The Essential Weekend

Now Many of you may think the essential weekend would include this:











However, when you are in Med School, for the most part, its more like this:










Now why is it that you think the weekend is so essential during medical school? From what I have learned so far, I am convinced that you are given an insane amount of information during each class period, and most days are from around 8am-4 or 5 pm.

During the week you do attempt to study but most of the information seems to not make much sense. I think that has to do somewhat with being overloaded with information and so your brain does not have the capacity to process any concepts, i guess it only knows to store them. Then on the weekend, these thoughts can actually formulate into concepts that you can use.

You ask how do I know this? The first week of school was like culture shock to me. Even after going through graduate school, I never thought or imagined that we would be given so much information to learn, but we were, and if you want to stay here, you better learn that information. During the week I was super frustrated with stuff about the nervous system, but when i studied it on the weekend it made a lot more sense and I can say that I understand it now.

And REPETITION is necessary to succeed, I cannot say enough about that. To conclude, I would like to say that its not like you are spending your entire weekend studying, but I would get used to spending several hours on Saturday and Sunday afternoons studying, which may create a problem during Football season which is coming up on us very soon.

Well, one week down, only 15 more till Xmas.