Who Else Feels Crappy?

[Amygdarya]

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Thank you for your kind response.

I agree that there is a lot of variability in education across the world and that med schools want to have some sort of a least common denominator for their applicants. But this doesn't stop me from whining 🙂
Though I shouldn't whine anyway because the path to becoming a doctor is probably not easy for anyone.

 

[MamiMD]

Feeling pretty crappy. Every time I screw up a passage I see the tens of thousands of dollars I plunked down for my post-bacc.

My scores aren't where they should be for the MCAT and suddenly I'm feeling a little dejected 😳

I need to meditate or something!
(Ok I meant eat more chocolate, yes.)

 

[Gfliptastic]

UGH! The "kids" got me again!! I was sitting in the Denny's @ 5am w/ a bunch of mid-20's MS3's who piled into my poor lil GTI after we sat along the Harbor, chatting and drinking liquids out of non-descript water bottles dubbed "pee water" and "water".

I just "napped" 4 hrs. Accomplished NO IM shelf exam studying whatsoever.

I'd stop going out w/ these kids, but 2 of the girls have crushes on me. And it's nice to have that coming from gals basically a decade younger than me. When I picked up one of them, she cleverly declared she would NEVER date anyone 11 years older than her. Strange exact # considering I'm 10 years older.

 

[anguisette]

UGH! The "kids" got me again!! I was sitting in the Denny's @ 5am w/ a bunch of mid-20's MS3's who piled into my poor lil GTI after we sat along the Harbor, chatting and drinking liquids out of non-descript water bottles dubbed "pee water" and "water".

I just "napped" 4 hrs. Accomplished NO IM shelf exam studying whatsoever.

I'd stop going out w/ these kids, but 2 of the girls have crushes on me. And it's nice to have that coming from gals basically a decade younger than me. When I picked up one of them, she cleverly declared she would NEVER date anyone 11 years older than her. Strange exact # considering I'm 10 years older.

Wait, which part of this is the feeling crappy part? 😛

 

[wholeheartedly]

Wait, which part of this is the feeling crappy part? 😛

Was about to ask him the same thing

 

[Gfliptastic]

Lol I guess I made a sandwich of nice things.

The non studying part makes me feel crappy. It's a w/ the shelf exam looming so closely.

I'm staring at how much of Step Up to Medicine I have left and really hoping I just learned a ton in my 9 weeks of IM so far. 100's of pages left. I couldn't cover this much info in the prime of my basic science badass beast mode. 8-12 hrs/day @ the hospital helps ZERO. 👎

 

[Shjanzey]

Found out wife got accepted out of state for a MS program. Now we have to relocate. I have to find a new job, convince them I will stay for a long time, and somehow sneak away for upcoming med school interview, move my entire existence to a city 13 hours away. It is all for good things, but the stress...oh the stress

 

[phys2med]

I'm just sitting here doing nothing really trying to get someone at the local hospital to contact me back about volunteering. I took my mcat at the end of May and the way I feel like I did means I haven't worked on my application much. I still have both essays to write before I'm done and a letter writer to hassle until she sends in my letter. Hard to stay motivated when you know one test can render everything else pointless. At least a family friend who is a top surgeon in town talked to me about how it took him twice to master the mcat and get an acceptance. Definitely not looking forward to explaining to everyone in my family AGAIN what's happening.

 

[augeremt]

I took my mcat at the end of May and the way I feel like I did means I haven't worked on my application much. I still have both essays to write before I'm done and a letter writer to hassle until she sends in my letter. Hard to stay motivated when you know one test can render everything else pointless.

I don't know if this helps any, but I was convinced I had bombed the MCAT (see this thread) when I took it last May as well. I was sure I had scored well below my average on the practice tests, which would've been disastrous for my application. In fact, I almost voided my exam after I took it, but since it was the last date I could test (I was going out of the country for the summer) I had no choice but to accept the score.

I ended up scoring three points above my practice test average. And I've heard this kind of story from many other people. Feeling like you bombed the MCAT is a fairly normal reaction apparently so try not to beat yourself up about it too much. I know that's much easier said than done but hopefully this helps a little.

