There will be ups and downs, late night study sessions, and flashcards for days, and literal human bones, but you'll learn to love it. At times, you're going to need to be their cheerleader.
There will be weeks you'll forget you even have a boyfriend—friends will ask how he is and you'll say, "What? A vacation together consists of a trip down the street to Walgreens for new highlighters and printer paper.10.
Date them for long enough, and you'll become one too.6. And when you witness others perform these same acts that, before you began dating your med student, you spent your entire life doing too, you'll wince and wonder, "Ew! Don't they know how many germs and bacteria they're spreading??! Romantic date = Chinese take-out in front of the TV on their 10-minute study break.9.
Yet Phil has been the best cheerleader, tough love-giver, food-deliverer, and best friend I could have ever asked for.
While I’m in hardcore study mode, he’s also studying for finals and understands the stresses that graduate school places on us and that I can’t hang out all weekend because, well, he needs to hit the books, too.
Even though you used to walk into your home with your shoes on, and sit on your bed in the same clothes you just wore while riding the subway, or sat on a public bench in, you'll become far too disgusted to ever do it again.
They'll make you hyper-aware that germs are everywhere and on everything.
Or, you'll need to pay a therapist who will pretend never to get sick of listening to your endless venting and complaints. It's not like I'm speaking from experience or anything...
Marissa Kristal is a New York-based writer who has written for various print and online publications such as Psychology Today, Time Out New York, Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine and Beauty Addict, to name a few.
Will probably work just as well for PAs, NPs and any other health professional student who hasn’t started clinical rotations. We didn’t have “smart phones” when I was in medical school, so I didn’t have to worry about that distraction. Does it really matter whether you get your BFF’s text message immediately or a few hours from now? Most professors are not industrious enough to create new questions for each exam. I also had a large bore needle that one of our more senior professors said we could use as a “makeshift cricothyrotomy to establish a temporary airway.” Then we thought how cool we would be saving someone’s life by sticking an IV needle in their neck.
Our former babysitter just graduated from medical school and the White Coats are just as proud as her parents are. Do you really need to check your e-mail that often? And there are only so many questions you can ask about the same topic. Some may have wording changes, but most questions have the same concepts. Now, I still laugh at some of the stuff I used to carry in that bag.