Tired of Waiting

[bnichols0330]

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Hi,

I know I may get raosted for posing this question, but is anyone else out there starting med school in a couple of weeks getting antsy? I only worked a few weeks this summer, and I'm beginning to get kind of bored. I know I am supposed to be enjoying these last few days of the calm before the storm, but I am ready for it to be here and to get going. I'm tired of waiting and curious as to Am I the only one?

 

[FLgirl]

I hear where you're coming from. I quit work a couple of months ago and although I'm not really getting bored (believe me I've gotten used to being a bum!) I still want class to start. I'm just sick of anticipating what's it's going to be like and am ready to put this nervoud feeling behind me.

Sixteen days and counting!

 

[fusionid]

wow, I quit my job 2 months ago too. I was working to hard at this job and decided to drop it to take it easy for sometime. I'm now so ready to start school. All my friends are working or moved away for gradschool. I spent too much time playing video games soemthing I hadn't done since I was a college freshman

 

[kaos]

OMG am I bored! I didn't get a job this summer, I quit my part time job right before graduation, and now the whole time seems like one big blob, I can't remember what the heck I've been doing for all these months. I SO can't wait for school to begin!

 

[CANES2006]

I remember when I used to say the same thing last summer. You'll be singing a different tune when you start school though. Just wait when you're a few days into your medical education. You'll be saying, "What was I thinking back then?!!! I must have been on crack!" 😀

 

[Retro]

I drink cheap beers, sleep 15 hrs a day and watch Dr. Phil and Oprah, and I feel like a bum... Schools starts in three weeks... Three more weeks of being a bum. Where is my bottle....!?

Vandy Class of 2007

 

[daisygirl]

Originally posted by Retro
I drink cheap beers, sleep 15 hrs a day and watch Dr. Phil and Oprah, and I feel like a bum... Schools starts in three weeks... Three more weeks of being a bum. Where is my bottle....!?

Vandy Class of 2007

Enjoy these final days- they will be coming to a screeching halt. I'll never forget how I felt when I started school last year...I felt that that the onset of medical school classes had rudely interrupted my summer vacation. 😀 😱 😱

 

[Street Philosopher]

now that the first day is approaching, i'm dreading it. i was looking forward to it for a few days though.

 

[sacrament]

Classes start for us again in a mere five weeks, and the notion of going back to school makes me want to break down crying like a small child. I'll miss you, summer...

 

[UCLAMAN]

I feel the exact same way...I want to start school already.

Well...more specifically I want to start orientation week and meet all of my new classmates, see chicago, go to bars and clubs and get ridiculously drunk. I'm not too excited about the actual having to learn enormous amounts of information everyday part.

 

[mute360_CO]

What a relief! I thought I was the only pre-MSI slacker out there. I'm really going to miss sleeping in until 12p, watching movies and drinking beer until 2am! I haven't worked all summer either. I'm pretty stoked I'm going to Hawaii for a few days; at least then I'll feel like I did SOMETHING this summer! 😀

 

[Retro]

Hey Street Philosopher, isn't that the picture of Kobe's accuser in your picture logo?

 

[Doc Ivy]

Yay, just booked a getaway to Vegas....
I love not having to do anything. Feels good not to have to work, or take summer classes, or volunteer. I watch old reruns of Law and Order, and I am now caught up on the latest Maury Povich paternity dramas, I work out twice a day...life is good 🙂

 

[sacrament]

Originally posted by UCLAMAN
I feel the exact same way...I want to start school already.

Well...more specifically I want to start orientation week and meet all of my new classmates...

If I live to be 100 I'll never understand people who get excited about meeting people. 😛 But I'm a card-carrying introvert.

 

[JM.]

I was wavering between being realy really excited and really really terrified. I am stuck at terrified at the moment. Since I am haing a lot of fun this summer riding horses and such - I am sad to be seeing th esummer draw to a close. 35 days till orientation for me.

 

[Bounty]

Originally posted by UCLAMAN
I feel the exact same way...I want to start school already.

Well...more specifically I want to start orientation week and meet all of my new classmates, see chicago, go to bars and clubs and get ridiculously drunk. I'm not too excited about the actual having to learn enormous amounts of information everyday part.

This is exactly how i feel - none of that school stuff! Just the meeting new people stuff!

