Pre-Med typical day

[TheBateman]

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There are a few threads pertaining to what the typical day for a med student looks like so I thought it'd be interesting to see what a pre-med's typical day/week looks like.

Discuss.

 

[footballrules]

There are a few threads pertaining to what the typical day for a med student looks like so I thought it'd be interesting to see what a pre-med's typical day/week looks like.

Discuss.

There isn't a typical day/week for a pre-med student. Every student at the undergraduate level has different stuff going on.

You can say a medical student has a typical day/week because the structure of classes and social events is similar to high school. Having said that, a medical student doesn't need to fall into the trap of the typical medical student routine.

 

[TheBateman]

There isn't a typical day/week for a pre-med student. Every student at the undergraduate level has different stuff going on.

You can say a medical student has a typical day/week because the structure of classes and social events is similar to high school. Having said that, a medical student doesn't need to fall into the trap of the typical medical student routine.

Yes but you know what I mean...

 

[gabem480]

Monday
5 A.M. Wake Up
5:05 A.M. Go to sleep
8AM Wake Up
9:45-10:35- Organic Chem 1 Lecture
10:50-11:40- Physics 1 Lecture
11:40-Nextday Sleep
Tuesday
7:30-8:45- Transborder Studies
9:00-10:15- Government Class
11:30-1:20- Org Chm Lab
2:15-4:00 Physics Lab
4:00-go home
Wednesday
5 A.M. Wake Up
5:05 A.M. Go to sleep
8AM Wake Up
9:45-10:35- Organic Chem 1 Lecture
10:50-11:40- Physics 1 Lecture
11:40-Nextday Sleep
Thursday
7:30-8:45- Transborder Studies
9:00-10:15- Government Class
Friday
5 A.M. Wake Up
5:05 A.M. Go to sleep
8AM Wake Up
9:45-10:35- Organic Chem 1 Lecture
10:50-11:40- Physics 1 Lecture
11:40-Nextday Sleep

 

[TheBateman]

Okay...lol

perhaps I should have been more specific. I was just trying to figure out how you guys balance your schedules to fit in extracurricular activities, work, schoolwork, etc because I felt like I was overloading myself.

 

[armybound]

don't do too much, I guess.

always in moderation

 

[footballrules]

Okay...lol

perhaps I should have been more specific. I was just trying to figure out how you guys balance your schedules to fit in extracurricular activities, work, schoolwork, etc because I felt like I was overloading myself.

Now that is a better question. How about you post your schedule and we can give some feedback.

For me, I worked early in the morning before classes, attended classes during the day and spent time studying between classes (packed my own lunch to save time and money...usually eat with the wife), and worked later afternoon...did volunteer work during days I didn't have class or had open time. I didn't do all of my ec's at once....had to spread them out because of conflicting schedules.

Basically, when I wasn't working or had classes, I spent time studying, spent time with my wife, and did some ec's.

If you have hard classes during a semester, cut back on some other stuff so you can spend more time with the classes.

 

[Depakote]

I awake every morning at 3:30 am to Hektor, my premedical advisor beating me with a rusty stretch of barbed wire.

By 4am I arrive in the library to study for the MCAT, Hektor has prepared my usual breakfast shake of coffee, adderall and cow brain (to stimulate neuron growth).

I skip my 8-11am non-science classes, a letter from Hektor explaining I am pre-med is sufficient to grant me an "A", and go to the research lab. There I continued to develop my combination AIDS/Cancer cure.

At noon, I skip lunch and head to the gym. Hektor had informed me that schools gave preference to musicians and athletes so I had worked out a regimen where I bench-press a grand piano while playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

1-3pm Orgo

3-5pm Orgo Lab 🙁

5pm I return to the library and locate the books the professor had referenced in class. I forge fake chapters and replace them within the text. If the rest of the class isn't smart enough to pick up on the subtle factual inaccuracies, they don't deserve to call themselves pre-med.

8pm Dinner consisting of horse testicles and a light salad.

9pm I review the day's orgo lectures looking for any inaccuracies. I then e-mail the professor an extensive list of detailed questions ensuring that he is unable to respond to other students.

