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You know what am talking bout guys? i am talking about a special bond that all meds and dents share. This bond is the unique experience of going through the final exams. No other professional school/program have such major exams. I mean the physio, biochem, anatomy, and neuroscience final exams are larger than life. These courses are tremendous and the exams cover an unimaginable amount of material. So you study for the entire course, and then bam! The final comes around! You got like 4-5 days to cram what other schools learn in a year or 2! Pretty insane! You keep on studying those lectures and they just dont finish
you read the textbook, you do old questions, you discuss cases with classmates....you skim the transcripts
meds and dents hop from one small study room to another exchanging tips and asking questions
you got like 200 histo slides that you have to memorize in not more than 3-4 hours
..its insanity that starts in the morning and lasts till 3-4 am. You stay up late for long long hours trying to get somewhere. Still, you almost run out of patience and energy. Youre wired on coffee; You get the urge to scream at the top of your voice not due to pain or misery but just to release the intensity and the heat. You just finished studying 200 pages; you take a deep breath preparing for the next 400 pages
..and it goes on and on. Lets face it. no one but meds and dents know what its like to go through those 72 hours that are before the biochem, physio, or anatomy final! You go through these exams that day and somehow you manage. It sometimes truly makes me feel that I can do anything I want. The 72 hours before the final are a truly amazing experience.
But thats not all. The most remarkable thing in all of this is how our brain and body deal with this. So youve been studying like crazy before the final for at least a week. You are literally sleep deprived, sleeping not more than 4 hours a night. And on top of that, the dents usually have mandatory classes at the dental school. You get more tired towards the finals day and very likely, youd end up staying up all night that night before the final. Youre tired but you still decide to pull an all-nighter. In reality, you are getting fatigued in every sense of the word but somehow your brain and sympathetic nervous system carry you through. And remarkably, 2-3 hours before the final (even though youre tired as heck and youre about to pass out) all of a sudden, you feel this surge of mental energy and you feel as alert as a hawk, as though youd slept 12 hours before the test. You go through the exam like a champ! Once its over, your eyes start hurting and you get a headache and a cathartic feeling. You go back home; you do not want to talk to anybody. You unwind and throw your wary body onto your loving bed, hugging that pillow as though youre now in eternal bliss. You assume the fetal position and sleep like a baby for long hours. You feel tired for the next few days, which is when you pay the dept you owe your body from those dark 72 hours.
What would we do without our hypothalamus and sympathetic nervous system? What would we do without those catecholamines? There would not be dental or medical school.
But thats not all. The most remarkable thing in all of this is how our brain and body deal with this. So youve been studying like crazy before the final for at least a week. You are literally sleep deprived, sleeping not more than 4 hours a night. And on top of that, the dents usually have mandatory classes at the dental school. You get more tired towards the finals day and very likely, youd end up staying up all night that night before the final. Youre tired but you still decide to pull an all-nighter. In reality, you are getting fatigued in every sense of the word but somehow your brain and sympathetic nervous system carry you through. And remarkably, 2-3 hours before the final (even though youre tired as heck and youre about to pass out) all of a sudden, you feel this surge of mental energy and you feel as alert as a hawk, as though youd slept 12 hours before the test. You go through the exam like a champ! Once its over, your eyes start hurting and you get a headache and a cathartic feeling. You go back home; you do not want to talk to anybody. You unwind and throw your wary body onto your loving bed, hugging that pillow as though youre now in eternal bliss. You assume the fetal position and sleep like a baby for long hours. You feel tired for the next few days, which is when you pay the dept you owe your body from those dark 72 hours.
What would we do without our hypothalamus and sympathetic nervous system? What would we do without those catecholamines? There would not be dental or medical school.
good luck on finals! 
