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Hi Study499,
I too feel the same way....I mean I am already late for 2009 match and I am going for 2010 match instead( for extremely unavoidable reasons...my prep came to a halt in feb, when it was going good, and i could do nothing about it!)...but it hurts so much to lose a year....You feel guilty to face people who believe in you and depend on you! And that sucks big time!
So FOCUS.....when you have the zeal to study and your pace is great...just do more than you have planned. And when you dont feel like studying ,still go on , you will cover a little less, but stiil you would be trying....take a break when you are burnt out and then get back right on track.....( I know I would not be the right person to advise as I am struggling to get the pace myself).But we know that if you want something real bad and you put your heart and soul trying to achieve that....circumstances will favor you, its as if the force of nature will act with you to achieve that. So even when you feel you want to give up..Dont yet...just keep trying a little harder and that feeling will pass. Ofcourse we need breaks...but 'earned' breaks....not wasting time uselessly. Yes, there will be days good and bad...but not a single day should go without making an earnest attempt to move toward your goal! That would be a day wasted!
You will make it! It seems so hard now....but you will overcome it!
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oops. That was supposed to be a 'quick reply'...but it became a long one. ....
Study Hard!
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| smarty
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Hey study499. dont be so hard on urself . You will come around.
sometimes it feels our heads wont take any more, thats when one just feels that no more will go in,but if u feel that it will, then u sure should study. its just that, wasting time on stupid stuff , cAN sOMETIMES, make us feel fresh and better oriented towards our goal. hehe. well you know urself better, so id just say, take it as you like, but dont be hyper. try to relax and insha allah it will all fall into place once u do that. keep it up. and all the best for neuro!
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i really liked the part about positvie thinking and positive actions. id try that. but i do feel, that there are some things, that just rest with the allmighty, even our positive thinking and our faithfulness cant change that. BUT, that shouldnt make us stop working on it, coz eventually our hardwork and our aim and faith would lead us to victory!. and insha allah it will. ameen!. just my personal opinion. jazak allah for all the nice posts in ur journal.
keep it up! and keep going!
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Hello Hello,
just woke up like  ... went to bed very very early yesterday just to rest but fall asleeep till morning...
still doing Neuro...
all i'm thinking is June 27...have to be ready this time...i have to...
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well dear study499. you sure are working ur way upto that 99 and insha allah you will score it pretty soon. yes MY friend, u are right about time. it does fly real quick and i should take measures to do somthing abt it very soon. you are so very right.  .. insha allah, once things begin to settle, id be able to do BETTER, ameen!. thanks for the support!
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| basophilia
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hey study499 , the alfredo history is amazing , i just read what it said in your profile , when i have time ill look for his completely history . i heard something about him before .
well i hope so that we have a little alfredo inside .
good study , study499
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Here u go , for u to stay in your journal and study well..
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I 've been sitting for a while, after reading thru Chileno's journal....thinking...WOW!!,
what a beautiful prep experience...what a mature way of facing this path despite having a family...
what a pace...what a level of intelligence to do one's best under toughest situation...
this is what they say 'to do your best'...finally i got it...
we all should learn from him...
Feels nice to have given a very solid effort and feel proud that I did my best...
P.S. Kalyan, what can i say??? better say nothing...
Edited by study499 on 06/01/08 - 12:56 PM
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OK thought of saying something here,can't leave u, journal ...
I am still doing Neuro... for sure, It is the most extensive system of all...
one thing I hv changed that I'm happy abt and took it from Chileno...is the pattern of my sleep...so now I go to bed at 9/10 and I wake up sharp and fresh at 5/6 am...
I will hopefully finish Neuro today and will update on that tonight...
Study well everyone...more importantly enjoy the challenge...this is once and for ever hopefully
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Hi study499,
Every single step counts, so keep going and may it be your best.
Best wishes
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3 rules of work:
1) out of clutter, find simplicity.
2) From discord find harmony.
3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Einstein, Albert
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if u do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work. Buck, Pearl
Success is the abillity to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Churchill, Winston
To be nobody-but-yourself- in a world wich is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. E.E. Cummings
You will never find time for anything. You must make it. Buxton. Charles
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Anonymous
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.Montapert, Alfred A.
Concentration is the secret of strength. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Go on working, freely and furiously,
You've got to find the force inside you.Campbell, Joseph
The only way to pass a test is to take the test.Anonymous
You must do the thing you think you can not do.Roosvelt.E
He who gains victory over other man is strong; but who gains victory over himself is all powerful.Lao-Tzu
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.Zen, Saying
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.Thomas Edison
Luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Anonymous
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.Vince Lombardi ..i really like this one
I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.Greg Norman
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H. Harriman
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. ~Augustus William
Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. ~Jane Ellice Hopkins
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~José Ortega y Gassett
People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. ~Author Unknown
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. ~Joseph de Maistre
God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. ~Author Unknown
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. ~Sophia Loren
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. Pearl s. Buck
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.H. W. Longfellow
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. R.W. Emerson
I believe you are your work. R.M.Brown
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. R.M.Brown
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. S.J.Gould
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas Edison
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.Winston Churchill
Edited by study499 on 06/06/08 - 11:13 PM
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Thank you so much Simon.