11pm Read the Harvard and WashU Medical School websites for an hour. Try to decide which school would be better for a Plastics residency.

12pm Go to bed, dream of SN2 reactions

 

[engineeredout]

Typical Pre-med schedual:



5:00am - Wake up
5:05am - 7:13am - Study biochemistry textbook in the hopes that it will prepare you for the mcat
7:14am - Sneak into premed suitemate's bedroom and take his biochemistry textbook so you'll have the advantage in the application process.
7:21am - Sneak into the guy across the hall's room and take his biochemistry textbook for the same reason.
7:29am - Rush to the parking lot so you can polish your organic chem professor's car to make sure you get a good letter of recommendation.
7:38am - Bypass the homeless guy who was laying in the street after being hit by a car because the time spent with him won't count towards your hospital volunteer hours.
8:00am - Hospital volunteering for two hours, 105 minutes of which include going to the bathroom, staring at the guy with an amputated foot, and drinking coffee.
10:00am - Physics class
10:05am - Give the guy who asked you a question the wrong answer so that you'll be able to beat him on the exam.
12:25pm - put on a pair of scrubs and go on SDN to browse the physician forum and pretend that you're a doctor. Be sure to tell the attending physicians there what medicine is all about.
3:00pm - Go visit the office hours of the various TAs for your classes and make sure you complain about getting only a 9/10 on the homework assignments worth .004% of your grade.
7:00pm - More SDN. Tell everyone in the "What are my chances" subforum to not bother applying so they won't provide any competition.
11:00pm - Go to sleep dreaming of becoming a doctor.

 

[TheBateman]

Lol.

 

[BigEast55]

Monday:
830-920 - Analytical Physics I
930-1020 - Modern Analytical Chemistry
1030-1120 - Genetics
1130-110 - Humanities I
Chill for a while or check in with my research profs.
3-410 - Abnormal Psychology
Chill for a bit more, maybe work a bit on physics, or read, get dinner, go to bed.

Tuesday:
Sleep in
Wake up at 10-11, enjoy a morning for once, read for my labs
1-5 - Modern Analytical Chem Lab
6-9 - Analytical Physics Lab
Come home and play some video games and pass out

Wends: See Monday

Thursday:
All Day: Work on independent research projects

Friday:
Class 830-1120 (see above)
Enjoy the weekend.

 

[starl3tte]

Ha! That is f!@#$ed up!

 

[admitER]

Hektor has prepared my usual breakfast shake of coffee, adderall and cow brain (to stimulate neuron growth).

quite possibly one of the funniest posts I have come across on SDN. 😍

 

[WannaBePreMed]

Monday/Wednesday
10:00 Am wake up shower, do hw, eat, or chillax
12:00-2:00 pm Calc
5:00-10:00 pm Organic chem + lab

Tuesday/Thursday
8:00 Am wake up shower
9:00-11:00 Am English
12:00-5:00 eat, chill, do hw, or watch tv
7-10 language class

Friday
10:00-11:00 Premed club
12-2 calc
3-5 volunteer

rest of the day chill hang out with friends

sat/sun Chill + study + hw + mypace + SDN + tv + music + eat


Oh and add a few random all nighters, because I'm neurotic and I can't sleep Yup nothing special, I'm gonna be tutoring soon between that 5 hour gap on Tu/Thur.

 

[jr doctor in sd]

Avg Day:

7:00AM wake up --> hit snooze then check facebook, email
7:30AM shower
8:00AM - cereal
8:30AM leave for campus
8:45AM - study some neurobiology vocab before class
9:30-11AM - cellular neurobiology
11:15AM-12:15PM - gym (run or lift weights)
12:15-12:30 - change shirt/apply deoderant/make myself look fresh again/etc.
12:30-2 pm - eat sandwich (packed night before) and study at library for an hour (occasionally substitute this block with grabbing lunch with a friend)
2-3:20PM - Spanish class
3:30-10:00PM - work as computer tech person at biomedical library
10:00-10:45 - wait and take SLOW *** bus back to apartment
11:00pm - poop/shower (if I did cardio that day - if not, just shower in morning)/facebook/email/call back numerous missed calls from the day
12:00AM - knock out

 

[footballrules]

This was my typical schedule before I graduated last May.

