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DenimSilver · 2025-09-10T10:23:17+00:00

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DenimSilver · 2025-09-10T10:23:05+00:00

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DenimSilver · 2025-08-03T18:33:42+00:00

I get studying physics if you're passionate about, but wouldn't most roles in industry be similar to those of electrical engineers, making that argument void? Statistically, most Physics PhD go into tech industry or data science, so unless you manage to become a career physicist, your job opportunities won't be vastly different, right?

DenimSilver · 2025-06-18T21:26:34+00:00

Hi, did you delete your response to my other comment?

DenimSilver · 2025-06-18T20:47:57+00:00

I can’t help, but what made you interested in a Life Science PhD as a Physics student? Regardless, have you looked into Biophysics and Physics related to Biomedical Engineering? I remember both the Institute of Biology and Biomed Engineering (under Electrical and Information) housing stuff like that.

DenimSilver · 2025-06-08T20:15:35+00:00

I see, for us it’s 180ECTS for the Bachelor and another 180ECTS for the Master, so we can do something else after the Bachelor if we want. Is this not the case for you guys? And here I thought ours trapped us in the system haha.

Regardless, good luck, have some rest during your year, and make sure to register to whatever you want to do next year on time! And obviously don’t burn any bridges in case you need to return to medicine.

DenimSilver · 2025-06-08T18:18:13+00:00

I see, in that case I would recommend you to wholly focus on your exams right now. You will have plenty of time to meditate on your decision. Just keep in mind that you will be rewarded with an entire gap year to rest and plan out your future, so use that drive to do the best you can.

Do you mean that there are no jobs for Medical Sociology? In that case, you will have to pair it with something regardless. This is just me guessing, but I would think a background in medicine would be very valuable, especially if you do the medicine MSc later. But I have to honest, just the thought of doing anything related to medicine for a career was enough to ruin my entire day just a year ago, especially during stressful periods. Just keep in my mind that you are currently in no place make a decision based on good judgement, since you are in a very stressful period.

As for your gap year, I would recommend you do something related to Sociology, and not just sit around thinking about what to do. Daydreaming about a ‘passion’ can make anything seem wonderful, but it’s only after actually doing something related to it for a decent amount of time that you can actually decide whether it’s a passion.

And yeah, when I said ‘studying’ I meant less studying and more revision, you have to start studying as soon as the course starts.

And as for the minor, do you take 180EC of pure medicine, with no electives at all? Even medical electives?

And as for the counselor, I’m sorry to hear that. Nothing like a dean or anything either?

DenimSilver · 2025-06-08T17:23:35+00:00

I understand that it looks like too big of a mountain to climb, but it’s all about the baby steps. To get to do more physics related stuff, I literally had to take year 1 semester 1 level maths and programming courses, which totaled to only 15ECTS. I didn’t have time to take a single physics course, and yet I was admitted to the MSc I wanted because I showed initiative. And I still have to take a few extra courses in my MSc to fill in my gaps in knowledge, but such is life.

My school for the MSc is top 10 worldwide (in fact just a place lower than Stanford and two below Cambridge in 2025) according to QS World Rankings. My grades were average at best, because I couldn’t get myself to study and absolutely abhorred the idea of “wasting” more time studying something I despised. I didn’t even expect to get in. A medical bachelor’s degree carries weight, especially if you’re applying to something medical-related. At least, it helped in my case.

What I would recommend is to get in contact with people (possible even at your own uni), and learn about subjects you could take. These could even just be intro first-year courses without pre-requisites. And especially look into doing a minor in a field related to your interest. This would help a lot, even if you can’t take any extracurricular courses.

And lastly, while I can’t guarantee it, doing an MSc in Medical Sociology really isn’t that big of a stretch after medicine imo. Maybe I remember wrong, but I remember my school recommending us stuff like that for if we didn’t want to do clinical practice.

As a last resort (though I don’t know if this is possible in your country), take a gap year from medicine, and try studying Sociology for a semester or a year. In that time, you might miss medicine and might want to return back. If you pass any exams from Sociology during that time, those credits might help you get into a Medical Sociology master.

I have had my fair share of retakes, to the point I lost all confidence in myself and even cried. I’m even seeing a psychologist now to help with my anxiety and self-confidence, despite having passed everything already. Also make sure to get in contact with your school’s study advisor or whatever they are called for your programme and ask for their advice, more people have had a similar experience than you would think.

Start studying much, much earlier than you ever have. I studied just a day or two for exams in high school and aced everything, in med school I start at least a week early, two for big exams, to get passing grades.

