ugh, how hard is it for you to wake up every morning at 6:15am?

[oompa loompa]

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I didn't even wake up this early in high school!

It's still the first week of class so not going would be extremely lame, but I'm already thinking about skipping future classes (if I can get away with it!) simply for sweet swet sleep!

how do y'all do it?

 

[DoctorFunk]

I'm lucky in that my wife actually wakes up a few minutes before me, and is kind enough to wake me up.

However, if you are not married or currently living with a significant other, you could get the same effect by sleeping in the same room as a rabid badger trained to eat every day at 6:15 AM.

 

[UVa2005]

6:15 is late - wait till you are a third year or a resident.

 

[DreamLover]

6:15 is late - wait till you are a third year or a resident.

Amen to that...I was at the hospital at 4:30am everyday for surgery...and really...for gyn-onc, for a PICU rotation, Labor and Delivery, and even some days on IM....you are now officially a "morning person" whether you like it or not....welcome 😴

 

[Hard24Get]

Yes, wait until you must start prerounding at 4 or 5am or risk the wrath of an ill-tempered surgery team . Soon, your clock will reset and getting up early will seem natural (though it's not).

6:15 is late - wait till you are a third year or a resident.

 

[Hard24Get]

See, the fact that we posted the same thing at the same time just proves we're right. 😛

Amen to that...I was at the hospital at 4:30am everyday for surgery...and really...for gyn-onc, for a PICU rotation, Labor and Delivery, and even some days on IM....you are now officially a "morning person" whether you like it or not....welcome 😴

 

[DreamLover]

See, the fact that we posted the same thing at the same time just proves we're right. 😛

Oh we're right...and soon enough all the 1st and 2nd years will find it out for themselves (sorry guys and gals) Right now I am relishing the fact that I don't have to get to the hospital until 7am on my current rotation...and that is LATE compared to about everything during 3rd year. 4th year totally rocks....no longer a 3rd year and not yet an intern. I call it the safety zone...no one to stress about impressing (3rd yr 🙁 ) and no great responsibility (interns 😱 ). Enjoy it people! 😎

 

[lilnoelle]

I didn't even wake up this early in high school!

It's still the first week of class so not going would be extremely lame, but I'm already thinking about skipping future classes (if I can get away with it!) simply for sweet swet sleep!

how do y'all do it?

I'm just a first year - I'm sure it will get worse as everyone says, but I'm getting up at 5:30 every morning. I'm not exactly a morning person, but because of time restraints, studying in the a.m. just makes sense to me. I'm considering getting up at 5:00 in order to have time to exercise quick in the morning. Haven't actually accomplished that yet, but working on it. I do go to bed at a decent time, usually somewhere around 10:00.
I think it would've been more difficult had I came straight out of college, but I spent a few years out in the work force and was waking up at 5:30 then too.

 

[MarzMD]

Waking up at 6:30 is killing me. It just feels so unnatural. I dont even want to think about third year.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Count me in. I'll get used to it...for me to poop on

 

[gaikokujin]

aaah the beauty of the preclinical years....I get up at 8 am...or 9 am....or 10am every morning. basically whenever i roll my ass out of bed.

i'm banking sleep for 3rd year basically.

 

[peppy]

Yeah, I'm not a morning person either (*yet*, as the others said). I felt guilty about skipping those early classes at first, because I was afraid I would miss something, but I decided it's much more efficient for me to be able to listen to the lecture recordings/read the transcripts at later times of day when I have the mental focus to really get something out of it. Sitting in lecture when I'm still half-asleep doesn't do much for me. 🙂
Good luck to all you new first years.

 

[Church]

6:15? 6:15? I sleep that late on days off 🙂

 

[fun8stuff]

I didn't even wake up this early in high school!

