Posted by Twinleaf on November 19, 2014, at 18:07:40
In reply to Re: balance, posted by alexandra_k on November 19, 2014, at 15:39:16
Hi Alex,
I have been following your posts with interest and empathy, as I travelled the same pre-med -medical school road a while ago. Then, affirmative action to help less-advantaged minority students had not yet begun, nor was it possible to study lecture or laboratory materials in advance. I feel certain the quality of the schools we had previously attended was not a factor in how we were graded.There was SO much material to learn that our time was almost entirely devoted to studying. We went to labs and lectures every day for the first two years, and clinical rotations for the next two, and studied all evening and most weekends. EVERYONE had to do it, even the ones with the highest IQs! Usually, we tried to take one weekend off a month to travel, ski, hike etc. the rest of the time, we were studying -usually an average of six hours a day -after the time we spent in lectures and labs (almost all of which we attended)
Forgive me if I am misinterpreting you, but I get the impression from time to time that, instead of studying, you sometimes look for an "angle" which will give you an academic advantage. Sometimes it seems that you perhaps get quite anxious before tests and distract yourself by tending to personal technical matters when the other students are almost surely putting in hours of study. It is, maybe, safer if you don't give it your best effort, than if you do - and don't receive an A. I think all of us have felt that way about many things at times.
I sometimes have a sort of sad feeling that you have everything you need to do very well, but that, at times, you are your own worst enemy! I can tell you one thing for sure - no-one ever made it through med school without many thousands of hours of hard and concentrated study.
poster:Twinleaf
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