Who else felt insane in medic school?

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Not the break down "I give up I can't do this" type of insane. I am talking gone balls to the wall coo coo I am borderline psychotic insane? Lack of sleep... goofy..delirious..brains and backpacks crammed ready to explode at any minute. Wallets and days off are nonexistent. Social lives..what is that?

Almost done and now in THE FINAL STRETCH of this never ending marathon
Location-hell
ETA-never???

I know what "they" were talking about. I actually think it has made me dumber, in a good way. I often wonder if senior medics have watched us from the sidelines progress from happy and excited basics, waiting for us to turn into zombie students. I would laugh at me. Medics smile at us now and say are you starting to see the light yet? keep going towards it, you can do it! As we stare into space looking for that pinhole.

Everyone in our class has succumbed to the hell that is medic school. We lost 3-4 comrades along the way.. RIP boys (not literally), we miss you. We are shallow remnants of what we once were. However, I like this feeling. The bonding we have all had is amazing and it's not something that can be taught. Quite the experience. We are a family. I am not making sense. Or am I?
 
You're not making sense, and sound a little crazy. Medic wasn't that bad.
 
You can tell how u feel about medic school by looking at my forum title. All I know is one week left.
 
Anjel said:
You're not making sense, and sound a little crazy. Medic wasn't that bad.
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Glad it wasn't that bad for you! I think it really depends on what program you are going through. Who knows :)
 
I planned a wedding and got married during mine. It did ruin my marriage before it even began.

I won't blame it all on school, but it was a huge contributing factor. And I drank a lot.
 
I felt medic school was way, way easier than my undergrad degree. In fact, I did paramedic school right after college and it felt like an academic break. Like you said, this likely depends on your background, what's going on in your personal life, and what program you attend. In any case, congrats on almost being done!
 
I found medic school easy ( the content and classes themselves) It was the time management and fitting everything into my schedule that was hard.
Worked ft on a truck, commuted 1 hour for class and clinical, was also taking university classes and was planning a wedding.
 
Anjel said:
I planned a wedding and got married during mine. It did ruin my marriage before it even began.

I won't blame it all on school, but it was a huge contributing factor. And I drank a lot.
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Ooooopphhh! That's rough stuff. I know nothing about planning weddings but I assume it to be stressful as well. I think a lot of my "craziness" has do to with my other FT job falling apart and slowly killing me inside. Not having a solid support system is also pretty bad.
And cardiology. I'm so terrible at it. Actually I could keep going on and on and on with this list. I would get a therapist if I had time!! :rolleyes:
 
Medic Tim said:
I found medic school easy ( the content and classes themselves) It was the time management and fitting everything into my schedule that was hard.
Worked ft on a truck, commuted 1 hour for class and clinical, was also taking university classes and was planning a wedding.
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This. this this this. I need a personal assistant. working FT in an ED that is severely understaffed and going under (I half wish DPH would shut us down), PT on a FD and PT for a private ambulance service.... Scheduling clinicals and all the paperwork and signatures that go along with it, still having didactic, assignments one after the other piling up.. what else. Ah yes, waiting for official offers from two new jobs I really have been wanting for years. I just think I've turned into a selfish mean person and feel bad for those around me who have to deal with it. Soon it will be over and I wont be making weird posts on a forum while on sleeping pills.

I feel like a fool.
 
I had all my electives done for an *** EMS degree before starting medic school so I did a year full time and a year part time. The full time year I averaged 1-2 days off a month.
 
DEmedic said:
Medic school unequivocally destroyed my personal life, seriously made me contemplate suicide and was the spark that lit the fuse to end a 10 year marriage.

Other than that, it was okay.
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I start medic in Jan. and i work full time and its night classes 4 nights a week and im really afraid that it will be the end of my 8 year marriage.... and i hate that... maybe it will make it stronger!
 
It wasn't that bad for me at all. It wasn't extremely hard but it was more difficult than some other college classes I have taken. It was a very long year however. It didnt end my marriage, that's probably due to the fact I'm not married.
 
I think it was the dramatic lifestyle change that was the reason for the disruption in my life.

Medic school alone was a breeze.
 
I thought paramedic school was easy. I worked nearly full-time and I had a young family so I was really busy and often didn't get much sleep, but I didn't think it was difficult or stressful, and it went by quick. My wife was also in school full time for engineering.....she had it much harder than me.
 
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