Good luck with everything else!

 

[NCOldie]

I am feeling very crappy.

I have Hypothyroidism and have ran out of medication. I cannot get the medication I need (long story) and I have been awake for the past three days straight, basically.

My apartment has been infested with centipedes since it has been pouring rain here and they want to find a safe place to live. Well, they thought wrong because I was killing around 20 per hour...haha.

Oh, and my children decided to get sick this time as well.

I have successfully convinced my apartment complex to attempt to get rid of the centipede infestation by threatening legal action, so I am hoping their extermination was successful. We will see...
My children are now feeling somewhat better.
But...I still don't have any medication and I am exhausted. :-/

It is good to complain, but now I must get over it and move on! 🙂

 

[beBrave]

I am feeling very crappy.

I have Hypothyroidism and have ran out of medication. I cannot get the medication I need (long story) and I have been awake for the past three days straight, basically.

My apartment has been infested with centipedes since it has been pouring rain here and they want to find a safe place to live. Well, they thought wrong because I was killing around 20 per hour...haha.

Oh, and my children decided to get sick this time as well.

I have successfully convinced my apartment complex to attempt to get rid of the centipede infestation by threatening legal action, so I am hoping their extermination was successful. We will see...
My children are now feeling somewhat better.
But...I still don't have any medication and I am exhausted. :-/

It is good to complain, but now I must get over it and move on! 🙂

It's good to release and get things off your chest. Remember that one thing comes at a time, only a few grains of sand can pass at the center of an hour glass; if you try to push too many through, it becomes jammed. Do you're very best today, forget about things that have passed and the future is now.

I once said this to a friend, "today we prepare for the lives we will live tomorrow".

Try smiling, it'll change your entire frame.

 

[CajunMedic]

Wow, mine pale in comparison: Finally decided to pull the trigger and submit AMCAS today- Result: ERROR each time I try, called AMCAS, their answer: "well, yeah, a lot of people are having that today, just keep trying"

Still feel kinda sick about my MCAT retake on May 23rd. Physical Science just killed me.

Trying hard not to be a neurotic mess about the whole process.

 

[Juan Solo]

Hang in there my fellow non trads! Good luck in the upcoming cycle!

 

[augeremt]

Wow, mine pale in comparison: Finally decided to pull the trigger and submit AMCAS today- Result: ERROR each time I try, called AMCAS, their answer: "well, yeah, a lot of people are having that today, just keep trying" .

I also had errors when I tried submitting yesterday but it eventually worked. So keep trying and you'll eventually get it.

 

[Chip N Sawbones]

Today started off with a phone call letting me know that the guy who was planning on buying my house backed out. Thanks a lot; it was only a month of my time you wasted. So, I drove into town to get some supplies and my truck keels over and dies in the Home Depot parking lot. All the vitals are good; it's got fuel, air, spark, a working starter and a charged battery, but it still won't start. Hard as it is to believe, I think I may have just killed a Toyota pickup truck. What an awful day!

 

[beBrave]

Today started off with a phone call letting me know that the guy who was planning on buying my house backed out. Thanks a lot; it was only a month of my time you wasted. So, I drove into town to get some supplies and my truck keels over and dies in the Home Depot parking lot. All the vitals are good; it's got fuel, air, spark, a working starter and a charged battery, but it still won't start. Hard as it is to believe, I think I may have just killed a Toyota pickup truck. What an awful day!

I empathize with your situation. Think positive.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Hard as it is to believe, I think I may have just killed a Toyota pickup truck. What an awful day!

I have a gorgeous 2011 silver Kia sorento that I'd be more than happy to sell you



P.S. sorry about the house thing. What's your plan if you don't sell by your start date?

 

[Nervous Ned]

I had to drop my PhD in Clinical Psychology to become a PreMed so I would gain the knowledge I so desperately want; the title of Physician I want and the pride of knowing that I am doing exactly what I have dreamed of doing.

