Thursday, February 05, 2009

Day in a life of a Med Student Episode 1

6:45am
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6:46am
Okay, was not obviously awake enough one minute ago. Hmm, now picking out what to wear. Well, it has to go with my dirty old sneakers as I have a cadaver lab today…so…jeans and a T-shirt it is. How original.

7:00am
Yeah it took me 14 minutes to dress myself, wad up. Now making my lunch as I make my breakfast as I look at my timetable while I watch Sunrise. Toast with vegemite for breakfast…and bread with vegemite for lunch! Yay, who says variety is the spice of life? Monotony all the way baby.

7:40am

Lecture notes? Check. Keys? Check. Water bottle? Check. ID and access key, purse, memory stick, sunglasses, Blistex, notebook, lab coat, pens? Check. Bag big enough to fit Mount Everest? Check.

7:45am
Walking in hot sun. Waiting at traffic lights for 5 million light years. Walking again in hot sun. Seeing med students from everywhere going to GH1. Yes we’re overtaking Southport.

8:00am
Ahh, finally in air-conditioned lecture room. Mmm…

8:05am
Freezing my ass off.

9:30am
Scary how little anatomy I’ve retained from year one.

11:00am
FINALLY. I’M STARVING.

11:30am
Outside anatomy lab. Griffith is very proud of its lab because most uni labs are in a basement somewhere smelling of feet. Griffith’s is on the 6th floor and people have sworn they’ve seen whales swimming in the distant ocean.

11:35am
Get my first look and touch of a cadaver. Some people have a problem with faces, some have a problem with toes. To be honest, I was fine with it all (except the eyelashes, they were a bit creepy). Got to feel a heart in my hand and see everything that I’ve only ever seen in a textbook. Less colour I suppose, but definitely more real. Obviously.

12:55pm
Washing my hands with hot water. Seemed to have dried up my hands to resemble two mutant pieces of chalk.

1:00pm
In PBL room for first case study. I sneeze and people look very shocked for some reason.

1:05pm
Yes! I’m not on food duty until next month (every PBL, someone brings some snacks to whittle away the long hours). I’m pretty sure people will not be impressed with my vegemite sandwich fingers.

4:00pm
In the Learning Centre typing up my PBL LIs (Learning Issues). A very tedious part of the Med course.

4:10pm
Whyyyyy…I seemed to have picked a computer where its H key doesn’t work. Something very frustrating when my topic is “DIARRHOEA”.

5:30pm
Sent my LIs with the title “Diarroea, Colera and Fluid Omeostasis”.
My group probably now thinks I have a phobia of H’s.

6:00pm
Back at home, washed the dishes I ignored last night and this morning. Washed some rice and put it in the rice cooker.

6:15pm
Moped around for a bit over Federer’s loss (I’m still in a depressed state).

7:00pm
Eating in front of the TV.

7:30pm
Studying in front of the TV.

10:30pm
Watching TV in front of the TV.

11:30pm
Felt guilty and now studying at my study desk.

12:30am
Thud. That’s me conking out. Night y’all.

3 comments:

fanny dong said...

were the eyelashes kinda yellow-crusty-clumpy looking? i remember the first time i went into the labs... ahhh the very distinct smell. does it spread to the rest of the campus since its on the 6th floor?

Max said...

I MISS MESSYPOO!!!

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