Pharmacy School Burnout?

[ldiot]

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My P3 year is well underway, and I feel like I have 0 motivation to study anymore. In my P1 year I was excited and motivated, putting in 3-4 hours every day and scoring in the top of the class consistently. Fast forward 2 years and I'm looking at the material for the first time the day before the exam, skimming through the lectures, and scoring average, sometimes below. In previous years, I gave myself the luxury of walking into a final exam knowing that I could score a 30% and still pass the class. More recently, I have been putting more pressure on myself, needing to score a 65-70% on finals to pass classes.

I have never failed a class, and in all honestly I am yet to even come close, but with less than a year of class left I'd like to finish strong and take some pressure off of myself. Any advice on how to get out of this rut/burnout mode? I guess I already know that the simple answer is to just study more, I guess I just wanted to vent and get some insight if anyone else has felt this way. It's not that I don't like pharmacy or regret my decision, but the excitement of it has long worn off and now it just feels like an endless grind.

 

[lord999]

You're from UF. It's pretty common among you lot especially. This used to be a "complain about UF" back in the day.

A couple of things that are commonsense:
1. Start slacking off the standard of a number and worry more about self-improvement, that you set your expectations around what you think you should know. Trust the veterans, UF will comfortably be above the minimum standard even now. Unless you're running for Rho Chi, then you need to ask yourself if you're willing to pay that price.

2. Find some social circle outside the University, or go hedonistic as a Gao Gata fan.

3. Oddly enough, I wouldn't necessary stop working, but you might want to fiddle with your schedule.


Not so commonsense:
4. If you are allowed to ditch classes, consider ditching anything from your Outcomes faculty: Winterstein, Hartzema, Normann, Park, etc. You pretty much couldn't fail that Society class trying. The exception is if you have Brushwood or Allen for Law during 3rd year, which if you are going to license in Fl, should be taken seriously.

5. Probably send something to @dgroulx or @owlegrad who are Gator alumni. They experienced the same conditions as you do now. And we were all burnt out at the end of our didactics (I proudly didn't show up to the majority of my classes the last term and still did ok).

6. I also wonder whether you are a day person by nature. If you are not, waking up early for lecture definitively sucks and I would go for a evening/night schedule. There are people where it makes a day and night difference on performance if they are working in their comfortable time.

 

[IDontHateYou]

My P3 year is well underway, and I feel like I have 0 motivation to study anymore. In my P1 year I was excited and motivated, putting in 3-4 hours every day and scoring in the top of the class consistently. Fast forward 2 years and I'm looking at the material for the first time the day before the exam, skimming through the lectures, and scoring average, sometimes below. In previous years, I gave myself the luxury of walking into a final exam knowing that I could score a 30% and still pass the class. More recently, I have been putting more pressure on myself, needing to score a 65-70% on finals to pass classes.

I have never failed a class, and in all honestly I am yet to even come close, but with less than a year of class left I'd like to finish strong and take some pressure off of myself. Any advice on how to get out of this rut/burnout mode? I guess I already know that the simple answer is to just study more, I guess I just wanted to vent and get some insight if anyone else has felt this way. It's not that I don't like pharmacy or regret my decision, but the excitement of it has long worn off and now it just feels like an endless grind.

Im a p3 at NOVA and I’m going on rotations in about a month and I feel the exact same way. I use to only need 25-40% just to pass classes on the final exam. You’re just burned out bro.... nothing wrong with you. Ask yourself a couple questions.... are you trying to do a residency? Do you need very high grades? If you are, then you need to get your crap together and try and duke it out for the residency. If youre like me and your planning to work in retail while you pursue other endeavors besides pharmacy then is stressing yourself out really worth it? I dont know.

I’m not trying ti be negative but I’m sort of over school already. I want to buy a house, get a job, and have somewhat of a ‘regular’ life like most of my friends

 

[Charcoales]

C's get degrees if u want to do retail, why not only study like 1-2 hr a day instead of 4+?

 

[DrVader]

My P3 year is well underway, and I feel like I have 0 motivation to study anymore. In my P1 year I was excited and motivated, putting in 3-4 hours every day and scoring in the top of the class consistently. Fast forward 2 years and I'm looking at the material for the first time the day before the exam, skimming through the lectures, and scoring average, sometimes below. In previous years, I gave myself the luxury of walking into a final exam knowing that I could score a 30% and still pass the class. More recently, I have been putting more pressure on myself, needing to score a 65-70% on finals to pass classes.

I have never failed a class, and in all honestly I am yet to even come close, but with less than a year of class left I'd like to finish strong and take some pressure off of myself. Any advice on how to get out of this rut/burnout mode? I guess I already know that the simple answer is to just study more, I guess I just wanted to vent and get some insight if anyone else has felt this way. It's not that I don't like pharmacy or regret my decision, but the excitement of it has long worn off and now it just feels like an endless grind.

Pharmacy is where passion goes to die.