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I hate the floaters in my eye. grrrrr.
ever since optho, everytime I get a floater I'm like "retinal detachment!!!!"
I hate the floaters in my eye. grrrrr.
I just finished my last day of Medical School! I don't graduate for another month, but technically I'm done
PS Kangaroos really are that strange looking
Lucky you. Only ~8 more weeks till Step 1!
I'm starting to freak out. 6 more weeks for me...I think. You'd think I'd be keeping track.
I'm starting to freak out. 6 more weeks for me...I think. You'd think I'd be keeping track.
maybe this is a nerdy thing to say, but studying for the boards is fun!
maybe this is a nerdy thing to say, but studying for the boards is fun!
jeez, I didn't start worrying about my step 1 until I started studying it, and we only get 4 weeks here. Do you get more?
Wow...things have really slowed in here. Started this thread 2 weeks ago and still barely on the 3rd page. You 4th years/now dr's must really be enjoying your time off from EVERYTHING!!
Closing on my house Monday.
show-off!
well, sort of... we do have to find new places to live, fill out paperwork, study, etc, etc.
I'll send pictures.
Remember, I close on it Monday. I don't get to live in it until I finish my prelim. My wife gets to live in it though.
Also, anyone notice how bedroom furniture is freaking expensive? I've bought cars for less than I spent at the furniture store yesterday. Ahh, the king size mattress with ultra plush pillow top. To me, it actually was more comfortable than the foam mattresses in the store. My wife agreed.
You do feel like a putz going around laying down on beds though.
I'll send pictures.
Remember, I close on it Monday. I don't get to live in it until I finish my prelim. My wife gets to live in it though.
Also, anyone notice how bedroom furniture is freaking expensive? I've bought cars for less than I spent at the furniture store yesterday. Ahh, the king size mattress with ultra plush pillow top. To me, it actually was more comfortable than the foam mattresses in the store. My wife agreed.
You do feel like a putz going around laying down on beds though.
haha...I was asked by my dad (who is totally opposed to me moving that far away) what I was going to use for furniture in the living area. I told him milk crates. And my coffee table if I have room to pack it. It's sturdy enough to sit on.
Technically we get 4-12 weeks...
We have 8 weeks (max). I decided to take a 2 week clinical elective early to make 4th year easier, so I'll have ~6 weeks to study. Some of my classmates have to do 4-week electives (they are part of a particular program track) so they have even less time.We get ~7 weeks max here - I'm taking 6 to study, and will probably need every last day.
I was thinking IKEA, but even stuff there can be expensive (in tha amount I need) and the closest one to me is a little under an hour in Baltimore, so it would be a one trip deal. Did see bean bags and a cheap futon at Walmart which I'm considering. Still need a dresser and bringing my desk (literally just a folding table, but I love it and it packs easily). I'm ignoring that I might need a table.
We have 8 weeks (max). I decided to take a 2 week clinical elective early to make 4th year easier, so I'll have ~6 weeks to study. Some of my classmates have to do 4-week electives (they are part of a particular program track) so they have even less time.
I made up a study schedule a couple of nights ago, so that'll stave off the Step I jitters for awhile.
I thought about checking out walmart/target for the dresser. Don't need an expensive one. Told my bf I'm taking his shelf, so that solves that problem. I think there is an IKEA near where I'll be, but as you said, that may run expensive.
Yeah, I'm looking around at those places for a dresser. The last one I got was unfinished from Lowe's or Home depot. I ended up stripping my bed and finishing the bed and dresser in the same tone. Took me a month or something and I loved it. Don't think my current apt would appreciate me on their grass with stain and a dresser. Plus I arrive on Saturday and start on Friday-probably not enough time with having to exchange my license and register my car and crap. Maybe I'll get cheap plastic organizational drawers and use them until something I like comes around in my price range.
I remember Step I. Not fondly, but I remember it. We got 6.5 weeks and I took 6 weeks to study (had a friend's wedding in there too, so not quite six). It was ten hour days with one day off week. I would break the day up with a work out in-between. I got really sick and burnt out. It was worth it though. Amazing how scores open and close doors.
From 10-12 hrs a day. The 12s will be the last week before the exam. Similar to ineedsleep, I have a day off each week, and a half day just before the exam. I've posted a copy of my draft schedule (I also have an alternate in case I start burning out ) so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. The lunch hour and evenings are free. The schedule is not hard and fast, it's a guide to get me in the groove for a month and a half and to push me along. It also gives me goals to shoot for as I go.I found schedules don't work for me...How many hours do you plan to study in a day?
