I feel a change overcoming me

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I was your stereotypical, 6 hours of sleep a night hardworker for the first semester of freshman year. And it paid off with my grades.</p>

<p>However, now I'm just kind of unmotivated. I can't really get myself to work that hard, and I'm worrying less and less about getting into medical school. I think it might be because I am too confident in my ability to do well when I want to, and my distrust in the system of grading and graduate school applications. I got below the mean for the first time ever on a test last weekend, and I just hung out with friends, laughed, and played computer games like I normally do. I'm just thinking I'll have fun doing research, do well on the MCATs, and make up for fluctuations in my grade that way. I used to study a long time before exams, but now I'm doing about 5 hours a night a couple of days before them. Do I have the right mindset?</p>

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<p>If you're not performing as well and your results are nowhere near what they were then yes you should be concerned. </p>

<p>If you can still pull of the same grades then who cares lol</p>

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<p>UM's hit the nail right on the head. It's all about outputs (results), not inputs (study habits). Many excellent freshmen are dramatically overstudying and discover that they can cut their habits in half, or by two-thirds, and still achieve perfectly satisfactory results. Of course, sometimes they cut too much and their results suffer. In that case, there is definitely a problem.</p>

<p>Ten hours per exam is certainly much more than I ever did.</p>