5:00 am: Wake up, eat, shower, and leave for work.

5:30 am: Start work until 8:30 am.

9:00 am 11:00 am: whatever boring and crappy and pointless classes or labs I had to deal with for the day.

11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Lunch, time with the wife, and study.

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm: whatever boring and crappy and pointless classes I had to deal with for the day in the afternoon.

4:00 pm to 7:00 pm: Worked the same job I did in the morning

I also did some work study as a lab assistant during the day. I filled in ec's during the open time.

10:00 pm: time to sleep (usually had to tell the roomy friends to get lost so I could sleep).

 

[JRJ26]

wow was i the only one that woke up 15-20 mins before classes?

 

[DrYoda]

Weekdays:
4:30-7:00: wake up, eat breakfast, drink coffee, read news
7:00-7:30: shower, shave, ect.
7:30-8:30: Drive like a maniac to school
9:00-1:00: Either class or lab work, with lunch squeezed in somewhere
1:00-4:00: Either more lab work, relaxing, or on a test week studying
4:00-5:00: Dinner
5:00-8:00: work
8:00-12:00: Playing on the interweb,walking my dog, hanging w/ friends
12:00-4:30: Sleep

Weekends:
4:30-12:00: wake up, eat breakfast, drink coffee, read news,shower, shave, ect.

12:00-done drinking: Drink
done drinking-4:30: Sleep

 

[efitzpat]

Days differ from semester to semester but here are some of my favorites

Mondays freshman year
8:30-2pm Classes (doesn't matter which one and I might've had an hour break for lunch)
2:30-3:00 walk to school where I volunteer
3:00-7:00pm tutor kids that don't want to learn
7-7:30 dinner
7:30-8 get ready for work, walk there
8pm-1am- work at on campus coffee shop where everyone yelled at me because coffee is apparently more important than being decent to another human being
1am - 1:10 am - try not to get killed walking home
1:10am - ? try to fall asleep and obsessing about not being able to study on Mondays

Last summer while preparing for MCAT (note this was every weekday)
8:30-11am Princeton Review class
11am-5pm Work at lab where I received summer fellowship for $5000
5pm-10pm Work at second job because my first installment of my fellowship went straight to the Princeton Review and I needed money to buy food
10pm-? Try to study MCAT while my inconsiderate roommate invited everyone she knew over and yelled at me for being rude

 

[189362]

party from 9 to 5 then from 5 to 9, yea, sounds bout right.


No really sometimes I find myself stepping back and taking two deep breaths, regaining my composure and then taking on the brute that is my life.

 

[Lukkie]

i graduated but let me give you the typical day in my junior year
10am wake up, eat breakfast
11-12 biochem lecture
12-1 physics lecture
1-2 lunch (panda express or rubios or something)
2-4 study in the library or get some homework done
4-5 gym
5-6 'dinner' (tuna sandwich or panda express or rubios or something
6-12 if its raid night, world of warcraft, if its not a raid night, a mix of world of warcraft or ps2 games with roommates or basketball
usually was in bed by 12-1

 

[GoldShadow]

Typical Pre-med schedual:



5:00am - Wake up
5:05am - 7:13am - Study biochemistry textbook in the hopes that it will prepare you for the mcat
7:14am - Sneak into premed suitemate's bedroom and take his biochemistry textbook so you'll have the advantage in the application process.
7:21am - Sneak into the guy across the hall's room and take his biochemistry textbook for the same reason.
7:29am - Rush to the parking lot so you can polish your organic chem professor's car to make sure you get a good letter of recommendation.
7:38am - Bypass the homeless guy who was laying in the street after being hit by a car because the time spent with him won't count towards your hospital volunteer hours.
8:00am - Hospital volunteering for two hours, 105 minutes of which include going to the bathroom, staring at the guy with an amputated foot, and drinking coffee.
10:00am - Physics class
10:05am - Give the guy who asked you a question the wrong answer so that you'll be able to beat him on the exam.
12:25pm - put on a pair of scrubs and go on SDN to browse the physician forum and pretend that you're a doctor. Be sure to tell the attending physicians there what medicine is all about.
3:00pm - Go visit the office hours of the various TAs for your classes and make sure you complain about getting only a 9/10 on the homework assignments worth .004% of your grade.
7:00pm - More SDN. Tell everyone in the "What are my chances" subforum to not bother applying so they won't provide any competition.
11:00pm - Go to sleep dreaming of becoming a doctor.

