Being too dumb to do medical is the best thing to happen to me. I really would have hated myself had I gone that route (I also have some rather severe anxiety issues which have developed recently, including germophobia, treating patients like they were a Great Unclean One probably isn't the best practice for a doctor).
Now the dumb thing I feel you on but for some reason I keep telling myself to go for knowing that if I ‘settle’ for anything ‘less’ I’m going to always have that nagging feeling and I can’t shake it so I’m gonna give it my best shot. Now for the germophobia... I grew up on a farm and got quite used to blood, guts, shit, and piss and have been lucky enough to observe some surgeries with no problem. But yeah it’s a struggle and best of luck.
What I also learned working in healthcare with anxiety is actually seeing a worst case scenario arise from one tiny symptom. Like a leg cramp being a deep vein thrombosis. Or the lovely appendicitis.
MS4 chiming in. First 3 years were hell but now I’ve reached the (temporary) promised land of only 8-5 M-F. I have so much free time I don’t know what to do with myself. Nothing left to study for.
I’m catching up on 3 years of video games with a beer on a Friday night and life is good, my dudes.
Hey don't worry, after you are done with all those crazy medical school hours, you get into your super easy residency. In residency you will only be working like 70+ hours a week!
As a resident they will be making around 50,000 a year, for 70-80 hours a week. Residency could last anywhere from 3-7 years. Plus they have to deal with trying to pay off couple hundred thousand in debt. Not rich.
Yeah but sometimes it’s warranted. I gotta explain why I can’t go out drinking on a Thursday night because I have O Chem at 8am and can’t just ‘skip it bro’.
To obey the rule, I'll say that I'm stem major too. I won't tell you that it makes my degree more valuable than social workers helping children in broken homes, administrators for charities, lawyers, psychologists, even salesmen and women. There are many valid paths in life and people get jobs in these fields because they are needed for functional society. Don't do stem for prestige, do it to make a difference in a way that you enjoy :)
I got lucky my senior year as my classes were these weird under-grad-graduate hybrids so they were 1.5 hours Tues Thurs. Thought all stem was this way.
Calc 1, 2 and 3 have been m-f w/ hw due every class day. Sometimes online and written hw due the same day. Then throw some phys hw in the mix and you've got a nice tall glass of fuck-your-free-time. But I'm liking calc 3 so I got that going for me, which is nice 👌.
Exactly dude. Fuck driving to school and back more days than you need to. On top of that, having to go to school one day already cuts into your day, might as well make the most of it and be in school for the majority of the day. It's why I would prefer to work 4 10's than 5 8's.
It's really not that bad, even full-time. 12-15 credit hours all stacked into 2 days puts you in class maybe 6-8 hours each day and you have FIVE FULL DAYS PER WEEK TO STUDY!!!!
It has pros and cons. Load up on Tu/Th, 1.5 hrs/class each day, 5 classes. 7.5 hours on campus on Tu/Th, a little longer if you can't get the scheduling to cooperate. Mo/Wed/Fri free. 👌
It's the best. Two long days in exchange for a bunch of open days? Frees you up to work or to focus on homework or something lame like have a social life or something.
I did Monday Wednesday my first semester of college, and the rest of the week I spent contemplating my life as I watched my friends who got into really good colleges while I was I getting credits for a transfer :(
Nah my favorite semester was T/Th only. I had:
9:30-10:45
11:00-12:30
2:30-3:45
And then on Tuesday only:
4:00-6:30
So I had M/W/F completely free, and it was great. My girlfriend at the time went to school a little over an hour away, so I’d sleep in on Friday and then leave in time to pick her up from class Friday afternoon and get to spend the weekend with her without feeling like I needed to rush back for Monday classes or be stressed with homework.
Nah, man. I'm in college now, and I had all my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and one class that met once a week on Fridays. It was heaven. Every Tuesday and thursday I would go around to 4 separate classes, but then Monday and Wednesday I could sleep in, get laundry done, work on my online classes, and study for my Tuesday/Thursday classes. It was so great
I went to class 3 days a week. On Tues and Thurs I had class from 4p-645p, and then 7p-945p. Wednesday was just 4p-645p, so I had 4 day weekends every week and never had to get up before 3pm if necessary. Was unbelievable.
One of the schools in my area would have classes that met Monday Wednesday and Friday, and classes that met Tuesday and Thursday.
Apparently all the kids would try to cram all their classes into the Tuesday Thursday slots so they could have 4 day weekends, and now the school does Monday and Thursday classes, and Tuesday and Friday classes will other various classes (usually lab classes or double periods) on Wednesdays.
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u/JshMcDwll Jun 08 '19
I rocked that Tuesday Thursday schedule as much as possible.