Posted by alexandra_k on January 31, 2019, at 0:12:57
In reply to Re: clash, posted by alexandra_k on January 30, 2019, at 23:58:00
I guess they want to see if I can focus.
Focus is hard for everyone.
I do think about the thing where the Doctors were focused on the intubation and the patient died from lack of oxygen while a nurse stood by with a tracheotomy kit just waiting for one of them to call for it / notice that that was obviously the thing to do...
I focused on December 7 when an admin person said it instead of asking for *why* and what was the policy and what was the intent and what was the need.
Like focusing on forcing that tube down.
But the Dean could have Asked Auckland whether it was really required on December 7 *on December 7* or even *before December 7*. But instead she chose to wait until December 10.
All year Waikato has been determined to make me late. Every single time they had the ball they dropped it / messed with it in order to make me late. Every single time.
That's not how to make me want to be a team player.
There was this guy... Who said he wanted to be a Doctor...
Was involved in some aspect of logistics management...
Patient transport.
He returned to study the science stuff around the same time as me and to start with I was all excited that I might have a good study partner.
But I had some idea of the curriculum and had some study material and...
He wasn't really interested in learning the content.
He just wanted to talk about stuff...And I said to him, at some point, that I didn't think he wanted to be a Doctor, he just liked the idea of it, or something. He liked the idea (at least) of hanging out with Doctors, of people thinking he was a Doctor, even, but he wasn't really interested in the science so he wasn't really interested in the knowledge or in the study of Medicine.
And people were like 'ouch'. And maybe it was me being a bit... Yeah... Maybe... But I didn't really mean it like that. I meant really very genuinely that maybe he shouldn't be so very upset about not getting great grades or about not getting to do it because maybe he didn't really want to do it, anyway.
And apparently he went on to do law. And there is something about 'hey, if I can't join you all I'll just sue you all instead' or something... And it is good natured. And he still hangs out with the Doctors and Med Students but he has Law, now. And honestly... He seems happier in it and maybe better at it because of the reading / writing thing...
Maybe people are just testing me seeing whether that is the case for me.
ANd I know it isn't. But they want to make sure.
That I won't get side-tracked into trying to save the world. Into being a major instigator of human rights riots where junior doctors are going on strike, or whatever... That I'm not going to...
One must be careful not to swamp the ombudsman.
Auckland did respond to what happened with me by making a clear policy on how future students can appeal decisions. I was previously declined from entry to the foundations program becuase.... Well... I think unofficially because they thought I should just go off and do law or whatever it was I was doing before. It wouldn't be fair for me to get to study science / math. There were other kids who didn't have entry to Med, at all. But the foundations program was a program designed to help you get the High School Background. It would have been great for me. If I had have known how to appeal it I would have. And maybe I would have got a place.
I feel a bit better knowing that maybe some other kid out there who gets declined becaues that awful lady thinks the kid would make a better.. I don't know.. Hairdresser. Prostitute. Who knows what. Just decides that kid can't do it (maybe because that kid seems smart and they don't want smart they want kicked back and kicked down and supplicant and forever grateful)...
Focus:
Get the hardbound thesis in ASAP.
Moving house. Next week or week after. Need to be in temporary (ie motel) accommodation where I can study from there, at least. While I wait for social housing. That could take months... THey have heaps of properties that are vacant... It takes them time to observe you and check how you live and then to ready a property... I have paperwork and so on around that to... Earn it. SHow I need it. Will work for it.
An injunction. I guess that is what is needed. Someone to make them. When they will not see reason.
I wonder what Waikato will do when I submit my hardcopy.
Accept it, I would imagine. They are just seeing if they can get me spending more time arguing with them than doing my thesis work.
Like they would have done with me all f*ck*ng year if I wasn't a distance student.
Awful people.
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