hurray hurray!
my classmate at UWCAC and old pal, sabine, just wrote to say she's finished her final Official States Medical Exams! which she had to do orally!
i salute people who perform their exams orally (that probably means the whole of continental europe!)... it just scares me silly... i still remember my very first (and the only) oral exam in Germany that i had to take, which was on neuroanatomy... all i can recall was that i remembered more than i could really articulate in a coherent way... i was literally tongue-tied... but then again... i was also scared of the (rather cocky) professor who was conducting the exam. he has large protruding eyes that almost resembled those of the cameleon, except he couldn't move them independently like the reptile (i am not sure if he might be able to do camouflaging either). but he would stare at you as though if he did look hard enough, you might somehow disappear into thin air! double misery. anyways i managed to answer his questions somehow (probably sounding very hesitant and unsure of my silly self) and named the structure he pointed to on the brain slice, the lateral geniculate nucleus, correctly even though he expected me to get it wrong (that was really nerve-wrecking!)... subsequently, i tried to overcome my fear and improved on the presentation of my slides/talk whenever i had to present something at the seminar series... i was never really like most of my other coursemates who seemed absolutely confident and good at public speaking... all i can say is that i've improved with time... and (now) i am glad i had to do it... even though i dreaded it all the time. still do.
anyways... hurray hurray for sabine!
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Wednesday, 11 May, 2005 at 18:01 hrs
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