My attitude post acceptance

[chiddler]

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Hello friends,

I was lucky enough to be accepted to AZCOM - I am starting in a few months. I found my acceptance around august or october. I remember my excitement, thinking that I couldn't wait for this year to end in order to begin the new academic year. My excitement is wearing off and i'm beginning to fear starting school very much.

1. There is an incredible discrepancy between IRL people telling me about how mind-blowingly time consuming med school is and then reading on these forums that it's not that bad. I don't know what to expect anymore.

2. I also found this to be terrifying. How the hell are so many physicians burned out?

so much uncertainty has me scared :c

So, my question for my fellow accepted applicants, is: how has your attitude changed over time since being accepted? If my reaction is common/normal, i'll feel a lot better 👍

 

[somekindof]

It is mind blowingly time consuming, but you will have free time once you learn how to study efficiently. I went out plenty of times after exams or whenever there wasn't an exam in the immediate future. You will have free time, just not nearly as much as you may be accustomed to. There will be times where the workload is just unbelievable to the point that you wonder how they expect anyone to do it, but you will get through it.

How do I know you can get through it? I just took my last exam of second year yesterday, so I somehow managed to survive!

 

[pdxhopeful]

It's natural - you've had the high of getting in, and now you've calmed down and had time for worries to sneak in. You're going to work hard, probably harder than you have before, but you'll find great classmates/friends to go through this process with and probably find your performance improves with some regular time away from the books. You're in - odds are very high you'll get through all this just fine. 🙂

 

[dntke1518]

It's natural - you've had the high of getting in, and now you've calmed down and had time for worries to sneak in. You're going to work hard, probably harder than you have before, but you'll find great classmates/friends to go through this process with and probably find your performance improves with some regular time away from the books. You're in - odds are very high you'll get through all this just fine. 🙂

+1 to the above posters. It is a lot of work and there will be many times that it seems overwhelming, but you will figure it out and it won't be as terrible as it seems when you start.

 

[chiddler]

It is mind blowingly time consuming, but you will have free time once you learn how to study efficiently. I went out plenty of times after exams or whenever there wasn't an exam in the immediate future. You will have free time, just not nearly as much as you may be accustomed to. There will be times where the workload is just unbelievable to the point that you wonder how they expect anyone to do it, but you will get through it.

How do I know you can get through it? I just took my last exam of second year yesterday, so I somehow managed to survive!

haha well done and thanks for the encouragement

 

[Jlaw]

Med school is time consuming in the way that a demanding job is time consuming. You're going to spend 10-12 hours a day working but if you manage your time well there is always room to go out on the weekends and relax. I'm not the best student but I've managed to do fairly well this year while still having plenty of free time. Its not going to be like college where you have tons of free time and then cram for a few days before exams, you've got to study every day and most weekends. I probably spend 12 hours every week day either in class or studying and 5-10 hours studying on non test weekends and more like 20 on a test weekend, however I find time to run daily, go to the gym, take martial arts classes, volunteer every weekend, and go out for dinner/drinks basically every weekend.

You'll be fine, just be disciplined with time management and if you want to have a social life make the time for it!

 

[chiddler]

It's natural - you've had the high of getting in, and now you've calmed down and had time for worries to sneak in. You're going to work hard, probably harder than you have before, but you'll find great classmates/friends to go through this process with and probably find your performance improves with some regular time away from the books. You're in - odds are very high you'll get through all this just fine. 🙂

+1 to the above posters. It is a lot of work and there will be many times that it seems overwhelming, but you will figure it out and it won't be as terrible as it seems when you start.

thank you's. i feel a bit of relief if my reaction is not extraordinary.

 

[Ost3oclast]

I went from unending bliss to constant stress about paying for my loans... Haha

P.S we'll be classmates!

 

[chiddler]

I went from unending bliss to constant stress about paying for my loans... Haha

P.S we'll be classmates!

Call it schadenfreude, but I feel a lot better about loans since my buddy will be in debt ~400k while me at a meager ~300k. it could always be worse, right? 😛

 

[chiddler]

Med school is time consuming in the way that a demanding job is time consuming. You're going to spend 10-12 hours a day working but if you manage your time well there is always room to go out on the weekends and relax. I'm not the best student but I've managed to do fairly well this year while still having plenty of free time. Its not going to be like college where you have tons of free time and then cram for a few days before exams, you've got to study every day and most weekends. I probably spend 12 hours every week day either in class or studying and 5-10 hours studying on non test weekends and more like 20 on a test weekend, however I find time to run daily, go to the gym, take martial arts classes, volunteer every weekend, and go out for dinner/drinks basically every weekend.

You'll be fine, just be disciplined with time management and if you want to have a social life make the time for it!

thanks for the advice, friend.

 

[Ost3oclast]

Call it schadenfreude, but I feel a lot better about loans since my buddy will be in debt ~400k while me at a meager ~300k. it could always be worse, right? 😛

Hahaha I like that. Yeah your right it could be horrible. We could be reapplying 🙁

 

[abolt18]

Seriously it felt great to get accepted! Now I'm starting to look at the total loans (and what their payoff amounts will be), and think about how much training and studying is in front of me and I just say 'what the heck am I getting myself into??????' Haha hopefully this fades after school starts!

 

[NurWollen]

Seriously it felt great to get accepted! Now I'm starting to look at the total loans (and what their payoff amounts will be), and think about how much training and studying is in front of me and I just say 'what the heck am I getting myself into??????' Haha hopefully this fades after school starts!

I know the feeling. Before getting in, it's hard to worry about anythingbut getting in. Only now have I had time to sit and look at the cost of it all-financially, temporally, etc. I'm still excited but it's definitely intimidating.