I got accepted! although it was a pretty late acceptance, all that matters is I am going to medical school. when i received the acceptance letter, i felt that at least i have a future now.
I'm currently in my 2nd year at medical school and i'm currently writing on this blog in order to procrastinate on my step 1 study. all my excitement since getting into medical school has mostly faded and i'm just left with frustration and stress. my study schedule involves me waking up at 8am and start studying by first reading first aid (USMLE bible essentially). this would take almost the entire morning. Like the good book, first aid is very dense and requires immense amount of time and concentration just to finish a couple pages. Just last friday, it took me 3 hours to read/memorize 6 pages. that's 1 page every 30 mins....
The morning session is followed by a quick lunch then continue reading first aid to finish what i couldn't in the morning. afterwards, it's on to doing USMLE World (Question bank). Uworld is basically a bunch of questions that are meant to simulate the actual test. it's very discouraging when i do them. currently, i'm consistently scoring 50% on every practice test. that's not even enough to pass... i keep telling myself that at least i'm learning more with every question that i get wrong by reading the explanation. however, i expected to at least see some improvements by now.
k enough procrastination, time to study.
