A day in my life when i was a third year medical student...

6:30am

Wake up and lie awake in bed.

6:31

Realise you spent Rs 300 on last night's dinner, means no eating for the next 6 days.

6:32

Hit snooze button. Go back to sleep.

7:00

Wake up suddenly with heart in mouth when you realize you didn't hit the snooze button--you turned it off.

7:01

Fall asleep again.

7:44

Wake up with heart in mouth again.

7:45

Ready to go to Hospital, will shave tommorrow, will eat early brunch at  Suresh Anna’s canteen

8:03

Arrive at Hospital
Realize your Professor arrived earlier today, must have got more work done.

8:04

Pass by HOD’s office, chat with his Secretary to find out if he is coming in today. He is, darn. Need to start work on the presentation  due this afternoon.

8:15

Read Bombay Times

8:20

Crumple up the paper. Throw it into the waste basket. Imagine you are Michael Jordan while throwing it. Alas … it falls out……..
Hate your self.
Depression: When will I become a Page 3 celebrity….??????

9:00

For jumpstart: go to coffee machine.

9:05

Kick coffee machine; promise yourself to call up the company and ask for your money back. Plan of sueing the company.Wonder why they would believe you. Enjoy the black coffee. Paisa vasool …..

9:33    Go to Library

9 37     Take the smallest textbook of the Surgery section and start reading.

9:41

Early morning stupefaction. Mutter racist comments to yourself about your studious colleague sitting next to you who is seriously reading the Davidson.

9:43

Curse your colleague in a low tone he would not comprehend. Feel good about him not grasping English well.

9:58    Ask your colleague a doubt about cystic hygroma in such a way that he          

           feels I am doing some research on that. ( I found that word by looking   

          through the  index of the textbook…..Thank God for the index ..!!!!!! )

  

10:19  Feel proud of my achievements in making him tensed. He closes his Davidson and goes to the Surgery section and takes a Bailey and goes to another place far away from me. Mission accomplished ..                    

10:31 Feel sleepy, should not have stayed late playing tetris last night.

momentary panic attack!!!!!!!!!!!! Presentation ……!!!!!! HOD needs a draft by afternoon.

10:32

          Tachycardia

10 33

           Sinus rhythm

10:59

Drop in at HOD’s office and borrow something you don't need and kinda make him aware you are working hard on your presentation

11:05

Perverted daydreams

11:11

Go to Suresh  Anna ‘s canteen and have a cutting chai.
Mid-morning yawn time

11:34

Go to Surgery  Department Library and start writing notes with a Bailey in front of you to pretend you are working hard as your HOD  passes by from outside.

11:35

Scratch out what you have written , tear the page in digust .Realise you have just 3 more blank pages in your notebook.(No money to buy a new notebook so stop tearing George….)

11:41

Flirt with the new secretary in the department.

11:45

Print out some slides for afternoon's draft + presentation.

11:47

Print them again, you forgot to change the date from last presentation.

11:49

Print another copy in case this one gets lost.

11:51

Completely forget about suing the coffee-machine company.

12:15

Hunger pangs:

12:20

3 vada paavs and a cutting chai…. Plenty of water .Lunch over.

1:00  

            Group Meeting with HOD

1:14

Sudden awareness of one's shallowness, resentment towards your behaviour towards your colleague in the library. Get reminded by your HOD that you need to do some more work for your literature review.

1:51

HOD hands you the reddened copy of your draft for corrections.

1:51:02

The 49 second urge to murder HOD begins!!

1:51:52

Realize that he controls your internals which will affect your University exams which will affect your life.

1:52:53

Thank him.

1:52:54

Thank yourself for not saying something stupid to and/or killing your HOD.

1:53:00

Splitting headache #1

1:59

Go to canteen. Check India Pakistan cricket match. India wins toss. Elects to bat.

2:06

More cutting chai

2:17

Oh No, it is my turn to cook tonight :-(

2:30

Sit through the afternoon lecture on Ca Testes.

2:39

Look outside the window make unrealistic plans to quit this degree  and take up a job. Wonder why Sindhi girls are so pretty.???

2:48

More perverted day-dreams. Pathology of Ca Testes is being taught.

3:06

Worry about never graduating.
Time to write a letter to Papa and Mummy….. No ..no time for that.

Wonder what must be going on with the match..

3:43

Watch the clock.
Make plans to do a all-nighter tonight. Vow to watch only Last 10 overs of both sides.

3:55   

          Sudden commotion in the class. Realise lecture is over. Give roll call. Give      proxies for friends..

3:58:01

Sudden sense of freedom.
Go home .Quickly check the score. Promise to see just one over. Land up seeing entire Indian innings.( IND : 245 /4)

6:00 pm

             Start reading Ca Testes from Bailey.

6:15 

               Dull aching sensation in groin region. Start wondering whether its Ca testes

6:31

The hard working grad student you are, you have to come to the hospital library late at night to "get the work done".

7 

            Go to canteen to check the score.(Pak 30/2 8.2 overs)

Suddenly realize you need references for presentation. Realize its too late today to go to the library. Sudden feeling of having wasted the day.No point in studying now. Continue watching the match

9:43

             India lost the match

             Sudden feeling of possibly having to waste the night. Decide to turn in    early and       come back very early tommorrow morning. Decide to play a Tetris on the Nokia to put yourself in a good mood.

10:05 

               Dinner at canteen. Tell Suresh Anna  to calculate total dues.(He has being doing that for past 2 weeks). Remind him also of the possibility that the dues will be cleared tomorrow.

10 18

           Reach home.

Play game after game after game to improve your score and get on the scoreboard. Realize that Kunal is still at number 6, two notches above you on the scoreboard.

11:20

Play until you beat  Kunal into the 7th place. A sense of achievement!! Yes, today was not wasted!! Find Kunal watching the highlights of the Ind- Pak match. Tell him about the "hard working grad student day you had". Discuss philosophy with roommate. Tell him what a waste of time it is to be watching cricket that too highlights of a match you know we lost.

00:09 

            Kunal tells me to mind my own business.

00:16 

            Think about becoming a philosopher Discuss with Kunal whether India                      should have actually fielded first .Discuss the role of the 5^th bowler.

00:49

Realize neither of you have bought milk today. Get reminded of the "too much milk problem".

1:04

 

Forget about getting up early.Set the mobile alarm clock to 6 am. Turn the mobile ringer off and go to sleep. Good night world …!!!!!!!