I have no advice regarding Chip's situation, but just wanted to say that the irony and humor of you being a clinical psych grad school dropout actually makes up for the rest of your post reading like a bad parody of a pop self-help pamphlet.

 

[Chip N Sawbones]

I have a gorgeous 2011 silver Kia sorento that I'd be more than happy to sell you



P.S. sorry about the house thing. What's your plan if you don't sell by your start date?

Thanks for the offer of the car, but I just went out and bought another truck. It's a 1991 Nissan that's functional and looks... functional. Its about as good as trucks get for $600. The only serious problem it has is that a previous owner lowered it but didn't do a good job. It's got a loose tie rod and the tires squeal whenever I brake or hit a bump. I'll go to the junkyard this week and see if I can find some replacement parts.

If I can't sell the house I'll rent it out for a year and come back the summer after MS1 to sell it. The good news is that I've got someone coming to look at it tomorrow. He looked at the house a month ago and wanted to buy but couldn't get pre-approved before I went under contract with the buyer who backed out. If I can sell to him I'll end up making more money, since I'll be selling by owner and I won't have to pay my broker's overpriced commission.

 

[Gfliptastic]

I suspect one of the reasons for 12 weeks of Internal Med is so we have enough time to study for the shelf. My shelf is in a couple weeks and I have around 20 mini-chapters to cover (in MKSAP Essentials) and at least 50% of the question book.

I'm feeling crappy because I should have been studying since day 1. IM alone, as clinical rotation is rough. Adding a shelf to study at the end of it makes it maddening!!

My beast-mode basic sciences study skills are woefully inadequate. I put a decent 7 hrs in today, and my brain is quitting on me. 8 hrs was slacking off in basic sciences. 10 WAS average. 12 meant I had a "good" day.

(Not like I miss those days tho LOL)

 

[beBrave]

I have no advice regarding Chip's situation, but just wanted to say that the irony and humor of you being a clinical psych grad school dropout actually makes up for the rest of your post reading like a bad parody of a pop self-help pamphlet.

Hi Ned, I'm not licensed but if you ever need to talk about anything bothering you, It would be my pleasure to listen 🙂. I just basically share my own experiences and hope that sometimes they can help others. This race, marathon can be overwhelming at times so If something I say helps someone else great; if not, then they will ignore it. As long as I'm not putting them down and or contributing to their mental burden, then I figure that I am at most helping a little or at the worst neutral.

I suspect one of the reasons for 12 weeks of Internal Med is so we have enough time to study for the shelf. My shelf is in a couple weeks and I have around 20 mini-chapters to cover (in MKSAP Essentials) and at least 50% of the question book.

I'm feeling crappy because I should have been studying since day 1. IM alone, as clinical rotation is rough. Adding a shelf to study at the end of it makes it maddening!!

My beast-mode basic sciences study skills are woefully inadequate. I put a decent 7 hrs in today, and my brain is quitting on me. 8 hrs was slacking off in basic sciences. 10 WAS average. 12 meant I had a "good" day.

(Not like I miss those days tho LOL)

Cheer up. Find some time to breathe, relax or do something else when you can find a bit of spare time. Just do your very best each and every single day and don't worry about the what ifs. We can only live in the now of today.

 

[kiwisryummy]

I got into some great post bac, master's programs, and Caribbean schools only to discover there is no way financially hack it. I am currently making 800 dollar/mo payments on a private undergraduate student loans I began taking out at age 18. I took out private loans because I was only eligible for a very small amount of federal loan assistance. When I spoke to a loan counselor years ago and explained my goals of getting into medical school I was told the loans could be deferred while in school. What the counselor neglected to tell me (and I neglected to read) was the fact that they could only be deferred 5 years after the disbursement date. I took a few years off between graduating and going back to school to work and spend time with my family (my grandmother became very ill.) I spoke to a loan counselor a few weeks ago and discovered I cannot defer these private loans. At all. I considered working while in a post bac program but I am nervous to bury myself in more debt, for my job would only allow me to make payments on my current loan, I would need to take out loans to pay for my living expenses and school. Although I got into Caribbean schools, you can only take out loans to pay for my estimated cost of attendance. If I did not get into medical school right away, I would be looking at an average of 40-50 thousand dollars on top of my existing debt which is an additional 400-500 dollars a month in loan payments. I can do 800 dollar/mo payments but I can't do 1200 or 1300 dollar a month payments until I'm a doc.

