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so the struggle continues. thanks malik for your vote of confidence. i can always count on you beign in my corner.
so it is inflammation.
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| tolito
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well never got to finishing inflammation yesterday  but i got the ICAM stuff done. will check out Robbins to make sure i have not left anything out. had a good time yesterday,.  took a couple out yesterday, kinda like a sendoff dinner for them. we had such fun. could not study when we got back. watched my fav team (suns) beat the clippers. yes, yesterday was good.
so today, it is make up time. is there anyone out there with a stick long enough to reach me here and beat the slop out of me so i can stick to my time table???? HELLO????
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| cool_guyp4u
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Tolito,
I like your trucking concept. What are we but truckers in line for the USMLE tests? 
Did you take your date?
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tolito, dont beat yourself up over minor lapses in timetable- life doesnt stand still just becoz of the usmle, stop and smell the roses even if it is for just a moment. And taking a break now and then will only refresh you and you will return to your books with renewed energy. Good luck and remember, you are doing your best
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yes coolguy we need to just keep on trucking!!, i chose june 19th but i am not confident i can make that date yet but we will see.
thanks serenity. i have a PhD in beating myself up over lack of accomplishment and yet i also have a PhD in enjoying myselt. hmmm what an odd ball i am!!!
today has been good though i put in just about 6hrs total. problem?? slept too much and watched NBA. redid cellular injury and answered question from robins review. scored 85% on the chapter. feels good to score high!! wish i could have got them all though cos i missed questions on apoptosis. well i went back to read it up. started on inflammation. are you sick of me 'starting on inflammation'???? my guess is inflammation is where it all starts from so i had better know it cold. i hope i am right. its just that God has blessed me with this hunch when it comes to exams. whatever i keep going over and over tends to come out big time. of course i go over them so often cos they are hard stuff. hope my hunch pays off with alll the immuno and infl i am reading!!!
COUNT-UP DAY 9 ENDED.
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| 26malik
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hi. good going. please make a list of all your huches and post them to me . lets hope its not all top tough stuff .
you are right about inflammation. its basic and looks easy buy mastering it is too important as actually its concerns like half of all topics in usmle.esp micro, immunity and most of patho. it must be learnt cold.
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alright malik.here are a few hunches .. infl, CD markers, IL. 
so today, it is inflammation. am starting late, it is 8pm. hope i can put in 4 solid hours before going to bed. as usual i was delayed by laundry. i wish we would all wear just one outfit each per week!!!!
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| general malaise
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hi tolito, its funny you should say that. i have been wearing pretty much the same outfit since i starting studying in december, shorts and t-shirts, either blue or green which are my fav colors. its always hot where i live, i hate it.
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| tolito
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lucky you general malaise with the warm weather. its been cold so we have been wearing like 3 layers and sleeping between 4 layers (course you need to conserve heat or your bill goes sky rocket!!!) now it is getting warm so i will soon change to shorts too...
today has ended well. finished infl at long last. did q in robbins and scored 87%. pas mal but wish i had scored 100%!!! am i not getting greedy and over-reaching???
so i am going to bed at 2am. got to be in the lab tomorrow for the best part of the day. i need to analyse the reslts so far and i also have a subject for tomorrow. will continue with path tomorrow.
COUNT-UP: DAY 10
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today, will revise the questions i did yesterday and move on to the next chapter. pray today is even better than yesterday.
i have put aside from my thoughts a specific exam date. i am just studying at almost full steam and then i will assess myself in about 3 weeks' time. that will determine my state of preparedness.
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Good tolito..nice to see your awesome spirit, keep going I am sure you will do simply great..keep trucking
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thanks hodgkins. i am still trucking
yesterday was not too good. could not make head or tail out of wound healing. once again i had problems understanding the growth factors. so i got just 8 correct out of 15 in robins review. so i am going to look at the topic again and hopefully it will be better.
the struggle continues. sometimes i am happy that june is getting near and i am going to sit the exam and sometimes i break out in sweat just thinking that the date is drawing near esp when i see my wall of fame with all the stuff i once knew but have forgotten.
ok, i will be encouraged. if i can just get through path i believe i will retain most of the stuff when i go over them 2 more times. it gets easier every time.
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| rouadefoc
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Keep it up tolito, you are doing great.
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Thank you very much.
I feel the same, but I guess the panic is part of pre-exam experience.
I only have 15 days left, it is so quick to know that the test is finally coming.
1 year ago I was panicing for not having enough time to study, then suddenly everything is about to finish.
Now I feel if given more time, things would be the same, another round of reading would not do much at this moment.
