came to the library to study today Tea time Free snacks heh My first final exam is tomorrow. I have 7 finals in total. Exporting my lecture notes to Notability These are all of my objectives notes that I took. Just going to go through this a couple of times and I think I might call it a night after that. I saw a huge spider literally this big. I couldn't catch it. I'm in my bedroom right now and now I don't know where it is It might be on on my bed. That's going to keep me awake. I need to get 4 pathology questions right to pass the course. 4 out of 27 There's no way I’m not getting at least 4 right. So, that's okay. I need to get 2 out of 36 clinical questions right I'm okay with that. The catch here is microbio I need to get 8 out of 17 of those questions right That's scary I am not down to remediate anything. This exam is the only one that I'm scared about failing. The other 6 exams I'm not worried about failing those, but they're just stressful because they're practicals and I still have to practice for them, Basically, how practicals work is that you work with a standardized patient. They present with a chief complaint and then you do a focused history and physical to figure out your working diagnosis and 3 differential diagnoses and then from there, we would have to present our findings to the preceptor, including treatment options like medications, imaging, labs , etc. The patient is going to present with fatigue (for this practical) and it's so stressful because there are so many possible differentials for fatigue. Fatigue? Omg, do you have sleep apnea? Do you have leukemia? But anyway, you guys, after this final exam, I'm not going to be using any of my brain cells this summer break is for no brain cell activities. I'm going to be sleeping. Hibernating. Should I even bother studying for anything other than microbio right now? Because this Google doc is 32 pages long. Maybe I should just go to sleep right now. No, that's definitely not a good idea. Dude, renal is supposed to be my favorite system. What’s going onnn Morning of exam microbio stuff that I need to cram. I took this to New York and back. This has been through a lot. No more energy to study I passed. I got all of the microbio questions right. I didn't even need to worry about that. 50%? Ha, easyyyy now I have 6 more exams to go. Now that today's exam is over, I'm feeling a lot more at ease. I'm going to go to campus soon to practice for the practicals I have tomorrow. I'm not super stressed out about them anymore. I'm kind of just like it is what it is. It’s whatever. For the first practical I have this semester, I was very underprepared. It wasn't my best performance and then I ended up overpreparing for my second practical. The outcome is the same. I'm still passing, regardless. So for this practical, I'm just going to prepare enough for me to feel confident in myself going in, but I'm not going to stay up trying to memorize every single thing. I have a very bad stomach ache right now. Hot girls have stomach issues. I’ve been sitting here because my stomach hurts so bad. I feel so underprepared for this practical. It's actually terrifying. help I only prepared for a handful of diagnoses last night cuz I was too tired I'm just hoping I get one of those. Thank you to Skillshare for sponsoring this video. Skillshare is the largest online learning community with thousands of classes led by industry experts across film, illustration, design, freelance, productivity, and more. As you guys may know, a lot of medical students, including myself, use Anki to study for exams and prep for boards. 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I was able to come up with my diagnosis pretty early on in the practical, which is good cuz then I can start thinking about what tests I'm going to do for the physical exam so everything was good. I had enough time to finish everything. We're given a piece of paper to take notes on and also just gather our thoughts before we formally present everything to the faculty. They tell us when we have 6 minutes left on the clock. That's when students usually start start talking. But then last time, I regretted not spending enough time on gathering my thoughts before making my presentation because there were things that I remembered in hindsight that I could add to my presentation, so this time, I took my time formulating my thoughts before I started presenting, but I ran out of time. But it makes sense that I ran out of time because I was spending the extra time adding more to my presentation which would make it longer. I had more labs to order, more medications and stuff to talk about. I should have known to start earlier It’s frustrating knowing that I could have done better but I wasn't able to bc I was just like in my own head. little kith from cat 😽 I'm just going to air fry some tofu for dinner. I took a nap I still have my coffee from I still have my coffee from the morning. After I filmed the no caffeine challenge, I honestly don't even crave caffeine as much as I used to. This was my only cup of coffee or source of caffeine and I didn't even finish it. Who am I? I mean that's probably why I slept for so long though. If I wanted to stay awake, I would have had to have coffee. nice nice stop being tired I got a restock of energy drinks from Alani. I have 3 more exams left and all of these are didactic exams. Thank God. I literally cannot do another practical. Now I just need to go through a bunch of practice problems and everything will be good. One of the exams, I have to pass. The other exam I don’t really have to pass. and then the last one on friday, I have to pass, I think. But, I'm not too stressed out about it. Time to take another exam I took an exam this morning. I've been really bad at vlogging myself studying, but I did stay up until like 3am studying last night. I feel like I overstudied. I have another exam in the afternoon. I think it's only like 1% of our grade. I am going to check real quick and see if I actually have to take this because I have a feeling it's going to be a long exam and I'd rather just give up the 1% and not go and start studying for my exam tomorrow cuz I haven't started studying for that exam and I’m more worried about that. At this point, I'm not even excited for summer break anymore. I need at least a week to emotionally recover from this first year and then maybe I'll start feeling a little bit more alive and more excited for summer break but as of right now, I look forward to nothing in life. I don’t- I don't care. Guys, worst case scenario happened to me. My laptop died halfway through my exam. I didn’t have my charger with me. That was my fault. I should have known to bring my charger. I had to borrow my professor's MacBook charger. He was like, “Please give it back to me” I'm just like emptying out my fridge at this point. I have some egg whites and these umm… I actually don't know what these are, but they're… They taste good! I have some barbecue sauce These were actually mushroom patties (?) Going through my notes and ppt slides last final exam I never look this put together to go to school but I'm like actually not in a hoodie today. Let's go! That was actually a pretty rough exam. I passed but it was… not a good score lol I think I studied the wrong material. I decided to skip a few lectures, but those two lectures were very high yield and I guessed on like half the questions but I still passed Cheers to finishing my first year of med school 👍 Thank you for coming along this journey with me :)
