Relief
Finals are over. Final count of coffee was in the 400's of oz. Well over the goal of 256 oz. I am confident that I had about 3 gallons in a week and a half. Now its just time to detox from my caffienated study session.
In the time immediately after finals people are still in a whipped dog mentality. The feeling that you are continually being beat down by "the man". The beauty of "Winter Break" has not set in yet. Once you have a meal and realize that you have nothing left to do for school this calendar year, the relief appears. The kind of relief that can be had only by having nothing to do. The post finals experience gets more and more difficult. It becomes an ever challenging transition between study and do nothing. As school progresses, the amount and speed at which studying is done accelerates. This becomes problematic when a break hits. I equate it to a crash test dummy. The car is at standstill with the "dummy" (aka medical student) in the driver seat. The car goes from 0 to 60 in a split second only to run head first into a reinforced concrete barrier. Whiplash, some cuts and scrapes, and pain when breathing are just some of the problems. Now just imagine what the crash test engineer feels. (I don't think that "dummy" is the PC term anymore.) Running head first into a standstill is probably why many medical students develop drinking problems. You spend all your time studying and then you suddenly have nothing to do and need to blow off some steam => drinking time. Not just recreational drinking. I'm talking drinking with the same intensity with which you study, like its your job. (because basically it is. you are enslaved by class, professors, and let us not forget the amount of debt that you have accrued.) School sucks even breaks from it suck.
In the time immediately after finals people are still in a whipped dog mentality. The feeling that you are continually being beat down by "the man". The beauty of "Winter Break" has not set in yet. Once you have a meal and realize that you have nothing left to do for school this calendar year, the relief appears. The kind of relief that can be had only by having nothing to do. The post finals experience gets more and more difficult. It becomes an ever challenging transition between study and do nothing. As school progresses, the amount and speed at which studying is done accelerates. This becomes problematic when a break hits. I equate it to a crash test dummy. The car is at standstill with the "dummy" (aka medical student) in the driver seat. The car goes from 0 to 60 in a split second only to run head first into a reinforced concrete barrier. Whiplash, some cuts and scrapes, and pain when breathing are just some of the problems. Now just imagine what the crash test engineer feels. (I don't think that "dummy" is the PC term anymore.) Running head first into a standstill is probably why many medical students develop drinking problems. You spend all your time studying and then you suddenly have nothing to do and need to blow off some steam => drinking time. Not just recreational drinking. I'm talking drinking with the same intensity with which you study, like its your job. (because basically it is. you are enslaved by class, professors, and let us not forget the amount of debt that you have accrued.) School sucks even breaks from it suck.
posted by runrMD08 at 4:53 AM
1 Comments:
Ray,
good argument. this post is a good example of how traditional school does NOT prepare you for real life or the world outside the campus.
-DLMWS
p.s. - i'm back!
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