👍

 

[Thrombomodulin]

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[GoldShadow]

Anyway, my PRE-MEDICAL DAY (not that such a thing exists) goes sort of like this:
(All times are EST)

5:00 AM: Wake up. Run 5 miles. Shower.
6:00 AM: Eat Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, a healthy part of a balanced breakfast. With crunchy flakes made of whole grain, Frosted Flakes is not only great for my heart, but tasty as well! Frosted Flakes. They're grrrreat!
7:00 AM: Take a supersonic jet to Africa.
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Save DABs.
1:00 PM: Take return flight to the States.
2:30 PM: Eat lunch.
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Conduct research leading to cure for cancer.
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Shadow doctor(s).
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Watch recorded episodes of House and Scrubs. Eat late dinner.
12:00 AM - 3:00 AM: Do EMT shift. Browse SDN while waiting for calls.
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM: Drink 1 Liter of Red Bull. Urinate.
4:00 AM - 4:30 AM: Listen to recorded lectures, do textbook reading, complete homework.
4:30 AM - 5:00 AM: Sleep.
5:00 AM: Repeat

 

[MadEvans]

Typical Pre-med schedual:



5:00am - Wake up
5:05am - 7:13am - Study biochemistry textbook in the hopes that it will prepare you for the mcat
7:14am - Sneak into premed suitemate's bedroom and take his biochemistry textbook so you'll have the advantage in the application process.
7:21am - Sneak into the guy across the hall's room and take his biochemistry textbook for the same reason.
7:29am - Rush to the parking lot so you can polish your organic chem professor's car to make sure you get a good letter of recommendation.
7:38am - Bypass the homeless guy who was laying in the street after being hit by a car because the time spent with him won't count towards your hospital volunteer hours.
8:00am - Hospital volunteering for two hours, 105 minutes of which include going to the bathroom, staring at the guy with an amputated foot, and drinking coffee.
10:00am - Physics class
10:05am - Give the guy who asked you a question the wrong answer so that you'll be able to beat him on the exam.
12:25pm - put on a pair of scrubs and go on SDN to browse the physician forum and pretend that you're a doctor. Be sure to tell the attending physicians there what medicine is all about.
3:00pm - Go visit the office hours of the various TAs for your classes and make sure you complain about getting only a 9/10 on the homework assignments worth .004% of your grade.
7:00pm - More SDN. Tell everyone in the "What are my chances" subforum to not bother applying so they won't provide any competition.
11:00pm - Go to sleep dreaming of becoming a doctor.

Classic.

 

[WannaBePreMed]

Anyway, my PRE-MEDICAL DAY (not that such a thing exists) goes sort of like this:
(All times are EST)

5:00 AM: Wake up. Run 5 miles. Shower.
6:00 AM: Eat Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, a healthy part of a balanced breakfast. With crunchy flakes made of whole grain, Frosted Flakes is not only great for my heart, but tasty as well! Frosted Flakes. They're grrrreat!
7:00 AM: Take a supersonic jet to Africa.
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Save DABs.
1:00 PM: Take return flight to the States.
2:30 PM: Eat lunch.
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Conduct research leading to cure for cancer.
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Shadow doctor(s).
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Watch recorded episodes of House and Scrubs. Eat late dinner.
12:00 AM - 3:00 AM: Do EMT shift. Browse SDN while waiting for calls.
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM: Drink 1 Liter of Red Bull. Urinate.
4:00 AM - 4:30 AM: Listen to recorded lectures, do textbook reading, complete homework.
4:30 AM - 5:00 AM: Sleep.
5:00 AM: Repeat

LOL They're GRRRRREAT