behind the glamour

growing up, i've learnt to accept that even the shiniest things had either experienced, or will experience a rusty phase, or maybe it was flawed all along but it was clever enough to keep it's imperfection hidden from the world

the universe if fair like that

I've been doing some thinking throughout the entire week.

How do medical students have the same duration of 24 hours per day and juggle their time between:

- keeping up with lectures (at least read whatever that's been taught on that day)

- attend lectures (and stay awake during lectures)

- understanding the lectures

- reading from sources beyond the lecture notes

- revise previous lectures (currently 2 file-full after 3 months)

- remember whatever revised

- sleep by midnight

- maintain or expand social circle (catch up with old friends and meet new ones)

- keep track with society

- keep track with entertainment (ie. movies and series)

- keep their hobbies (ie. leisure reading)

- not get fat (because 8am lectures and coffee vending machines)

- exercise at least twice a week (haven't done so in idk-I-can't-even-remember)

- spend time with family 

- not feel retarded when you can't answer a question and your coursemates can

- have faith that you'll make it through

- making it through

- getting something that's more than a 'pass'

- still be sane after that

Sometimes I think that we are more like magicians in training.