 

[Pickle Salt]

here in san antonio we started our clinical integration course at the beginning of july and basic sciences start up in a week and a half...i didnt even have time to anticipate 😉

enjoy your vacation now, kids. cause once you start, lazy days are over, and time flies. but the beer's still a part of your life. maybe even more so than before. heh.

 

[fusionid]

Originally posted by Doc Ivy
Yay, just booked a getaway to Vegas....
I love not having to do anything. Feels good not to have to work, or take summer classes, or volunteer. I watch old reruns of Law and Order, and I am now caught up on the latest Maury Povich paternaty dramas, I work out twice a day...life is good 🙂

I do the law and order thing too

 

[kaos]

Originally posted by Bounty
This is exactly how i feel - none of that school stuff! Just the meeting new people stuff!

Me too, I wish orientation would last all year. 🙁

 

[HouseHead]

I've been spending a lot of time at the dog run with my dog and s.o., or sitting around my hood watching people (saw Fred Durst on Monday- surprisingly short dude) with my dog and s.o. OK, so the s.o. finally got a job (can you say WOOO freekin' HOO??? ), but the dog will surely miss these days. Won't she??

But really. I was terribly impatient for the longest time- been out of school since 2001- but now I'm getting nervous. Just wish my school would give us more info about our course schedule &c.

Doc Ivy- I hear ya on the working out twice a day thing. I just haven't gotten around to actually doing it 😀 I do dance to the point of injury on a regular basis though.

 

[DW]

Originally posted by Doc Ivy
I watch old reruns of Law and Order

yes, this is what my summer largely consists of....wake up just in time to run a few miles and catch 4-5 hours of "prime time in the daytime" on TNT

giving a little shout out to my fellow prematriculation bums out there 😀

 

[Doc Ivy]

Doc Ivy- I hear ya on the working out twice a day thing. I just haven't gotten around to actually doing it I do dance to the point of injury on a regular basis though.

Hey HouseHead, so you put on MTV and dance by yourself in front of a mirror?..oh, um maybe that's just me. But it's a good workout.

DW and fusionid, Law and Order fans unite!

 

[thesocialbeast]

I am working a summer camp for premeds at USC and I realize it may have been a mistake...I'm supposed to be mentoring and motivating the students but all I seem to do is read, watch trash tv, complain about school starting, and come back to the dorms drunk most nights...by the way, does anyone know any bars/clubs/places I should definitely visit while I'm in L.A.?

 

[HouseHead]

Originally posted by Doc Ivy
Hey HouseHead, so you put on MTV and dance by yourself in front of a mirror?..oh, um maybe that's just me. But it's a good workout.

Not since the late 80s! 😛
Nope, I club. Hoping to keep it up after school starts, but who knows.

 

[nutmegs]

all I was wondering is... who are you people? I would love to have taken the summer off, but have been working my butt off to pay my security deposit, get new struts in my car, all that fun-but-incredibly exciting stuff... 🙄 enjoy this beautiful day for me!

 

[Carbon]

Originally posted by nutmegs
all I was wondering is... who are you people? I would love to have taken the summer off, but have been working my butt off to pay my security deposit, get new struts in my car, all that fun-but-incredibly exciting stuff... 🙄 enjoy this beautiful day for me!

Interesting first post.....

I'm chomping at the bit waiting for school to start. I went to the bookstore yesterday and picked up a few of the books I'm going to need, and it was SO MUCH FUN!

 

[HouseHead]

Carbon- I know what you mean! I am SO looking forward to buying books. As soon as I get the money, I'll be ordering Netter's (I saw that there is supposedly an edition coming out 8/03- is that true?), plus a couple other must-haves.
Book shopping has always been my FAVORITE part of any new semester/school year. Just going in book stores gets me giddy 😀

 

[Carbon]

Originally posted by HouseHead
As soon as I get the money, I'll be ordering Netter's (I saw that there is supposedly an edition coming out 8/03- is that true?)

Dude, I got my Netter's yesterday! *scampering over to look at copyright dates* It's the third edition, copyrighted 2003. So I don't know if there's a new one coming out or not..... 😕

And I'm exactly the same about my books... don't laugh, I know I'm a dork, but I really like the smell of a brand-new book. 😍

 

[Bounty]

ooooh yes books and shiny new school supplies. I love school supplies! Office Depot, here I come!

