First day of medical school!
Well... I finally made it! The first day of medical school. Today was a rough day for starters. Yesterday was the start of the holy month of Ramadan, where I fast from sunrise to sunset. This year it lasts about 14 hours! EEK! No food or water during this time. However, I do get up around 4:00 AM to eat breakfast, which I did this morning, but my wife was over visiting with my brother and sister. As a result, I went to bed at about 11:30 PM last night, then got up at 4:00 AM to eat and then helped my wife leave this morning for Tucson. As a result, I did not go back to sleep and before I knew it... it was time for me to get ready for school!
So on a few hours of sleep and unable to charge up with my daily Full Throttle drink, I found myself a little more tired than usual. The first sessions of biochemistry went just fine, then we had lunch, and then histology! This is where the problem begins. Near the beginning of histology I started feeling a bit tired. About 5 minutes into the lecture, I became VERY tired. Before I knew it, I was falling in and out of sleep consciousness! The bad part? Not me falling asleep on my first day of medical school.. the fact that I was sitting in the FRONT ROW!! I was recording the lecture for AZCOM2012.com (podcast), so I thought it would be smart to sit in the front.. apparently a bad idea for histology.
Regardless, after the first part of our histology/embryology lecture, I was able to take a break, stand up and move around. This got my juices flowing again and I was able to sustain through the second half of the lecture just fine. The problem again? The histology pictures that were shown in class.. not available online! So the slides that I DO NOT RECALL are only available in text format and that part of the histology leture is about 90% visual. Great Success! Now I will have to get the book out from the library on reserve and try to figure out all those slides! Oh well... life goes on!
Now I get home at about 5:00 PM, my head pounding from not eating all day and I am feeling really weak. All I can think about is eating. I am able to eat around 7:00 PM, I eat.. yumm.. then I feel much better! Now I can study right? Wrong! Phone call, after phone call, inquiries about the first day of school. I finally had to buckle down and study for a couple of hours and here I sit wrapping up my first day nearing midknight typing my first day's experience on my blog!
Lastly, this shout out goes to John Le, a fellow MS I who clicks his pen while we are all in class trying to record lectures. (inside joke) :)
So I am off to sleep now, with hopes of having a more sucessful day tomorrow. Not just in studying, but staying awake in MEDICAL SCHOOL!
Mansoor Jatoi, MS I
So on a few hours of sleep and unable to charge up with my daily Full Throttle drink, I found myself a little more tired than usual. The first sessions of biochemistry went just fine, then we had lunch, and then histology! This is where the problem begins. Near the beginning of histology I started feeling a bit tired. About 5 minutes into the lecture, I became VERY tired. Before I knew it, I was falling in and out of sleep consciousness! The bad part? Not me falling asleep on my first day of medical school.. the fact that I was sitting in the FRONT ROW!! I was recording the lecture for AZCOM2012.com (podcast), so I thought it would be smart to sit in the front.. apparently a bad idea for histology.
Regardless, after the first part of our histology/embryology lecture, I was able to take a break, stand up and move around. This got my juices flowing again and I was able to sustain through the second half of the lecture just fine. The problem again? The histology pictures that were shown in class.. not available online! So the slides that I DO NOT RECALL are only available in text format and that part of the histology leture is about 90% visual. Great Success! Now I will have to get the book out from the library on reserve and try to figure out all those slides! Oh well... life goes on!
Now I get home at about 5:00 PM, my head pounding from not eating all day and I am feeling really weak. All I can think about is eating. I am able to eat around 7:00 PM, I eat.. yumm.. then I feel much better! Now I can study right? Wrong! Phone call, after phone call, inquiries about the first day of school. I finally had to buckle down and study for a couple of hours and here I sit wrapping up my first day nearing midknight typing my first day's experience on my blog!
Lastly, this shout out goes to John Le, a fellow MS I who clicks his pen while we are all in class trying to record lectures. (inside joke) :)
So I am off to sleep now, with hopes of having a more sucessful day tomorrow. Not just in studying, but staying awake in MEDICAL SCHOOL!
Mansoor Jatoi, MS I
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