Monday, April 28, 2008

Realisations about med school.

So med school started some time ago, and we've already passed the quarter mark of first year.

I've learnt several things since going to med school:
1. Old Doctors who are your tutors - will hit on you.
2. Med School is all about the food that you bring to your tute groups. It's not spoken openly about, but you can tell that every tute, when a new person has to bring food that they're trying to beat the last group.
Example, number 1 - The first rotation of bringing food, male #1 brings KFC... unbeatable, one thinks? But no! female #2 brings baked goods, male #2 brings increased amounts of KFC... and so on, and on.
3. Med school involves a lot of alcohol and a lot of drinking of said liqueur. It's in my belief that when they built my med school four years ago, the developers thought to themselves, now where would be the best location to put a medschool (read: where is the closest pub that students can frequent)?
... The medical students pay for every single one of the bills that the pub probably accumulates.
4. Med school is all about budgeting your fortnightly income around where you want to go out from Friday night to Sunday night and how much you want to spend. On Thursday nights I receive a fortnightly allowance from the government and my income from my job, I then think about what I have planned for the coming fortnight and how much of my income I should set aside. It's very organised, I think.
5. Med School is also about cooking elaborate dinners, which take a long time to make and therefore act as a method of procrastination that isn't obvious. Read later on for photographic evidence of my dinner tonight.
6. Tetris is addictive.
7. I've reverted back to highschool where I spend way too much time on MSN, Skype and Facebook.
8. Tuberculosis shots are gross - they don't hurt much but they do other things... like ooze and explode
9. Houses full of med students get messy when said students get stressed.
10. Even when you're stressing so badly about exams that you have nightmares, there's always spare time for curry.
11. It's not just me, other med students spend too much time watching medical dramas.

More realisations to come.