One mistake I will not be repeating again is having a big dinner before heading off to a warm library. There is nothing quite like the experience of trying to fight off the urge to collapse onto the desk and have a snooze when trying to memorize the side effects and contraindications of diuretics.
In fact, the closer I get to the exam the more comfortable my bed looks. This is not limited to the morning escapades. All of a sudden hospital beds with their pressure mattress and crispy sheets look oh so tempting during a rheumatology tutorial at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. A liter of coffee and a kilo of sugar emergency resuscitation! Now!
While drinking coffee and feverishly cramming pharmacology, the rest of my medical life is on hold. There is a mountain of work unrelated to Step 1, that needs to be done and I am afraid of going anywhere near it. It sits there in the corner and looks at me. I am pretending not to notice and quickly start another pharmacology video. Unfortunately though it will not sort itself out, and eventually I will have to face doing all the preparatory work for the conference I am presenting at on 15th of March, the elective which I am supposed to be going to in less that 9 months time and the article that needs to be written. Eventually is the key word here. I will do all of this eventually, where will I find time is another matter and right now I don't want to think about it.
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