing even better if I didn't have cable internet.

 

[lharms]

I'm in a 3 year program and I study about 40-60 hrs per week. Sleep well an option comes to about 6 hours a night.

 

[ilovepharmacy]

It really varies person to person... I know people who can function on no slep at all and others who will bomb exams if they don't get enough sleep. If you average out the whole semester, I'd say I sleep about 5 hours/night. And then I take sporadic naps in class and throughout the day. I work once a week only 🙂

 

[blueclassring]

40-60 hours per week? wow, that puts you at about 8 hours/day.. please don't tell me it's true.

 

[alwaystired]

40-60 hours per week? wow, that puts you at about 8 hours/day.. please don't tell me it's true.

I believe it. Not that the previous poster is compulsive, but I know someone in my class (I think they have OCD) and I am almost certain that they study almost every waking hour they aren't at school. (Not kidding)

 

[ultracet]

no matter how much i sleep... its never enough...

 

[bananaface]

I get about 5.5- 7.5 hours/night. I need about 9 hours a night to feel well.