Although a few weeks ago I wanted to just give into the "well, FML" attitude, I decided to still pursue my dream. It's what I was made to do, and I don't see myself in any other career. I will do anything to accomplish my goal. It might be crazy but aren't we all on this forum? I sucked it up, decided to go the unsexy route of living with my parents at age 27 and take classes at a state school in my own, made-up post bac program through Chico State's "Open University," which is a way community members can take classes individually without enrolling. I need to re-take science classes to improve my ochem grades (got a C-, ouch!) and get LOR (I only have one professor letter due to the amount of time that has passed since graduating and large UCSB class sizes). I plan on applying for the military's health professions scholarships once admitted (fingers crossed) next year. I come from a military family and I know it will be tough, but I also know I have what it takes. It sounds like we all have our hurdles but I encourage all of you to go for it if it's what you really want to do. Sometimes it requires some resourcefulness and creativity. But that's what we are cut out for as doctors, right? Good Luck everyone!!!

 

[Gauss44]

I am feeling very crappy.

I have Hypothyroidism and have ran out of medication. I cannot get the medication I need (long story) and I have been awake for the past three days straight, basically.

My apartment has been infested with centipedes since it has been pouring rain here and they want to find a safe place to live. Well, they thought wrong because I was killing around 20 per hour...haha.

Oh, and my children decided to get sick this time as well.

I have successfully convinced my apartment complex to attempt to get rid of the centipede infestation by threatening legal action, so I am hoping their extermination was successful. We will see...
My children are now feeling somewhat better.
But...I still don't have any medication and I am exhausted. :-/

It is good to complain, but now I must get over it and move on! 🙂

Just curious, is this the northeast variety, Hawaiian, or something else? Centipedes are by far the nastiest bugs I've ever seen. Try dehumidifying and plug up every single crack in the walls, and every last crevice in the windows, the doorway, and the vents. Maybe even get a vent cover. You can knock out individuals either with a vacuum or with medical adhesive spray. But dehumidifying is your best bet. Diatomaceous earth can help a little. Good luck! I hate these bugs.

 

[wholeheartedly]

Just curious, is this the northeast variety, Hawaiian, or something else? Centipedes are by far the nastiest bugs I've ever seen. Try dehumidifying and plug up every single crack in the walls, and every last crevice in the windows, the doorway, and the vents. Maybe even get a vent cover. You can knock out individuals either with a vacuum or with medical adhesive spray. But dehumidifying is your best bet. Diatomaceous earth can help a little. Good luck! I hate these bugs.

Ditto that with the grossness and it does mean there are moisture or water probs where they are. I had a bunch in an apt once and subsequently discovered a leak and mold problem. So don't just address the pest issue. Figure out what type of water issue might be at play as well.

 

[Helen Wheels]

Step 1 in 5 days. (gulp) Vacillating between feeling burned out and wanting it to just be over to wishing I had another month because this coming Monday is the day I destroy my medical career. I am pretty sure I will pass but I think I am going to get a score below the national average. Granted I am aiming for ID or psych and not derm or neurosugery but still...

By the way, I wouldn't cuddle with a centipede, or anything, but, by golly, centipedes are better than SPIDERS! There's nothing worse than spiders. 🙂

 

[wholeheartedly]

Step 1 in 5 days. (gulp) Vacillating between feeling burned out and wanting it to just be over to wishing I had another month because this coming Monday is the day I destroy my medical career. I am pretty sure I will pass but I think I am going to get a score below the national average. Granted I am aiming for ID or psych and not derm or neurosugery but still...

