SDN is not what I should be doing right now...

[lazygunner]

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For those of you with an acceptance in hand...do you find it difficult to stay motivated to do your school work? I have a research paper due and a prelim tomorrow, yet I've spent all weekend cycling between my email, SDN, and various other websites, watching football, going out, and just doing pointless things around my apartment. It's not like I even have that much work to do, I just can't bring myself to do it...anyone with similar experiences?

 

[Mutt]

I think my attitude would be dependent on where I got in...

 

[Turkeyman]

Actually, that's exactly what I've done all today. It's how I felt after my interview...who knows what I'll be like if I'm handed an acceptance 😀 . You're completely normal.

 

[lazygunner]

Actually, that's exactly what I've done all today. It's how I felt after my interview...who knows what I'll be like if I'm handed an acceptance 😀 . You're completely normal.

The funny thing is, by creating this thread it gives me more of a reason to constantly check SDN (case in point: I am writing this 10 minutes after the original post while i should be working on the aformentioned research paper) Hooray for all-nighters and coffee...I see it as practice for those 48-hour shifts as a surgical resident.

 

[IgweEmeka]

For those of you with an acceptance in hand...do you find it difficult to stay motivated to do your school work? I have a research paper due and a prelim tomorrow, yet I've spent all weekend cycling between my email, SDN, and various other websites, watching football, going out, and just doing pointless things around my apartment. It's not like I even have that much work to do, I just can't bring myself to do it...anyone with similar experiences?

Man i couldn't relate to your situation any more....I just have no motivation whatsoever. But in my case, i actually have some pretty hard classes and I dont want to blow them off. I know if i tried i would get As in them, but after getting accepted, i might be pullin out C's....it sucks to see my gpa drop slightly, but who cares, i'm already in med school and getting degrees is what matters.

 

[DrHopeless]

Yeah I could totally related........ I feel drained, then again histology is not exactly anyone cup of tea.......

 

[Pithlit]

I feel you guys... too bad I had an honors thesis due less than a month after getting my acceptance. 😱

I still haven't really done much to celebrate getting in... at least Im graduating in December, which equals a semester of free time for drunken debauchery! 😀

 

[Pretty POHA]

Is lack of motivation similar to burn out?
Do you think all students get to this point, or just those of us who are so madly perfectionist-ly driven to the point where we hit the books (or whatever we hit) for so long that eventually our minds just go numb and we only want to get stoned and play video games?

 

[Chris127]

I feel like that and I'm only a freshman 😳

 

[CenteredDoc]

I feel like that and I'm only a freshman 😳

hahahaha. you got a long way to go!

 

[kaykay73]

i took a year off of school to get some research experience and boost my app....i have had two interviews so far (no acceptances yet!) and i couldnt be any less motivated at work. i thought senior year was bad but this is ridiculous. i cant get any work done at all...i cant imagine what it will be like if i actully get accepted. maybe my boss with realize that i truly am just pretending to work and just fire me. haa...jk

 

[Captain Fantastic]

Hooray for all-nighters and coffee...I see it as practice for those 48-hour shifts as a surgical resident.

You can't work 48-hours shifts anymore. 24-hours on call, remaining on-duty for up to 30 hours to finish the notes and sit in on any required education lectures/seminars. If they make you do more than that the program can loose accreditation.

Sorry. I know you're disappointed.

 

[Rjuza333]

Man i couldn't relate to your situation any more....I just have no motivation whatsoever. But in my case, i actually have some pretty hard classes and I dont want to blow them off. I know if i tried i would get As in them, but after getting accepted, i might be pullin out C's....it sucks to see my gpa drop slightly, but who cares, i'm already in med school and getting degrees is what matters.

Man, I hate to spoil the party but ya gotta remember that at most schools, your acceptance is hinged upon maintenance of prior academic status (ie: you can't just blow this year off).

Guess I'd rather be the wet blanket than see you folks get your acceptances rescinded. Good luck to you all.