It's still the first week of class so not going would be extremely lame, but I'm already thinking about skipping future classes (if I can get away with it!) simply for sweet swet sleep!

how do y'all do it?

dang, i sleep in until 11-12pm regularly 😴 . pre-clinical years are such a vacation.. thank gosh for streaming lecture videos 😀

 

[OSUdoc08]

I didn't even wake up this early in high school!

It's still the first week of class so not going would be extremely lame, but I'm already thinking about skipping future classes (if I can get away with it!) simply for sweet swet sleep!

how do y'all do it?

Um. Go to bed at 10 or 11.

There is no need to go to class. I only get up early for required clinical rotations.

 

[TexasRose]

6:15? 6:15? I sleep that late on days off 🙂

That's what I was going to say! I regularly get up at 4am as a 3rd year.

 

[Genetics]

Don't be a lazy ass. Get up and do stuff with your life. Getting up at 6 am is not early by any means this day and age. People are sleeping less and getting to work early in the morning. You might as well get your body to adjust now and not have to do it later.

I didn't even wake up this early in high school!

It's still the first week of class so not going would be extremely lame, but I'm already thinking about skipping future classes (if I can get away with it!) simply for sweet swet sleep!

how do y'all do it?

 

[Shodddy18]

i HATE waking up that early.

 

[ms. a]

I'm just a first year - I'm sure it will get worse as everyone says, but I'm getting up at 5:30 every morning. I'm not exactly a morning person, but because of time restraints, studying in the a.m. just makes sense to me. I'm considering getting up at 5:00 in order to have time to exercise quick in the morning. Haven't actually accomplished that yet, but working on it. I do go to bed at a decent time, usually somewhere around 10:00.
I think it would've been more difficult had I came straight out of college, but I spent a few years out in the work force and was waking up at 5:30 then too.

Do it! You'll have a huge head start on your classmates when you start clinical rotations. Early takes on a new definition then. Waking up at 3:45am is no longer early for me. It has become normal - and I'm not the only one. I'm so psyched for next month when I don't start until 7am - that means I get to sleep in until 5:30am - what a luxury!

 

[Law2Doc]

I didn't even wake up this early in high school!

It's still the first week of class so not going would be extremely lame, but I'm already thinking about skipping future classes (if I can get away with it!) simply for sweet swet sleep!

how do y'all do it?

Medicine is largely an early morning profession. In most specialties, you will have some form of meeting and/or rounds before the normal early work day starts, for the rest of your career. As others in the thread have indicated, those in the basic science years actually have it pretty cushy, getting to sleep in until sunrise. Better get used to the mornings. And as OSUdoc suggested, turning in a bit earlier on school nights.

 

[cdql]

Good lord

I'll be turning in a 8pm if I have to wake up by 6 🙂

I'm pretty sure my patients will start dropping like flies if my sleep falls below that level! ha

 

[OSUdoc08]

Good lord

I'll be turning in a 8pm if I have to wake up by 6 🙂

I'm pretty sure my patients will start dropping like flies if my sleep falls below that level! ha

If you require that many hours of sleep, you should consider a medical or psychiatric diagnosis.

 

[akpete]

If you require that many hours of sleep, you should consider a medical or psychiatric diagnosis.

Hey, I sleep 9-10 hours each night regularly. I'm tired otherwise and will fall asleep sometimes if I'm not actively doing something. Yes, I'm a bit worried about sleep deprivation after this year (2nd year), but I don't think I need a psychiatric evaluation! 👎

 

[OSUdoc08]

Hey, I sleep 9-10 hours each night regularly. I'm tired otherwise and will fall asleep sometimes if I'm not actively doing something. Yes, I'm a bit worried about sleep deprivation after this year (2nd year), but I don't think I need a psychiatric evaluation! 👎

If you are tired unless you get 9-10 hours of sleep, you need to resolve this issue before you start clinicals.

It could be due to another factors (current diet, medication use, anxiety, depression, metabolic condition, endocrine condition, environmental factors, etc.)

 

[45408]

yeah, I'm not going to skip anything this week (first week), but I'll probably take one morning off each week or something, cuz I'm tired....

