A Day in the Life of a Med Student

I thought I'd give everyone a small itsy bitsy glimpse into what a medical student's typical day is like:

07:04 - Wake up to a ringing telephone (my new alarm clock) - 7:04 because 7:00 is too early and 7:05 is too late - after having gone to sleep at two the previous morning doing who knows what. Eat breakfast, shower, get ready and head out the door

07:52 - Get on the elevator with at least one other person

07:53 - stop at the next floor to pick up another student or two

07:55 - stop at the next floor - and the next, and the next, and the next...since I have to go down 14 floors, there's seldom a morning that the elevator doesn't stop at least 5 times. The elevators are definitely what make my morning commute longer than it should be. And you people on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors, take the stairs!!! By the time the elevator gets to your floor, it's already full anyways, so what's the point of waiting for an empty one??

07:58 - Get to the Annenburg elevator bank (Annenburg is essentially the med school building of Sinai) and repeat the whole waiting for an elevator but in reverse

08:00 - Listen and learn like a good student for 2 hours about development, with a 10 minute break in the middle.

10:00 - Sit in the most boring class in the world for way too long - pinch yourself multiple times to stay awake and try really really ridiculously hard to pay attention to a professor that you can't understand in the first place: this causes you to revert back to undergrad intro engineering classes, which causes you even more pain

11:30 - Eat lunch in the cafeteria - the grilled chicken sandwich is pretty good, even though you had to practically inhale it

12:00 - Go up 12 floors again for another hour long lecture

01:00 - The best part of the day: anatomy lab!! The use of electric power saws and being able to see the spinal cord makes you forget about how tired you are and how clueless you are about what's actually going on.

04:30 - Get back to your apartment, after navigating the elevators, change, and take the bike out for a lovely ride around Central Park

06:00 - Dinner!! But you don't finish before you set off the smoke alarm. Luckily you shut it off before the fire department has to be called

07:00 - Attend a review session for the 2 hour morning class, which makes you feel like you're in elementary school again because you're recalling the colors

08:00 - Catch a subway down to midtown, after having left the review session early out of pure frustration

08:45 - Karaoke!!! Sing your heart out, butcher Mariah Carey and show off those jazz hands

12:34 - Walk back into the residence hall and catch an express elevator up to your floor. Instead of crashing as soon as you walk into your room, being the good student that you are, you pull out your anatomy books and review for the next hour or so.

02:00 - Finally shut off the light and pass out, knowing deep in the back of your head that you get to do it all over again *