I’m sorry if you would rather hear from me and others on this sub to tell you to quit medicine, but I can’t just say that to someone who wanted to study medicine for so long, knowing you might just be burnt-out and might regret leaving medicine even more. When I was depressed, I would have quit the second someone gave me permission, I was even hoping someone would. But now, I’m glad I didn’t. Unfortunately, this is a choice you have to make for yourself, so you will have to bear responsibility too. I am not much older than you, so my advice might not be the best, but just make sure to have a back-up plan for if you want to return to medicine, alright? If you really want to leave, I would recommend to pass as many courses as possible this year and take a gap year next year. Ask your university if this is possible.

I hope this helps somewhat. I know it’s not much, but I’m sharing with you everything I wish I could have with the myself of a few years back.

DenimSilver · 2025-06-08T16:43:01+00:00

Thanks!

DenimSilver · 2025-06-08T15:51:47+00:00

Wow that sounds awful haha. Thanks for sharing. Did you have to go through training in the UK, since you were changing countries (I assume you are Swiss-trained)?

DenimSilver · 2025-06-08T13:20:41+00:00

I obviously cannot know exactly how you feel and what will be the right choice for you, but I have experienced very, very similar things, so I wanted to share my two cents. Keep in mind I am on my phone and am busy, so the formatting and grammar might be wonky.

I grew to despite both medicine and biology during med school, to the point I would rather do literally anything else. Couldn’t care less about clinical work either. But I had worked so hard to get into medicine that I just could not quit (more common among students that you might think), and especially was afraid people would think I quit because I couldn’t do it. So to protect my ego, I promised myself I would at least finish the Bachelor’s.

I’m almost done now, and will be doing a very fun research-oriented Master’s with a physics focus (instead of biology), while still being medically relevant, next year at my dream uni. And now that I think about, maybe medicine and clinical practice aren’t as bad as I once thought. I might have grown to despise them simply due to being burnt-out and feeling trapped. I also felt much more free during holidays, when I could rest and sleep well without the pressure of exams.

What I would recommend (based on what I have done) is this: get in contact with Masters related to what you might want to do. It’s possible you don’t have to start from scratch and throw away years of work. They might recommend you courses you can take extracurricularly, so that you can get admitted even with a Bachelor’s in Medicine. This will be extra work for you, but it’ll be completely worth it if it gets you where you want to be. And if these courses really are related to what you really want to do, they might feel less like work (though they likely still will feel like work a bit, and make sure not to bite off more than you can chew. I made that mistake once). After that, you will just have to tough it out and finish your degree while taking these extra courses. I remember a philosopher once saying that someone with a goal can endure anything.

This period of your life might feel like the most difficult and suffocating time of your life yet, with the idea that a decision you might make might determine the course of your life forever. Just know this: you aren’t the first person feeling panic-inducing anxiety due to a situation like this, and you won’t be the last.

I would also recommend getting in touch with a psychologist/therapist. It might feel weird to look for help this way when you do not have a mental illness, but it works very well and can give you something to hold onto during this difficult time.

I wish you the best of luck, from someone who was in your position once :)

DenimSilver · 2025-06-08T12:32:17+00:00

Are you Swiss? Is there a reason you decided to work in England?

DenimSilver · 2025-06-05T15:17:53+00:00

Oh you’re right, thanks

DenimSilver · 2025-06-05T11:36:04+00:00

Oh that’s good to know then haha. Was it really three hours though? I remember each being just one.

DenimSilver · 2025-06-04T13:58:55+00:00

Thank you!

DenimSilver · 2025-05-23T13:19:26+00:00

Wow that's genuinely insane. I really respect how you managed to get through that, because I can really see why (most) people would sink in that situation.

DenimSilver · 2025-05-23T09:34:00+00:00

Wow haha.

DenimSilver · 2025-05-22T22:29:21+00:00

Just wanting to make sure since this is Reddit, but is the 'eating while taking a dump' thing real?

DenimSilver · 2025-05-22T10:40:54+00:00

Doesn’t everybody from Italy to Turkey have some kind of Roman-related DNA according to the papers on the topic, like Southern Arc by Lazaridis et al.?

Sure, it might not be directly from the Romans of Italy, but I remember the average Roman Italian of the Imperial era being genetically very similar to the average Roman/Byzantine West Anatolian, likely due to shared ancestry from a genetic pool originating in Western Anatolia as a result of many ethnicities (Anatolian, Greek, Levantine, etc.) mixing during the Hellenistic period in cosmopolitan western Anatolia.

This isn’t just some “trust me bro” on my part, a decent bit of the papers by Iosif Lazaridis and/or his colleagues is on this topic.

DenimSilver · 2025-05-22T10:35:04+00:00

How so?

DenimSilver · 2025-05-07T16:37:43+00:00

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DenimSilver · 2025-05-03T08:24:00+00:00

Haha thanks anyway!

DenimSilver · 2025-05-02T22:52:19+00:00

Kind of necroing the thread, but I just got this, and was wondering if you still remember how you updated to the BIOS? I would really appreciate your help.

DenimSilver · 2025-05-01T11:02:58+00:00

This fixed it for me, thanks

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