I noticed that most of the M1 and M2 schedules are 8-5 in class lectures

[NickNaylor]

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Yall need to stop going to class!

My day usually works like this:

9-10 wake up
10-11 drink coffee and surf the intarwebz
11-12 usually still surfing said intarwebz
12-3 lifting/get home shower and eat lunch
3-645 watching the lectures from the day in .5-.75% of the speed via webstream.
645-bed chill with my dogs and my fiance and usually watch something along the lines of: a movie/pawn stars/something on natgeo/disc/history/bio.

If this is friday fill in 345-X with trip to either the outdoor or indoor range and cleaning guns/brass/reloading.

If I have an exam within 2 weeks 645-945 would be studying, and the 11-12 intarwebz session would be replaced by studying.

I got mid 80s on pretty much all exams (did last year i havent had any this year)...and life is stress free and good. I have one lab a week and dont have to see other medical students unless I want to (outside of my pals of course.)

Your plan doesn't work with our anatomy course, where we have tests every two weeks or less and have required lab from 2-5.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Your plan doesn't work with our anatomy course, where we have tests every two weeks or less and have required lab from 2-5.

He's a second year student I think... I guess it's something to look forward to next year?

 

[willen101383]

You are a god.

lol. If you are willing to be socially isolated all week you can have a much more efficient lifestyle. No wasting time driving to school. No getting caught up talking to people around campus and wasting time. I do the stuff I want to do all week and cut out all the stuff I only sort of want to do, but is a huge waste of time. On the weekends I still go out and see all my friends. Its a good lifestyle IMO. I have my own private gym I have a membership to. I dont go on campus and stand around talking and wasting even more time talking to people in the gym. I lift hard and im out of there in a reasonable amt of time.

 

[addo]

Yall need to stop going to class!

My day usually works like this:

9-10 wake up
10-11 drink coffee and surf the intarwebz
11-12 usually still surfing said intarwebz
12-3 lifting/get home shower and eat lunch
3-645 watching the lectures from the day in .5-.75% of the speed via webstream.
645-bed chill with my dogs and my fiance and usually watch something along the lines of: a movie/pawn stars/something on natgeo/disc/history/bio.

If this is friday fill in 345-X with trip to either the outdoor or indoor range and cleaning guns/brass/reloading.

If I have an exam within 2 weeks 645-945 would be studying, and the 11-12 intarwebz session would be replaced by studying.

I got mid 80s on pretty much all exams (did last year i havent had any this year)...and life is stress free and good. I have one lab a week and dont have to see other medical students unless I want to (outside of my pals of course.)

thats pretty much my routine 👍

the thing about seeing other medical students as little as possible is huge because all they do is stress you out anyways. They're always telling you how far behind they are, how they studied for 12 hours yesterday, complaining about the amount of material.... blah blah blah 🙄

 

[girlofgrace7]

thats pretty much my routine 👍

the thing about seeing other medical students as little as possible is huge because all they do is stress you out anyways. They're always telling you how far behind they are, how they studied for 12 hours yesterday, complaining about the amount of material.... blah blah blah 🙄

This really varies according to the person and your classmates (supposedly my class was the first class not to have a rise in depression rates over the first year since we all go out and genuinely like each other). I have awesome classmates who hang out and go out a lot (to bars/clubs, game nights, events, etc.) and provide a great support system. I'd go crazy from boredom if I didn't go to school to hang out during the week. Also, the ones in my class who don't go to lectures are the ones who are miserable to be around because they isolate themselves and study alone at home all the time.

 

[mvenus929]

Does each consecutive year get easier in med school?

My friend in law school said the first year was hell but 2nd and 3rd were easy.

Ha ha ha... oh, you're serious?

First year is hard in terms of getting used to the volume of material you have to know. Once you get used to that, it's conceptually easy, and a lot of first years have a lot of free time outside of schoolwork.

Second year is hard in the sense that you are taking more difficult classes (at least, I think so), and you have Step 1 looming over your head.

Third year is hard in the sense that you're working a ton (my school only gives us 5 weeks of break once we start, and they're all clustered towards the end of the year, which means 9ish months without a break) and interacting with patients and are expected to have actually made progress in a relatively short timeframe.

Fourth year is an extended vacation.

 

[startswithb]

This really varies according to the person and your classmates (supposedly my class was the first class not to have a rise in depression rates over the first year since we all go out and genuinely like each other). I have awesome classmates who hang out and go out a lot (to bars/clubs, game nights, events, etc.) and provide a great support system. I'd go crazy from boredom if I didn't go to school to hang out during the week. Also, the ones in my class who don't go to lectures are the ones who are miserable to be around because they isolate themselves and study alone at home all the time.

