Remember the Name

I want to talk a little bit about why I chose this title for my page. I didn't do it because I am aiming for lazyness. Throughout my whole life, Alhamdulillah, I was a pretty smart kid. Because I was smart, when it came for school things, I didn't have to spend too much time studying. Therefore I never developed a hard work ethic. Medical school is not for smart people - it's for hard workers. The amount of information they feed you in a day is equivalent to what you would be fed in a month in undergrad. It's nothing complicated, you just gotta keep chewing.

But there are some students who study a lot. I mean once they sit down, subhan Allah, they don't get up. Something that bothered me though was when Muslim students are more concerned with studying then making it out to a halaqa. And their excuse literally would be "I don't know man, this exam is creeping up on me." I thought to myself later on that death is creeping up on all of us too man, we have to make time for our deen. I could probably put in 3, maybe 4 quality hours of studying a day. But nowhere near the insane amounts that the ones who get the highest grades can pull. How do I reconcile that? Simple: I am Muslim. I don't need to study 6 hours a day to ace my exams. I got baraka (Insha Allah) working in my favour. And will show the world that it is possible to balance, to do it all, and not live and die in the library and still get the best grades. I never strive to work hard. But I always aim to work smart.

This is ten percent luck
twenty percent skill
fifteen percent concentrated power of will
five percent pleasure
and fifty percent pain
and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

Aiight, time to hit up the library =D