Graduate from medical school

I am one quarter of the way to having my MD, and it is a little bit frightening. Although I certainly learned a lot over the past months, I feel that this first year mostly opened my eyes to how much information is in medicine. My stack of notes is over 2 feet high, and that represents just the tip of the iceberg for most of the subjects we studied this year. Two weeks ago I was sitting at my desk after finishing our final exams, feeling inadequate, wondering if I will ever know the information as well as the doctors we look up to, and I just couldn’t believe that I will be trusted with people’s lives in a few short years.

I am more than half way through my first year. Hopefully I will be able to check this goal off my list when I graduate in 2011.

hmm for those who have this as a goal, think hard whether you really want to spend the vast majority of your life living in the hospital, eating hospital food, not seeing daylight, working 55+ hours a week for the same hourly wage as working at mcdonalds, spending the rest of your life studying even after you’ve graduated.. . ..etc etc

3 more rotations to go, plus one month of vacation before I graduate. The years have passed by so fast. On the one hand, I’m incredibly excited to finish. I think that I’m ready to leave school and leave town. Time for a new start and major challenge.

nah

and everyday i ask myself, is this really what i want? to be 19 and not enjoying my youth? sigh..but at the end of the day, i just got to suck it up, be tough and study til the break of dawn again! i guess partying can wait till summer break (maybe)..

How important is volunteering on a med school app? My hours are slim…volunteering hours are not in excess. Have I messed up completely to get in to med school?

March 26th, I graduate….so weird

If all goes well this should happen in about 4 years.