 

[HouseHead]

Originally posted by Carbon
Dude, I got my Netter's yesterday! *scampering over to look at copyright dates* It's the third edition, copyrighted 2003. So I don't know if there's a new one coming out or not..... 😕

Did you get the interactive program too? I was thinking about buying the package.

And I'm exactly the same about my books... don't laugh, I know I'm a dork, but I really like the smell of a brand-new book. 😍

Yessssssssss! 😀
Those smooth, unblemished pages, just waiting for my hi-liters...
I dig office supplies too. I'm VERY particular about my notebooks. Too bad I still have a huge pack of uni-ball pens and another of hi-liters (can you say Costco?) from undergrad

 

[Bokomaru]

I'm also in that area between trepidation and excitement. A dean of the school said that the first 2-3 weeks will cover as much info as a semester in undergrad. I nearly dropped a brick in the bottom of my pants! 😱

Yeah...gotta get back in the academic mode...although I'm really glad I had a lag year between undergrad and Med school, cuz I was pretty burned out. I haven't been doing anything academic since I graduated in 2002, so I gotta start being in that study mode soon. I spent the year delivering Chinese food and frying rice. (no joke) So it was a kool experience because that's a whole different lifestyle that no one notices. Its hard work working in a restaurant, and has its own stresses too! (13 hours a day!)

Orientation starts the 15th...new school, new classmates, new world.

 

[ermonty]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one bummin this summer. I've spent my summer working out twice a day (weights in the am, cardio in the pm), watching movies, and playing Warcraft III on battle.net all night. I"VE LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! It's gonna be seriously tough getting back into academic mode. 🙁 But, we gotta rejoin the rest of society in a little thing called reality sometime.

Monty

 

[pillowhead]

Originally posted by sacrament
If I live to be 100 I'll never understand people who get excited about meeting people. 😛 But I'm a card-carrying introvert.

I know what you mean. I've just finished three days of orientation and start classes on monday...classes haven't even started and I'm ready for a break! Orientation is information and people overload!

 

[8744]

Originally posted by HouseHead
Carbon- I know what you mean! I am SO looking forward to buying books. As soon as I get the money, I'll be ordering Netter's (I saw that there is supposedly an edition coming out 8/03- is that true?), plus a couple other must-haves.
Book shopping has always been my FAVORITE part of any new semester/school year. Just going in book stores gets me giddy 😀

Cool your jets. Haven't you all read those posts about NOT buying books until you see whether you need them? People are not just saying this for their health. I have about 150 pouinds of books that I'm sorry I bought.

With that being said, Netter's is essential and you have my blessing to buy it. I don't think you will suffer terribly if you bought the older edition.

 

[kaos]

Yes, but what if they tell you the books are required? I already bought like 5 required books, and I have to return my Histo book, because it didn't come with the CD that was supposed to be included. 😳

 

[KyGrlDr2B]

Originally posted by kaos
Yes, but what if they tell you the books are required? I already bought like 5 required books, and I have to return my Histo book, because it didn't come with the CD that was supposed to be included. 😳

They always claim the books are required. They even go so far as to say that material will come both from lecture notes and book material. The most important thing I have learned after 1st year is that these are TOTAL LIES! NOTHING is required, believe me. If you read a textbook, no one will ever know. Likewise, if you don't open a book, no one will know that either. Always, always, always ask the students one year ahead of you if certain books are necessary before buying them. I have always been a book reader and after one year of med school, I realized that the only classes this really helped me in was Gross anatomy (lecture exams were killer and moore's helped me) and physiology. I bought maybe half of the other books and that was a total waste and I cannot wait to sell them to unsuspecting up and coming 1st years, heh heh.

 

[kaos]

Well now I feel like a big duh. 🙁 At least the books I bought were for anatomy and physiology (except the Histo one).

 

[ComplexPuzzle]

i m ready to move...i m ready to stop working...i am ready to be a student instead of a pseudo-responsible adult...i am not ready for school or studying or meeting tons of new ppl...i am not ready for new roommates...i am not ready to sign my name to loans and pretty much sell my soul (though i don't think its worth that much) for school...and def not ready to buy books...i hate spending money unless its for fun things

 

[BiggMann79]

I remember it like it was yesterday. A year ago I was anxiously awaiting my med school orientation, I was buying all the books on the required list as well as loads of review books.

