<p>A bit over dramatic MiamiDAP? My daughter, her classmates as well as our beloved Kristin on here all paint a different picture of medschool life. My daughter has an immaculate room, goes to the gym about 5 days a week as well as a social life. The same can be said for many of her classmates as well. But then again, maybe your D’s school is full of gunners and that is what she feels she needs to do. Is Case pass/fail?</p>
<p>just dont lose the hope</p>
<p>Look its really simple, if you wanna become a doctor (or whatever that you want to do in medical field) you need to get your act together. Volunteering isn’t gonna get you in med school or nursing school. If you really really really want to do what you say you want to do then you’ll automatically mend your ways, otherwise just know this that it was nothing but a feel good thing.</p>
<p>Goal, options for reaching this goal, plan (including detailed everyday plan), feedback (grades, test socres), adjustment based on the feedback. This is a business model for absolutely everything in your life. But do not forget to have fun and enjoy whatever you are doing and people around you. Otherwise, none is worth is. Dreaming is a very beginning stage that has to trigger what is listed in the first sentance of this post. If not, dreaming (and all hopes) might end up being the greatest frustration. Been there, done many times over with life changing goals that are much bigger than Med. School. It is simple, no gimics and it works!!!</p>
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<p>A good idea would be to get an app on your computer which shuts down the browser for a certain amount of time. You could read and do work during this time. Another good idea would be to shut off your phone.</p>
<p>I’m losing hope…</p>
<p>Trust me, it’s not for lack of drive… I can literally sit with a book open for 5 hours and get nothing productive done.</p>
<p>You need counseling on time management and work ethics and tutoring, in addition, you should attend all professor’s office hours, if given. </p>
<p>There is an inherent genius in that statement, and indeed, within all procrastinators and ADD people. We know EXACTLY what we should do. We know exactly when. why, and how to do it so well that we think it is a miracle that conjures itself so we wait til the absolute last moment possible and go apeshit with intense focus. It is by no means a smart technique but it is a powerful and stressful way to work…</p>
<p>“The endless proliferation of “get things done” methods, the sheer number of people who don’t get things done, and the relative absence at the top of people who are incapable of prolonged focus and effort on anything that lacks the trait of immediate interestingness are all the pieces of evidence you need. Even the various (always unverified) anecdotes of people that have overcome those tendencies and are now wildly successful have an obvious purpose: to prevent the doomed from becoming too miserable or disgruntled. This is a problem with no solution. Methods do not work. If they did, there’d only be a few and they’d be taught in elementary school. Medication does not work for most people. If your own will to do things cannot inspire you to do them, there’s no magic lecture you can give yourself that fixes it. The worse your time-frittering is relative to everyone else’s, the more hopeless the situation is. And yours, like mine, is pretty bad.”</p>
<p>What fascinates me the most is the stark juxtaposition of raw talent and intellect with the utter lack of discipline. There is an inherent genius in most people like those you described and that ADD type of mindset that allows one to literally coast along amongst other students who are struggling to stay afloat whilst studying constantly, we on the other hand are blessed/cursed with remarkable natural wit and intellect which we then put to use by doing the absolute bare minimum we can at the time which we pair with an innate ability to bullshit, a remarkable, powerful talent in many ways but not a long term or a smart way to work.</p>
<p>Unless one goes into politics or the Senate.</p>