From 10-12 hrs a day. The 12s will be the last week before the exam. Similar to ineedsleep, I have a day off each week, and a half day just before the exam. I've posted a copy of my draft schedule (I also have an alternate in case I start burning out ) so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. The lunch hour and evenings are free. The schedule is not hard and fast, it's a guide to get me in the groove for a month and a half and to push me along. It also gives me goals to shoot for as I go.
I have the advantage of being given a blank check to fund my prep, so I'm going for both Kaplan and USMLEWorld qbanks. I'll probably end up cross-training between the two. Every week I plan to increase the number of question sets I do every day (see color-coding), and taper off on the book learning/review. I've penciled in a NBME halfway through so I can gauge my progress and delay the real exam if I need to.
You can argue whether it was a smart move or not, but I'm presenting at ACSM right after school lets out (i.e. during my first week of Step I prep), so that knocks out a few days from my time. I am proud of how hard I worked on my project, and I wanted to it show off.
Check out the USMLE Step I forum. My schedule is just an amalgamation of what worked for a lot of those posters.
Interesting schedule. I had one where I broke up the topics (along the lines of first aid) and would schedule a certain amount of time each day for each topic. That way I kept my butt moving and didn't miss any major topic. Yes I could spend weeks on cardio, but 2.5 days was all I had so I didn't forget all of neuro or something.
I'd usually start out with the questions in BRS, to see what I remembered vs. what I had to relearn and worked from there in each section. First Aid was important. Review books were helpful and original notes/text books were only last resort.
The first hour of the day was actually reviewing what I went over the day or two before (I'm a geek I'd make little questions for myself). Then two four hour blocks separated by lunch/workout. The evening would be about an hour of SBS (social and behavior sciences-heck easier ?s that counted as much as the others) and usually random study review with my roommate and or her study partner over dinner.
Saturdays were reserved for Q banks ?s. I did blocks of fifty and then would review the great explanations. I think Q bank and reading all the answers (including the wrong ones even if you got it right) and looking up any questions I had was a pain in the but but very helpful.
I did well, but it was a hell of a lot of work. No 265, but no one who forced me to reveal my score could say it was bad. Oh, and I studied anatomy for Step one=wasted time. I had only two questions and they involved the brachial plexus.
Good luck to those who are dealing with the exams.
It's definitely an interesting way to set a schedule...
I didn't expect this reaction. I feel like you all just told me that my blind date has a good personality.Interesting schedule...
I don't think I ever shared with you all how peacefully my grandma died. She had some dementia, but was hilarious her last week she was around. She even pointed out to me they wouldn't give her enough laxatives, and all that stomach area wasn't fat, it was cement, full of s***. From a grandmother I never heard cuss, this was quite hilarious.
Anyway, in her last day, they were giving her morphine to make her comfortable. My brother (a nurse paramedic) was there along with all her kids and a few other grandchildren. She woke up one time from the morphine and said "Why am I still here? Can't I just die yet?" She then turned to my brother and asked him "Can't you just give me a little extra of that stuff so I can just die?" He told her he'd probably get in lots of trouble for that and not be able to work any more. They then gave her her last dose of morphine, and her last words (and response to the sublingual tablet) was "mmmmm...that was good." Then she died. All I can say is that I hope I go that peacefully and those are my last words.
(the suicide thread reminded me of this story)
Just out of curiosity, what are you studying at this point? EM stuff or for your next round of boards?
I didn't expect this reaction. I feel like you all just told me that my blind date has a good personality.
On the hours, it's like any other job. You go to work, you put in your time, you go home. FA's one of my books, and I intend to read through subjects in roughly the same order. If you all think I'm missing something, then please speak up.
Hey, I signed a lease, too - by proxy! My mom, dad, and aunt found me a great 1BR 2 blocks from the beach in a happenin' area of town!
I didn't expect this reaction. I feel like you all just told me that my blind date has a good personality.
On the hours, it's like any other job. You go to work, you put in your time, you go home. FA's one of my books, and I intend to read through subjects in roughly the same order. If you all think I'm missing something, then please speak up.
Hey, I signed a lease, too - by proxy! My mom, dad, and aunt found me a great 1BR 2 blocks from the beach in a happenin' area of town!