Start Of The Second Semester

Usually, the first week of the start of a semester is usually easy, but after two years of medical school under my belt, I knew that was wishful thinking, but I figured that the first few days wouldn’t be too busy, right? I was wrong. Monday, October 24, the first day of my second semester of my second year arrived with a vengeance. First it was whole day microbiology, which is usually hard and made harder by the fact that micro profs give identification quizzes after their lectures. Luckily, we didn’t get any but still… there were lots of information being given to us when my brain was still on “vacation” mode. I had a massive vacation hang-over, added to the fact that I was sleepy and still kind of tired – and I wasn’t sure if I was sleepy/tired because of jet lag or post-vacation tiredness or simply because my body was complaining of being in school and having classes. Either way, I was sabog. My commed (community medicine) group had a meeting after class and I was barely coherent. Aimee was asking me to edit a part of our research paper that was lacking and that she found and all I could say was, “huh?” Natatawa nalang tuloy sakin mga groupmates ko.

And then, every afternoon, after classes, I think I have free time (since I don’t want to study just yet) but when I get to the dorm, I remember all sorts of things that I have to do: fix my cds, type transcripts, fix my files for second semester, fix my notes and what I need to fix for second semester, etc, etc. I can't even believe I haven't had a really decent free time since school started.

Sometimes I yearn for the days when I was in high school where life (school life) seemed so much simpler and easy. And I don’t think I complained much then. Did I? Hehehe I hope not. I thought I knew the meaning of “busy” and “mentally drained” and “so mentally drained, I’m physically exhausted” but I never really knew them until I hit medical school. Yet I know this is only the tip of the iceburg. The joys of third year and fourth year await me. Not to mention, the uncertain future that faces me.

Bakit nga ba ako pumasok sa ganitong buhay? :p somebody should’ve discouraged me LOL