1. What is a syllabus week?
Never heard of it. First day of class is for jumping straight into new material. The syllabus is online or was emailed to you. And yes, there is an exam Friday, make sure to do the readings.
2. When you have 6 exams in a 10 day period.
When it rains it pours, and pharmacy school is a big old thundercloud. Somehow all your exams seem to line up and it’s 2 weeks of extreme stress every month (day).
3. The internal struggle that occurs anytime class is cancelled.
You’re excited that you don’t have to go in, but now you probably have to watch a podcast and/or teach the material to yourself.
4. There’s that one professor that you secretly or not so secretly want to be just like when you’re in practice.
They do research, wrote parts of your textbook, work in a hospital, or retail, or both, travel around the country to present, have a family, and still find time to teach your class. #goals
5. Seeing all the people that you graduated high school about to graduate college and being sad because you still have 2 years left.
In 2 years you’ll have that PharmD. and it will all be worth it, but for now you'll just watch their excitement on social media wishing it was you.
6. Learning medical procedures by testing them on yourself and your friends.
Foot exams. Flu shots. Testing blood sugar. Insulin (saline) injections. Blood Pressure. Heart sounds. Lung exam. Pee in a cup and test your own urine.
7. You know everyone in your pharmacy class.
Even if they don’t know you know them. You Know Them.
8. You have the desire to use “ph” instead of “f” in every word.
“phriends” “phun” “prophesional” “phrustrated” “pheelings”
9. Trying to explain what an OSCE is.
So we’re in a group and we each have a role but we all should be prepared to do anything in case someone forgets something, and an actor is the patient and we have access to the patient file beforehand, but we don’t know exactly what the case is going to be. Basically, it’s like we’re playing pretend doctor, but we’re graded on it.
10. Everything you do is related to pharmacy, and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
There’s working in a pharmacy. Pharmacy fraternities. Pharmacy clubs. Your family and non-pharm friends asking you medication questions. It’s not just a major, it’s a way of life.
