Who do you live with?

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I'm gonna be starting as an M1 this fall, and need to start thinking about housing. I'm going to my state school, so I've got the option of living with some friends from home, or with some random students from my school. Do y'all think that living with non-med students is disruptive?

 

[BozoSparky]

I'm gonna be starting as an M1 this fall, and need to start thinking about housing. I'm going to my state school, so I've got the option of living with some friends from home, or with some random students from my school. Do y'all think that living with non-med students is disruptive?

I can't live with anyone! Having said that...

They probably won't understand how much work you have and might think you are insane, but if they are understanding it might be better than taking a risk and living with a complete stranger.

 

[SoCuteMD]

Me, myself, and I. It's a party! Every night!

I personally couldn't live with other people (not med students 'cause that is just too much closeness, and especially not non-students). I would consider living with a PhD student or something. I personally like it to be very quiet and tend to stress a lot, and study a lot, and like living totally on my own schedule (or the schedule that the school sends me and tells me is now "my own").

If you want to part and have fun with your friends and only study as much as you need to (however much that may be) consider it, but understand that they may NOT understand how much you have to study, why you can't play video games, etc.

 

[psipsina]

Hey I'm going to be a M1 too and will bringing my husband along. I hope that by M2 I could find some roomies that we could live with, proabably another couple, to share housing costs. Sharing a two bedroom is almost always cheeper than a one bedroom place, and of course most of us will be on super tight budgets. I can't imagine living with non-medstudents, unless its someone you are very close to whom you are sure understands what your workload will be like. My husband is completely aware of what I am going to be doing, and therefore is very understanding about my bizarre study habits, like needing classical music playing constantly, but not thru headphones so I can still talk to myself like some kindof looney. The only way I can see it working for us is if it was another couple where one was in school and the other wasn't, that way everyone in the house would understand eachother and the rigours of med school, and my husband wouldn't feel left out if he was the only non-medstudent in the house. Though I thought about trying to find roomies for first year, after having some bad roomate situations in the past, I would really want to get to know someone before jumping into that situation. The last thing you need is roomate drama on top of all the stress of M1.

 

[azzarah]

LAst year I lived with non-med student friends and while I had a blast and that was my favorite year of med school , I got all Passes. First year I lived with other med students and my stress level was unbelievable, but I got good grades. Now I live alone and third year has been okay so far...not as good as first year, but not as bad as second year grade-wise and my stress level is somewhere in btw too. 😳

 

[yyd]

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[beefballs]

yeah and if there is a roommate fight it will always involve you somehow. Plus am I the only married person who has a blowout yelling match with my spouse about once a year-not very frequent but I sure wouldn't want roomates to hear it

 

[stephend7799]

DON'T DO IT. Really. I am also married and have an experience living with another couple in a 2-bedroom apartment. My husband and I did it for the same reason: to save the money, and it was a BIG mistake. Belive me, living with roommates when you are single and when you are married is VERY different. At the end, we came to agree that all the problems of sharing with a married couple and getting into each other's way was not worth the cost. In our case, the guy was my husband's friend (they work together), so we thought it would be okay (another mistake). I would not repeat this experience in a million years.

what kind of problems were you experiencing?

 

[Ypo.]

Ahhh, yes. The fun of living with roommates. It can't be done without drama.

Moving in with friends is a sure fire way to lose a friendship. Even if you don't get disgusted with each other after living so closely-you will not want to hang out with them on your downtime since you'll be in each others spaces all the time:=ruined friendship.

If I had no other choice but to live with someone else, I would spend very little time at home, and I would prefer to be polite, but not become close with that roommate. I just need to be by myself a lot of the time.

 

[doctoresse]

I am getting married next month 😍 so I'd rather live alone with my hubby since it will be our first time really living together. I also personnaly believe that a married couple should have their own space (I hate having an audience when I'm mad at him). But if I were single, I'd probably want med students rommies like me, who study hard and like to have fun harder 😛 I'm very excited about the coming months, getting married, moving to a cute town and finally starting med school, my dream come true.

 

[MiaFLSurf]

I live in a Med School Fraternity House.

I wont grow up.

 

[docjolly]

i currently live alone, in a 2 bedroom apt. (one room is a study room). i've lived alone for all of my adult life, including in college and now here in medical school. i enjoy my solitude immensely. there is no stress associated with washing someone else's dishes, cleaning the restroom, noise/disturbances, and sharing grocery bills. who needs these problems while in medical school? 😕 😕

if you do decided to share your living space, why not share with one other person (preferably another medical student), alone? this will definitely make your life much simpler (although this,in part, depends on who you live with)...

just a thought..

 

[Nebmuse]

The big thing to keep in mind is that no matter what anybody else thinks, you can't understand what it is like to be in medical school until/unless you are actually in medical school. I'm a big advocate of living alone, but if you must live with someone else, I'd live with another med student.

 

[yyd]

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[diosa428]

I'm not in med school yet - I'm a Master's student - and I live with 2 other Master's students and my best friend from high school. After this year, I would highly recommend only living with med students. The other Master's students and I have the same schedule and the same workload, but my friend really only goes to work. So she comes home at 11:30 at night (she works 2nd shift) and wants to hang out and talk or even go out and I'm heading to bed. I can imagine it would only be worse if she worked first shift, because she'd be here to distract me all evening and I definitely would never get anything done. And if you were living with more than one friend, then they would probably go out and do stuff (remember, they won't have work/studying to do) and you would be stuck home doing work.

 

[stephend7799]

Let's see... There were so many. The guy's wife watching stupid sci-fi movies on TV in the living room all the time. Her being overly jealous when we talk and it is not something she understands or is interested in. Her occasional tantrums and our laundry all over the floor when she thought we did not take it out on time for her to use the machine. Inability to resolve the conflict (even by discussing things) because her husband would tell us to basically stay away and leave her alone. In general, I hated the feeling of my privacy being invaded all the time. What does it matter if you have a nice apartment with a huge living room when the first thing you see getting home is another couple snuggling in front of TV. Finally, they moved out after 6 months and left us struggling to find another roommate because of a binding lease agreement (for a year). For all the trouble, and the "joy" of having to clean their filthy bathroom afterwards, we decided to keep their deposit - $1000. Needless to say, my husband and this guy hardly speak to each other.

did you hear their love making sessions.. that would be odd.. or walking in on them

 

[happydays]

Hey I'm going to be a M1 too and will bringing my husband along. I hope that by M2 I could find some roomies that we could live with, proabably another couple, to share housing costs. Sharing a two bedroom is almost always cheeper than a one bedroom place, and of course most of us will be on super tight budgets. I can't imagine living with non-medstudents, unless its someone you are very close to whom you are sure understands what your workload will be like. My husband is completely aware of what I am going to be doing, and therefore is very understanding about my bizarre study habits, like needing classical music playing constantly, but not thru headphones so I can still talk to myself like some kindof looney. The only way I can see it working for us is if it was another couple where one was in school and the other wasn't, that way everyone in the house would understand eachother and the rigours of med school, and my husband wouldn't feel left out if he was the only non-medstudent in the house. Though I thought about trying to find roomies for first year, after having some bad roomate situations in the past, I would really want to get to know someone before jumping into that situation. The last thing you need is roomate drama on top of all the stress of M1.

You're going to have to find some very understanding roommate to tolerate your constant music playing.

 

[yyd]

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