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First blog W00T.
So, the end of the school year is approaching in AUS, and this is my last year.
I totally hate this part of the year, I just have little motivation to study, it just is so boring after doign it so long that I am just left feeling 'burnt out'. What have you guys found helpful while studying? Anyone have any study tips? I really just feel so tempted to just mass sc2 games or play other games all day rather than study 
On another note, next year i want to study medicine, i was wondering if anyone here is studying/has studied/ have friends that study etc medicine. What kinda specialties do you guys think are the most fun, what medical specialties do you think would be lame and why? I've started thinking about this lately and Ive realised i know very little about any of the specialties.
Also, any aussies on TL play CS:S? would be fun to play some TLers on other games. Als, is the wow expansion goign to end all your lives too? My friends invited me camping on the release date and i need a good excuse as to why i cant come  . . . . its already takign over.
 
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I'm in exactly the same position as you haha. I've got Uadel/Monash/UWS/UNCLE interviews lined up through nov/dec, should be a blast. If you're going for interviews everywhere, pm me and we can meet up mbe :D.
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haha nice 
I'm in Tassie, and i got a decent enough UMAT score to get into UTAS so im not gunna head to mainland for interviews, i kinda decided i just wanna stay here, and it would be way expensive to move.
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haha soooo jealous of you tasmanians, such uncompetitive entry into med lol. I'll end up in utas after a year of uni if I botch this year, as I can prolly manage a 6.0 GPA in science and my umat is well above what the non standard cutoff usually is but just a little short of the interstate school leaver requirement .
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ahhhhhh. Tassies great love it here.
Slightly more lag when gaming tho worked out which specialties interest you?
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Emergency medicine, Rural GP, Anesthesiology, Neurology, General surg and Public health. I'll try and decide which during clinical years probs (assuming I get in somewhere ;s) heh.
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Whatever you do, don't go in to pharmacy if you don't get into Medicine!
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Pharm is apparently really hard and also really oversaturated.
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Currently sitting my HSC. I've only put in preferences for Arts at UNSW, USyd and Monash and a double degree of Arts/Asia-Pacific Studies at ANU, since they are the only uni's from what I've researched in NSW/VIC that teach Korean.
Nothing else really interests me much, except history/language ;d, specifically Asian Modern History and Korean. I really regret sticking to doing Mathematics, Economics and Software Design. Those are going to drill me in the exam and I'd probably have a happier time if I did something like, Legal Studies, Ancient History etc.
Maybe if I fuck up the HSC I could possibly look at IT -_-
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lol, GTR good luck, but I think later on you will find that an IT degree will you know actually find you a job rather than Arts degree AKA toilet paper.
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atleast korean would be fun/entertaining. if thats really what you want: do it! then you can translate PL for me ^^
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that's the plan.... if it still exists ;p
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On October 16 2010 17:29 GTR wrote:
Currently sitting my HSC. I've only put in preferences for Arts at UNSW, USyd and Monash and a double degree of Arts/Asia-Pacific Studies at ANU, since they are the only uni's from what I've researched in NSW/VIC that teach Korean.
Nothing else really interests me much, except history/language ;d, specifically Asian Modern History and Korean. I really regret sticking to doing Mathematics, Economics and Software Design. Those are going to drill me in the exam and I'd probably have a happier time if I did something like, Legal Studies, Ancient History etc.
Maybe if I fuck up the HSC I could possibly look at IT -_-
Come to Brisbane and do korean at UQ next year :D
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i didn't put in a qtac app, and either way i don't want to pay the late fees and it's too far for me. sydney is the furthest i'd go (out of albury).
anyway i really shouldn't jack the poor blokes blog haha.
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no no, its good, i was just bored
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and to your question on cs:s, i used to play 'competitively' around 05-06... left the game because the community was pretty much based on ego. apparently it's still like that.
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If you're still kinda this vague about things, you need to figure out why you want to do medicine a bit more. Know where you want to go and why. It's hard where you are, but hey, you gotta do it sometime, and it's better to figure it out before you start uni rather than after you've spent your inheritance getting a piece of paper you don't really want to use.
Why do you want to do medicine? what strikes you as 'fun' about it? Medicine is no laugh, I'll tell you what
seriously, it's good you're asking. my advice for study is don't do it. Unless you really need the grades, grinding study won't teach you much worth knowing, and you won't know it for long. Far better to explore what you want to get into via other passionate people. Talk to your local GP as a potential colleague, watch some TED or stanford videos. read some dawkins or bryson, or medical history. Go look around doctors without borders or the red cross. Figure out what your choices mean. In doing so, you will learn far more actual stuff (I mean stuff that you can write in an essay and get marks for) than you will do grinding study, I guarantee it.
