Posted by alexandra_k on October 12, 2015, at 19:25:26
In reply to Re: better-ish, posted by alexandra_k on October 12, 2015, at 17:16:36
And now I see that this is why people said that I was going about things backwards. What they really want is the kids who are young enough such that they don't see any of this. The kids who are young enough such that they are used to doing what they are told and they are close enough out of high school to be used to placating those who give them contradictory / impossible instructions / mixed messages.
That's what last semester was mostly like.
And you get rewarded for huddling with the herd and they'll likely go for your head if they think you aren't suitably protected...
I suspect when you just start out on the wards things are roughly similar...
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This semester is a bit better. Some of them are finding the transition to medsci harder. Because medsci isn't so much like that. E.g., labs aren't worth very much at all (but a bunch of content that is properly assessable in exams) and what little they are worth... They have different versions of a multiple choice at the end that you do individually to time constraints (so the lab demonstrators don't know what questions the group is going to get). So... It is more rewarding of actual work / individual effort, in other words.
I'm procrastinating respiratory graphs. Can you tell?
Cries. Manageable... We have practice multiple choice and I am learning stuff... Some of the graphs I don't know... But he isn't trying to trick us with the maths... I'm just not used to comprehending graphs with, like, two variables on each axis eep. And I guess he is trying to get us to understand concepts / variable relationships by throwing a bunch of graphs at us. eep.
I really want an A+
I keep thinking about the guy... Autistic spectrum... Studying at a university in England... They wouldn't pass him his very last rotation (obgyn) and he killed himself. They said something about not having the infrastructure.... Not having enough supports... obgyn is pretty notorious for... Clicky girls. Doing their clicky girl thing. I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to be a guy in that set-up. I'd imagine it would be pretty hard for me in that set-up too, now, actually. He didn't have the supports... For them to not fail him. Was he ever going to end up working in obgyn actually? ??
The disability equity thing is interesting... Not bonded apparently (aka: no obligation to work with disabled people). But I suspect there is something implicit there... The academics better like me a bunch, in other words. My physics really better come along... It might with good teaching (that isn't trying to trick us with the maths). It has to.
I forget that is partly why you work so hard.... Because you really want out / up.
The law lecturer at the moment is really lovely. In a slightly old fashioned english kind of way. We like him, well enough. But damned if it isn't hard to supress yawns looking at statutes. Apparently we are lucky that we aren't looking at the tax statute (but the finance people have been introduced to that over there already). Apparently out tax statutes aren't as bad as most countries... But still... Nobody does tax law for the lolz. Pretty damned sure of it. They have great study desks over at their library, though. Huge desks with a shelf and partition walls so you don't get distracted by people bobbing about. I don't suppose it would be possible to learn tax law otherwise lol. Meeting rooms with whiteboards, too. Whiteboards are great. I got a smaller one that I take with me and I can practice drawing graphs and stuff. Writing out lists. The medical library... A bit more mixed. People are a bit more social... It is odd... Health and law attracts very different people, to be sure.
Picture books, though. I mean, really. And layers of tissue... All the different kinds of cells on your way down / through / wherever. Amazingly interesting...
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