Today found out that a close family of mine, a 37 yr old mother of 1 yr and 6 yr old has GBM...
how can this be possible????????? 
people these exams are not hard to deal with....this is hard...how can a young boy understand that he soon will not see his mom ...such a nice mom...oh God why?? not this soon...not her...
I am sorry that I am disclosing this here...but this journal is the only place where i am at peace nowadays...pls pray for her everyone...prognosis is bad but i believe in miracles
thank u
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Good morning,
Tuesday, June 3 :
8-9 ....... 9-10 ....... 10-11 ....... 11-12 ....... 12-13
psych ......Psych.yr v. BEST.psych ...............................psych
13-14 ....... 14-15 ....... 15-16 ....... 16.30-17.30 ....... 17.30-18.30
..........................Pharm...........psych................
18.00-19.00 ....... 19.30-20.30 .......20.30-21.30
Pharm ......................... pharm
LSD : Intoxication----->Marked anxiety or depression, Visual hallucination, flashback, pupil dilation, delusion, depersonalization.
Have to read faster... be more focused ... exam is soon ... come on .... don't lose today
There is no limit to what you can imagine.
And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine - you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can’t.
Yet in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability to do it anyway... pravs j
I'm doing good...I will get there...just hv to work harder...u r almost there...visualize yr goal...this is yr chance...grab it...& don't let it go easily...this is what life means... to be hopeful no matter what...
Edited by study499 on 06/03/08 - 10:49 PM
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cherryho:
First Aid. It's a really good book that I would recommend every examtaker to get. It's also worth to get the latest version. If you know the book well and remember every little detail in it, I am pretty sure by itself you can score > 230. Mnemonics are extremely helpful. I love First Aid and don't know why many people don't have faith in it. Like I said, after each Q Bank session I tried to search for answers in FA. To my surprise, a lot of info was in there. I just missed them when I read the book the first time. For path and anatomy I wouldn't rely completely on it. But with Goljan Path and High-Yield Anatomy, 230 shouldn't be a problem. You just have to REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE DETAIL in the book. Of course it's always good to have big books like Kaplan notes to refer to. But honestly, the big books are not very high-yield. In the last few weeks I'd just try to consolidate the knowledge I already learn by reading FA.
I want to encourage those who are still fighting for it. It's not as hard as you think. Just have to be strategic, efficient and fully committed. No one feels completely ready before the exam. So don't panic.
hehehe...just to boost me for the day...
OK, I am gonna attack my FA now
Edited by study499 on 06/16/08 - 01:38 AM
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OK, let me have an update on my progress here:
so I 've been studying but if I want to continue on Neuro, I would just spend another week on Neuro...so much...but ...finished FA Neuro and psych section...done a few of the cases...but still hv to complete those....and done some neuroanatomy from kaplan...I hv read neuroanatomy in kaplan very well before...but too bad, it was long time ago...i wish i never hd stopped...
So the plan is to finish those cases tonight and do UW tomorrow morning and then start on Musculoskeletal...
just some words to myself:
everyone who is there hv gone thru this...u hv to go thru this...can not jump over it...no easy way...it's supposed to be hard...u'r supposed to be behind....oh gosh...i want to know everything and i want to take my exam soon...tired of answering people, no hv not taken it yet...hold on....what is important, is to get a high score so -------everyone....just study....keep going....yr aim shd be to be efficient...& not care abt anything other than studying.
ok, i think plus everything else USMLE has caused me to hv multiple personalities as well
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| basophilia
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hi study 499 you are doing pretty good , i see you more confident.
i guess you will take the exam close to the date of mine . good study .
i ll take the first days on july
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Thanks Baso...
last night was up till late....a huge mistake....anyway just woke up...so today i hv a late start...
I am going to know all about Musculoskletal now...shld finish it today...then questions
also will be doing some neuroanatomy daily as well( max 1 hr)....
shld be doing some Biochem, Micro and Immuno as well...just hv to make time for these
So will limit my time from now on...that means now I hv max 3 hrs to finish FA Muscl.
I will be beck in less than 3 hrs
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Friday, June 6:
FA Muscl. & Goljan
Neuroanantomy .......Biochem........micro/immuno
Stroke through= completed,,,, Blue= didn't manage to do.
So it is getting close to midnight...I should get ready for bed...to me 1 hr night sleep equals 2 hr day time sleep...till I'm back, study...sleep...live & dream well my friends...I am going to dream abt the day that I am ready for this exam...the day I am facing with my score...the day I am assured of getting a residency place...and a lot more....then when i wake up, no more dreaming...only true hard work...Good night.
Edited by study499 on 06/07/08 - 12:40 PM
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you are doing good study499, keep it going.
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