Another monday, another week, another start of a tedious and hair falling week!
Wish me luck!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Which is worse: No Social Life or No Sex Life?
They say that one cannot attain success without a few sacrifices, and Sacrificed I did. I don't know how I did it but I was able to minimize my time on facebook and have totally abstained from tweeting. Surprising as it may seem, but I have also succeeded in avoiding the temptations of watching my favorite TV shows. Good thing, the Vampire Diaries 3 have not premiered yet or else I would surely have a hard time resisting.
Further, for the sake of compromising for my grades and my studies, I have also resisted the urge of going out clubbing and / or drinking out with my friends. I keep on saying to my self that I have reached the point in life in which I have totally matured and is just too old for clubbing and partying. That is easily vindicable, but avoiding my friends is inexcusable, I know. But when your in medical school, a little time spent on gallivanting makes you guilty of "Not Studying Too Much". With merely 24 hours for a day, you just can't afford to waste your precious and limited time on other stuff not related to your studies. I don't even go to malls these days unless I need to go and buy some school stuff, particularly pens and highlighters!
Another major sacrifice I have made, I just realized now upon writing this, is my Sex life. Before, I can't go a week without getting laid but now, I can't even remember when is the last time I jerked off yet alone got laid! there's just too much to read and too much to know, not to mention the things you also need to do, for sake of coveting those two initials, M and D, after your name.
Sacrifices have to be made, and compromise I must!
But which is worse, really? Having no social life? Or having a zero sex life? Which is which? I can't seem to decide. Having either one is already pathetic and makes one a loser, but does it really matter?
When your in Medical School, all that matter is passing all your subjects and the rest can wait! Worst thing that could happen is when u fail a subject or worse-two. Or even worse than worst is when you got kicked out of medical school! So again, it doesn't matter which is which, cause I am going to be a doctor! (But if it really doesn't matter, then why am I posting this?? :p)
Further, for the sake of compromising for my grades and my studies, I have also resisted the urge of going out clubbing and / or drinking out with my friends. I keep on saying to my self that I have reached the point in life in which I have totally matured and is just too old for clubbing and partying. That is easily vindicable, but avoiding my friends is inexcusable, I know. But when your in medical school, a little time spent on gallivanting makes you guilty of "Not Studying Too Much". With merely 24 hours for a day, you just can't afford to waste your precious and limited time on other stuff not related to your studies. I don't even go to malls these days unless I need to go and buy some school stuff, particularly pens and highlighters!
Another major sacrifice I have made, I just realized now upon writing this, is my Sex life. Before, I can't go a week without getting laid but now, I can't even remember when is the last time I jerked off yet alone got laid! there's just too much to read and too much to know, not to mention the things you also need to do, for sake of coveting those two initials, M and D, after your name.
Sacrifices have to be made, and compromise I must!
But which is worse, really? Having no social life? Or having a zero sex life? Which is which? I can't seem to decide. Having either one is already pathetic and makes one a loser, but does it really matter?
When your in Medical School, all that matter is passing all your subjects and the rest can wait! Worst thing that could happen is when u fail a subject or worse-two. Or even worse than worst is when you got kicked out of medical school! So again, it doesn't matter which is which, cause I am going to be a doctor! (But if it really doesn't matter, then why am I posting this?? :p)
Reasons, Reasons...
Why should one choose to enter medical school? Should it be confined to fulfilling a life-long dream? Or for the fame? For the money? Or just for the sake of being a doctor?
Me? I don't know! I really don't know... I know that I have a reason or two why I pursued this course but it seems I forgot whatever reasons I have for entering medical school.
So if you could be so kind, and enlighten me as to why one should choose to enter medical school, I would be grateful and forever be indebted!
Me? I don't know! I really don't know... I know that I have a reason or two why I pursued this course but it seems I forgot whatever reasons I have for entering medical school.
So if you could be so kind, and enlighten me as to why one should choose to enter medical school, I would be grateful and forever be indebted!
"To be or not to be a Doctor?" That is the question
Lately, I'm beginning to sense that my life is so boring and that I am loosing any purpose of living-if I have one. This is sooo not the kind of life that I want for me, clearly not what I signed up for. I feel that I was tricked into believing that medical school is the kind of life that I would choose for myself for the next four or so years.
