Ice Girl's public thoughts.

in medical school they keep saying take care of yourself ❓

It is my second week of medical school and there has been snow almost everyday and a literal mountain of work.

Everyone myself included feel overwhelmed yet professors and previous students who have came in to give advice say not to worry about it and relax.

What is there to relax about we have more content than any human could possibly learn in a week and it seems borderline impossible to keep this up for years.

You don't make it if you don't have great grades in the first place but to go from feeling top of the class to drowning in work is a pretty hard reality shift.

I used to think I was pretty hot shit when it comes to my intellect but it is easy to get humbled in medical school there's just so much more you never knew you never knew.

In just one week for example we learned every class of dermatology condition and treatment guidelines. It's about 80 conditions sometimes the way to diagnose is based on the freaking texture of the skin or the color at the leading edge.

I don't know about you but I never studied how to diagnose and treat every dermatology condition before so that was all totally knew.

Note that was in just one week 😖 so them telling us to calm down seems counter intuitive since they are introducing so much content that's brand new so quickly and so detailed that it's nearly impossible to keep up.