By the way, I wouldn't cuddle with a centipede, or anything, but, by golly, centipedes are better than SPIDERS! There's nothing worse than spiders. 🙂

 

[Gfliptastic]

Step 1 in 5 days. (gulp) Vacillating between feeling burned out and wanting it to just be over to wishing I had another month because this coming Monday is the day I destroy my medical career. I am pretty sure I will pass but I think I am going to get a score below the national average. Granted I am aiming for ID or psych and not derm or neurosugery but still...

By the way, I wouldn't cuddle with a centipede, or anything, but, by golly, centipedes are better than SPIDERS! There's nothing worse than spiders. 🙂

Aim high Helen. The worst that will happen is you don't hit your # but do better than you thought you would. Aim for a 235 or 240. If you miss, you might still be in the 220's!

My advice is:

~ Box of granola bars. And yes, try to eat all of them. Brain needs it's glucose.
~ Carboload like an athlete! Nice carby dinner! Again, brain needs it's glucose, you will easily dip into your glycogen reserves I guarantee.
~ Gatorade. Stay hydrated. Gatorade is the most iso-osmolar to blood. Water will make you go to the bathroom more and give you no precious sugar. Just some sips so you don't choke on your granola bars.
~ Caffeine of some form. For the later blocks. Drink it around block 4. Not out of reach to say you will get tired by block 5 or so. Don't give up!
~ Try to double up! It is easier if you do the 1st block, take your break. Eat your granola bars, get your Gatorade. Then go back and reel off 2 consecutive blocks. Alternate. 1 then 2. Except maybe towards the end. I was doing 1's only.
~ Use your breaks as breaks! Don't try to study during your break or read notes. That's not a break. Gather yourself. Snack. Regroup. Shake off any errors you feel you might have made. Relax.

Good luck! Kick butt!!! 👍

 

[Gauss44]

By the way, I wouldn't cuddle with a centipede, or anything, but, by golly, centipedes are better than SPIDERS! There's nothing worse than spiders. 🙂

Have you googled, "house centipede"? They are the biggest mutant disgusting fast and awful creatures. The bigger ones even chase mice! That's why I felt crappy last year. Then I got a dehumidifier...

 

[sockit]

feeling crappy report: i am about to write my 6th exam in 4 weeks (psych). just at the moment (no sleep, early exam, trying to work out if 1 sleep cycle will help or hurt), i deeply resent the hoop-jumping & artificiality of this whole process. i have gotten very good at quickly digesting and then regurgitating huge quantities of content-nuggets - which at one time, i actually understood, but have for this process - with my reading notes, my highlighter, my cards - distilled into manipulable tokens - for the purpose of assessment through sometimes typo-packed, often poorly conceived multiple choice exams, which might be affected by any of 1) lack of sleep 2) lack of sleep and 3) lack of sleep. i could probably pass this if i wrote it right now, but i have to not sleep (i lack sleep) until 9 and survive until noon.

i know this content - it's psych, i'm old, i've lived at least some of it; i've read enough to call it out - but do. not. trust that i can package it in an acceptable way, today, that i can hammer things down into little circles. AND, not even, in a truthful or precise way, but, in a way according to my interpretation of such and such lecturer's phrasing of the question. 'risk factor' =/= 'cause', but, 'cause' it must be on the scantron.

just at the moment, i am so sick of this. just at the moment, the isolation of *this kind* of joyless study & the stress of *this kind* of assessment & NO SLEEP feel so freaking grim.

i remember getting little brain boners when i read kierkegaard. no more.

sorry, i don't know if it's ok for me to jump on this train, i'm just a summer school sleep hobo looking for some temporary comfort. holy crap i am going to have a little nap, i think.

 

[wholeheartedly]

sorry, i don't know if it's ok for me to jump on this train, i'm just a summer school sleep hobo looking for some temporary comfort. holy crap i am going to have a little nap, i think.

totally ok. that's the point of this thread.


feeling crappy as well. no real reason. well, I suppose there is. some people are jerks.

