Toughest aspect of the pharmacy program

[choylifut]

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Dear Current Pharmacy Students,

What are the toughest/most enjoyable/least enjoyable aspect(s) you've encountered during pharmacy school?

Thank you!

 

[evilolive]

Hardest thing: learning to balance partying with academics. Hands down.

 

[nerv12345]

Hardest thing: learning to balance partying with academics. Hands down.

HA! i like you 👍

 

[pharmboy30]

I still made it to happy hour almost every day, haha.

For me: med chem

 

[pinkyrx]

Kinetics was my least favorite part of school!

 

[Epic]

Dear Current Pharmacy Students,

What are the toughest/most enjoyable/least enjoyable aspect(s) you've encountered during pharmacy school?

Thank you!

Toughest: Commuting from Orange County to LA
Most Enjoyable: Skipping school and golfing
Least Enjoyable: My classmate with bad sinus infection with nasty halitosis who used to breathed on everyone..

 

[Farmercyst]

Least Enjoyable: My classmate with bad sinus infection with nasty halitosis who used to breathed on everyone..

Sounds like the beginning of a Where are they now? thread.

 

[KARM12]

Sitting in the same room with the same 200 ppl every single day.

 

[kellia]

LOTS of material, and never enough time to learn it all.

 

[njac]

Sitting in the same room with the same 200 ppl every single day.

and only fantasizing about, not actually, beating some of them with a blunt object.

I think it probably depends on your program but pharmacy school is what you make it. You can bust your ass 100-hours a week or you can choose not to. I choose not to and am a "B" student. But I work about 30 hours per week and feel that I learn much more useful stuff at the hospital than I do in class.

 

[TexasBlaze]

Im a P1 and the class average is much lower than I expected, around 60%

I didnt study that much in my first semester and my grades showed. Its just soo overwhelming all the stuff we need to learn/memorize/regurgitate

How do people cope? how much time do you spend on studies?

 

[rebelde]

I would say the toughest part is not becoming entirely disillusioned with your peers and the faculty members at your school.

 

[Requiem]

I would say the toughest part is not becoming entirely disillusioned with your peers and the faculty members at your school.

Haha, I'd love for you to elaborate on this. I feel similarly.

 

[tussionex]

I would say the toughest part is not becoming entirely disillusioned with your peers and the faculty members at your school.

i second that!!

 

[medicament]

Sitting in the same room with the same 200 ppl every single day.

I totally agree. I didn't even think about this before I started pharmacy school - but it's the one thing I HATE about it. Being stuck with the same people in the same cramped, hot rooms every day is not fun.

Plus, they've put as many students as can possibly fit into the building at my school. There's not enough room in the classrooms. If someone comes late to class (and people ALWAYS come late to class), they have to climb over everyone in the extremely narrow rows they've constructed. Some people don't even bother and will stand during the whole lecture or sit on the ground in the back or on the side. It's pretty sad.

 

[KARM12]

My least favorite is when someone decides to take your unofficial "seat." It is like..."I've been sitting in this same seat everyday for 3 years...why would you decide to sit here now?"

You really do get to know your classmates...like who is always coming in late, who always asks the stupid questions, and then those randoms that never go to class... when graduation rolls around you're like "i haven't seen this person since orientation."

 

[Epic]

Sitting in the same room with the same 200 ppl every single day.

Toughest aspect the pharmacy program for those same 200ppl....

Sitting in the same room with KARM12 every single day..

 

[genesis09]

Toughest aspect is right now because there was a big fire in our building. They don't know anything about when the building will open and class status for this week.

 

[KARM12]

Toughest aspect the pharmacy program for those same 200ppl....

Sitting in the same room with KARM12 every single day..

At least I'm not a dirty drug rep.

 

[KARM12]

Toughest aspect is right now because there was a big fire in our building. They don't know anything about when the building will open and class status for this week.

Yeah that sucks...I heard about that on the news. Luckily everyone was okay. So you don't have class at all this week?

 

[nerv12345]

are/were any of you in an accelerated 3 year program?

 

[genesis09]

Yeah that sucks...I heard about that on the news. Luckily everyone was okay. So you don't have class at all this week?

I really don't know. They just sent an e-mail saying some pipes burst, and caused some major water damage. Some of it actually got into the hospital basement, our neighbor.
The rooms which they store the applications for the fall had some water damage. Be interesting to see, if any of them were destroyed.

 

[rxlynn]

My least favorite is when someone decides to take your unofficial "seat." It is like..."I've been sitting in this same seat everyday for 3 years...why would you decide to sit here now?"

You really do get to know your classmates...like who is always coming in late, who always asks the stupid questions, and then those randoms that never go to class... when graduation rolls around you're like "i haven't seen this person since orientation."

LOL - We have been having the same problem this semester! I have friends who go to class 30 minutes early and set stuff down so they won't lose their seat!

 

[SpirivaSunrise]

LOL - We have been having the same problem this semester! I have friends who go to class 30 minutes early and set stuff down so they won't lose their seat!

Wait 'till they bust out the seating chart like it's 3rd grade. I remember rolling my eyes a lot in pharmacy school.

 

[rebelde]

Haha, I'd love for you to elaborate on this. I feel similarly.

To elaborate, the professors are not interested in seeing you succeed, but they're not interested in seeing you fail.... in fact, they just don't care either way. I emailed a professor once telling her that I would have to make-up a pharmacy practice lab because of some personal issues that came up....which she later told me was "unprofessional".....bitch!!

As far as my peers- I definitely don't think they have the values in order to be pharmacists. Nor do they seem to care about anything except how much money they will make when they graduate. Yet, they all are very successful academically....and yes, many of them cheat on everything.