How was the first day?

[gasdr]

Hi newbies! Just think, only 25 black mondays left to go!!!! Don't worry, I had a buddy who had already been through basic sciences email me that just after I had arrived on the island and he was just about to start residency. It seemed at that point that it was a long way away until I left the rock, but believe mel, it went incredibly quickly! I miss the rock. I am already in my 3rd year of my anesthesiology residency and it has flown by. I am already comptemplating where I want to start earning 200K +.
Don't worry. It will go by quickly, There is one caveat. If you study a lot and do well on the USMLE steps I and II you can write your own ticket (even coming from a carib school), but if you slack off and do not take it seriously, you will struggle even with an MD after your name.

The take home message is: study now (In basic sciences) and do well on your boards to ensure your own future. The boards is where your write your ticket and you cannot slack in basic sciences and hope to kill the boards at a latter date.

Good luck to all.

[911MD]

GREAT ADVICE ! THANK YOU:p

[soldierb11]

Thanks for the advice.
I hope I can follow in your footsteps.

As for the first day it was incredibly easy.

However, the second day especially in the afternoon was quite overwhelming, alot of information but our anatomy professors are excellent

[psycpixie]

Just wondering what a day is like...

[miasma]

oh dear god, today was the most tiring day of my life. lecture started at 8, and i just got home at 6. and to top it off, i don't feel like i know anything yet. oh well, back to studying, then back to the lab at 10 tonight. hopefully some of this anatomy will start making sense.

[KingMo]

oh dear god, today was the most tiring day of my life. lecture started at 8, and i just got home at 6. and to top it off, i don't feel like i know anything yet. oh well, back to studying, then back to the lab at 10 tonight. hopefully some of this anatomy will start making sense.

And you still owe me dinner...get at it.

[thedirtychemist]

This first week definitely challenged my endurance. It's not that the material was hard, it's that there was so much memorization. I believe sticking with a routine is the best way to tackle the material. There are a lot, but it's definitely doable - I think (we'll see if I pass the first test).

I ended up studying about 3-4 hrs a night, but my brain shuts down at 10:00 and is unable to process new information. I'm not really sure how helpful lecture is... though the profs. are great. I find my time better used memorizing on my own and half-listening to whatever he's saying. However, I do get a kick with how he pronounces stuff. Quite the funny.

I am married so I really have to balance my time studying and family time which leaves a very small margin for time inefficiency. I get most of what I need done in the 3-4 hours of studying a night. I save week-end nights for her to do whatever she feels like doing.

Now, for block week (upcoming week), I'm going to change my gameplan a bit. I'll put in about an hour or so around 10 o'clock every night leading to the first lab test. So far so good.. let's hope that it all works out.

Everyone I've met so far has their own style of studying. I think developing that style is half the battle. The other half is figuring out what to change pending on the grades we make on first block.

Pray for us and wish us luck!

[cat.]

Thanks for the update! Glad to hear you guys have made it through the first few days of classes seemingly unharmed. Would you recommend starting to memorize Anatomy before starting in January '07? If so, where should one start, lower limbs?

[soldierb11]

Thanks for the update! Glad to hear you guys have made it through the first few days of classes seemingly unharmed. Would you recommend starting to memorize Anatomy before starting in January '07? If so, where should one start, lower limbs?

If possible I would take an Intro to Anatomy course, the more you know before you get here the better. That being said some people with no anatomy background do really well in the course and some other with previous exposure do poorly.

[Nate-MD]

The first week was hell for me. I decided that my first day back should be a Wed, you know.... to get the early jump on the semester. Of course there were no seats left, and by that I mean a physical lack of desks. So shortly before deciding to sit on the trash can, I found a desk that no one attempted to kick me out of. So that was a good start for me. It wasn't 15 minutes before I was down for the count.... pretty much an 8 hour open-eyed nap to recover from the day of travel the night before. My computer didn't make it out of my bag. Thursday I got the computer out, but only to attempt what I have been trying to do since my childhood- finally beat Contra. Contra is quite possibly the hardest game ever made for the NES, and maybe any gaming system ever. At 2:45 in the afternoon it took all my willpower not to jump up and high-five the more studious people around me, as I had finally put it into submission. Final score: Contra:12 years, Nate:5 minutes. The five minutes of glory passed soon enough, and since I didn't want to ask someone for the powerpoint with 15 slides left, I just played a little minesweeper to round out the time. Friday I even got as far as opening a couple powerpoints, but daydreamed about what I would be drinking and wearing that night for the first semester party. Now it's monday and I have my brain on track. I didn't play one game yet, but we're only 2 hours into the day.

Glad to see you first sems have really awesome study schedules planned out.

Good luck with that.

[wolfvgang22]

What the@#$%?! School started last Wednesday?! :shock:
:outtahere:








p.s. - your posts are the funniest thing I've read all week, Nate! I laughed so hard I nearly pizzled myself fo'shizzle!

[Strength&Honor]

What the@#$%?! School started last Wednesday?! :shock:
:outtahere:








p.s. - your posts are the funniest thing I've read all week, Nate! I laughed so hard I nearly pizzled myself fo'shizzle!
Yes, junior-high humor is something I'm definitely looking forward to upon my possible arrival to Saba.

Please, someone, tell me not everyone is 19.

[wolfvgang22]

Yes, junior-high humor is something I'm definitely looking forward to upon my possible arrival to Saba.

Please, someone, tell me not everyone is 19.
Actually, I did hear a rumor that a 20 year old matriculated here with the new students. But no 19 year olds.

