medical school

IT WAS A JOKE ABOUT PEOPLE THAT SPEAK A LANGUAGE WITH CLICKS, LIKE MY BOTTOM BRACKET

Ahahahah I just assumed it was a manufacturer I didn't know. Clearly this is why a Laurel does not go to medical skoo.

!Kung would have worked. I figured you were talking about some noise album or psych band or some shit

congrats

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

way to go duderoo

oh man i said duderoo i need to stop smoking

congrats, plz don't get co-opted by the system

this is awesome!! congratulations, e!

Congrats, plz drink everything in MN for me.

Congrats, Elk hunting is back on then, plus dissection for tasty meats.

Congrats, I'm attempting to do the same at the age of 32, got to redo my school exams first though.

:D

thanks, dudes!

leigh, are you in the states? like, you're retaking the MCAT?

Nope, I'm in Scotland, I'm going to have to retake my high school exams as they're well out of date and I'm not a graduate then do the UKCAT.

nobody got my joke about the Xhosa :-(

I got it! I roffled!

Congratulations, you'll never regret it.

sweet. does this mean its time to start the JOHN JUSTEN AND FLUFFY BEAR DESTROY A PROMISING MEDICAL CAREER WITH BOOZE thread?

also, tombot, go sleep with some cute israeli nurses

fuckin awes brah!!!!

good job bro

Fantastic news!!!

WOO HOOOOOO!!! :-D

I'm gonna sue you so bad one day...

:D

don't forget about me when you can legally prescribe drugs.

I sat the UKCAT yesterday and did reasonably well so I'm over the first hurdle - just need to get top grades in 5 Highers while working full time, write a stellar personal statement on the ucas form, demonstrate top notch work experience and interview well then I'll be in with a ghost of a chance of making Med School.

i just looked through my copy of netter's. *_*

t-minus one day, ppl.

itt gbx liveblogs med school

omg i am in a lecture

waht are you learning today?

ingratiate yourself to the professor by making an icebreaking dick joke.

Can't wait to hear about how it's going.

if evan can break ice with his dick he's wasting his time in med school.

it's a lecture about stress management

first day of school, here

good luck dude!

lol, we had assigned "stress management" readings in nursing school, too.

What would have helped more: letting us sleep at some point over clinical weekends.

what are they suggesting that you perscribe to yourself to ease the stress level?

decent lol: caloric restriction retards the aging process = share food with others = feeding your academic rivals in order to eliminate them

another h4st1ngs dude is here, too!

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Wait, but being hungry is stressful!

Still, that's going to be my new reason for bringing treats to class. I'm trying to destroy everyone else's GPA.

xp - In your class or the one ahead of you? If it's the one ahead of you, and the dude is kind of old, that's my ex.

dude, stay relatively sane <3

("Kind of old" = 38 or 39. Uh, don't tell him I said that, okay?)

dude is a year younger than me.

tomorrow, we meet our dead best friends :D

(not to be flip, or anything)

It will be fine. Also, I think if you're not a bit flip about it at some point, it is less fine. (From my limited experience with cadavers, faces and hands are the worst. But I have never had to dissect a head or a penis... I could see where that could be more alarming.)

Oh i've worked with cadavers before, i'm not worried. curious to see who gets shook, tho

That's the kind of bonding you can't just find anywhere! ;)

gbx, how much orientation stuff did your school do? I am in the middle of a week of basically introductions and icebreaking and drinking time before we get started next week.

Technically, three days, all this week:

Wed -- omg yr in med school, here's yr ID, don't stress, dinner + beerz + start short list of hotties
Thurs -- omg yr in anatomy, do's and don'ts in lab, get acquainted with your 'patient'
Fri -- white coat ceremony

Mon -- let's do it to it

also we had a small group session where we collaboratively drafted up some ideas for our class oath, which were then passed via representative to a larger summit. it will be read tomorrow. i have already determined that some of my classmates are awesome, and that some are idiots.

w/o going into specifics, at least one dude had the temerity to suggest that the care provided to a terminal patient we MET YESTERDAY was a waste of money and that all that money (which obv comes from the big healthcare money bucket and isn't earmarked no way) could, like, be used for medicine for the poor and shit.

him: "seriously, what's all that money REALLY doing?"
me: "...well, XXX is alive."
him: "so what?"
me: " >:( "

It goes well! 1st year down 3 to go. Touch wood but it had been way easier than I thought it would be. First month kicked my ass: immunology, basic biochem bachelor degree in 30 days was rough. But it has been a real joy since getting into the bread and butter pathophys/pharm/anat. Said cyalater to an elective surgical week this summer: too arts-n-crafty, and I hate arts and crafts. Also kind of boring. Also not enough sitting down. Really need a sit down career. For a multitude of reasons I am pointing my plane towards Psychiatry, looking for volunteer and/or research opportunities currently.

Met some fantastic people in the course. The doctors teaching us are fantastic (for the most part). Sincerely caring, ingelligent individuals. Cohort is packed with top of the top private school, as you might imagine Usyd would be. Smalltownboy feelings amplified since joining this mostly select crew. There's some gems among them; and class-criticsm now feels a bit hypocritical considering the personal career at the end of this degree.

I'm mostly in love with medicine though. I feel personally fulfilled learning all the ins and outs of this gooey yet sturdy body we possess. Flashcards just fly by. The direct and primary engagement with suffering and the goal of alleviating it? What more could you want from a life? I know some of the romance will be kicked out of me along the way, but there's enough true feeling of worth and joy for what I've seen so far that I think it's all going to be okay

Very happy for you! Sit down careers = psych, radiology and pathology. Maybe GI if you spend your days scoping people :)

so happy to hear that, HP

Well that sounds great. If you’re looking for psych / research connections, reach out to NeuRA / The Black Dog - Perminder Sachdev and Colleen Loo have long research careers and are good folks as well, or at least they were 15 years back.

Thanks all, appreciate the tips :)