 

[SPTtoMD]

So I got placed on a clinical in the middle of nowhere that had no available housing. There was literally nothing available outside of buying a house, which just isn't feasible on a student's salary. I searched for a year using every strategy-- calling every apartment, looking on Craigslist, placing ads in the church bulletin, you name it-- but no bites. A couple of weeks ago, the clinic contacted this 83-year-old woman who had rented out her basement to a visiting staff member once before, and this woman called me and said she was happy to let me live there. I told her I was grateful for someone giving me a place to live when there was nothing else available. That was that for about two weeks.

So last night she unexpectedly phoned me and told me to get out, while using some rather colorful language. I have no idea where any of that came from, but I'm less upset about the name-calling (I've been called much worse) than I am about needing to find another place to live within the next few weeks. I had to call the clinic; the person in charge of setting up student housing told me the lady had dementia and should have been taken off the contact list months ago. Now I have to find a new place.

EDIT: Thank you to those who PM'd me in order to offer help! The clinic is trying to find available and safer housing right now.

 

[DrDreams]

I am taking 9 credit hours over the summer, studying for the mcat and volunteering/shadowing.

I am so exhausted all the time, mainly due to a crappy school schedule which leaves a 2 hour gap between classes. I hate that crap. In addition to the fact its ridiculously humid down here, I havent slept more than 4-6 hours for the last two weeks, and its been in the 90's. My back is also constantly killing me.

To top it all off, the school makes us park SO FAR even when majority of the faculty isnt on campus, they insist on giving us tickets, and walk in the sweltering heat.

I am also afraid to list my work/EC activities on my application, Im just not sure what they are looking for.

 

[Major]

Going over my transcripts and seeing all the bad grades from 7 years ago. Just tears me up inside that mistakes I made so long ago can prevent me from getting into med school

 

[Shjanzey]

Realizing I should have applied to a Master's Program as a contingency plan this year, if I don't get in. If I don't get in, things will get dicey. Why am I so stupid sometimes?

 

[kaygeebee]

Going over my transcripts and seeing all the bad grades from 7 years ago. Just tears me up inside that mistakes I made so long ago can prevent me from getting into med school

I'm the same. It's so frustrating. Back then, I was a kid who had no idea what she was doing and even though so much time has passed, those bad grades can still be a major red flag. Hang in there buddy.

 

[abee87]

Going through a divorce to someone I actually still love and the stress and depression have caused me to go to the hospital with horrible abdominal pain, I broke out in huge zits ALL OVER and I had a case of hives for three days.

I work 40+ hours with a growing company and I need to start knocking out more classes so I can take my MCAT but that comfort in this company and everyone telling me "medicine is so hard and miserable" is adding more stress and I just am so afraid of making the wrong choice 😱

ahh so my complain session is over and its time for my big girl pants to come back on...

 

[Shjanzey]

I can take my MCAT but that comfort in this company and everyone telling me "medicine is so hard and miserable" is adding more stress and I just am so afraid of making the wrong choice 😱

I love it when I hear people tell me this. It just shows that they are small-minded and too lazy to try great things, so they want to pull you down in the process.

Don't let those people hamstring you emotionally because when you look back at them in several years their song will have changed to "Well abee87 is a genius, I could never do that it is too hard..."

 

[abee87]

I love it when I hear people tell me this. It just shows that they are small-minded and too lazy to try great things, so they want to pull you down in the process.

Don't let those people hamstring you emotionally because when you look back at them in several years their song will have changed to "Well abee87 is a genius, I could never do that it is too hard..."

That's very true. Thanks for that extra push.

My biggest issue more than anything is having a pretty much guaranteed job for years with benefits...but I don't feel satisfied.

 

[Gfliptastic]

Going over my transcripts and seeing all the bad grades from 7 years ago. Just tears me up inside that mistakes I made so long ago can prevent me from getting into med school

😡

Anyways, yeah it's probably easier for me to say since I've overcome my sub-par undergrad grades at this point, however, I'd say keep an extra copy for yourself to keep you motivated.

I'm not sure where you are in the process of applying, but if you are in post-bacc classes or prepping for the MCAT, get some inspiration from your past. Work every day to prove to the powers that be, who will be deciding your future, that those grades and that transcript is a poor representation of who you really are! 👍

Does a part of me want to go back to the all the schools that wait-listed me after an interview and say, "I told you I was worthy of medical school!" YES. However, I'm not bitter about it because I'm doing what I wanted to do where I am.

