So what keeps you motivated?

[collegegrrl06]

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This may not apply to everybody because I've noticed that we have some "geniuses" on this message board but...what keeps you motivated when classes start getting difficult or you bomb a test? Good grades keep me motivated but when times( school) gets hard, I wonder if I'm even cut out for pharmacy...can anyone relate? If so, what helps you bounce back to reality, keep pushin and not just change your career plans?

 

[PharmDstudent]

You have an excellent question!
Well, I think a good network of friends and coworkers really helps.
I remember being "coached" by my friend last semester. We were studying at a bookstore the night before our last final, and I almost gave up- well settled for a "B" was more like it. I could only miss four questions on the final for an "A", so it seemed possible yet impossible after a week of studying constantly. She said, "you can't give up now, we're almost done!" So... I stayed up late that night and studied. Instead of giving in to the ZZZZZZs, I waited and got the "A".

 

[lvp0021]

I think I'd give you some of the advices given to me by very knowledgable/experienced/respectable people who have influentially guided me to this day when I am about to start P1
-My hospital Rx director: "You just have to make a commitment to studying. It's your job! Just think of frustration as a midterm you have to pass"
-My biochem professor: "If you can settle for a B, why not try a bit harder and get an A?"
-An ICU PharmD in my hospital: "While you are frustrated and giving up, other people are not. They are in fact studying to ace the test you are giving up on!"
- Me: How can you remember all those names of the drugs?
A PharmD: Because I look at them everyday here at work...and before bed.

I still remembered my toughest class was Cell Biol as we had a prof from Yale. People going the semester before me failed all over. Her philosophy is "application questions" meaning even if you memorize the entire book, you'll have 25% of making an 80/100 on her test. I am a 4.0 student and did struggle with her tests. She sometimes asked questions that could only be answered by herself. Everything just didn't click for me...
I got really frustrated during that semester and sometimes I just wanted to give up. But then I thought "This is where I need to prove that I derserve a seat in rx school!" I talked to several people who aced her class before and they told me "You just have to suck it up!"🙁😀. I then thought "Since it's this hard, once i ace it it'd feel much better than anything" So yeah, you are right, good grade is a motivation. But for me also the rewarding feeling I get afterward once I ace the class (and after all the effort I've spent).

 

[fatevsdestiny]

This may not apply to everybody because I've noticed that we have some "geniuses" on this message board but...what keeps you motivated when classes start getting difficult or you bomb a test? Good grades keep me motivated but when times( school) gets hard, I wonder if I'm even cut out for pharmacy...can anyone relate? If so, what helps you bounce back to reality, keep pushin and not just change your career plans?

This may sound silly, but what I did (and I found really helpful!) was using microsoft word, typing in "sleep less, more As, and be a [my name], Pharm.D."
I printed it out and tape in on the wall of my room next to my bed. Everyday when I wake up, that's the first thing I see.

The paper's been on the wall for more than 2 years now...and I achieved my first goal of getting into pharm school. I never want to take it off, it was part of my best memory undergrad and helped me through tough time. 🙂

 

[nerv12345]

what keeps me motivated? FEAR

i'm afraid of low grades
i'm afraid of being stressed out
i'm afraid of not getting in to pharmacy school
i'm afraid of not becoming anything in life and disappointing my parents

i pretty much use fear as a tool to make myself work harder and prepare earlier (ex. for an exam, applications, etc) because i know that if i don't keep at it...i will have failed

 

[twester]

"Eyes on the prize" and "It's a marathon, not a sprint" have been my mottos for the last few years. That, a love for what I do and a hatred for my previous career have kept me going.

 

[Bhavesh]

I work a job I don't have a passion for.

I take pre-req classes at a college that I don't feel I am intellectually challenged.

 

[overhillpharmer]

My family motivates me. I want my wife to be able to stay home with our children if she chooses to do so. She has been able to do so since she was well along in our first pregnancy. We have barely been squeaking by though. I have to have a career, not just a job. It will be a struggle during pharmacy school and we will be piling up a huge student debt but it will be worth it once I start an actual career. My current and previous job motivate me as well. In my current job I am at a dead end. Most of the management is young enough yet that new management openings are infrequent. Before that I was in the Navy and that was just an abusive salary job. Thank goodness I didn't have a family then, I don't think they or I would have been able to handle all the time I spent away from my home port.

 

[TheHillCrew]

Sounds about right

 

[Jitaka]

b/c I'm worth it.....

 

[smarin87]

This is a great question. My motivation is the fact that I am a hispanic female. I know, it sounds corny to some people, but i have gotten pretty far considering statisitcs and stereotypes. I want to prove those people who look down on me (and there are plenty), that I am different. Also, my family who have given up everything in order for me to go to private schools...i know like I said ...sounds corny

 

[k0ni]

What keeps me going... I love my job in the Pharmacy! There are the good days and bad days, as with any job.. But overall, I enjoy the work. Even as a slave-- er, technician. 🙂

Honestly, the pharmacy I work at feels like my 2nd family. All of the pharmacists and technicians give me advice and encouragement when I'm feeling down about my low gpa!

Surround yourself with positive people. It helps ALOT.

 

[uncinmyheart]

This may sound silly, but what I did (and I found really helpful!) was using microsoft word, typing in "sleep less, more As, and be a [my name], Pharm.D."
I printed it out and tape in on the wall of my room next to my bed. Everyday when I wake up, that's the first thing I see.

