A Week in the Life: Cambridge edition

It could be lupus

Thanks for the rep. I reckon I should have time tomorrow night. That is all depending if I get my biochemistry and physiology done before I head out to Fez :p:

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Craghyrax

sorry I was still in Friday mood when I wrote that so I meant that I had that work to do tonight. I will definitely be out at Fez, though I may be late as I am at a swap and will be having some pre-drinks before arriving. Should be there around 10.30-11ish I think :yep:

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It could be lupus

I see

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A week in the life of a medic

Ok so I didn't get all my work done so hear goes:
Links for the timetables of a medic: http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/sbs/facbiol/mvst/tt1a/1astandard/1astandard.htm
If you want to use this timetable just click on any dates for any week, and stick to any set that you want. Don't change sets and you can get a general overview of what a medics week is like. Heres my average week:

Monday: Wake up at 9ish. Generally am still feeling exhausted and a few other things from being at Fez and formal the night before. Dissection at 10am until 12. Have a biochemistry/MiMs lecture from 12-1. Normally go back to have lunch in college and then either do work in the library or else have a physiology practical from 2-4pm. Do more work and have lunch at hall at 6pm. Run to my biochemistry supervision from 7-8 and then go back to my room to finish my physiology work for my supervision the next day.

Tuesday: Biochemistry lecture at 9am so am up around 8ish. Lecture is over at 10 and then I go to have a supervision on epidemiology and statistics (pretty boring but have to do it. I used to not have this in Michelmas term so I instead went back and watched House :smile:

) After the supervisions I have a physiology lecture at 12 until one. I generally then run to the pitches to play a game of rugby for the college. Game finishes after 4 so I then run/limp back to my room to have a quick shower before my physiology supervision at 5. After supervision I go to hall for dinner at 6. Back in my room for 7 and then do some anatomy. Sometimes I have swaps on Tuesdays so I don't go to hall but go straight back to my room to do work and then meet people on the swap in the bar at 7 then have formal hall at 8pm. Standard Cindies or the bar at 10pm and arrive back in college around 2ish

Wednesday: 9am lecture again. This time its anatomy. Again I normally have a break from 10-12 so I go back to college and often have a nap or do work. Sometimes have Sociology lectures at 12, but most people don't go to those cos you can just blag your way through the exam. Lunch in hall then either histology or applied anatomy from 2-4pm. Come back to college and get stuck into my anatomy preparation for my supervision. Hall at 6pm for dinner and then do more work after. Usually head to the bar around 9ish and then maybe Cindies again if enough people are going. Again arrive back to college after 2

Thursday: 9am lecture on MiMs. I then have a 2 hour gap between 10-12 in which I catch up on sleep or do work for anatomy. Physiology lecture at 12-1pm and then I have lunch. Thursday evenings are sometimes free but the rest of the time I have a biochemistry practical, or a GP visit or biochemistry PBL class. All of these are once a term. I then have dinner in hall and learn my anatomy until my anatomy supervision at 8.30pm-9.30pm. I then leave my books back and go to the bar to relax as my supervisions are done for the week.

Friday: Anatomy lecture at 9am. I then always have a 2hour gap from 10-12 which is spent sleeping or watching TV. Physiology lecture at 12-1pm and then lunch in hall. Last thing of the week is dissection from 2-4pm and then I go back to my room and collapse on the bed. I then go to hall at 6pm or cook myself something. I then usually get started into work for next week. Usually this is 1-3 essays plus the preperation work for each essay. I usually sit up to 12ish doing this or else stop at 9/10pm and go and meet people and see what they are doing.

Saturday: I always lie on at the weekends. So I get up at 12 and then go to hall at 12.15. I then come back and grab my rugby gear and run out to training from 2-4pm. I then come back and do more work until hall at 6pm. After hall I will do more work until around 10ish and then I will go round to my friends room to mess about/have a few drinks until 1-2ish

Sunday: Again have a lie in to 12. Same routine really with hall and rugby training. Then come back and do work and either go to hall or continue on working until I am going to formal. After formal I either go to the comedy show or else have pre-drinks then head out to Fez. I then get home at about 2-3ish.

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Undulipodium

It could be lupus

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Thanks very much :smile:

Reply 147

It could be lupus

A week in the life of a medic...

WOW. That sounds exhausting!

Reply 148

Phranchesskah

WOW. That sounds exhausting!

Haha you are telling me. Last term I did some rowing on top of all that as well :p:

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It could be lupus

Haha you are telling me. Last term I did some rowing on top of all that as well :p:

Wow. Are all medics lunatics or is it just you? :p:

On another note, can someone please do a week in the life for an English student? Scouring the thread there seems to only be a really brief third year one. Though I presume there's not a lot more to it than reading loads of books and talking/writing about them... still! And what's the workload like?

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Phranchesskah

Wow. Are all medics lunatics or is it just you? :p:

The majority of us put in the same amount of work though the rest dont seem to go out as much or play rugby. I like to make the most out of uni :p:

As for English students; talking to a girl I know she does a lot of reading and thinking. The subject is more about your own interpretations than going to lectures. The lectures are apparently just one view on a book/poem etc etc. However I don't know if there are any english students on this to write one up

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It could be lupus

The majority of us put in the same amount of work though the rest dont seem to go out as much or play rugby. I like to make the most out of uni :p:

I like that attitude. Work hard play hard. :yep:

Not work hard sleep hard, nor laze around all day hard play hard. :nah:

Yeah, there don't seem to be many around here, which is a bugger. I just thought I'd ask anyway on the off chance that there was one lurking about. But thanks! Reading and thinking is definitely my bag. Ark I'm so impatient for Uniiiewhegahfjealgh.

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Phranchesskah

I like that attitude. Work hard play hard. :yep:

Not work hard sleep hard, nor laze around all day hard play hard. :nah:

Lidka

English student :work:

If you have time?

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Lidka

Craghyrax

If you have time?

Not got time at the moment... Kind of indicative of 3rd year life. :p:

Will make an effort to write one up in the next few days.

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Lidka

Not got time at the moment... Kind of indicative of 3rd year life. :p:

Will make an effort to write one up in the next few days.

There's no obligation!

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Lidka

Not got time at the moment... Kind of indicative of 3rd year life. :p:

Will make an effort to write one up in the next few days.

Don't put yourself out! It's completely fine if you have no time, it's not like I need to see one. But thanks.

Craghyrax

If you have time?

And thank you as well for finding me an English student. :smile:

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bob679

Could anyone do this for economics? I hear that the economics course is quite intense.

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