sarika
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something is seriously wrong with me...after that last post and a break of one week i started studying again. I studied for 20 days straight made major gains in scores and then i took a trip for two days (which was inevitable because of family) and its a week since my coming back and i still cant get back to study.
Why do i get distracted so much? why cant i realize that i am not single and the same carefree person anymore...i will have to study with all these distractions..i cant avoid them and i cant waste time like this...i am so messed up so depressed...first i had decided to take step 1 in dec but then i moved it to feb 01 ....next mon in dec i have another big family distraction coming up that i cant avoid at all...(that thing is for a week) Normal people come back and get on with their lives and routine why cant i.....i have worked so hard for this exam with a toddler to take of without any help here in USA(although my husband has been pretty supportive)..it was so difficult but i studied made progress but gaps like these just erase everything.....i am so mad at myself at life at everything!
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| mks
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Calm down Sarika.......this is life and this happens with everyone. There are ups and downs in the study phase just as they are in life. Don't let yourself wear down by emotions. Look at your goal, aim it and be just to yourself !
Wish you good luck !
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| Shakeels
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Well Sarika, its good to see you again!!!!! I'm glad to hear that, you made good achievements, thats really nice. Actually I was thinking that, where SARIKA disappeared???
I will not say that, distraction for about a week is a good idea, it doesn't work on me to take a break for seven days and relax, and thats why I was cut off from all of my family members in sucha way that, I didn't know what was the date of my brother's wedding??? One day I was calling my parents to pick me up from the bus stop, then they told me that they are out of STATE, to attend some conference. They understood me, and help me to not to disturb me in any case, and I thanks Allah for every thing.
But what can I say??? distraction does happen, again & again in such a way that we can not hold them, thats right. Its good that your Husband is supportive, and thats is the major thing. But again I will tell you, when preparing for USMLE, our threshold of getting tense get lower, in such a way that, we can get easily distracted on a minute thing, on such things we will not be able to think to get distracted in a normal daily routine life. I don't know if you believe me or not, but it happens to me, after my test, suddenly I felt that I'm normal like others, RELAX, CALM and being nice, and feeling of joy. WE HAVE TO CONTROL OURSELVE AND I KNOW THAT WE ALL CAN DO IT BETTER, WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR EMOTIONS, SO THAT IT CAN NOT MAKE OUR STUDIES WORST, AND inshALLAH, ALLAH will help us all.
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| drsnq
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Hi sarika...
I think shakeel is right ...distraction destroyes our threshold of studies ...Its not good in between preperation for a big day..BUT...if we cant hold these type of distractions then what we have to do...I must suggest you that u knw ur routines well..set ur goal...u have enough 3 month for ur exam...like if u have to go some where then dont fully cut off ur self ..like if u have to go some other plaace then u cna take some audio lectures with you ..while traveling u can listen them with ur MP3 player...the thing is that u should give 1-2 hrs a day for ur studies then ur mind cannot relax and some kind of material is running in ur exam regarding studies with ur outing...
second thing ..if u have lot of work for a day then gather some energy and must study in the night time ...no matter if u just study for an hr or 2...the thing is that DONT CUTT OFF UR SELF WITH UR STUDIES FOR LONG TIME..it will destroy ur all the previous struggles...if u think that during ur family trips u cant study more but by doing all these thing ,at least ur previous info is running in ur mind and that is imp...u cant go forward but by doing this u can hold ur self for going backward...and that is imp..
i think it helps u becoz sometime I am also doing this...
happy study
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| demnat
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Hi Sarika!
Last year i had so many distractors,and I didn't study for weekor 2, then I was studying again, for 2-3 weeks, and all year around was like this. My mistake was that I didn't study at all durig this gaps(because of family things). So, even you will be busy for week, try to open some books, or do some (50)Q, that will keep you" on the way".
And one more,when you postpone you exam you are more relax, because allways think that you have time ahead.I would choose the day and go to it!
My husband is very veryu supportive, but the rest of my family didnt truly understand what this exam mean to me,they think it's like in college, like taking classes.They allways distruct me, but one day i said:"Listen,this very importent, just forget about me for few month, pretend i went back to my country.I'll call you when I will have time,because it's my life and my future!"And it's really works! Maybe You need to talk to them.
Good luck to you!
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| drsnq
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Hi Demnet
thats what which sarika needs, even we all whose family or relatives dont understand...
try this sariks it will work defenately
GL
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| sarika
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Thankyou very much all you guys for your support...its really something else when people take time out of their busy schedule to help others and support in these stressful times.
you all are right theres nothing else to do or say or think except to study . today i started with BS again...statistics is tough but i am trying...could not study like i usually do (which is all the time i have, when i dont have to do anything else) .
Wish you all the very best.
And thankyou again
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