 

[group_theory]

The best feeling is coming in at 8 or 9am and running into your classmates who have been up and doing stuff in the hospital for the past 4 hours with hair disshelved and exhibiting labile emotions due to chronic sleep deprivation/caffeine dependance

You just can't help it but give them a big smile and go "goodmorning"

*this only occurred in some rotations. What goes around will come around and I personally know what it feels like on the other end of the stick ... which is why it feels even better 🙂

 

[Jedix123]

You just can't help it but give them a big smile and go "goodmorning"

and then get promptly punched in the face? hehehe 😛

 

[Blade28]

The best feeling is coming in at 8 or 9am and running into your classmates who have been up and doing stuff in the hospital for the past 4 hours with hair disshelved and exhibiting labile emotions due to chronic sleep deprivation/caffeine dependance

Actually, I prefer the feeling of being on the floor at 9, and seeing people waltz in with their Starbucks after having just arrived at the hospital...

...while you've already rounded on your 20 patients, had breakfast, and completed your first case in the OR!

Then again, I always feel a sense of satisfaction in seeing a patient and writing my note as the CONSULT, before the primary team does so in the morning.

 

[jbrice1639]

thank gosh for streaming lecture videos 😀

i really don't feel like i could justify the cost of tuition to watch videos on the web...just seems like i'd feel like i was getting ripped off not being in class where i can ask questions and participate if i want.

but, with how many people seem to like the online lectures, maybe university of phoenix should start an online md program...

 

[OSUdoc08]

i really don't feel like i could justify the cost of tuition to watch videos on the web...just seems like i'd feel like i was getting ripped off not being in class where i can ask questions and participate if i want.

but, with how many people seem to like the online lectures, maybe university of phoenix should start an online md program...

You're paying for the degree, not for the classes.

 

[Law2Doc]

You're paying for the degree, not for the classes.

Hopefully the real goal is to get knowledge, not the degree. The letters after your name don't contribute much to how well you can do your job.

 

[Samoa]

Enjoy the sleeping in while it lasts. I tried both things as a preclinical student, and then settled on sleeping in. Personally, I'd rather deal with the 2 weeks of pain at the beginning of third year while my body adjusts to getting up early, than spend 2 years twiddling my thumbs every morning till the rest of the world wakes up and things are open. In the preclinical years, at least, there IS such a thing as getting up too early.

In third year, it doesn't matter if anything's open, because the hospital is, and that's where you're going.

 

[OSUdoc08]

Hopefully the real goal is to get knowledge, not the degree. The letters after your name don't contribute much to how well you can do your job.

You're right. Your residency is what does that.

 

[supernova33418]

6:15 is late imo but that could be because i am usu up by 4am 5am latest .

 

[OSUdoc08]

6:15 is late imo but that could be because i am usu up by 4am 5am latest .

We just got an open bed in the adult psych unit today, if interested....

 

[supernova33418]

i m taking cape exams in phys, chem and bio in addition to as math . i have labs, research papers and sba's for all classes except math in addition to the usu exams. So i get up at 4 work till 6 leave home at 7 return form classes at 6:45 pm and study from 8 to 11pm or thereabouts....... A word of advice to any cape students dont take 3 sciences

 

[supernova33418]

perhaps thats why a 6:15 wake up call seems late to me

 

[OSUdoc08]

perhaps thats why a 6:15 wake up call seems late to me

This will all change when you start clinicals in medical school......

 

[supernova33418]

only time will tell....hopefully i get accepted next yr when i apply

 

[fun8stuff]

Hopefully the real goal is to get knowledge, not the degree. The letters after your name don't contribute much to how well you can do your job.

and the first 2 years of knowledge you can just as easy get from books, notes, online lectures, online discussion boards, websites, and email correspondance with professors.

If you like to sleep in and don't mind not seeing your friends everyday, might as well enjoy staying home, sleeping in, and doing what you want/when you want while you can.

