Wednesday, October 18, 2006

only crazy people do medicine

So I had a 10 hour long day today (from 8:45am - 7pm)

For 7 hrs15 mins I was sitting on my behind in lectures!

NO KIDDING

and for an additional 1 hr 15 mins I was standing on my feet on the Wards being taught.


SO I've had over 8 HOURS of solid teaching today!

My brain is exhausted! I then came home (at 7:30pm), cooked dinner and have just done 1.5hours of additional revision.


aaaarrgghhh!!


and tomorrow I am scheduled to have lectures from 8:30am - 5:30pm with only 1.5hour break in between!

I WISH I WAS JOKING!!!


better go, because I am so tired and have loads of prayers to say!

God Bless!

-x-x-x-

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This isn't going to help any, but for my history degree I only have four hours of class. A week.

(Sorry- still, at least you'll be employable when you graduate!)

Paulinus said...

Antonia, I hate to tell you this but this is where it BEGINS. After you qulaify, in all likelihood you will have a set of postgraduate exams to do which will take you doing 2-3 study AFTER you've done an 8-9 hour clinical day. Then if you're really bonkers you can do an MSc, MD or PhD (again, while you are working). It doesn't stop but, my goodness is it worth it!

RCM is right: we NEED good Catholic doctors. Not duffers - GOOD Catholic doctors.

Anonymous said...

You could always change your mind and go into teaching...

Most days I start at 7am (yes, I'm actually at my desk) and I leave just as they lock up the building at 5:45pm. This is when we don't have parents' evenings. I have generally worked through lunch and break too. When I get home, I then have marking and lesson planning...

The up-side is that the holidays are pretty darn good!!

:-D

...but no, Antonia. Radical and Paulinus are absolutely spot on: we need good Catholic doctors more than ever under the current climate! Stick with it. And you've got the right idea about prayer: get your Guardian Angel to take some of the load!!