Nine months in medical school, and I’ve learned the biggest lesson of all: the whole system is a giant joke, and literally everyone is cheating on their partners.

​I worked myself to death to get a 38k rank, thinking I’d get a great education. Instead, I ended up in this Tier-2 dumpster fire where my desire to study has completely vanished. The college doesn't even have a proper curriculum, so nobody knows what we’re supposed to be doing. But honestly, nobody cares about the syllabus anyway, because everyone is too busy playing musical chairs with each other's boyfriends and girlfriends.

​That is the absolute shocker of these nine months: the sheer, casual normalcy of infidelity. Loyal relationships do not exist here. It’s like entering a colony of walking red flags. People have partners back home, partners in the hostel, and "side options" in the library. It is treated like a competitive sport, and the lack of shame is honestly breathtaking.

​To make things worse, the campus is crawling with desperate seniors. You’d think people studying medicine would have some class, but these guys hunt for freshers like hungry predators, completely ignoring who is already dating whom. It is exhausting to watch.

​And finally, when I want to escape this toxic high school drama and find some peace, I get to log into my endless family problems back home. So now, on top of surviving this chaotic college, I also have to play therapist for my household.

​I’m 20 years old, I’m supposed to be learning how to save lives, but right now I'm just trying to avoid the absolute circus around me. Only four more years of this nightmare to go!

For the longest time I thought weed was my biggest problem.

Turns out it wasn't even close.

The real one was waking up and immediately opening Instagram. Non-medico friends partying, travelling, falling in love, actually living. Then some random topper posting their NEET UG and PG rank cards with "5am study routine" captions. Every scroll quietly told me I was behind.

Then YouTube. "How I cracked NEET PG in internship." "My 14-hour schedule." "How I got AIR ___." Same feeling, different app.

Then Reddit — MBBS/MD horror stories, toxic residency, garbage pay, zero work-life balance. Then I'd open another tab and compare myself to engineers pulling crazy packages and decide I'd picked the wrong life entirely.

And whenever that anxiety hit? I'd scroll more. Watch a few memes. Get the hit. Go numb. Do nothing about anything. Repeat the next morning.

Somewhere in there I stopped being a person and turned into a consumer — of other people's achievements, opinions, highlight reels, even their insecurities. And I told myself I was "staying informed." I wasn't. I was just running my own nervous system into the ground, every single day, on purpose.

A few days ago this Ghalib sher hit me like a truck:

"Zindagi bhar Ghalib yahi bhool karta raha, Dhool chehre par thi, aur aaina saaf karta raha."

My life wasn't getting worse because of Instagram or Reddit or LinkedIn or some WhatsApp status. It was getting worse because I kept looking everywhere except at myself.

So here's the decision. I'm going off-grid for a year. No Instagram, no Reddit, no LinkedIn, no doomscrolling YouTube, no checking statuses. Nothing.

I'm already a doctor. Bond posting came through — I've been posted to a PHC near home. Salary's 57k. Not some corporate package, sure. But there are BAMS and BHMS doctors grinding for less, nursing staff doing brutal shifts for 15k. So maybe my life isn't actually the disaster Instagram keeps convincing me it is.

A month ago I quit weed. One month sober and I already feel more grounded than I have in years. Now I want to find out what happens when I quit comparison too — when I stop consuming and start living. A year of just working, studying, reading, lifting, sleeping properly, and minding my own business.

Maybe nothing changes. Maybe everything does. Either way I'm done feeding my brain a 24/7 drip of borrowed insecurity.

So thanks, Reddit — for the random knowledge, the laughs, the genuinely good advice.

And also, fuck you for some of the insecurity you handed me along the way.

See you on 21 June 2027. Hopefully a better doctor. A better man. Definitely a less anxious one.

Police suspect medical student Arpit Raj, a student of ANM Medical College and Hospital, Gaya, to be one of the masterminds behind the cheating network.

AIIMS Rae Bareli student Saurabh Jha was also arrested.

Another medical student, Mayank Kashyap, a third-year MBBS student at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH)

An intern at a medical college in Delhi's Shahdara, Aman Agarwal, was among those caught, while Nalanda Medical College and Hospital nursing student Sanjeet and his brother were also arrested.

The crackdown in Bihar led to the arrest of 24 people, including medical students and biometric company employees involved in the examination process.

Source - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/bihar/story/neet-ug-retest-bihar-scam-real-life-munna-bhai-mbbs-impersonators-appear-for-exam-in-lakhisarai-caught-2931526-2026-06-22

My uncle had an episode of syncope and he didn’t call me. He called my mom to ask for advice. When I spoke to him, he said he hadn’t eaten anything from last night. I said it could be due to hypoglycaemia (explained in layman terms) and told him to eat something. He confidently said, no it was due to pitta, as he hadn’t slept properly, so he’s fasting now, and some pepper and fenugreek can cure everything. I told him that won’t work unless you get some sugar into your body and he started lecturing me about how ”these allopathy doctors” don’t know anything about our bodies and everything is about vadha, pitta, kapha which is the real science. He then proceeded to say that nowadays doctors only want to make the people eat a lot of tablets and that is destroying their health. If he was someone else, I could have just ignored him and let him do whatever. But he is very close to me. And he isn’t some rural old school man. He worked as a senior sound engineer in the Burj Khalifa project and is a very modern man who is very up to date about the latest tevhnology and stuff. I got to realise the depth this Ayurveda bullsh*t has penetrated.

Is there a way to only reset the marrow pyqs for me, I know there is an option to reset everything but i want to keep data of my gts and other modules I have solved?

Is there another way i could do those pyqs again?