Will do good!
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thanks rouadefoc and welcome back. we missed you.
wey, you are very right, one is never really really ready. so once one feels adequately prepared then one can go esp if the NBME results are good. i suppose the reason is because unlike scheduled exams that are fixed, with this one we can keep changing the date and paying more till we are tired or broke or both.
today has ended on a good note. i did the dreaded qbank and scored 66% which was more than average (63%). i must celebrate this minor victory. see, i did the wrong test. i selected all disciplines instead of just gen principles so i had questions from systems whcih i have not read at all. half way thro i felt like stopping but i determined to keep on anyway and not mind my results. yippee. so i am all the more encouraged to continue. dear lord, keep on giving me victories daily.
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Good luck tolito and really those small battles that you fight everyday will make you strong and help you win the war called step 1. I am just waiting for my results and spent some very very emotionally draining time with my family (my parents met me and my wife after 4 yrs of marriage...you can fill up the rest )
I have started for step 2 little bit but rythm is lost...
anyways, enough on me but good luck....keep working hard and you shall prevail
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good job tolito, ur journal is really inspiring, the USMLE has certainly made u a stronger person already it seems!! that is the best part of this exam, it prepares for life also!
good luck with MLE
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thanks sachida, i pray for good news for you. it is hard to continue while waiting for the result of one but you just have to go on. i'll tell you my own personal experience. at one of the post grad exams i took, i was 'battered' during my short cases and i knew i had failed the section. but on the same day, i still had 2 orals to go. it is considered a failure if you fail the clinical section ie long case and short cases even if you passed the orals. at same time, if you pass clinicals and fail overall, you have failed the exam. so i felt so dejected and felt there was no point to the exam but i remembered something we used to say to each other 'it is never over until it is over". so i picked up my courage and did the rest of the exams like i had not had a bad morning. well, i passed. i had done so well in the long case that it balanced out my poor outing at short cases. so sachida, you have a deadline in order to make 2007 match, do not look backwards but forwards and keep matching on. you do not want to lose precious 6 weeks moping and worrying only for the results to come out 254/99 and then regret your lack of confidence. GET A MOVE ON BUDDY!!
sharvil, thanks for visiting. yes i am a much stronger person and i am still marvelling at the change in me.. i pray to excel and that will make it worth my while.
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the struggle continues. i continue with path.
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COMFORT MY HEART AND ESTABLISH IT IN EVERY GOOD WORK AND WORD
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Hi tolito,
I will b also giving my exam in june end may b
Keep moving friend... this too will pass...
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hey tolito , ur doin great , and i see u improvin day by day , wish u all the best .
GL
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goodgod and aisha, thanks for your encouragement.
not a very good ending to the day cos i did not finish neoplasia. am reading from big robbins and it was a chore. but i chugged thro and finished it but i need to re-read and pay attention to al the oncogenes and markers...yuk.
then my fav team, suns, did not do well. so it is now 3-3. we go to phoenix and thrash them too and qualify. elton brand is a real killer. maybe he will get the flu and not play on monday.( just kidding)
anyhow, tomorrow is another day.
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Hey Tolito,
I am back from a short trip I had to do, Now back to reality and determined to go for my goals, It was hard to keep in track during my trip but it was very motivated too. Now I have created my 2 months whole subjects review and by the end of July I am planning to go for the test, May God help me to do my best.
We can do it buddy for the next week I will be drawned in anatomy, embryo, histo, gross and neuro, wish me good luck
By the way, I will just hang in here, cheering you up and everybody else, we need lots of support and motivation man
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welcome back 4mymd. good job you got your schedule worked out. God help you keep it and best of luck at the exams. quite a bit you want to handle next week with neuro tossed in!!!
today i had to go early to work. came back so fagged out i had to nap. now it is 5pm and i am just starting. i continue with neoplasia. i certainly will not remember all the genes but i intend to know p53, pink, and Rb cold. then i will know the genes for cancers like retinib, breast, prostate, stomach. it is amazing the human mind. something appears impossible and later it is simple. hmm. first i struggled with the antibodies in autoimmune diseases and now, i just know them even without a mnemonic. if i forget any, i surely wont forget antimitoch ab for pry bil cirrhosis!!
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last night, i went to bed early (12mn). i want to reset my circadian rhythm. it is no good reading late into thenight and waking up late or early and feeling groggy. i will need to discipline myself to stop reading (this is tough esp when i still have some steam in me and i have not finished the day's schedule). will see how this goes.
so i continue with neoplasia. an unending subject. i am more confident of myself. i will make my charts today and do robbins' q and qbank.
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