<p>Do you still go to a University and do you still live in dorms or apartments just off campus. And do you keep meeting new people and making friends. I know the work load is much more but is everything else the same. I was wondering because i hear college is fun but will Med school be the same?</p>
<p>Some med schools have student housing (especially in more expensive cities), others do not. The social life aspect is really very different though, because you pretty much have to study all day, every day</p>
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<p>Yes, and no. You will have lectures and classes and labs, but these are usually held on the medical campus which is separate from the undergrad campus.</p>
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<p>It depends. Some schools have dorms; some don’t. Even if your school has graduate student dorms, you don’t have to live in them. It really depends on your budget and your living situation preferences. </p>
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<p>Yes, you will meet all sorts of new people during med school–your classmates, hospital staff, your professors, your clinical preceptors, other volunteers/students/residents at your clinical sites. There will be group team-building activities during orientation for you and your fellows students to help you get to know one another.</p>
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<p>While the work load in med school is substantially greater than in undergrad, there will be time for fun. For example, most med schools have a med student ball/formal every year. Even during MS3 (probably the most intense year work-wise), you will have days off. </p>
<p>I disagree with the poster above who said that med students study 24/7. Yes, they study a lot, but no one can study to the exclusion of everything else and survive mentally or emotionally. It’s just not healthy.</p>
<p>Both of my kiddos (MS4 and a MS1) have maintained their relationships with their SOs, kept old friends, made new friends, raised a puppy (well, one kiddo did), engaged in regular exercise, held parties, attended parties, traveled, gone on vacations, attended special events (concerts, playoff games) in other cities, gone to pro baseball games regularly, participated in sports and hobbies….IOW, you will have to plan your time more carefully than you did in undergrad, but there will be time for fun. </p>
<p>Med school is more “mature” than undergrad. Lots more info coming at you. You will likely socialize with other med students.</p>
<p>My son lives in a condo with 2 other med students…one he knew in undergrad/same major and the other is a friend from high school. So, a happy bunch! </p>
<p>My son still plays intramural sports at the univ’s rec center…recently hurt his ankle, but all good. lol</p>
<p>he does study a lot. </p>
<p>You have very limited time for whatever you call “the same”. Going to lectures is not mandatory at all, nobody is taking attendance. In 3rd year (which started in March of the 2nd year at D’s school), you only have time to be in your rotation, sometime over 12 hours, come home, study, go to bed, no time to go out to eat, no lunch break either, got to sneak those protein bars out of your whilte coat pocket, no drinks, but there is also concern for the bathroom break, so no drink may work better and get up and do the same next day. There are very few short breaks. Thank goodness, D’s Med. School has “research” rotation, everybody think of it as a vacation. Seh actually broke hers into 2 - 2 months each, jsut to have those 2 months breaks. I do not know how others that do not have tResearch rotation even participate in research with everything that it includes, like working with statistician, writing manuscript, some have opportunity to go to annual national conferences with poster presentation. There are outpatient rotations that are also like breaks because they are not 12+ hours and at clinics, not the hospital. And, you have only one summer off, during which most are either doing Research or participating in some interesting medical trips abroad or something of this nature. Yes, now D. has time to go to gym 5 times / week, but she is a 4th year and not in rotation currently. Walking to and from school was basically her gym for the first 2 years and being on her feet for those 12+ hours (had to figure out shoes situation) is basically your gym in 3rd year. </p>
<p>…well, all that is listed in posts above is going on but in very limited amounts and sporadically. Cannot do anything if as I said, going to the hospital every day and many weekends, sometime like 15 days in a row. not a chance, unless you require couple hours of sleep. Most young people have to sleep more than that.</p>