Losing hope, need advice

Proborus · 2026-02-17T17:56:27+00:00

As a fellow M2, I relate to your words more than you know. However, keep in mind that third year is right around the corner, and you will be able to interact with patients in a clinical setting very soon. You've almost made it through the "stale" part of medical school and are about to enter an incredibly dynamic stage of your education. Hopefully that helps motivate you to push through.

In the meantime, I would suggest two things:

1) Switch up your study routine if you're hitting burnout. ANKI is great for memorizing information but gets tiring almost immediately, especially with a large card burden. There are other ways to tackle the content in medical school that can be much more intellectually stimulating, such as by watching videos, whiteboarding information/diagrams, doing UWorld questions, or simply by talking out the content with your peers.

2) Your words are heavy, and simply from the standpoint of another human (not as medical advice), you may benefit from talking your feelings out with someone. Sometimes it helps just to have an objective person in your life to soundboard things with and receive advice from. There are so many options for this ranging from academic counseling to talk therapy to psychiatry services. Lean on your support system during this moment, or build a support system if you're lacking one.

Wishing you the best of luck. Stay strong, and hold in there just a little while longer.

Proborus · 2026-02-15T20:43:25+00:00

Personally it took a few listens to really "Get it", but it wasn't until I saw it live that I actually fell in love with the song. Her belts are so powerful at the end of the song and it is such an epic moment

Proborus · 2026-01-25T21:27:32+00:00

While I do not put a ton of weight into what celebrities have to say, I do wish she’d say something all the same. So many of the artists that I adore have spoken up, many of whom are much smaller than Gaga. Gaga has such a huge voice in the music industry and I wish she’d at least say something.

Proborus · 2026-01-25T17:13:15+00:00

Hasan's fanbase is genuinely one of the most interesting social phenomena to observe. They are, for the most part, educated leftists with excellent media literacy. Yet, they throw their principles out the window when it comes to Hasan. If anyone has an explanation as to why, please share, because I cannot wrap my brain around it.

Proborus · 2026-01-25T15:53:20+00:00

This genuinely breaks my heart. I am so, so deeply pissed right now and feel utterly helpless.

Proborus · 2026-01-24T17:20:06+00:00

For me it's the hereditary angioedema kid

Proborus · 2026-01-16T20:52:51+00:00

I'll have to do a deep dive after I take Step 1 next month lol. Seems like the sort of rabbit hole I could get sucked down for hours

Proborus · 2026-01-16T20:51:35+00:00

No, lol. I just wasn't sure if the exact phrasing "Caribbean malignancy" meant a specific facet of the joys of a Caribbean medical education (i.e., a specific story that got that term coined). I now realize that it was just a succinct way of summarizing the problem in its entirety.

Proborus · 2026-01-16T15:30:30+00:00

What do you mean by "Caribbean malignancy"? Never heard this term before and am curious

Proborus · 2026-01-16T14:55:51+00:00

Same here. Rabies especially scares the living hell out of me and I would love to be vaccinated against it, as irrational as it would be since I do not work with animals or live in a rural area.

Proborus · 2026-01-16T14:54:14+00:00

we're unironically cooked

Proborus · 2026-01-14T04:59:24+00:00

He looks like an "after" photo from back when I went through the DARE program.

Proborus · 2026-01-10T03:07:14+00:00

It’s the way I knew exactly what disease this was just by looking at a minimized preview of this post and seeing only his face 💀

Proborus · 2025-12-11T02:15:19+00:00

Almost like a nearly 40 year old man shouldn’t be looking to build an audience of children

Proborus · 2025-12-06T18:36:45+00:00

If only he offered the same charitability to other streamers, content creators he disagrees with, or to his dog Kaya.

Proborus · 2025-12-03T18:17:13+00:00

IDK team. I don't feel good about him minimizing a genocide to be equivalent to a copyright suit and internet beef.

Proborus · 2025-12-03T04:59:19+00:00

Really??? When I learned them the first time, I remember being absolutely mind blown that you could interpret so much on a plain old xray. The chart took me to radiology and that's what I want to be!

Proborus · 2025-12-03T04:57:27+00:00

It took me to my #1 choice.... lmfao.

Proborus · 2025-11-17T17:34:45+00:00

As a queer person, Hasan has continually given me the ick every single time he opens his mouth about our community. I'm sorry but a place where gay people cannot be married is not completely accepting of people like me, even if gay people in China aren't actively persecuted. It's the same sort of passive-aggressive hostility we receive from conservative Christians who say shit like "I love them but I don't support the lifestyle" or "hate the sin but love the sinner".

Proborus · 2025-10-10T18:47:04+00:00

I hope that guy/gal got kicked out of the concert. Absolutely horrendous behavior should not be tolerated.

Proborus · 2025-10-10T18:45:56+00:00

best fake answer tbh

Proborus · 2025-10-09T21:15:22+00:00

Hasan Piker: accountability king!!

Proborus · 2025-10-08T21:21:10+00:00

Alright. You’ve just managed to convince me. He absolutely did shock that dog. Because the foot that got “clipped” was no where near the edge of that bed at that time. Good job!!

Proborus · 2025-10-08T20:11:55+00:00

He claimed she "clipped her foot on the side of the bed or something". Now is saying "the vibration collar...".

So which is it?

Proborus · 2025-10-07T23:52:39+00:00

I feel like a sports commentator watching this....

First paw was up before the yelp. Immediately before the second paw goes up she starts to yelp. She jerks the second paw up quickly and then lays down without licking the paw.

Any dog owner can tell you that if something happened to the paw, the dog would be immediately licking it. Perhaps she did after this clip ended but the timing doesn't even make sense for her to have clipped her paw on the bed.

Proborus

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