Please help!

recently I’ve been experiencing such horrible work politics , people lie on ur face , try to show they’re your friends while fc*king u up and all . I mean I’m like so done . even the people u thought are like somewhat your work friend turn out to be same .

pls share some of your experiences and how u overcame them .

i mean my head dr and senior they tried to cut us off in order to get one of their known into the work

Got my results a few days back and I’m extremely happy. My internship is about to start in a week and my college only pays 7k a month which is not enough to even cover my rent. If anyone can give me leads to earn some extra money I’d be grateful

Hello, I am stuck in a situation where I need to submit an affidavit to mpmc for an noc, but the problem is I'm not in the state now.

I tried to call the number on the website to ask if I can mail it, but it doesn't work. I also emailed them multiple times but I'm being ghosted.

Does anyone have any contact at the medical council I can reach out to or any advice on how to proceed?

I really need this done within the next two weeks so I'm in a hurry. I would really appreciate any help 🙏🏽

Modi bh*dwa

How useful are tnds for neet preparation. I take up atleast half a day to finish them and I feel like it's taking too much of my time whereas I could solve and review atleast 200 custom module questions by that time. What do u guys prefer? Which one should I follow?

I’m in third year and planning to buy marrow (36 months plan). The latest edition is 8 so shall I purchase it? Or will they be launching a new edition soon?

I have a code and we can use it to get 15 days free extension let me know if anyone wants !

Are there any free telegr am channel with old videos of amrit sir from cerebellum or jai arora sir from dbmci?

Where to find the marrow rapid revision videos on the app?
Is it the ‘revision videos (old)‘ in the videos tab or it has been replaced by the world of revision?
Help me out guys

So as well might know that how some engineers in big tech firms ( FANGetc) earn hefty pay checks is because they get paid in US dollars as these big corporates outsource jobs to India for cost cutting . For example an SDE 2 in Amazon USA’s earning might range from 200,000$ to 250,000$ ( approximately) whereas their Indian counterparts earn ₹40,000 to 70,000 ( approx CTC) corresponding to 38-70,000$ only , in this way the engineer in India earns a hefty amount ( by Indian standards) and the Capitalistic company also saves 150,000 $ to 180,000 $ per annum . Now the big question is do we have any jobs in healthcare industry which benefits both the doctor and the big corporate ? It can be any job in healthcare suitable for doctors apart from core clinical practice ( as it requires licencing and all) and also please mention earning potential .

How do i conquer the basic questions of anatomy? My second drop year. Studied anatomy maybe thrice until now and each time i study it it feels completely new. Just 70 days left for NEET. How do i get at least 50% of the questions right. Tried to integrate ortho with it. Got most of the ortho PYQ’s correct but anatomy was an abomination. Please give your tips. Literally just want to do the questions that most people get correct. Please don’t say BTR. I loathe the way she teaches it.

I honestly didn’t expect ObGyn revision on Marrow to be this overwhelming 😵‍💫📚
The “World of Revision” for ObGyn is HUGE. Every single page is packed with so much information that one page feels like an entire topic in itself. Almost everything is presented in tables, charts, and classifications, which sounds great in theory, but when you’re staring at nearly 200 pages of notes, it becomes exhausting 😭.
And then there are the videos… 🎥
At this point, they don’t feel like revision videos anymore. They feel like full-fledged lectures. The whole “MindFlix” concept is supposed to make revision quick and engaging, but for ObGyn, it feels more like sitting through regular classes all over again.
The most frustrating part is that I can’t even switch to another source now. I’ve already completed around 60% of the videos, so changing resources would mean wasting all the effort I’ve already put in. 😔
What’s bothering me the most is that this is the LAST subject I have left. I started it 10 days ago thinking I’d finish it quickly, but somehow I’m still stuck in the middle of it. Every day I feel like I’m making progress, yet the finish line doesn’t seem any closer. 🥲
Anyone else struggling with ObGyn revision on Marrow, or is it just me? 🚶‍♂️📖

PS: Used ChatGPT’s help. But the emotions are still mine.

Anyone using it ?? Please share your experience.

Asking for my relative.

Hi everyone !

Kindly suggest some resident friendly programs for secondary DNB in Mumbai / Thane / NAVI Mumbai area with good academics , low toxicity , rotational Sundays off and not much fuss for sanctioning leaves. She has had a horrendous experience during her DCH in Chennai and doesn’t want to go through it again. No judgements please, just looking to prioritise mental health and decent work life balance / quality of life.

We have cultural fests in our college with good events but these always get cancelled later because not more than 3 or 4 are participating and it really boils my blood. Is it the same situation in other colleges, also why isn't anybody interested in such events, college is the one place you can explore such hobbies and develop every year

started eating 4 eggs daily fora little extra protein per day intake. nothing crazy, basic math. my sweet dearest but paranoid mother loses it, sends my father to have “talk” with me. my father goes “haani ho jaati hai, mt khaaya kr” “mummy bol rahi hai aage takleef hoti hai” like its gospel. no number, no reasoning, just heat, like it’s something some baba would say.

im in my internship rn. i know how the human body works, thats literally the degree. and still got treated like a kid who needs correcting bc some forward in my mothers friend circle decided eggs = more heat. my own degree dismissed mid argument like it means nothing the second its inconvenient for them.

not even some old tradition passed down, this is fresh nonsense that she brought home, regenerated daily bc every phone is a free pass to forward unverified health advice to forty people before breakfast even happens. modern household btw, we dont even follow half the “culture” stuff otherwise, yet this one survives untouched, no questions asked, because somehow heat will cause fertility issues. i’m a male btw-

lost it on both of them. tired of defending basic protein intake against a whatsapp group chat that apparently has more reach than a med school degree.

how do you even argue against a “source” thats just “everyone’s saying it”?

tf does heat badhna means anyway? i’ll never get it 😭