You know you're in med school when....

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um... you might want to get that checked.
I am going to, believe me. When I get time :rolleyes:

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  • When you play football and feel the fatigue in your muscles and say that you wouldn't let that Lactic acid to defeats you
  • When you call sleeping continuous 7 hours being lazy.
  • When you wake up to find yourself sitting in your office with the pen in your hands and large strange words in your book
 
Just happened to me:

When you start getting mad in the library because you think you left one of your highlighters back at home, and NOT having THAT color is gonna completely ruin your color scheme for studying :laugh:
 
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...people see you wearing scrubs. And a labcoat. And your steth. But still assume you're a nurse, because you're a woman.
 
Just happened to me:

When you start getting mad in the library because you think you left one of your highlighters back at home, and NOT having THAT color is gonna completely ruin your color scheme for studying :laugh:

omg, that's me!!!!

...people see you wearing scrubs. And a labcoat. And your steth. But still assume you're a nurse, because you're a woman.

people need to get with the century here. :mad:
 
......when your contribution to the Christmas tree is this:

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....when you stare down your naked boyfriend and instead of getting dirty thoughts, you start naming his various muscles, bones, and any visible vessels in your head. :D

people need to get with the century here. :mad:

you have nooo idea how often that's happened to me. Even when I just plain tell people I'm a medical student, they ask me "oh, so you're studying to be a nurse?"

Hahaha, yes. Or come across very likely mechanisms/processes that are still in clinical testing and your prof says "just be familiar with this issue but don't memorize it because this might not be the case."

HOMG YES!!!!!!! I always breathe such a sigh of relief when it says something hasn't yet been discovered or well-enough understood :D
 
you have nooo idea how often that's happened to me. Even when I just plain tell people I'm a medical student, they ask me "oh, so you're studying to be a nurse?"


Ugh, that drives me nuts. Although...The one that annoys me even more..."You're too pretty to be a doctor." WHAT THE HECK?!?! This has happened 3 times! And I'm not that good looking, so I must just look dumb.
 
Ugh, that drives me nuts. Although...The one that annoys me even more..."You're too pretty to be a doctor." WHAT THE HECK?!?! This has happened 3 times! And I'm not that good looking, so I must just look dumb.
Take it as a compliment!

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: You can answer: "I know! With my beauty I should be a GOD!" and laugh insanely.
 
Your most commonly used/heard phrase is:

"Oh, there's a good picture of that in Netter"
 
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Ugh, that drives me nuts. Although...The one that annoys me even more..."You're too pretty to be a doctor." WHAT THE HECK?!?! This has happened 3 times! And I'm not that good looking, so I must just look dumb.

rofl, long live the double standard...
 
... you cut your toe nails not because they are uncomfortable but because you are the SP for an MSK exam the next day.
 
You've actually checked the CXR on scrubs to see if it's backwards like everyone says it is... you were pleased to find out you could read it and agree.

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Sorry, I'm sure many pre-meds have noticed that :]. I wish that was an indication of being in med school though...
 
Sorry, I'm sure many pre-meds have noticed that :]. I wish that was an indication of being in med school though...
You know you're in med school when you realize that it could also be a CXR of someone with situs inversus.
 
You know you're in med school when you realize that it could also be a CXR of someone with situs inversus.

If I told you I knew this too would you just grant me my MD already? :laugh:
 
You finish your shelf exam and feel a sense of ennui. After all, it was a little anticlimactic and without studying to do, you can't think what to do next.
 
when you stop counting the number of coffee cups you are capable of drinking...
 
You finish your shelf exam and feel a sense of ennui. After all, it was a little anticlimactic and without studying to do, you can't think what to do next.

Hahahaha I totally feel that way right now.

I'm in the Molecular Medicine Masters program at USF COM and after the last month of intense studying esp. in the last couple of weeks and living out of the med school, I was totally feeling that way Thursday when the exams were over. The only time I felt that way in undergrad was with the MCAT.
 
When you're eating a meal and seriously considering to yourself whether or not the food you're eating is "high yield"
 
....when, in a moment of foolish pride, you attempt to diagnose your friend's medical problems, and then remember you're still pre-clinical and you don't actually know anything, and really, you're kind of really sick (haw haw, get it? sick? :D ) of all the pathology you've been studying anyway :laugh:
 
When you're eating a meal and seriously considering to yourself whether or not the food you're eating is "high yield"

When crunch time isn't 3 days before an exam but a month before an exam and you debate whether getting food or making food is worth the time or whether time eating and preparing food is better spent studying. LOL
 
Ha! I know exactly what you mean. I used to cook. eat healthy. Heck, I used to remember to eat. I find myself weighing which is more important eating or studying *Sigh* And they lecture us about living a balanced life, I'd be happy with a balanced meal!
 
