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[OnMyWayThere]

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What do you do when are super super super stressed out with OChem (learning Gringards, Hg(OAc)2, whatever reagents), taking an MCAT course, Bio ..... much more and just are overwhelmed and are ready to say "F" it... but not ready to give up the dream? This is a horrible feeling... anybody go through this? This just sucks.😕 😡

 

[DSM]

I feel your pain.

🙁
I am sitting here at work, studying Organic Chemistry and I just finished my formal lab report on GRIGNARD SYNTHESIS😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 I am studying for an org chem test Monday( in between ambulance calls.) I have another informal report due Monday in org chem plus a physics test Thursday. I am working every night except Monday. So yes, I bet everyone on this forum except the super geniuses (and you know who you are!)😉 have felt this way.

I feel your pain

 

[idq1i]

Originally posted by deepsouthmedic
I feel your pain.

🙁
I am sitting here at work, studying Organic Chemistry and I just finished my formal lab report on GRIGNARD SYNTHESIS😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 I am studying for an org chem test Monday( in between ambulance calls.) I have another informal report due Monday in org chem plus a physics test Thursday. I am working every night except Monday. So yes, I bet everyone on this forum except the super geniuses (and you know who you are!)😉 have felt this way.

I feel your pain

What happened to your sig, then?

 

[ForensicPath]

Just suck it up and grin and bear it. Then get drunk on friday and saturday nights.

 

[PreMedAdAG]

Hi guys,
sorry about the stress.. I'm the queen of it... and slowly beginning to master control over it!! 🙂 Anyway, here's my advice. It's friekin hard.. no one is doubting that. So just say that to yourself. I got a B-, C+ and a B+ in my ochem classes.. uh yea.. it sucked. The first time I took the MCAT, I got a 23 ... but I'm laughing about it now.. ha ha ha ha ha hah .... (see)... because, since those terrible grades, my GPA is a 3.66, and my BCPM is a 3.52 (which isn't so bad) and my new MCAT score is a 30. I really wanted to throw in the towel, but I'm glad I didn't, because I look back on all of that and it makes me smile... I grew a lot from failing a little bit. Good luck and PM me if you need more support or if you just feel like getting the stress off your chest.

 

[acab]

Just hang in there! Once you finish orgo & take the MCAT, the world will seem a lot brighter. And when you start getting interview invitations & acceptances, you'll realize that is was worth it, despite the pain.

 

[jlee9531]

yeah just go with the flow.

try not to think of it as stressing but as an opportunity for you to learn more things that you never knew before. isnt that what you will be doing during medical school?

all these things will contribute to your transition to med school. how else do we plan on handling the load at medschool?

do it with a smile knowing it will help you get you closer to your dream.

oh and dont f*it and just lazy about it because i know two people who were premed and they ended up doing this and now they are just living at home doing absolutely nothing because their laziness has consumed them.

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Thank you for the great advice... it really brightened today. 🙂 and I will read this thread everytime I feel stressed. 🙂

 

[DSM]

Originally posted by idq1i
What happened to your sig, then?

I didn't say I didn't feel pain or stress, I just don't let it get me down (most of the time). And the days it does get to me, I get over it and plug on!!!!!!

Besides, I was comforting a fellow sufferer. Empathy, you know!! 😛

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Well... neglecting all of my other classes this weekend and spending my entire Saturday and Sunday (with the exception of Saturday night - had to get drunk that night at the club), I finally understand this whole topic that was driving me crazy earlier. That's the thing with organic... after doing a lot of practice problems, it becomes something not too difficult (dare I use the word easy?). For those of you in organic and stressed, don't let the crazy concepts you go over in class discourage you from even starting to study because you'll never get it. I honestly felt like that when I started this thread. However, after spending 20 hours on it, I understand it. So it's not HARD, it is time consuming. Making yourself study this Sh*(& all weekend is the hard part. The feeling of understanding it afterwards is rewarding also, giving instant gratification. Thank you all for posting on this board in my times of confusion and weakness . 👍 I hope you "sufferers" of ochem get something out of this post.

 

[Samus Aran]

Right now I'm seriously debating on whether or not I should stay home and study for the organic exam I have next Monday or if I should spend time with 2 of my friends from out of town who will be leaving tomorrow morning. How sad is that? I feel guilty even thinking about going to do something that isn't school related...lol
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[OnMyWayThere]

Go out with your friends for a couple of hours... promising yourself that you will spend the evening on studying. This is one VERY important factor that most of us don't understand - not letting go completely of our social lives. Like I said, Saturday I spent all day studying, at night I went to the club until 3am and got extremely drunk and mingled, Sunday - hit the books hardcore. This keeps us sane. So enjoy yourself and don't feel guilty about having some fun. As long as you're structured and promising to yourself that you will spend a lot more (ALOT!) on studying following your leisure. By the way, booking a trip after the semester will keep you going strong. Looking forward to something fun is always a motivator to study now. I booked a 10 day trip for Christmas - New Years in South Beach, Florida. That's where the tasty drinks and pretty girls reside and we deserve it after going through Orgo!

 

[musiclink213]

Looking forward to something fun is always a motivator to study now. I booked a 10 day trip for Christmas - New Years in South Beach, Florida. That's where the tasty drinks and pretty girls reside and we deserve it after going through Orgo!

hehe, i have a study abroad trip to paris coming up in july. that's what's getting me through this torture that is organic chemistry. i just remember that if i want that scholarship that will allow me to go, i must keep up my GPA and do well on orgo (it paid off, i got the 2nd highest grade in the class on the test we had, the girl who had the highest said she didn't do that well, i hate people like that, she seriously thought she did bad and was saying how she needs to use her quizzes to make up for the grade. grrr..... 😡

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Originally posted by musiclink213
hehe, i have a study abroad trip to paris coming up in july. that's what's getting me through this torture that is organic chemistry. i just remember that if i want that scholarship that will allow me to go, i must keep up my GPA and do well on orgo (it paid off, i got the 2nd highest grade in the class on the test we had, the girl who had the highest said she didn't do that well, i hate people like that, she seriously thought she did bad and was saying how she needs to use her quizzes to make up for the grade. grrr..... 😡

I truly hate people like that. I have one of those girls in my class. She annoys the hell out of me. She keeps saying how bad she's going to do and how hard the test is going to be, just to worry the hell out of us students who she chooses to talk to...then our worries end up in us getting a little lower grade and she gets an A. I try not to talk to her but she finds her way somehow into my conversations with other students. 😡

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Unreal... all that stuff I stressing over was super easy during the test tonight. And then an NMR problem shows up. We learned this NMR *()& so well in class, but not for non-aromatic rings. Just linear carbon chains and benzene rings. So the teacher puts some new cyclopentane with 3 oxygens ( still don't know how to solve the damn thing). It really makes you believe that some teachers are really out to get you...

 

[DSM]

Originally posted by OnMyWayThere
Unreal... all that stuff I stressing over was super easy during the test tonight. And then an NMR problem shows up. We learned this NMR *()& so well in class, but not for non-aromatic rings. Just linear carbon chains and benzene rings. So the teacher puts some new cyclopentane with 3 oxygens ( still don't know how to solve the damn thing). It really makes you believe that some teachers are really out to get you...

I've got one of those Orgo teachers too! Puts friggin reactions with reagents you have never even heard of on the test!!! Must be an Orgo thing! I call him Beelzebub! My Physics teacher is the devil so I relegated my orgo teacher as 1st lieutenant!😀