06:30 — Waking up in Tansen
Palpa sits at about 1,350 metres, so mornings are cool almost year-round. Most of us are up by half six, partly by choice and partly because the hostel gets loud.
08:00 — Anatomy, and the dissection hall
First year is anatomy, physiology and biochemistry, and anatomy takes the largest share. The first week in the dissection hall is the one everybody remembers — the smell, the silence, the slightly unreal feeling of holding a structure you had only seen drawn. By the third week it becomes ordinary, which is its own kind of strange.
11:00 — Physiology practicals
Blood grouping, haemoglobin estimation, recording each other's blood pressure badly until we learn to do it well. Practicals are where the theory stops being abstract.
13:00 — Mess, and the long lunch argument
Dal bhat, and a debate about whether the afternoon lecture is worth attending. It is. We go.
16:30 — The evening walk
Tansen is genuinely one of the better places to be a student. Srinagar Danda is a twenty-minute climb from campus and on a clear day the Himalayan range is right there. Half the batch goes up at least twice a week.
19:00 — Group study
Someone has a whiteboard, someone has notes, someone has neither and is here for the company. This is where most of the actual learning happens.
What I would tell a new student
Make friends across batches early — the seniors' notes and their honest advice about which topics matter will save you months. And keep one hobby that has nothing to do with medicine. You will need it.
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