 

[lazygunner]

You can't work 48-hours shifts anymore. 24-hours on call, remaining on-duty for up to 30 hours to finish the notes and sit in on any required education lectures/seminars. If they make you do more than that the program can loose accreditation.

Sorry. I know you're disappointed.

That's it...totally not being a doctor anymore. Who are they to say how sleep deprived I'm allowed to get before cutting someone open?

 

[gujuDoc]

I think the internet and especially internet forums are addicting. Some of my friends deleted facebook profiles for the very reason of it causing too much distraction to them.

 

[dajimmers]

I think the internet and especially internet forums are addicting

Ahhhh, the wise knowledge of someone with 5,635 posts. 😉

j/k, I agree with you wholeheartedly. My lab report is hardly even started, Darwin is sitting in my lap rather than being read, etc. I just live weekend to weekend, where I can be lazy without feeling bad about it.

 

[gujuDoc]

Ahhhh, the wise knowledge of someone with 5,635 posts. 😉

j/k, I agree with you wholeheartedly. My lab report is hardly even started, Darwin is sitting in my lap rather than being read, etc. I just live weekend to weekend, where I can be lazy without feeling bad about it.

Damn, I never realized that I hit 5000+!!!!! I thought I was still at 4000+.

But in all seriousness, before SDN, i used to post on this other internet forum that was totally unrelated to medicine and everything related to my fav television show. And boy it was addicting. I eventually stopped posting on there due to school and stuff, but then I found SDN and internet forum addictions started up.

Only this one is harder to give up because it is relevant to med school apps.

 

[Em1]

It's especially bad b/c there are so many threads all the time... if I leave for a few days I may miss something important!

 

[kaykay73]

It's especially bad b/c there are so many threads all the time... if I leave for a few days I may miss something important!

i am probably gonna get fired from my job for checking this website soo often during work....wont that be something interesting to say in my interview...."so how is your research job going?.." "well actually i was fired for reading Student Doctor Network and checking my email waiting to hear from you guys INCESSANTLY!" i bet that would go over well

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

I'm at work and not accepted yet. So this is definitely what I should be doing 🙂

 

[CoffeeCat]

Can't...pull...myself...away...from...SDN...HELP!!!

 

[Kiroro]

I have the exact same drained feelings.

Now that I got in, I realized how much I don't care about courses from my mojor anymore... (materials engineering)

I just want to get B or B+ in all of the rest of my classes.

They are so hard.... and they are so boring...

 

[45408]

But in all seriousness, before SDN, i used to post on this other internet forum that was totally unrelated to medicine and everything related to my fav television show. And boy it was addicting. I eventually stopped posting on there due to school and stuff, but then I found SDN and internet forum addictions started up.

You've got nothing. I've decided to leave my wireless card at school so that I can't browse the internet when I'm at home, because I've been wasting too much sleep by surfing the web. I've got WAY more posts at another forum, and I'm still dwarfed by others.

 

[lazygunner]

You've got nothing. I've decided to leave my wireless card at school so that I can't browse the internet when I'm at home, because I've been wasting too much sleep by surfing the web. I've got WAY more posts at another forum, and I'm still dwarfed by others.

I've found that the only thing that keeps me away from the computer for extended periods of time lately (and is somewhat productive) is reading...and not the 100s of pages of reading I have for classes. Anyone read The House of God yet?...I just started and was told by several interviewers that it is required reading for applicants.

 

[lazygunner]

Felt that there was no better place to post the big #50...although I feel like an amateur next to all of you 1000+ posters. I think I'm going to have to redouble my efforts.

 

[gujuDoc]

I have the exact same drained feelings.

Now that I got in, I realized how much I don't care about courses from my mojor anymore... (materials engineering)

I just want to get B or B+ in all of the rest of my classes.

They are so hard.... and they are so boring...

Yeah, that's how a few of my friends felt last year after they were accepted.