Are you allowed (or do professors at least generally not care) to have beer in the actual building of med schools while studying? Just wondering because almost every night of the last year of my undergrad was spent at my universities biochem library (small library-2 long tables with 12 normal chairs, a full length couch and 2 big comfy chairs-almost no one was ever in there besides us) with 2-3 other people and we would, 3-4 nights a week, buy a 12 or 24 pk of some type of nice beer (sam adams/fat tire/Guinness) and a few pizzas or other type of food and just eat/drink and study for 7-8 hours (normally start around 4-5pm and stop around 1-2am). Yes, we did actually get a lot of studying done and we were all taking exactly the same courses so it made it more enjoyable.
I know some of you may not think drinking and studying go well together but I know I studied more that year than any other 2 years combined and I made much higher grades (especially when considering the courses-p chem1&2, 500 lvl biochem, anatomy w/lab, thesis, rad bio, and microbio to name some) than if I had studied the same way I had my first 3 years.
I seem to have really poor study habits when I try to study at my house or a friend's house which is why we decided to do this on campus and not just somewhere else. Also, it always seemed like at least 1 person had to run experiments at strange hours so it was just easier to be within a minutes walk of our labs while studying. And finally, it is a lot of fun when one of your professors walks by and notices all the food and beer (a long with piles of notes scattered on the table) and sits down with us and talks awhile about what were studying.
Anyways, our campus was a dry campus but our PI's were always bringing in beer during weekly lab meetings so obviously the rule was very lax, at least in this particular building. Anyone who is currently in med school or has finished have any input if I might be able to set something up like this again when I start in the fall?
I know some of you may not think drinking and studying go well together but I know I studied more that year than any other 2 years combined and I made much higher grades (especially when considering the courses-p chem1&2, 500 lvl biochem, anatomy w/lab, thesis, rad bio, and microbio to name some) than if I had studied the same way I had my first 3 years.
I seem to have really poor study habits when I try to study at my house or a friend's house which is why we decided to do this on campus and not just somewhere else. Also, it always seemed like at least 1 person had to run experiments at strange hours so it was just easier to be within a minutes walk of our labs while studying. And finally, it is a lot of fun when one of your professors walks by and notices all the food and beer (a long with piles of notes scattered on the table) and sits down with us and talks awhile about what were studying.
Anyways, our campus was a dry campus but our PI's were always bringing in beer during weekly lab meetings so obviously the rule was very lax, at least in this particular building. Anyone who is currently in med school or has finished have any input if I might be able to set something up like this again when I start in the fall?
