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First of all well done!! All the hard work paid off.
Now you have to start working about 10x as hard as you did to get through medical school.
OK so when you start in year 1 your 1st 2weeks will be freshers. you will have some lecturers in there and practicals to go to, but not everyday. In 1st term it is usually 2 lectures in the morn then a 2 hr lunch then 2 more. You have PBL for about 2 hrs every 2 weeks, and then practicals once a week i think. You may have mornings of communications. but you will find there is alot of time off in your timetable in the 1st term for you to go out and have fun. Yes it is true the work is hard, but a majority of people have fun work later and they pass. having said that do what you feel is better for yourself. Most people fail MCD - your 1st module because nobody pays attention or makes any notes and it is defintley the most information to learn as you need to know every single enzyme etc.
You will have enough time to party and get involved in sports. its a missconception that imperial students have no life. It is just that we choose to work that hard because we are at the top. I am sure your not coming medical school to become a rubbish doctor, thus you would put the work in....
now speaking from experience of doing this in 1st year...i pretty much partied hard up until xmas. made some MCD notes over xmas, then just slowly got ontop of the work as it came in. By easter You ahve to have notes ready to read and have started to memorise. then you have another term of teaching which you have to learn as you go. The only thing i would say is that i scraped a pass in MCD so i would advise to do all your notes in MCD and read them during xmas to ease your workload later. If you want to get a merit in your 1st year (average of 70% or above) then you need to start memorising stuff as it comes in from january on. If you do that you will still have time to go out etc. Like i played football weds and sats weekly in my 1st year and went out during the week.
Also when i say write notes you dont have to. your medic mum or dad who you will be assigned when you get here will give you a cd or files with all the years notes already made. all you need to do is read them, add stuff if there is new lectures and annotate them. I found that it is best to print them off and annotate them. i learnt way more than writing my own notes, + writing your own take so long.
If they dont give you the notes contact me again and i will send them to you or give you a cd.
good luck, any more questions let me know and see you in october maybe
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4th Year Medical Student at Imperial
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