What is Medicine like?

Hmmm...feeling like writing a bit about how it feels to study medicine...

am
6.00 - Still asleep
7.00 - Last few minutes of sleep
8.00 - Morning face wash, breakfast, travel to uni, etc.
9.00 - PBL tutorial starts, goes for 2 hours
10.00 - Talking in PBL class
11.00 - PBL class over; some pre-reading in library


pm
12.00 - 1st lecture of the week
1.00 - Internet, leisure reading (chill time)
2.00 - HP lecture (the non-scientific side of medicine)
3.00 - lecture over
4.00 - chilling, lunch
5.00 - biking around the park
6.00 - losing some sweat in the gym
7.00 - dinner, to a friend's house
8.00 - trying out friend's 4GB RAM, 1GB VRAM PC
9.00 - still stuck there
10.00 - back home, fumbling through tomorrow's lecture notes
11.00 - reading lecture notes on Krebs Cycle (=TCA/citric acid cycle)

am again
12.00 - reading lecture notes on Fat Metabolism
1.00 - about to go to bed
2.00 - asleep


Based on 2nd week of 2nd semester. The Med website recommends at least 15 hours of "non-contact time commitment" per week for my science subject (NDM), and 9 hours for the non-science (HP2). It's like squeezing the most I can out of what I have.

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