I have to say that today has been a pretty good day.  Only had three hours of class, and the professors today were actually good.  I think I space out in class more than anyone (e.g. I don't think during class and mindlessly take notes unless the lecturer is really good and/or the material is particularly interesting).

For someone like me, today's main professor did everything right.  First, he had all of the important points listed in his notes.  It really gets on my nerves when lecturers hand out extremely bare notes that makes it impossible for you to both listen/understand AND have all the necessary information.  Don't get me started on lecturers that provide slides with three word sentences where the context of those words is completely unclear.  

Second, he went at a good pace - not too many slides/info, not too few.  Nothing freaks me out more than opening up my lecture notes and seeing that we need to cover 100 slides over the hour (obviously exaggerating, but you get the point).  Conversely, there are those lectures where the lecturer obviously did not need an hour to teach everything, but chose to anyways instead of letting us out early.

Finally, the material was explained in a straight forward and easy to understand manner.  It's never a good sign when everyone is confused by the end of class.

But today's professor did a great job in all three categories, so I was quite happy that I finally felt like a good medical student today (lol).

Passed my DOCH exam

In other news, I passed all of the sections of my Determinants of Community Health mid-term exam.  They didn't give us our actual marks, but the class average was 87%, and I think this might have been the one exam I actually did equal to or better than the average.  Unfortunately for me, I'll never know if that was actually the case...   Some cheap advice for future UofT medical students:  you don't have to read the book if you don't want to.  It'll make sense when you get there and save you a lot of time (though, if you're a good student, you should study everything...).

Good luck with your interviews guys!

Some final good news was that some of my friends from York have been getting interviews at medical schools this year - congrats guys!  Just found out that one of my friends in particular got an interview at UofT today.  I know he's going to rock it, and hopefully I'll be able to drop by and say hi when he has it in a few weeks.  Best of luck to anyone else out there who are preparing for interviews!

Gotta get my hard core studying on 

Wish it was all good though.  Have an exam next Monday that I have yet to start studying for... good thing 60 is a pass?  :)

Oh yah, a word on blogging at MedChatter

Just wanted to make it clear that anyone who is a member at MedChatter is able to blog if they want to.  In the same way that I blogged at MedHopeful for over a year to chronicle my thoughts and experiences through the medical school admissions process, we wanted to give everyone here at MedChatter the opportunity to do so – or write about anything else on your mind.

So take advantage of it, and start blogging too!