You know youre in med school when:
The drama in your life now is worse than it ever was in high school.When you go out with non-medical students, you're abnormally quiet, because you don't know what to talk about besides med school.You can name the four people in your class who are the question-asker, the arguer, the bigshot doctor's son/daughter and the stoner/alkie/druggie who's never IN class.You know countless dirty mnemonics for parts of the body, but couldn't tell anyone what the front-page headline today is.Your life consists of three parts: studying, drinking, and sleeping.
You refer to the semesters you took organic chemistry as "The Good Old Days."You know that, in theory, you have a family and friends, but you can't place the last time you saw them.You don't bother dating because the divorce rate is 70% for physicians.You constantly find yourself saying things like "I just have to get to spring break" or "I just have to get through Step 1."
You question every day if you should drop out and open a coffee shop, then realize that as soon as you were two semesters into med school, you were too far in debt to be anything but a doctor.People assume you know something when you tell them you're in med school, but you know that you haven't learned anything.You've dissected a penis and can explain the way Viagra works.People constantly ask what med school is like, and all you can think of to say is "It really sucks."You can name 3 specialties you're interested in, then immediately rule two of them out because they don't pay well enough to pay off your debt.Half your class is Asian of some sort. The other half is Jewish. All of us are completely nuts.You've thought something like "what's another $10,000 in loans?"You're really frightened by the thought of some of your classmates becoming doctors.You go a week without sleeping with no problem at all.A "study group" is you, your syllabus, and your red bull.
You consistently tell people that they just don't understand how bad it really is.Create or get your
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