When crunch time isn't 3 days before an exam but a month before an exam and you debate whether getting food or making food is worth the time or whether time eating and preparing food is better spent studying. LOL


I can't say anything about the "month before the exam" part because we have tests about every 2 weeks, but more often than not, right before a test I eat any leftovers that might be lurking in my fridge, and limit food prep time to about 10 minutes. If it takes longer than that, I'm not sure it's worth it. Although I have been known to quite studying at 5 or 6pm the night before a test, and just relax a bit by cooking myself a decent meal.
 
When crunch time isn't 3 days before an exam but a month before an exam and you debate whether getting food or making food is worth the time or whether time eating and preparing food is better spent studying. LOL

Ugh... for our second or third test block (I can't remember.... the months are running together nowadays), I was complaining to a non-med friend about how little I knew about what was going on. They responded with "Hey, you've got two weeks! That's plenty of time." :eek: Yeah, right... I remember back when two weeks was waaay too much time to prepare for an exam, and now two weeks is ony enough if you've been keeping up with all of your classes the whole time. If not, you're f***ed.

Also agree with the not knowing what to do with yourself once you don't have to study any more. We just started our 3 week winter break Friday afternoon and here it is Sunday and I'm bored already!!!! Fortunately, I'm getting married in 2 weeks, so that will give me something to concentrate on besides study.

I'd be less bored if the hollywood writers weren't all on strike and we could get new episodes of TV shows.
 
When you're packing your carry-on for the cross-country flight home, and only at the last moment do you realize that you actually DON'T need to make room for notes/books because for the first time in months you have nothing to study.

I had a test right after Thanksgiving, so I had to take notes the last time I went home. I just realized a few minutes ago that in the back of my mind I was saving room for my syllabus-but I just took my last written and practical anatomy test this morning. Wow, it feels good to be done with that.

But I know how you guys feel-it feels very strange to realize that I don't have to study for the next ~3 weeks...but HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!! when I come back from Christmas break, my fiance is moving to VA with me!
 
When you attend the wedding of a family member and people that have hardly spoken to you in the last twenty years suddenly are so proud of you and, hey, can you look at this funny bump I've had on my leg for the last 5 years? Oh, and my little boy keeps making this funny face... come here, Timmy, show second-cousin-once-removed Viridae the face you make... no, not that one, you silly clown... well, you know, it kinda looks like this *scrunches face up strangely*

Also, when you are already preparing for the conversation in which you are going to have to tell a certain family member that no, you have no intention of being an all-access pass to all the narcotics and benzos he can eat.

I love my family, can you tell? :rolleyes:
 
When you know even before a lecture begins whether it will be great or terrible just giving the lecturer the once-over and reading the first 2 slides.
 
alas, nothing crazy... the professor in question's name just sounds like Cialis.

Reminds me of Dennis Miller talking about how it was created by a guy pissed at his wife.

"Cialis!?! See, RIGHT THERE, Alice!"

bah-dah-ching.
 
....when you stare down your naked boyfriend and instead of getting dirty thoughts, you start naming his various muscles, bones, and any visible vessels in your head. :D

...When you actually HAVE a boyfriend...
 
I love this thread and this is my homage to it! :D

You know you're in med school when you have a designated spot for studyin at the coffee shop/library/barnes &nobles and if someone else takes your spot, it ruins your whole studying routine. :p
 
....when you stare down your naked boyfriend and instead of getting dirty thoughts, you start naming his various muscles, bones, and any visible vessels in your head. :D

:D:D:D I have totally done this (poor our boyfriends). Also I may or may not have told my boyfriend that I could see his posterior superior iliac spines.

You know you are in med school when your sister guesses that her soft palate is located under her chin and you find this hysterically funny and the rest of your family just thinks you're weird.

You know you are in med school when you check out the bones on everybody's plate at dinner and tell them which one is a humerus and which one is a tibia and you genuinely think they will be interested and they genuinely wish you would shut up and let them eat in peace.
 
"I hate work. Some days I wish someone would rob this place and just shoot me in the process."

"You mean like Xiphoid?"

:laugh: This is so funny. I wish someone else in my family were in medicine so I could send this to them.
 
I love this thread and this is my homage to it! :D

You know you're in med school when you have a designated spot for studyin at the coffee shop/library/barnes &nobles and if someone else takes your spot, it ruins your whole studying routine. :p

or when the people who normally stream lectures come to class and take your spot.... pisses me off everytime.:idea: i stand there going "where do I go, where do I go??1?!"
 
You know you are in med school when your sister guesses that her soft palate is located under her chin and you find this hysterically funny and the rest of your family just thinks you're weird.

Or, when playing trivial pursuit at Christmas your cousin gets, "What organ is affected during encephalitis?" Trying to reason through it she mentions it sounds like esophagus.... you burst out laughing and everyone gives you evil looks for clearly telling her it was wrong. But seriously, how could you not?!


(not completely only med students, but nonetheless)
 
Your kids aren't allowed to look at your textbooks without adult supervision.
 
You're excited by NYTimes health/science articles because they directly pertain to what you learned in class that morning. So this does have a non-esoteric application! My life has meaning!
 
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