I was so naive then. I've learned some lessons though in the past year.

1. Don't buy so many books just because they look cool on your shelf. You won't have time to read them all and you should really stick to the class notes.

2. Enjoy your Summer while you have it. Soon you will be partaking in the medical school fellowship of shared suffering and you will be discussing with your friends how much you hate it.

3. Be flexible with your study schedule. Don't expect it all to work perfectly as there is never enough time to quite study everything. Don't have an all or nothing mindset about studying.

4. The student mental health services are your friend, don't hesitate to go see them if you feel some depression going on. Do it soon instead of waiting until 3 days before the last gross antomy test that you haven't even studied for yet and are carrying a 50% in the class.

5. No one cares what your MCAT score is anymore. Those with the highest scores are not neccesarily those with the highest grades. The MCAT awards being able to think. Medical school awards being able to mindlessly memorize facts, regurgitate them on tests, and then forget them.

6. When you find yourself skipping more class than you attend because you are sleeping 12 hours a day you are probably depressed.

7. Microanatomy sucks, gross antomy sucks even worse, neuroscience sucks the most of all of them.

8. Physiology and Biochemistry are actually pretty cool!

9. Don't get bitter when your highest grade in every class is the NBME final and you beat a lot of people with higher grades than you.

O.K. now that I've vented I just wanted to say that the first year isn't really that bad IF you keep up with the material, don't expect perfection (at some point in the year Internal Medicine starts looking a lot more appealling than Orthopedic Surgery)🙂 , have a life outside of medical school (but not too much of one), and take care of yourself (mind, body, and spirit).

In my case I failed gross antatomy (passed microanatomy and did pretty well in biochemistry) and took a leave of absence because of depression. So I am also a member of the Class of 2007. I got things straighted out and I'm going to kill anatomy the second time around!

 

[ready]

Originally posted by Carbon
Dude, I got my Netter's yesterday! *scampering over to look at copyright dates* It's the third edition, copyrighted 2003. So I don't know if there's a new one coming out or not..... 😕

And I'm exactly the same about my books... don't laugh, I know I'm a dork, but I really like the smell of a brand-new book. 😍

you guys are scaring me....I already feel behind...

 

[labangel]

Originally posted by kaos
Well now I feel like a big duh. 🙁 At least the books I bought were for anatomy and physiology (except the Histo one).

Hey kaos, don't feel so bad about buying all your books...I'm an MSII at Maryland and the first block was the only one where I used the required texts . I used Netter, Rohen, Larsen's Embryology, and the Histo texts are good for going over pics and clarifying some of the lecture points (some of the lecturers' accents are hard to understand). For the rest of the year, you'll only need a neuro atlas in the spring...other than that, save your money! Good luck this fall...anatomy is pretty much the best class of the year. BTW, feel free to PM me if you have any questions!

labangel

 

[Allygator89]

Originally posted by Carbon
Dude, I got my Netter's yesterday! *scampering over to look at copyright dates* It's the third edition, copyrighted 2003. So I don't know if there's a new one coming out or not..... 😕

And I'm exactly the same about my books... don't laugh, I know I'm a dork, but I really like the smell of a brand-new book. 😍

July 2003 is the latest release date. 🙂

 

[ItsGavinC]

Originally posted by Bokomaru
I'm also in that area between trepidation and excitement. A dean of the school said that the first 2-3 weeks will cover as much info as a semester in undergrad. I nearly dropped a brick in the bottom of my pants! 😱

We just started (dental school) and I can vouch for this! We have a one week couse that requires eight (8!) different texts! In the beginning you'll feel very overwhemled, but don't let that get to you. Once you find a nice place to study and are able to organize all of the material to your liking, I think you'll feel much more control over your environment.

Good luck everybody!

 

[HouseHead]

Originally posted by Allygator89
July 2003 is the latest release date. 🙂

So, did the Netter's interactive CD come with that, or some other CD? I really want the interactive CD, but product descriptions leave something to be desired... 😛

 

[Masalaman]

i am so tired of waiting that I am all over the sdn forums, starting assinine topics and screwing around. It sucks that madden 2004 comes out the first week of school for me. That would have been a perfect summer game for me. Oh well, now it will be the perfect during school game.