how often do med students party?

[ikillmcatz]

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[evilbooyaa]

Oh man you revived a 8 year old thread based on the OP. Congrats.

Yes med school is fun. Post exam weekends are usually a ****show at least one or both nights, especially in the pre-clinical years.

Depends on how often your exams are, but I usually went out (not necessarily partying, but at least hanging out with friends) once every weekend, unless it was the weekend before a major exam.

People often room with other students. However, the percentage who live by themselves or with someone outside of school is a lot higher than in undergrad.

In terms of going out, you'll be able to answer that once you get into medical school and see what the general flow is like.

 

[NRAI2001]

So med school is actually fun?

I barely partied in college. Every doc is giving me the same advice: go out an have a blast in when you are young or you'll be bitter when you start to get old and see that you missed out on life.

Do people tend to room with other med students? I'm assuming it's like college all over again (except this time I shall be going out as well) minus the frats? Do the MS1s go out together every weekend? How does it all work?

EDIT: This is awkward...I thought this was in the premed section...erm...answer only if you want to.

People definitely do go out and party a do other social stuff but probably less so than in most undergrads... If you didn't party or socialize in undergrad dont expect to suddenly have this new awesome life that's a complete 180 from college.. That being said if you didn't party or go out much definitely do so in med school as much as you can bc just like most of the doctors have told you it's gonna be one of the last chances in your life were you re relatively responsibility free and have enough time to go out with other students.. I m a 4th year med student and I from what I ve seen already becoming a doctor is a huge sacrifice when it comes to time and freedom.. If your doing it to all of a sudden have a social life that wasn't there in undergrad you re gonna be disappointed .. If you want that go to dental school you ll have a better lifestyle and comparable pay..

 

[ikillmcatz]

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[NRAI2001]

At my med school during basic science we partied like our liver were going out of style... But we studied super hard too .. Work hard play hard sorta deal

 

[music2doc]

Typical schedule for me is 2 nights out at bars/clubs and big parties and 2 nights out at smaller house parties... Except on test weeks, then it's just 1-2 nights out (including the BIG party night after the test is over).

 

[MediCynical]

MS1 - out 2-3 nights per week

MS2 - out 0-1 nights per week, wine/beer 1-3 nights per week

 

[BeastInfection]

Yes, of those who are inclined to go out/party, they do so quite a bit at my school. I don't think it's much different than if you were working a normal 9-5 job, 5 days/week, i.e., Sunday-Thursday night are pretty low key, with maybe one or two nights taking a couple hours to go to a friend's place for dinner, go out to eat and a few drinks nearby with some friends, or maybe going to a nearby bar on Thursdays (the remainder of the nights are spent in, doing whatever). Friday and Saturday, I usually go out both nights to clubs, parties, bar hopping, etc.

Biggest difference from normal people out in the work force just comes during the week/weekend before exams, when people are pretty buckled down and forced to study.

For the record, though, my school is P/F, no internal ranking, and exams are usually on a block schedule (i.e., we'll have exams for whatever classes we're taking clustered together, then will have 3 or more weeks with no tests to study for), so there's likely less pressure than at schools where you're graded or have an exam every other week. I'm an MS2, and I have no doubt that the "partying" will be pretty dead next year 🙁.

Also, to comment on the above post where someone said not to expect a 180 from undergrad, I strongly disagree. It's more about what you like to do. In undergrad, I became unfortunately obsessed with studying and had next to no social life. It wasn't because I didn't like to go out, but because pre-med neuroses took a pretty strong hold of me. I wasn't particularly happy and, by the time I got to med school, I promised myself I wouldn't do that again and that I'd enjoy myself--P/F and a new perspective really helped this.

 

[Abider]

Pssshhhhht. Whenever I feel like it.

 

[ikillmcatz]

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[peteB]

I didn't party at all in undergrad. Looking back on it, I really really wish I had.

 

[CassieBagley]

nothing

 

[evilbooyaa]

Thanks...I figured someone had to have asked this question before.

Do you just go out with your med school friends? Or do you have to know people (this might be impossible at first) outside of med school? Not sure if competitive med students would want to party together hahaha 🙂

For the most part I drank with medical school friends and whoever I wanted to continue hanging out with from my undergrad. By the end of undergrad, the overlap between the list of people who I wanted to hang out with and the list of people that were still in the same city as me was pretty small.

 

[BeastInfection]

Amen. I went out decently freshman and kind of sophomore years mainly because I was part of greek life. However, once I started research the summer after my freshman year, I was drawn into the whole neuroticism thing (I'm speaking of the actual dictionary definition of neuroticism...not the common use by premeds when they think they're super into premed stuff). The only thing I lacked was envy/jealously haha. Anyway so I stopped going out and going to formals and stuff. I did watch a movie (by myself) once a week or so to have some relaxation time, but always felt guilty doing so. This took a toll on my health as well. I'm pretty social and outgoing...just haven't been due to putting med school on a pedestal it never occupied. I was planning on taking like 5 years off to establish a sound non profit before a doc told me I don't need to save the world in order to get into med school. Brought me back to earth haha.

I just don't want to live the same unhealthy lifestyle I lived in undergrad and want to make the effort to be balanced. Balanced life = happy life = best life.🙂

The part in bold is really important, and it's great that you recognize that it's something that matters to you and that you're intent on changing it. I think that was the biggest thing for me. I took a couple years off after undergrad, and it really made me realize that academics are far from everything, and that it's way more important to do whatever makes you happy and enjoy yourself as much as possible--so long as you still do what you need to in order to still be successful in school. I went into med school with a much healthier perspective, focused on balance and not letting any one thing consume my life. The pre-med neuroses went away, and I'm far more happy and balanced as a result...I think.

I'm the exact opposite. I partied a lot in undergrad and enjoyed myself thoroughly to such an extent that my grades suffered. I weasled my way into med school and now that I am here I vowed myself never to let my grades slip on something that matters so much- medicine. So now that I'm in med school I go out maybe once per month, usually after exams. Sobriety is more conducive to studying. By default I am a very social person, but I'm forcing myself to stay away from the party scene for the duration of med school so long as it gets me to a good residency. I think the worst feeling I would ever experience would be matching into something I had to because I limited my options from poor grades/scores.

Ah, this is why P/F is so, so essential 😀. It sounds like we had similar experiences, but mine was just shifted to HS, where I was a lazy, do-nothing ****, then went to UG promising never to do that again, so I kind of swung from one extreme to the next.

 

[MilkmanAl]

I partied quite a lot in both undergrad and med school. Things really livened up in the second half of third year on for me. Most of 4th year was an intoxication opus. It was a whole lot of fun. 😀