Well, I do want to be a doctor or maybe its just the idea of being a doctor, a well respected and highly profitable profession, that have enticed me to board the ship without hesitation. But lately, I realized that maybe, just maybe, it's not the life I want after all... Medical school could be so demanding and it sucks the life out of you. It deletes the F(un) in life. You wont even have time time to meet your friends, no time for gallivanting or fooling around anymore, it can even affect your sex life. Even your weekends would be consumed with too much studying, reading, or worrying for your quizzes and lessons the previous week and even for week next. You will never have time for everything, even for life's simple pleassures like sleeping and even daydreaming.
I'm not saying that I regret entering medical school, it's just that I am not really sure if it is the kind of life I would want for myself. People say that it's just normal and that everyone who enters this profession will come to a point wherein he will be thinking this way. It's just normal, they say. My teachers, classmates, friends, and even my family have not fail to tell me that. Not once, not twice, but as many times as there are stars on a clear night sky. Sometime it helps, but sometime it gets annoying and I am so tempted to shout to their faces "SHUT-THE-F*CK-UP!!!". For once, people need to shut their mouths and just listen as you rant. Didn't anyone tell them that?
I know that medical school would not be easy but never have I thought that it would be this hard. For one thing, you have tons of advance, catch up, and follow up readings to do and it all needs to be cramped up in a mere 24hours that a day has and I'm not talking about 10 or 20 pages but close to a hundred pages per subject per day, and this is not just a normal kind of reading, but super major intense reading (superlatives deliberately emphasized). One chapter do not only require one reading but two or even three readings and that would still not be enough. I think never have i studied this much in my life time and if I am this studious when I was still in college, i think i would have graduated with honors.
For another, you will have tons of information to familiarize and memorize. From the parts of a part of the cell to it's purpose and mechanism of action, and the list goes on. You will also have to deal with different kind of doctors and their mood swings.
You will also have to deal with your friends who has nothing else to say but complain why you don't have time for them anymore, good thing Im not committed at the moment or else that will add up to another pressure that I am so not willing to deal with.
So, with all this in my plate, I need to find a way to destress myself that's why I resort to blogging. They say that writing about your worries will ease the pressure and I sure hope it does, before I end up in the nut house.
So, should I quit? Or should I continue this suffering? What do you think?
Well, I do want to be a doctor or maybe its just the idea of being a doctor, a well respected and highly profitable profession, that have enticed me to board the ship without hesitation. But lately, I realized that maybe, just maybe, it's not the life I want after all... Medical school could be so demanding and it sucks the life out of you. It deletes the F(un) in life. You wont even have time time to meet your friends, no time for gallivanting or fooling around anymore, it can even affect your sex life. Even your weekends would be consumed with too much studying, reading, or worrying for your quizzes and lessons the previous week and even for week next. You will never have time for everything, even for life's simple pleassures like sleeping and even daydreaming.
I'm not saying that I regret entering medical school, it's just that I am not really sure if it is the kind of life I would want for myself. People say that it's just normal and that everyone who enters this profession will come to a point wherein he will be thinking this way. It's just normal, they say. My teachers, classmates, friends, and even my family have not fail to tell me that. Not once, not twice, but as many times as there are stars on a clear night sky. Sometime it helps, but sometime it gets annoying and I am so tempted to shout to their faces "SHUT-THE-F*CK-UP!!!". For once, people need to shut their mouths and just listen as you rant. Didn't anyone tell them that?
I know that medical school would not be easy but never have I thought that it would be this hard. For one thing, you have tons of advance, catch up, and follow up readings to do and it all needs to be cramped up in a mere 24hours that a day has and I'm not talking about 10 or 20 pages but close to a hundred pages per subject per day, and this is not just a normal kind of reading, but super major intense reading (superlatives deliberately emphasized). One chapter do not only require one reading but two or even three readings and that would still not be enough. I think never have i studied this much in my life time and if I am this studious when I was still in college, i think i would have graduated with honors.
For another, you will have tons of information to familiarize and memorize. From the parts of a part of the cell to it's purpose and mechanism of action, and the list goes on. You will also have to deal with different kind of doctors and their mood swings.
You will also have to deal with your friends who has nothing else to say but complain why you don't have time for them anymore, good thing Im not committed at the moment or else that will add up to another pressure that I am so not willing to deal with.
So, with all this in my plate, I need to find a way to destress myself that's why I resort to blogging. They say that writing about your worries will ease the pressure and I sure hope it does, before I end up in the nut house.
So, should I quit? Or should I continue this suffering? What do you think?
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