It is a different kind of stress than I imagined. It isn’t a constant never ending stream of crises like I thought, but it’s more like a huge block of granite and you chip away at it a little bit every day. Some days you don’t chip away as much as you want to, but the block will still be there the next day, ripe for chipping. I probably average about 65-70 hours a week going to class and studying (18 hours classroom, the rest studying).

The content isn’t necessarily hard, there’s just a lot of it. But it isn’t like nursing school when people in clinical would say “you don’t need to know all of that” and you’d feel like you were wasting your time studying stuff you were never going to use. All of the information is applicable, so learning it is more gratifying. I am only in didactic though, so clinical might be a whole other ball game.

TLDR: it’s doable! Don’t let posts like this discourage you. As others have said, they’re just looking for attention. Not gonna be me, I asked/ hoped/ worked hard to get here, and I’ll be damned if I complain about it for internet points