I woke up today with an oncoming panic attack. I swear by the holy nose hair of Badjula that I just stood up from bed in a panic frenzy remembering that I'll be going back to the dorm and start a brand new week of med school.
Why was I panicking?
Because its a habit. Joke. Lol.
Some subjects were worrying me a whole lot--namely, Biochemistry, Physiology, and Anatomy.
Physiology- I can understand it, its pretty good, but the pacing is really, really fast. I'm having a little bit of a difficulty with the ions and whatnot floating in and out but, the sheer volume of stuff to study.
Next up, Anatomy. This is stressing me up a little bit because of the before lecture and after lecture quizzes that they have. Say goodbye to the 1/4 sheet pad papers that you leech off of your classmate because the professors in Med do it by bubble sheet.
Its 10 items, no erasures, they flash the questions on screen for 20-30 seconds per item.
What's so stressful about this???
Out of the 10 items, you can only have two wrong answers to pass. Yup. 8/10 is passing. 7/10, your quiz is crap and you learned nothing.
In my time (nope, I'm not that old, I just like to talk like an old timer), 6/10 was the passing, and with the really nice, easily persuaded teachers, you can pass with only 5 items.
It would have been ok if I didn't spend 3 hours on that one particular topic, but, what can I say, I think I may have gotten a 7/10. I'm still adjusting, trying to study a little bit faster, and a little more efficient. Holy Badjula knows I'm trying.
The professors/ doctors are really nice but absolutely strict, and I guess for good reason too.
CHED dictates that if a student fails 40% of their load, they are automatically kicked of the roll. Meaning... you will be kicked out of the Doctor of Medicine program and will never be accepted into the DLSHSI Med Program. Ever.
Guess what? Anatomy makes up 39.5% of the academic load in first year.
39.5%
So all you need is just one more subject (minor or major), anything to fill up that .5% that remains, and BOOM. You are taken out.
Every doctor-lecturer emphasized that. Every single one.
Harsh, but its the truth. They said that around 6-10 students were not able to be promoted to the 2nd year because of failure in this one.
Good news is, if you failed JUST Anatomy, meaning you didn't fill up the whole 40%, you can still take up Anatomy next year. Yey!
Finally, Biochemistry.
The doctor-lecturer was awesome, really nice. The topic? not so nice.
We were reviewing the basic (ahem ahem) concepts in Organic Chemistry. The doctor was assuming that all of us took this up in college and was going through the subjects like food goes through you during diarrhea.
My reaction to the first four slides was...
During the lecture, the doctor would ask, " Is everyone ok? Can everybody follow?"
And then some bibbo classmates would shout out in sing-song unison-- Yeeeeeeeeessssssssss Siiiiirrrrr.
For those classmates, I would like to punch you in the face. Not. I just felt frustrated then. :)) It was extremely difficult to follow, and I would have appreciated it if the students who did get it would just quiet down a little and let the old timers like me struggle with a resounding " No Sirrrrrrr."
So now, I'm planning to study Organic Chem from scratch, while at the same time, struggle with learning Biochem and a bunch of ultra-toxic subjects.
Fun. Fun. Fun.
At the end of the Biochem lecture, students flooded the lecturer. One guy remarked,
"Sir, nawala po ako sa first few slides palang, wala na po ako naintindihan."
~ Translation: Sir, you lost me at hello.
And the build up all these subjects led to the panic attack I had this morning.
| My reaction to my future. I think it would be easier to walk into Mordor than pass these subjects. |
Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Way to start the week.
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