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It's a great feeling and a good start in my second semester

I’m 19 years old and I study medicine now in the second semester in Germany

In Germany we study twelve semesters and 3 months and have three great exams

We got 4 semesters of “pre-clinic” than the first exam

6 semesters of the clinical part and the second exam

2 semesters, our practical year and after that our third exam 

I’m kind of a baby at studying medicine but I can tell you what I did wrong in my first Semester

I didn’t go to all of my lectures:                                                                 I lived in another city as I studied and had to get up at 5 am and travel about two hours to get to my classes,they all started at 8 am, and had to travel back in the evening because of this I was extremely tired in my lessons and couldn’t learn anything, so I skipped these classes. As we had our tests at the end of the semester I hadn’t even heard of some of the stuff that was asked and that leaded me to get extremely stressed learning about 6-8 hours a day

Just learn with your friends if you’re productive together:                     I really love my uni-friends but when we met to study together we procrastinated we hade fun together but didn’t get anything done. But as I studied with my roommates they really pushed me, we explained each other hard topics and shared our notes. I guess I work more effective if I am not around my best friends because we find other topics to talk about all the time 

After attending the class sit down on your a** and repeat what you´ve learned, rewrite your notes, make them pretty that way you will save so much time when you learn for your Tests 

I didn´t take time for my Hobbies witch made me even more stressed and unhappy, so take time to care for your self knit, draw, sing, do Sports do whatever makes you happy even if it´s just a 10 min. brake do something you like to do and refresh your brain

it doesn´t have to be perfect: you don´t have to write straight A´s to be a good Student, your notes don´t have to look like art, do it your way, do your best but don´t stress out if it´s not perfect 

don´t compare yourself to others: i have this friend, she didn´t learn but passed every test and did very well, I learned and learned and had a struggle to pass every test, wich is fine because we have 4 tries so it wouldn´t have been a great deal if i had failed in a test, well I passed everything but I had to learn so much more and was much more stressed then my friend, which made me very jealous and angry about her, i know it wasn´t her fault, so don´t compare yourself to others something is easier for you and somethings are harder who cares, just Keep your Focus on you not on others

there are many other Things I learned but this post is toooo Long 

I hope it helps somebody out there 

f u e l  your body.

it’s your  t e m p l e.

eating  l e s s  won’t make  a n y t h I n g  any  b e t t e r.

My favorite dinner at the moment is a salad. It’s quick, easy and healthy. You can add eggs for protein, use vegetable oils or nuts as a fat source.

I formed a “base” out of cucumbers, lettuce, spinach. Then I added herbs of Provence, seasoned salt and pepper and put some garlic-olive oil on top, that I bought in Croatia this summer.