By Fatima Baluch
1st Year
1st Year
1. This is how people generally greet
you:
2. You are the favorite kid in the
family. Without a doubt. PERIOD.
3. This is your weekend summed up nicely in one picture:
4. You wake up every morning (if you
went to sleep at all, that is) and this is the first thought you have:
5. Coffee is your staple diet. (Roti
chaawal who?)
6. When non-med students talk about how
tough their routine is:
And you react like:
7. You can totally relate to this:
8. You are surrounded by people
(read:theetas) who constantly like to show off the size of their hippocampus
(right brain-part for memory, right?):
9. Every disease you read about, you
obviously have it:
10. At
family gatherings, your khaandaan is accustomed to your absence due to some
godforsaken test the next day. I mean, why don’t you just crawl into a hole and
shut yourself away from the world already?
11. Pangs
of guilt hit you every time you think of sleeping.
You should probably be studying RIGHT NOW as well. You know im right. YOU
KNOW IT.
12. Your
family stays clear of your room because you bring back those scary, unclean, great-way-to-scare-your-younger-brother
bones.
*OMG BONES! RUN!*
13. You
spend more time with cadavers and books than you do with your family:
14. When
you have to excuse yourself from friends’ gatherings for the 7858437th
time because you just HAVE to study, and they don’t believe you:
15. You
feel like the king of the worrrrrld when you find out you’ve passed..YOU
FRIKKIN’ PASSED!
(Those who topped don’t have a life, is what you tell yourself to console
yourself. Truth is, you hate that genius kid.)
16. You
feel betrayed by House, Grey’s Anatomy, General Hospital, Scrubs and all those
medical shows you watched and which made you think medicine was AWESOME.
I TRUSTED YOU! HOW COULD YOU?!
17. You
made plans to study today.
‘I’ll get around to them as soon as you turn off the internet. Promise,’
you just told yourself with determination (HAH).
I mean, who are we kidding really…
18. You
have nervous breakdowns on a regular basis now. Throw in those migraines and
that stemetil-froben combo and you have your day nicely packed into a sentence.
19. You
know you’re socially awkward. Get over it.
20. Your
cupboard is full of books because you didn’t have space for those very
important, gazillion reference books you’ve convinced yourself you’re going to
need one day, on your desk.
21. An
uncalled-for holiday is the best news you’ve had in forever.
22. You
see your non-med friends having fun…and then you stop thinking about that,
because you’ve just remembered you have a test the next day. Life=amazing (Y)
23. You
convince yourself you’re awesome because you have brains. And brains are
AWESOME.
24. You’ve
said good-bye to your sense of humor and warmly embraced a socially-impolite
sense of cutting sarcasm.
Smooth.
25. You
constantly whine about your routine, complain about the long hours, curse your
books, feel you’re incompetent, sleep in all sorts of places other than your
own bed, score less despite all your hard work and then end up questioning
yourself why you chose medicine in the first place.
26. BUT
then you answer yourself that one fine day, you’ll cut open a person, put him
right, close him up back again, make a difference in someone’s life, and get to
feel so good about it.
And then you’ll do it all over again. And again. And yet again.
So many feels. :')
And if you feel good about that, then you know that it’s all going to be
worth it.