If you it bothers you that a bunch of 20 somethings might have a laugh once in a while in between time-pressured studies, Saba may not be the right place for you. (Don't tell anybody, but I saw several students drinking Heinekins on Friday night at Swinging Doors! And a professor, too!! Too much fooling around here, I say...) :roll:
Thanks for the flame. :wink:

[Strength&Honor]

Thanks for the flame. :wink:

User can't play nice

[wolfvgang22]

Nice try, friend. But I'm not even in that decade, ask anybody on the island.
But you're not even on the island yet or at the school... so you would have no way of knowing anything.
Good luck to you, maybe I'll be a resident when your in clincals and we shall meet and get to know each other, you never know! :)

[Strength&Honor]

Nice try, friend. But I'm not even in that decade, ask anybody on the island.
But you're not even on the island yet or at the school... so you would have no way of knowing anything.
Good luck to you, maybe I'll be a resident when your in clincals and we shall meet and get to know each other, you never know! :)

user can't play nice

[Strength&Honor]

edited, user can't play nice

[wolfvgang22]

Yeah, I'm sure once I'm *on* the island, as you suggest, my sense of humor will radically change.

Look, wolf, don't take it personally, but the responses from the newbies here are like reading junior-high playbooks. I'm sure you mean well, but it just doesn't cut it. Your sense of humor is lacking a little something.

On the otherhand, Sabaspouse & Rick tell it like it is. I like that. And appreciate it.

But even worse than you is the pathetic lurkers that never post anything. Mostly indians, probably, like darkmansaad, etc., but it's just pathetic. They lurk like no one notices (what is it now? maybe 30-35 anxiously, and pathetically, wanting to get the latest, but too afraid to post anything of value?). Wolf, at least you're one link above these pathetic folks. That's something you've got going for you, right?
First, you were just putting down younger people (or who you erroneously *think* are younger people).
Now I think you may also be racist with that swipe at indians. Please note that many of us here at Saba are also South Asian descent, as is a large part of the medical community in the U.S. and abroad. If that is a problem for you, please stay home, we don't need bigotry here. And in my view, there is absolutely nothing wrong with "lurking" to get information, that's why we're here.

I will allow you the last word if you wish, I am done feeding this troll-thread, as it has become.
Class tomorrow morning, bright and early! :chillpill:
Goodnight,
~W

[Strength&Honor]

First, you were just putting down younger people (or who you erroneously *think* are younger people).
Now I think you may also be racist with that swipe at indians. Please note that many of us here at Saba are also South Asian descent, as is a large part of the medical community in the U.S. and abroad. If that is a problem for you, please stay home, we don't need bigotry here. And in my view, there is absolutely nothing wrong with "lurking" to get information, that's why we're here.

I will allow you the last word if you wish, I am done feeding this troll-thread, as it has become.
Class tomorrow morning, bright and early! :chillpill:
Goodnight,
~W

edited....user can't play nice

[KingMo]

Actually, I did hear a rumor that a 20 year old matriculated here with the new students. But no 19 year olds.

If you it bothers you that a bunch of 20 somethings might have a laugh once in a while in between time-pressured studies, Saba may not be the right place for you. (Don't tell anybody, but I saw several students drinking Heinekins on Friday night at Swinging Doors! And a professor, too!! Too much fooling around here, I say...) :roll:
Thanks for the flame. :wink:

Sep 2006 - Two 20 year olds and a few 21 year olds too (including me).

[Nate-MD]

Woah.... sorry strength&honor, but I have Wolfgangs back. We just try and be humorous on here to have a little fun. Everyone knows I've never posted anything of much value, but it's always good for a smile. I even heard that some students here goof off so much that they play music in their free time!

I wish there were more 19 year olds here, it would make me feel more mature.

The funny thing is that Wolf and I are actually really quiet guys in the real world.

As far as cracking on Indians and Asians, that's a quick ticket to a beatdown. You'd be better off making fun of white males....

[swimguy23]

Woah.... sorry strength&honor, but I have Wolfgangs back. We just try and be humorous on here to have a little fun. Everyone knows I've never posted anything of much value, but it's always good for a smile. I even heard that some students here goof off so much that they play music in their free time!

I wish there were more 19 year olds here, it would make me feel more mature.

The funny thing is that Wolf and I are actually really quiet guys in the real world.

As far as cracking on Indians and Asians, that's a quick ticket to a beatdown. You'd be better off making fun of white males....

come over to the AUC forum if you want totally useless information :rolleyes:

[DRDRWMD]

The first week was hell for me. I decided that my first day back should be a Wed, you know.... to get the early jump on the semester. Of course there were no seats left, and by that I mean a physical lack of desks. So shortly before deciding to sit on the trash can, I found a desk that no one attempted to kick me out of. So that was a good start for me. It wasn't 15 minutes before I was down for the count.... pretty much an 8 hour open-eyed nap to recover from the day of travel the night before. My computer didn't make it out of my bag. Thursday I got the computer out, but only to attempt what I have been trying to do since my childhood- finally beat Contra. Contra is quite possibly the hardest game ever made for the NES, and maybe any gaming system ever. At 2:45 in the afternoon it took all my willpower not to jump up and high-five the more studious people around me, as I had finally put it into submission. Final score: Contra:12 years, Nate:5 minutes. The five minutes of glory passed soon enough, and since I didn't want to ask someone for the powerpoint with 15 slides left, I just played a little minesweeper to round out the time. Friday I even got as far as opening a couple powerpoints, but daydreamed about what I would be drinking and wearing that night for the first semester party. Now it's monday and I have my brain on track. I didn't play one game yet, but we're only 2 hours into the day.

Glad to see you first sems have really awesome study schedules planned out.

Good luck with that.Congratulations on Contra. At AUC last semester we did the same thing with Super Mario Brothers downloaded from Poland. A few of us were able to capture the princess. It was like a virus that wanted to claim the minds of students full of pathology slides and microbes. Remember to share your game with other students and see how many collegues can win the game. The more they play, the more you may move up in class ranking.