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[radiant23]

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How do you all stay awake during 2-3 hour lectures? I get enough sleep, but after just 40 minutes or so I literally cannot keep my eyes open!!!

 

[battie]

How do you all stay awake during 2-3 hour lectures? I get enough sleep, but after just 40 minutes or so I literally cannot keep my eyes open!!!

Ah yeah, about that. I did my own thing. Sat in the way back of the class and wrote notes on anything. Could it have been notes for that lecture? Yes. Could it have been different notes for a different lecture? Also yes.

If it's not working for you, don't force it. If you've got to figure something else out, then do it.

 

[JaynaAli]

How do you all stay awake during 2-3 hour lectures? I get enough sleep, but after just 40 minutes or so I literally cannot keep my eyes open!!!

I was the official chair kicker for the guy who sat in front of me first year. He’d literally start to nod off and his head would fall forward or back and occasionally he’d snore so he asked me to kick his chair from time to time.

I played a lot of candy crush while I listened. I did better with something to fiddle with between note taking. I mean the vast majority of what you need to know is in the PowerPoints so I’d just mark down what they emphasized and stuff. Unless a class didn’t use PowerPoints (and that guy didn’t even allow computers at all, but it’s been a long time so I doubt that would fly today) then different rules applied.

 

[SkiOtter]

I was the official chair kicker for the guy who sat in front of me first year. He’d literally start to nod off and his head would fall forward or back and occasionally he’d snore so he asked me to kick his chair from time to time.

My friend next to me was the elbow nudger for me 🥲 I struggled with this especially in 2nd and 3rd year. It was ROUGH. Would literally fall asleep WHILE actively writing.

 

[SkiOtter]

Clearly, I have no suggestions since I regularly struggled.

 

[WildZoo]

How do you all stay awake during 2-3 hour lectures? I get enough sleep, but after just 40 minutes or so I literally cannot keep my eyes open!!!

I didn't actually have that many lectures that were that long, ours were usually 50 minutes. But when I needed to take a break to let my brain wake back up I played werewolf on SDN would work on something else for a bit and just note that I needed to come back to that point in the lecture again later.

 

[supershorty]

My friend next to me was the elbow nudger for me 🥲 I struggled with this especially in 2nd and 3rd year. It was ROUGH. Would literally fall asleep WHILE actively writing.

This would never have happened to you if you'd just played WW during vet school like @Barkley13 and many others.

 

[supershorty]

whoa

 

[DVMDream]

How do you all stay awake during 2-3 hour lectures? I get enough sleep, but after just 40 minutes or so I literally cannot keep my eyes open!!!

I don't recall ever having that long of a lecture, but for longer ones, honestly, I'd just get up, walk out of the classroom and walk around the halls for a few minutes then go back.

 

[Minnerbelle]

Currently realizing how alienating it is to be going through pregnancy as a moderately plus-sized woman, and I'm only 5 weeks in. My social media has been taken over by everything baby/maternity/post partum and I feel like I'm 15 again trying to find jeans I like that also come in my size.

I've found a few TikTokers that are being honest about their plus size pregnancies so that helps. It's just already challenging going into this with a body I've always hated and wanted to change, that is only going to get bigger and won't look like the cutesy 'baby bumps' everyone goes nuts for (and that maternity clothing is designed around). Some of the questions these influencers have been asked are insane ('Will you even show?' 'Does ultrasound even work on you?') so while seeing their clothing recommendations has been helpful, it's also given me a bit more to stress about.

Finding mat clothes is hard to begin with (esp when you are not a standard size - I’m super short and finding petite and maternity was rough).

Kindred bravely is bomb especially for nursing/pumping bras. Worked really well with my hands free pumps - I even saw consults in them sometimes and did surgery while pumping often. Macy’s was also helpful.

I’d maybe stay away from influencer content, or really any content of people who purposely put out content on social media about their pregnancy journey. Social media wise what I found helpful was DVMoms fb groups (there are some smaller subgroups if a bigger group isn’t helpful), which is full of vet moms who have been through it and have your back. I also went to an all women’s college with a really strong alum network so the pregnancy groups and parenting groups for alums was really helpful - there were a lot of peds, obgyns also going through pregnancy at the same time and offered a lot of support and expertise. I found joining groups with real people who are just getting by with their lives with similar stressors super helpful. Whatever issues you’re having, you’re bound to have others who have gone through it too. And these groups of moms typically take an evidence based approach you can trust.

 

[SkiOtter]

This would never have happened to you if you'd just played WW during vet school like @Barkley13 and many others.

Girl do you think I didn’t???? 😂😂😂 my ass STILL fell asleep 🫠

 

[pp9]

Finding mat clothes is hard to begin with (esp when you are not a standard size - I’m super short and finding petite and maternity was rough).

Kindred bravely is bomb especially for nursing/pumping bras. Worked really well with my hands free pumps - I even saw consults in them sometimes and did surgery while pumping often. Macy’s was also helpful.

I’d maybe stay away from influencer content, or really any content of people who purposely put out content on social media about their pregnancy journey. Social media wise what I found helpful was DVMoms fb groups (there are some smaller subgroups if a bigger group isn’t helpful), which is full of vet moms who have been through it and have your back. I also went to an all women’s college with a really strong alum network so the pregnancy groups and parenting groups for alums was really helpful - there were a lot of peds, obgyns also going through pregnancy at the same time and offered a lot of support and expertise. I found joining groups with real people who are just getting by with their lives with similar stressors super helpful. Whatever issues you’re having, you’re bound to have others who have gone through it too. And these groups of moms typically take an evidence based approach you can trust.

I actually placed an order for Kindred Bravely last night - I am in need of new bras regardless and they have a decent clearance sale going on now! I've stayed off TikTok since I made that last post, though. I'm detoxing!

How do you all stay awake during 2-3 hour lectures? I get enough sleep, but after just 40 minutes or so I literally cannot keep my eyes open!!!

2-3 hours!?!? No breaks in that? Our lectures were 50min, with 10min breaks in between. Our labs were several hours with no breaks but those have you taking a more active role so are easier to stay awake in of course. Even if we had a double lecture in a topic (or even triple, I think that happened too), we still did 50min blocks with 10min breaks.

Having something quiet to snack on when you start to get foggy can help. Or have a cold can of something ready (beer? white claw? diet coke? your choice! I don't judge ) to snap yourself back into reality. If you know you are a sleeper no matter what, sit in the back to save face. Or if you are sleeping to the point where there's no point in you being there, stay home and watch recordings (if this is an option, and you don't have attendance to worry about).

We had a notorious class snoozer...he probably had a disorder honestly. It never failed, he truly slept every single day. He would be out cold within 10min of a lecture starting (or rounds!) and at times was a sleep-talker. Or would just totally slump over. We probably all had to nudge him awake at some point. Idk why he insisted on sitting so far in the front every year but he did. Somehow every clinician and instructor found it funny, so he was lucky....there were times when some other students dozed off and got called out in lecture. Which is then immortalized in the lecture recording, lol.