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today 25th march sat
read only amyloidosis so far. starting with pancreas nw and then gall bladder. finally want to finish liver as well today. then FA and dvds.
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| drbin
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26th march sunday
wuffffff finished patho genetic disorders. seemed like im gonna stay on this whole day.well it took me 3 and 1/2 hours. oh god!!!! got to finish 3 more chapters today. pls god give me strength to go through this. sometimes i feel im never gonna finish this 1 st reading. it takes all my patience and strength from me and the fear of hw much iam going to retain in my memory for my 2nd read gives me the worst chill. plus iam stressed to write this exam in JUly or august bs of lot of personal reasons.nw going to do blood disorders
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Hi drbin, i am amazed to see one working hard amidst lot of duties.I am planning to take step 1 by this june end hopefully, not yet decided.i have just started path and my progress is very slow and sometimes i feel pressurised and end in mental block.Well, now i am inspired after seeing u.
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thank you fruit and welcome to the forum. getting started is the one great obstacle for all good things and nw u overcame it. so lets all do what is our best and try to beat this big monster. all the best for ur studies.
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hi fruit thank u and welcome to the forum. getting started is a great obstacle that everyone faces in the prep 4 exam and nw that u overcame it, lets all do our best to beat this nightmare. good luck in ur studies and we all in this forum is happy to help each other boost up one another when somebody is feeling really low so that u wil never feel like u r alone in this battle field. so keep going. 
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Hi drbin!Good morning!yesterday i was only able to work for 5hrs.Hope so today will be better than yesterday!
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HI fruit,
thhats really gr8888. slowly try to increase ur speed. actally it is not hw many hrs we study that counts but what v study during that time. so try to maintain a good speed, set a target every morning.if ur on the first read do FA also side by side, and add extra notes to it, so that later on before xam u can revise just FA and wont miss imp point. i mean thats what i do.
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gud morning
finished skeletal muscles,joint diseases, breast and 5pages from GIT yday. mmmmm i cant finish patho in 6 days as i thought.got 4 more days and 15 more chapters to finish . ok i will try and try.i studied until 12mn yday so didnt get up early morning. nw it is 8.30. got to take my breakfast quickly and start the voyage thru Kaplan again . god somehw want to get over this.
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mar 29th
God i don't know what is wrong with me.here i am sitting bleary eyed infront of computer not able to read anything. all my senses are telling me to go on, but simply my brain is stuck. i can see words, read them in a sort of sleepy manner nothing registering. yday the whole day went like that. so today i planned to switch on to pharmac for 2 days just for a change. may be after that i can go on to patho again. bs i think reading something with understanding is better than sticking to one subject without gaining anything in memory. but morning i had to do go to market, came back at 11.30 am and baby wanted me to play with her for sometime. so i spent sometime watching her favourite sesame street with her, gave her lunch had my bath and lunch. nw i am set to study. may be i can study today again. but it s nw almost sure that i cant take my exam in july bs im not able to read as fast as i could before. well im not thinking of it nw. i took a self test in patho yday. got 67% it showed above average. i don't know hw to interpret it. anyway that gives me some hope.
so planning to do cardiac pharma 2day
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| jaide
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hey drbin....
dont worry... sudden burnouts as i like to call them..come and go...
just hang in there... u can make up for lost time...besides..spendin time with ur baby is wayyyyyyy more wonderful then tryin to cram down the basics......so its not really a loss....
keep goin..!!!!1
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30th march
finished cholinergic drugs. nw doing adrenergic drugs
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hi drbin, u r in pace.U need some time to relax ur mind and that was happned.Cool to hear that u r back on mission.U CAN DO IT!All the sUccess is in U ! I have much hope on U than u do! U ll definitely take ur xams in July, as u planned. Well , i was out for a very important funeral and so couldn't catch on. felt bad to miss a close icon
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thanks fruit, for the much inspiring words. Death is a painful reality and the pain we feel over the lose of somebody so close to us is uncomparable. let his soul rest in peace.But we have to go on with our lives, so pls try to come back to ur routine slowly.
yea im picking up my pace again. finished ANS and today moving on to cardiac drugs want to finish 3/4th of it and try 1 chapter from patho
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finished 3 chapters from cardiac pharma so far.
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Well, i am back in the path.i could finish only cardio path and few questions.As i am a slow reader i couldn't reach my target,ve hope & ll do it! trying to complete path in another 5 days~impossible i think so!i had few guests staying in my home and couldn't keep in touch with pathology.