This. I'd become extremely depressed if I never talked to anyone during the week.

And surfing the internet for 4 hours a day in place of going to school seems very odd and antisocial.

 

[Morsetlis]

This. I'd become extremely depressed if I never talked to anyone during the week.

And surfing the internet for 4 hours a day in place of going to school seems very odd and antisocial.

What, you expect our future teleradiopathologist to be social?

 

[swamprat]

First year for me a lot of classes started either 8 or 9 and ended 2 or 3 with an hour lunch built in there somewhere. Of course there were shorter days, days with labs built in that didn't take the full time, labs that I never went to and also longer days because of standardized patients or something. Second year now thus far is a lot more class. Class has been running pretty consistently 9-4 or 5 everyday with not as many labs and looking ahead it doesn't look like it gets much better. Fortunately I don't go to class and double speed lectures 😀

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

Yall need to stop going to class!

My day usually works like this:

9-10 wake up
10-11 drink coffee and surf the intarwebz
11-12 usually still surfing said intarwebz
12-3 lifting/get home shower and eat lunch
3-645 watching the lectures from the day in .5-.75% of the speed via webstream.
645-bed chill with my dogs and my fiance and usually watch something along the lines of: a movie/pawn stars/something on natgeo/disc/history/bio.

If this is friday fill in 345-X with trip to either the outdoor or indoor range and cleaning guns/brass/reloading.

If I have an exam within 2 weeks 645-945 would be studying, and the 11-12 intarwebz session would be replaced by studying.

I got mid 80s on pretty much all exams (did last year i havent had any this year)...and life is stress free and good. I have one lab a week and dont have to see other medical students unless I want to (outside of my pals of course.)

Yeah I'd have a lot more time too if I didn't have 3+ hour lab every day.

U HAVE GUNZ AND KNO HOW TO RELOAD? UR SO KEWL DEWD!

 

[link2swim06]

people go to class?

I will run through my schedule.

Not within 5 days of a test
Wake up 12-1pm
1 pm-2pm eat breakfast
2pm-3pm read sdn/cnn
3-5pm go swimming or biking or if i am feeling lazy watch TV
5pm eat another meal...preferably a meal i dont have to cook i.e. fast food
6pm do a little computer programming or surf the web some more
8pm-read notes for about 2 hours
10pm - back to surfing the web or go out with friends for drinks
2-4am go to sleep

Within 5 days of a test (which accounts for ~40% of the days in a month)
wake up at 10 am
study for 7-10 hours
workout
sleep
rinse and repeat

I havent made it to a class yet this year....actually i have no clue who the teachers even are, but i am still doing as well as i want.


Med school doesnt need to be stressful ....just focus when it counts.

 

[willen101383]

Yeah I'd have a lot more time too if I didn't have 3+ hour lab every day.

U HAVE GUNZ AND KNO HOW TO RELOAD? UR SO KEWL DEWD!

Yeah brah. I feel you on the labs. Youll make it through and next year will much better.

 

[willen101383]

people go to class?

I will run through my schedule.

Not within 5 days of a test
Wake up 12-1pm
1 pm-2pm eat breakfast
2pm-3pm read sdn/cnn
3-5pm go swimming or biking or if i am feeling lazy watch TV
5pm eat another meal...preferably a meal i dont have to cook i.e. fast food
6pm do a little computer programming or surf the web some more
8pm-read notes for about 2 hours
10pm - back to surfing the web or go out with friends for drinks
2-4am go to sleep

Within 5 days of a test (which accounts for ~40% of the days in a month)
wake up at 10 am
study for 7-10 hours
workout
sleep
rinse and repeat

I havent made it to a class yet this year....actually i have no clue who the teachers even are, but i am still doing as well as i want.


Med school doesnt need to be stressful ....just focus when it counts.

Extreme.......(ly) awesome. I am in GI right now and its 6 weeks with 1 test. So ive been forced to start studying to keep up right now in the end of week 3. Disrupting the schedule sadly.

 

[willen101383]

Your plan doesn't work with our anatomy course, where we have tests every two weeks or less and have required lab from 2-5.