The paper's been on the wall for more than 2 years now...and I achieved my first goal of getting into pharm school. I never want to take it off, it was part of my best memory undergrad and helped me through tough time. 🙂

It doesn't sound silly at all; I was actually thinking of doing something very similar to that, and you idea sounds really good, lol. My idea was to print out a picture of my top pharmacy school that I want to go into (I have a really good one I took of it last summer) and just post it on my wall and keep looking at it when i wake up, before i go to bed or whenever I feel like I'm in a rut or about to give up and sleep the night before a big exam, or whatever it is. And then maybe my name followed by Pharmd at the bottom, or something like that. That'll definitely keep me motivated and keep me on my toes and remind me why I should keep working; so I could get in my top school.

 

[BrownSound]

It doesn't sound silly at all; I was actually thinking of doing something very similar to that, and you idea sounds really good, lol. My idea was to print out a picture of my top pharmacy school that I want to go into (I have a really good one I took of it last summer) and just post it on my wall and keep looking at it when i wake up, before i go to bed or whenever I feel like I'm in a rut or about to give up and sleep the night before a big exam, or whatever it is. And then maybe my name followed by Pharmd at the bottom, or something like that. That'll definitely keep me motivated and keep me on my toes and remind me why I should keep working; so I could get in my top school.

You know guys, this is exactly what the movie 'the secret' talks about. Anybody know what I am talking about? Law of Attraction? Thoughts become things?

 

[Omegadramon]

My pops is a UN refugee who fled his country because of the brutal communist regime his country was going through. I was soon born in America, and he had to drop out of college to work full time to suport our family. How could I disrepesct his sacrifices by not achieving my best? How can I face my relatives back in Africa who have nothing and no chance to get a decent education and tell them I lived in the land of opportunity and I stood still and let it pass me? How can I speak to my mom, partially crippled in her right leg with polio since her childhood because her country had an inadequate system for drug deliverly and tell her I don't have the willpower to simply read books and think?

For me, giving up is simply not an option.

 

[BrownSound]

Omegadramon,

Your reply was very inspiring. I can relate to you in a way.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I'm motivated by the prospect of not ever having to do another rotation ever again. Dear lord let it end.....3 left.....

 

[acetyl]

Good looking women.

 

[sakigt]

I read SDN 😀

Actually, I break it down. I do my absolute best. If I did my absolute best and still got a B, so be it. The standard you keep yourself to is generally higher than what the professor grades you on anyways...

With that said: Back to this Chem II homework. 🙄

 

[pharmacyanalyst]

Money money money... MONEY.

I love my job but I would like to make more money and stay in corporate pharmacy. I'm not good at kissing people's behinds so the best way to get promoted is becoming a pharmacist and move on up the pay scale!! 😀

 

[ZpackSux]

Good looking women.

Best Answer Ever!

 

[ZpackSux]

I think I'd give you some of the advices given to me by very knowledgable/experienced/respectable people who have influentially guided me to this day when I am about to start P1
-My hospital Rx director: "You just have to make a commitment to studying. It's your job! Just think of frustration as a midterm you have to pass"
-My biochem professor: "If you can settle for a B, why not try a bit harder and get an A?"
-An ICU PharmD in my hospital: "While you are frustrated and giving up, other people are not. They are in fact studying to ace the test you are giving up on!"
- Me: How can you remember all those names of the drugs?
A PharmD: Because I look at them everyday here at work...and before bed.

I still remembered my toughest class was Cell Biol as we had a prof from Yale. People going the semester before me failed all over. Her philosophy is "application questions" meaning even if you memorize the entire book, you'll have 25% of making an 80/100 on her test. I am a 4.0 student and did struggle with her tests. She sometimes asked questions that could only be answered by herself. Everything just didn't click for me...
I got really frustrated during that semester and sometimes I just wanted to give up. But then I thought "This is where I need to prove that I derserve a seat in rx school!" I talked to several people who aced her class before and they told me "You just have to suck it up!"🙁😀. I then thought "Since it's this hard, once i ace it it'd feel much better than anything" So yeah, you are right, good grade is a motivation. But for me also the rewarding feeling I get afterward once I ace the class (and after all the effort I've spent).

When students used to come to me with frustration, I always told them to just quit and drop out now. No one ever listens to me tho...

 

[lvp0021]

D/Mr. Z, you are like Nigel in "The Devil Wears Prada"
(Don't know who he is? You should go and watch the movie! It will help you
drink less like you said in the "Count your blessing" thread in the pharmacy forum 😉🙂 )

When students used to come to me with frustration, I always told them to just quit and drop out now. No one ever listens to me tho...

 

[shaun009]

Yup.. women for me too. 70% of the University of Colorado SOP are chicks... I can't argue with that. I just can't.

 

[RX CARE]

This may sound silly too, but When I look at the amount of loans I've accumulated so far....the sicko interest too, that's enough to ring bells in my head that I gotta get my game together.....I do not fancy being in debt..

 

[uncinmyheart]

You know guys, this is exactly what the movie 'the secret' talks about. Anybody know what I am talking about? Law of Attraction? Thoughts become things?

Lol. No, I didn't see that movie, but i know what you're talking about

 

[naru]

options 1: find that one annoying person in all your classes (probably in the front of the class) who sucks up and brags about all the A's he's getting.

make it your life mission to BEAT that person.

option 2: become that person

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Yup.. women for me too. 70% of the University of Colorado SOP are chicks... I can't argue with that. I just can't.

..and they'll all be either engaged or married. Haha, joke's on you. It's like that book Sarte wrote, No Exit...

 

[jayce00]

My dad thinks I can't do it
I'll PROVE HIM WRONG!!!!!!


hehe
well my family is my movitivation

 

[leoproductionz]

my family, friends, and most of all my faith. i am blessed to have a lot of positive people in my life.