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well fruit, i saw ur diary path to success. that is a good thing to record ur progress . little drops of water make the mighty ocean....lets add drops everyday until it bcomes a big ocean of knowledge.is this ur very first reading? then i think u r doing really great. bs when i started i was able to do only 10 pages a day. nw iam doing almost 35 pages. but the problem is I am not regular sometimes i got to take 1 or 2 days break reading only 5 pages or so and i have to go on changing subjects bs i get bored really fast.people say that this break is not good. so I am trying to be regular nw.but it seems like first reading always take time. most of them who go really fast are usually viewing it 4 the second or third time, so i am happy with my progress. after all our best judge is ourselves. everybody is different in their own capacities.
mmmmm today i finished 35 pages from genetics. feels saturated and it is a sunday. going to spend some time with my family. will finish genetics by 2 moro
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good luck u are doing great the first reading is always the toughest so dont worry just stick to it without any long gaps i mean weeks at a tie and u will make it my mistake is that i took to mny gaps days weekks and even months which is why i forgot what i did earliar so do not make that same mistake just be continous good luck
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thnx drbin and female doc ny.I am happy to see people encouraging me. Well today's morning was good, i was able to read little faster .i have posted my today's task in my diary, it is a mammothian task,already half of day is gone. will do it!Well done drbin to hr u finish genetics today!Harder U WORK,the LUCKIER U r!
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Hi fruit,female doc ny tx for the suggestions.I was reading ur journals for last few days and I know that u r all just doing really great job. that is the nice thing about the forum. I started my studies inspired by malinda aisha2 mitty zzzz vallia (where r u friend havent seen u 4 a long time)then Hodgkins......and nw i feel like i am surrounded by a lot of friends who really care for each other, help each other so much so that I dont want to spend a single day without visiting this forum at least once a day.
well nw the time is 3.30 am!!!!!!!!! i never used to get out of the bed this early, even though i sleep very early at night. Yday yea i slept early by around 11, still....my baby woke up at 3 for her bottle of milk. I quickly mixed it for her and then put her to sleep again. usually i will also fall to sleep with her, but 2day I simply couldnt bs this usmle monster is keep coming to my mind and here I am with my cup f coffee.....
Yday I couldnt finish genetics bs of a very bad headache. i was not much used to computer b4 i started my prep and 4 the last 2 months i was always sitting infront of this screen as my notes are in pdf file.so my eyes wanted to take revenge of me 4 igving them such a strain 4 which they were not used to.so i spent the evening with analgesics in dark room eyes closed.
so iam continuing with rest of the genetics today and then pharmacology cardiac drugs 2 more chapters
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hi drbin , doin genetics and pharmacology together thats tough and ur managin well ...... i dont know wat source ur usin for pharma but i think kaplan is the best ..... im actualy very scared for genetics i have to do that soon and pharma i have gone through once and have to do that many times more i know , i was just readin femal doc ny's joural and there r so many ppl who actualy study late night ....... thats great i wish i could do the same .
well wish u best of luck , i hope we all pass and be together in the step 2 forums , ur right we have a very good group of ppl on thos forum
good luck to every one
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hi drbin, i know what its like waking up at 2 or 3 am. my daughter sometimes wakes up thinking its morning and time for play. and she won't take no for an answer. she is so full of energy. keep up the good work everyone. hi aisha2, don't be scared about genetics, i was in the same boat as my school didn't teach very much on genetics but kaplan is totally awsome for it. better than the metabolism and molecular biology parts.
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oh my adorable beautiful moms..its so awesome I feel when I read your struggle in this journey..you guys are really really wonderfull..!!
drbin you will make it..dont worry everyday you are adding something..main thing is we should not slide back..as long as we are moving everything is fine..we will do it...God willing!!
aisha2 general malise is right ..genetics is so awesome..in kaplan, once u start, and clearing each and everything everythiong becomes so clear..but make sure once its all clear you revise, otherwise..again its the same new story..
All the best guys!!
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Hi drbin!Amazing performance.Waking by 3:30 am , oh oh I ve never seen such a world in my life. Cool ,Thats the SPIRIT. Well take care of ur HEALTH too. This is very important . More healthy!More MEMORY and Better READING!I am continuing the same target today and ll post tomorrow.
Hi aisha2 Wat hodgkins and general malaise tell is true>Kaplan Genetics really stuff.If u want more then Harper's Biochem 16th edition i think so(latest) and Robins Genetics r helpful.Try this or simply go with Kaplan>simple and upto the mark
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thank u guys , u make me feel so much better ....... right now im stuck with immunology , this is my second read and it feels like the first time .
anyway drbin , i would say dont burn ur self out , i know from experience anxity and over exerting ur self an actualy be deadly , plz dont take me wrong ,dont want to scare u or discourage u , just work hard as much as u can and pray and leave rest to God , thats wat my father always told me , i think ur workin very hard keep it up abd if u need support u know where to look .
good luck , U CAN DO THIS
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thanks aisha2, general malaise,fruit and Hodgkins for visiting me.
U r not discouraging me Aisha u r definitely saying it from experience, i know and what u said is true too. I am so anxious nowadays that today morning i simply sprang out of bed at 5.30 dreaming myself at the prometric infront of the computer.Nightmares can be in this form also.......
somehow finished genetics but not very confident. just nw did 10 questions and 2 wrong.simple mistakes.
fruit u r getting depressed for apparently a very common problem. i think everybody preparing 4 this exam is at one day or other getting depressed bs of this problem and in my case almost all days.so my personal advice is set simple targets and try to do more than that(thats my hope tooooo)
dear friends lets do our best today.......
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