I wasnt this extreme in anatomy due to labs/same test setup more or less. Throw in "stop at dunkin and pound down a #4 with a large iced coffee." Those labs are killer ugh hang in there man. Prob not that bad right now but wait until the 2nd half the course when the bodies are gettin nasty and everyone is getting burnt!

 

[NickNaylor]

I wasnt this extreme in anatomy due to labs/same test setup more or less. Throw in "stop at dunkin and pound down a #4 with a large iced coffee." Those labs are killer ugh hang in there man. Prob not that bad right now but wait until the 2nd half the course when the bodies are gettin nasty and everyone is getting burnt!

I'm hoping it'll get better after anatomy. I'm considering anatomy "the lost days" already.

🙁

 

[link2swim06]

Extreme.......(ly) awesome. I am in GI right now and its 6 weeks with 1 test. So ive been forced to start studying to keep up right now in the end of week 3. Disrupting the schedule sadly.

What type of guns do u shot? I am getting the CWP in 2 week.

 

[addo]

This really varies according to the person and your classmates (supposedly my class was the first class not to have a rise in depression rates over the first year since we all go out and genuinely like each other). I have awesome classmates who hang out and go out a lot (to bars/clubs, game nights, events, etc.) and provide a great support system. I'd go crazy from boredom if I didn't go to school to hang out during the week. Also, the ones in my class who don't go to lectures are the ones who are miserable to be around because they isolate themselves and study alone at home all the time.

I dont isolate from my class altogether, just the time that i have to study... I rather have my own schedule, because i learn better and more efficiently than going to class. I still go out with my classmates during the weekend and obviously see them in lab and stuff. I do noticed that i am less stressed out than they seem...but that may be due to a number of factors and I'm not going to attribute it to me not going to class.

the wake up at 8-9... do breakfast, work out, do what you need to do and start studying at 1 or 2 routine works for me, though. and if i have to be a bit antisocial to do it then whatever 🙄

 

[LawlasaurusRex]

Yeah.... anatomy dissection labs sure suck any free time I would have, plus it's eating at my study time too. You don't always finish the day's objectives within those 3 hour lab time, plus the need to spend time after lab to study whatever it was you were cutting at or scrapping at that day =(

I wonder what life would have been like with a prosection oriented anatomy course...

 

[paul411]

http://www.utmb.edu/cms_world/groups/external/@external/@026imo/documents/web_content/imo_095255.pdf

Class schedule for UTMB

I'm in love with that schedule. I mean, I seriously think it is impossible stay alive in in lecture from 8-5 THEN going home and doing 6-8 hrs of studying. Is there a living example of this?

I can affirm that this schedule is AWESOME! 👍

Plus, the morning lectures are optional (and recorded). So most days begin at 9AM or 10AM and end by noon.

 

[centrigeugle]

Is this just all massive trolling med student inside lolz?

Or do people seriously just...not go to class in med school?

In my undergrad classes, even the ones with posted notes, not going to class = epic failure in most cases.

 

[paul411]

Is this just all massive trolling med student inside lolz?

Or do people seriously just...not go to class in med school?

In my undergrad classes, even the ones with posted notes, not going to class = epic failure in most cases.

Some people seriously don't go to class in med school. A lot of schools now have recorded lectures you can access and playback at your own pace.

Undergrad lectures are even easier to skip because you can cram before the test and get away with it. I went to less than 10% of my undergrad lectures and did not epic fail.

 

[UnclePhil]

Is this just all massive trolling med student inside lolz?

Or do people seriously just...not go to class in med school?

In my undergrad classes, even the ones with posted notes, not going to class = epic failure in most cases.

You don't just get posted notes, you get posted lectures (ie. recorded audio synced with the powerpoint. It's basically a webcast that you can pause, rewind, speed up or slow down).

 

[NickNaylor]

Is this just all massive trolling med student inside lolz?

Or do people seriously just...not go to class in med school?

In my undergrad classes, even the ones with posted notes, not going to class = epic failure in most cases.

Either in the next anatomy unit or the one after I'm going to try the no class approach (exception being lab). You'd be surprised at how much time can get wasted just by you going to class. Plus lecture may or may not be that useful: I know I get very little out of lecture and would probably be better served skipping the morning courses and simply study the material so that I'm prepared for lab in the afternoon.

It also depends very much on the lecturer. Our main anatomy professor, while entertaining, doesn't provide much more explanation/information that isn't on the slides or available in the text. Unless you're a person that learns well from hearing the material, lecture really wouldn't be a good use of your time. Even then, lectures are recorded, so you can simply listen to the portions of the lecture you think might help.