first week

Third year, finally!

It’s my first week as third year med student. The class starts on a Wednesday. Some of my classmates went to school as early as seven thinking that we have our Dermatology subject. I, on the other hand, was too lazy to start the day right and decided to skip that supposedly seven o’ clock class. Another reason is that I knew that Derma will be offered on the second shift for our section. True enough, there was no Derma class for section D, hehe, am I not lucky?

Third year… whoaw! I’m already third year, a regular third year. But it’s sad to see that some of our second year classmates have not made it with us. Some failed a subject and has to retake it. With that, I thought I may be so lucky to made it this far. I could still remember how I almost flunk some of my subjects – Clinical Pathology, Obstetrics, Pathology, and Pharmacology. The latter being worst since I took the remedial exam to pass it. And I even thought that remedial exams are only for formality sake – that all of us will pass that exam – that I only studied one day for that test that encompasses topics from the first shift to the last. Later, I found out that some of those who took the exam failed. Luckily it was from other section. That sure sent some chills to my bones.

I’m already third year. But to my chagrin, our schedule is too toxic. Our school days always start at seven and end at five with some few (and I mean ‘few’) vacant hours in between like lunch break. And there were many readings, too many readings this early June.

But you know what, if you’ll ask me again if I want to continue this life, honestly, I don’t. And am I lucky that even though I have not been too serious or even serious with my medical study, I am still here? A regular third year already.