Oh and if you want a break, keep in touch and come along to one of the TL melbourne meets, lotta cool folk here if you can manage the ferry trip ^^
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Its important to get into a professional that you have a passion for. I can't stress this enough. I've seen a lot of my mates that went into medicine because they've got the score for it then completely crush out after a few years in. Not to mention the long and boring road before you can actually do anything. I think the average age before you start to make bank is what 35? that's 15 years assuming you got in at 20 >.<
And the fact that if you want to study interstate, make sure you sort out your finances. Unlike some other degrees, studying medicine and working part time is strongly discouraged so most kids that I know doing medicine just live at home.
If you still want to get in to the health profession, then look into other areas which have less competition and less stress. Things like speech pathology, physiotherapy pays well straight out of school.
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Im in 2nd year medical school so ask any questions if you want
also specialty is a long way away, if you want a comparison imagine how many years you have been at school from K-12 and now you are at half-way point if you wish to become a physician or surgeon.
On October 16 2010 16:49 Lurgee wrote:
Emergency medicine, Rural GP, Anesthesiology, Neurology, General surg and Public health. I'll try and decide which during clinical years probs (assuming I get in somewhere ;s) heh.
You basically picked every type of specialty there is, and why the hell would you want to do public health (ill assume you don't know what it actually is)
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Yeah, i'm in exactly the same boat too! Sitting for my HSC exams at the moment and honestly, I just can't bring myself to study either. As you said, by this time of the year, everyone is pretty much burnt out after doing trials and working on assessment tasks and major projects throughout the year. But, when I really do need to study, I don't turn the computer on at all. I pretty much screw myself over when I do and just end up wasting time. I know it's an obvious tip, but try to avoid distractions like that.
I have a couple of friends who study nursing and they seem to enjoy it. Any particular reason as to why you want to go into medicine though? If you're really passionate about it, go for it! But if you're just doing it to fill in time or for the sake of doing something, i'd think about taking a gap year or doing a short course at TAFE or something until you know exactly what you want to do.
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On October 16 2010 17:29 GTR wrote:
Currently sitting my HSC. I've only put in preferences for Arts at UNSW, USyd and Monash and a double degree of Arts/Asia-Pacific Studies at ANU, since they are the only uni's from what I've researched in NSW/VIC that teach Korean.
Nothing else really interests me much, except history/language ;d, specifically Asian Modern History and Korean. I really regret sticking to doing Mathematics, Economics and Software Design. Those are going to drill me in the exam and I'd probably have a happier time if I did something like, Legal Studies, Ancient History etc.
Maybe if I fuck up the HSC I could possibly look at IT -_-
LOL, I wouldn't feel too bad, alot of my friends do Legal Studies and Ancient History and constantly bitch about how much work they get and how hard it is. Good luck with the rest of your HSC exams by the way too! English Paper 2 on Monday is going to a be a bitch :'(
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On October 16 2010 20:25 haduken wrote:
Things like speech pathology, physiotherapy pays well straight out of school.
If speech pathology is anything like psychology (I was doing it as a minor at one point while studying psychology) you'll probably need a couple years of supervised practice before you can get any sort of real job/accreditation.
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well medicine looks interesting i spose, would feel liek youre doing somethign helpful, and pay is a bonus, but not everything. i guess i dont really know quite what it involves so i was wondering what the different specilties really do. =\ making up mind abotu what to study is hard >.<
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I went from studying a bachelor of science to studying psychology to studying a bachelor of commerce and finally getting into my major, marketing, which I really enjoy (although the 2years of doing generic commerce units was so-so).
My advice to you is do your research, REALLY consider what you want to study, envision the career you'll get out of it, how viable a job is and so forth. Medicine is a 4year long course, it almost has to be your calling for you to enjoy it for that long.
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Medicine can really suck the life out of you, if you don't enjoy studying, and if you don't find it interesting. Working itself can be pretty hard and pretty stressful. Eventually you'll become numb to things that should matter, but that you can no longer appreciate.
Financially, being a doctor is good, but not great. You should always have job security if you play your cards right. Oh, and you'll have power, at least in the workplace.