 

[caffeinefree08]

Have no fear, you too will reach the point during 3rd year when you know you are late because you saw the sun RISING.

Many of my nightmares now feature me arriving at the hospital when it is sunny - because it is not and has never been sunny at 6am. And it is unlikely to become tomorrow.

Another word, enjoy the weather while you can. Apparently there was a heat wave and horribly humid temperatures sometime in July. Who knew?

 

[stoic]

don't worry - it only takes a couple of weeks to really get adjusted to a different sleep schedule. just make sure you're getting to bed early enough. if a major part of the problem is getting to sleep early enough to wake up at 6, you might try taking melatonin for the first couple weeks. there's also a new, non-schedule sleep aid (rozerem) that hits the meletonin receptors is supposedly good for helping you reset the sleep clock. and since it's new and not a controlled substance, there are tons of samples in most doctors offices. you could probably get some by just calling your family doc and asking.

anyway, my vote is for sleeping in and skipping class. at least for me, that's the way to go. you aren't missing much in class. you can pretty much teach yourself the first two years of med school from review books. random advice here: in fact, first aid for the boards, pretest, and brs are what i use in conjuction with the class powerpoints. the review books are VERY high yield... sometimes test questions come directly out of them.

good luck..

 

[werd]

Waking up at 6:30 is killing me. It just feels so unnatural. I dont even want to think about third year.

what time does class start for you? i got up at 7:30 for my 8:10 classes.... in any case, you're right - once you hit 3rd year and have to get up at 6:00/5:00/4:00, 6:30 will be a fond memory. for now, maybe you could figure out a way to be more efficient in the morning so you can get up later... i eventually fine-tuned my morning routine down to 15-20 min. well, if you don't figure something out, start taking naps in the afternoon or go to be earlier(?)

 

[MarzMD]

what time does class start for you? i got up at 7:30 for my 8:10 classes.... in any case, you're right - once you hit 3rd year and have to get up at 6:00/5:00/4:00, 6:30 will be a fond memory. for now, maybe you could figure out a way to be more efficient in the morning so you can get up later... i eventually fine-tuned my morning routine down to 15-20 min. well, if you don't figure something out, start taking naps in the afternoon or go to be earlier(?)

Wake up at 6:30, situps till 6:40, shower breakfast and get dressed until 7:00, walk my dog, leave house at about 7:20 and get to the clasroom at about 7:50 for 8:00 class. I live about 4.5 miles from the med school, but traffic is bad, and once I park I have to walk a little bit to get to the medical center.

 

[DoctaJay]

I didn't even wake up this early in high school!

It's still the first week of class so not going would be extremely lame, but I'm already thinking about skipping future classes (if I can get away with it!) simply for sweet swet sleep!

how do y'all do it?

I'm still in college and I wake up around 4:30 a.m. I just need to go to bed by 10:30 p.m.

HECK YEAH, 500 POSTS!!!

 

[Brainsucker]

I'm lucky in that my wife actually wakes up a few minutes before me, and is kind enough to wake me up.

However, if you are not married or currently living with a significant other, you could get the same effect by sleeping in the same room as a rabid badger trained to eat every day at 6:15 AM.

Did you just compare your wife (or at least your wife's method of waking you up) to a rabid badger?

 

[Matt Laneland]

you'll be surprised how little sleep you'll get after residency...4-5 hour a night undisturbed will do you wonders...

welcome to the wonderdul world of physician living..🙂

matt
physicianliving

 

[45408]

don't worry - it only takes a couple of weeks to really get adjusted to a different sleep schedule. just make sure you're getting to bed early enough.

Not really. I have to get up early every single day for work during the summer. And it's hard. every. single. morning. you just deal with it.

 

[akinf]

It's actually really hard considering I wake up at 8:00am 😛

 

[deleted50541]

Bunch of whiny b!tches, the lot of ya...