Inside Med School

Today was my first day of Medical School! As you can imagine, I’ve been looking forward to this day for quite a long time. In fact I had a mixture of emotions the night before. Some of it was nervousness, but most of it was excitement.  I was so excited that I set 4 different alarms for the day to make sure I got up on time. Turns out I didn’t need it cause I couldn’t sleep because of all the excitement.

Despite all the anticipation, and the importance of this event, the day was actually pretty un-eventful. In fact, it was actually a really laid back day.

<9:00am -9:30am> Intro to medical biochemistry

<9:30am -10:30am> Fundamental Concepts in biochemistry

<10:30am-11:30am> Genetics: introduction

<11:30-1pm> Lunch

<1-2pm> Biochem: Macromolecules: Nucleic Acids

<2-3pm> Biochem: Amino Acids

The schedule is a lot like being in high school, cause you’re in class from the morning to afternoon everyday. The lectures are a lot like the undergrad lectures I had. The only difference is that the pace is A LOT FASTER! Fortunately, today and for most of this week, most of the topics were’ talking about will be a review for me. What I’m worried about is that if they keep lecturing at this pace with material I haven’t seen before, that’s when things will start getting tough. Also, one thing that’s different from undergrad is that you don’t have a break between lectures. All lectures are in the same lecture hall and the professors come to you, instead of the other way around. Also the transition between professors and classes is instant. So it ends up feeling like one really long lecture.

So far so good. Class was pretty light today, and I have a bunch of time to pre-examine the lecture material for tomorrow and the rest of the week. We’ll see how long I can keep this up. The main thing that everyone says is that whatever you do, DO NOT FALL BEHIND! So I’ll try and take advantage of this easy week and study ahead to give myself a cushion, because I know damn well, I’m going to need it later on. For now, I’m just looking forward to starting histology labs, and our first exam, which will be next Thursday.