Thursday, May 31, 2012

Call it what you want

While everyone's been busy couped up in the libraries, or just at home in bed with warm soups and tea and what nots to battle the cold weather... I've been living the busy life of a medical student. oh yes, I feel like I can justify myself although I do know that there are other people who are working way harder than I am, like the people who are part of the working community, the construction workers that work on the floor below mine report to work at 6am... oh yes. they definitely start early and joyfully. they sing and turn up the radio while they work in the mornings, but i guess it just sucks when you're living right above that and you need that 2h worth of extra sleep before your day actually starts. Oh well. So anyway, back to the point- I meant that while everyone's been busy, I've been busy too. Just going about uni, stuck in the medical building and also going about a healthy balanced lifestyle. Well, I'd like to think that I do. I mean... for every intense hour of studying.. shouldn't there be a reward of watching some great stress-relieving Korean variety shows? oh but yes,... I have been busy. I'm just figuring out what's the right balance. hehe. 1:1? 1:2? hurhurhur

So for most of the university, everyone's on SWOT VAC. But guess what? Med students don't get that privilege. surprise surprise! We still have an exam at the REB, technically its considered an MST, and we have an OSCE test the day before the test. oh, and we still have classes to boot. Anyway, "what are all those abbreviations?" you might ask.. well, its called a mid semester test, because our subject is a year long one. But it's still essentially an exam. the amount to study is massive, and way more than the first MST. And OSCE however, is actually an Objective Structured Clinical Examination. The link leads you to the wiki page about it. Yeap, its basically just us doing some clinical exams in front of an invigilator, and boy oh boy. Its gonna be nerve wrecking. 

You know what, sometimes you just gotta take whats in front of you in bite sizes. I think the next few days are going to be just as crazy as the last few ones, if not worse. I wonder how I'll turn out at the end of the year. The last 3-4 months have felt like a year. Thankfully I don't feel burnt out, but I do need a holiday. ASAP. really. or some nice hot guy that captures my attention and that'll stop me from complaining. hurhurhur. But on a serious note, its really by God's grace that I've made it this far. Honestly, I didn't think I'd last. Med school seems to be growing on me.. its got a lot of unique people, personalities and craziness that just keeps me interested. Yes, I do want to share all these juicy stories, but you know what, they're really not for the www. 

Yeah. confidentiality FTW.

ps: I know there are a lot of punctuation mistakes and sentence structure errors, but please, cut me some slack. I'm really exhausted. I had a long day. yes... I'm tired. 

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