Well to stay on topic, my IM exam is tomorrow. I still have to study so much! I'm so sick of IM questions at this point!!! 🙁

I'll probably be back in this thread on Sat talking about how wretchedly hungover I am lol.

 

[sockit]

totally ok. that's the point of this thread.


feeling crappy as well. no real reason. well, I suppose there is. some people are jerks.

Thank you 🙂 I was completely shocked to learn today that I got 99.5% on that exam. I have NO CLUE how that could have happened. Saved my final grade; had gotten a low B on a paper for the class. Presumably, someone has sacrificed a goat on my behalf to appease the assessment spirits.

Sorry you had that kind of day 🙁

 

[shezadeh]

Worked 10 hours today. All office, cubicle based. Walked around outside for lunch, but besides that, I was in the building all day, at my desk. Got up to get stuff from the printer, talked to a few people asking them to sign a few things. One coworker once described this job as "soul crushing".

On one hand, this does motivate me to study; on the other hand, it is rather depressing, which doesn't help the study part :/

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Worked 10 hours today. All office, cubicle based. Walked around outside for lunch, but besides that, I was in the building all day, at my desk. Got up to get stuff from the printer, talked to a few people asking them to sign a few things. One coworker once described this job as "soul crushing".

On one hand, this does motivate me to study; on the other hand, it is rather depressing, which doesn't help the study part :/

Your name sounds Persian. Persians are super good looking

Hope that reduces your depression 🙂

 

[shezadeh]

Your name sounds Persian. Persians are super good looking

Hope that reduces your depression 🙂

Thanks 🙂

Although I am not Persian, I did indeed intend my name to sound like it. Well done.

Man, I need to get on this MCAT study plan...

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Thanks 🙂

Although I am not Persian, I did indeed intend my name to sound like it. Well done.

Man, I need to get on this MCAT study plan...

Haha good job on disguising it

SN2'd MCAT plan all the way baby

 

[shezadeh]

SN2'd MCAT plan all the way baby

Somebody needs to make a 6 month version for people who work full time.

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Somebody needs to make a 6 month version for people who work full time.

Why can't you just take the 3 month version and divide it by 2?

Split the 3 months over half a day of 6 months

 

[shezadeh]

Why can't you just take the 3 month version and divide it by 2?

Split the 3 months over half a day of 6 months

Not a bad idea. I was going to do that, but after I do the EK 10 week plan. I figured the 10 week plan will give me a good start. I don't plan to take the test until next week anyways.

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Not a bad idea. I was going to do that, but after I do the EK 10 week plan. I figured the 10 week plan will give me a good start. I don't plan to take the test until next week anyways.

MCAT next week? O.O

 

[sockit]

Worked 10 hours today. All office, cubicle based. Walked around outside for lunch, but besides that, I was in the building all day, at my desk. Got up to get stuff from the printer, talked to a few people asking them to sign a few things. One coworker once described this job as "soul crushing".

On one hand, this does motivate me to study; on the other hand, it is rather depressing, which doesn't help the study part :/

It's totally soul crushing - so good you're using it as fuel. I do, all the time. Not cube-farming atm, but the memories cut deep.

Do you work out at all? Doesn't solve depression, if you've really got that, but it can absolutely lift your mood, enough to let your motivation move you. Can vouch for two good ways to fit it into life:

- if you like mornings: 20 mins intense intervals before breakfast (if interested but have no machine, can recommend workouts)

- if you're better in the afternoons: do something right after work, at a place close to your place of employment (this way it's out of the way quick; less opportunity to procrastinate). Sounds like summer's calling you, maybe there's a rec league somewhere looking for subs?

 

[wholeheartedly]

messed up my bad back. it's a rare occurrence fortunately, but eff. not how i pictured my week. i was going to be productive. well, actually, I was, just a little too productive today and think that's the problem.