If you are a bad procrastinator, this career will all but kill you. Not because it's hard, but simply because the workload is large, and the stress compounds tenfold.
edit: from what I understand, its 6 years from highschool, 4 years from a graduate program.
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On October 16 2010 20:26 dthree wrote:Im in 2nd year medical school so ask any questions if you want also specialty is a long way away, if you want a comparison imagine how many years you have been at school from K-12 and now you are at half-way point if you wish to become a physician or surgeon. Show nested quote +On October 16 2010 16:49 Lurgee wrote:
Emergency medicine, Rural GP, Anesthesiology, Neurology, General surg and Public health. I'll try and decide which during clinical years probs (assuming I get in somewhere ;s) heh. You basically picked every type of specialty there is, and why the hell would you want to do public health (ill assume you don't know what it actually is)
I love economics. I know I picked a wide variety of things, because it'd be absurd for me to have some specific goal in mind without even starting medschool. What I know about these specialties is based mostly off wikipedia, I'm sure a few years down the road I will have narrowed it down.
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On October 16 2010 15:56 Reignyo wrote:
On another note, next year i want to study medicine, i was wondering if anyone here is studying/has studied/ have friends that study etc medicine. What kinda specialties do you guys think are the most fun, what medical specialties do you think would be lame and why?
I'm graduating from med school in May 2011 and I am gonna specialize in Psychiatry.
As far as the different specialties are concerned, don't even worry about it until the 3rd year of med school. Any speculation before then is pretty pointless cause you haven't done any of the clinical rotations or anything.
I like psychiatry cause it is more laid back, has more interesting pathology and allows a wonderful lifestyle (very few jobs in medicine are still 8:00-5:00). It really depends on you though. Some people like to work all day, be busy and stressed out all the time and they do well in surgery. Some people don't like sticking fingers in rectums or even seeing patients and they do well in pathology or radiology.
But if you want it all (tons of money, very easy work, good home life) the best options are:
Dermatology, radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, and to a lesser extent Emergency medicine.
Those all give tons of money and are relatively easy work. But because of that, you have to be the best of the best in school to get in. And if you are already burned out and needing advice about studying, you may find it very hard to get into one of these.
PM me if you have more specific questions about medicine.
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I'm on the 4.th year of med. school in DK - and it's a totalt blast. I actually wasn't very sure about what I should study and I'm only now figureing out what type of doctor I want to be - and actually that's pretty common, at least here in DK. How would you know what subjects you like before you have had any education in them? So my advice to you would be to make sure that you like to have at least a little contact with people and make sure that you know how to tackle sick people/people in distress. Medicine isn't as hard or as bad as people make it sound (to study) and if you started out as a decent person who cares about other people you won't become numb to the misfortunes of others. I know it has become the popular belief and is depicted like that in a lot of the medical shows, but you will NEVER stop getting touched.
And to the above poster: How in the world did you make the conclusion that emergency medicine and anesthesiology are specialities which let's you have a good home life and are very easy work? That's like the 2 most stressful non-surgical specialities there is - or perhaps your emergency doctors don't handle emergencies? :O
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On October 17 2010 01:02 Ghostcom wrote:
IAnd to the above poster: How in the world did you make the conclusion that emergency medicine and anesthesiology are specialities which let's you have a good home life and are very easy work? That's like the 2 most stressful non-surgical specialities there is - or perhaps your emergency doctors don't handle emergencies? :O
In the US, they are both well known as giving good lifestyles. Emergency medicine is shift work so you are never on call. Once your shift ends, you go home, turn your pager off and forget about work. That is very nice. Anesthesiology is ridiculously relaxed. They start the patient on general anesthetic then once he's stable they call an anesthesia tech, go back to their call room and lay down with instructions for the tech to call if there is trouble. Its a sweet deal.
"Currently, many physicians are focusing on specialties that have more flexible lifestyles instead of focusing purely on income level and prestige. Some fields of practice that can be considered “lifestyle friendly” are areas such as anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, ophthalmology, neurology, radiology, and pathology. These specialty areas offer you more control over your hours, and the income can be commensurate with the workload and level of responsibility."
--http://www.thedoctorjob.com/careercorner/view_article.php?id_article=15
"Anesthesiologists are frequently the most relaxed and happy of all specialty physicians. This comes from a combination of personal satisfaction, immediate results in their work, and a consistency in the availability of free time."
--http://www.thedoctorjob.com/careercorner/view_article.php?id_article=21
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