Survival of the Fittest, Not the Smartest
Med school provides perhaps the best substantiation for Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. For here we see in its cruelest form the survival of the fittest. Not the smartest, as one should expect. But the fittest to cope with the inhuman pressures, the demands made not only on the brain but on the psyche. - from DOCTORS
I was browsing through my Facebook when I saw an advertisement to buy UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery shirts. Apparently, this is a project of one of the fraternities in the school, Gamma Beta Epsilon (GBE). The paragraph, as a (back) design on the shirt. And I found that awfully TRUE.
Really, med school is really not about who is the smartest. It's practically about who has the willpower to study all day and all night and have the motivation to go through the lectures over and over and over until he/she can FINALLY understand what the book and the professor is talking about.
I think many people has misunderstood Medicine, or med school for that matter. Some are afraid to enter med school (aside from its painstaking, high soaring tuition fee) because most of them think that their chances would be lessened because only "intelligent" people are in. Well, even the MDs and the higher batch agrees that Med school is not just all brains.
It's basically about perseverance (:
Take me, for example.
My college days are really not exemplary at all. I live a practically normal college life, without any grandeur regarding my grades and my extracurriculars. I trodded the UST path in my most ordinary self. And look at me now, in Med school. I just survived my first year and I'm off to start surviving my second and then my third and then my clerkship rotations.
I've had my fair share of failing marks (quite a lot, actually), my fair share of sleeping through my studies during the wee hours of the morning, my fair share of KATAM (KATAMaran = laziness) and procrastination. But I survived and is still surviving. For even though I do have my downside, I know when and how to get up and start up-ing my perseverance and motivation meter.
I really, really, REALLY WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR SO BAD I'D DO ANYTHING FOR IT. Even if I had to look like a zombie by mid-August because of too much lack of sleep and my screwed up eating habits. Haha. Really, looks aren't that important for me anyway. I'm pretty in my own way.
Ha.
This, because of one shirt design. Triggered something for me to share. And because I miss blogging and I know I will miss it more. Gaaah. And I love how my first love (BIOLOGY) coincided well with my ultimate love (MEDICINE). Very, very nice (: ♥
I was browsing through my Facebook when I saw an advertisement to buy UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery shirts. Apparently, this is a project of one of the fraternities in the school, Gamma Beta Epsilon (GBE). The paragraph, as a (back) design on the shirt. And I found that awfully TRUE.
Really, med school is really not about who is the smartest. It's practically about who has the willpower to study all day and all night and have the motivation to go through the lectures over and over and over until he/she can FINALLY understand what the book and the professor is talking about.
I think many people has misunderstood Medicine, or med school for that matter. Some are afraid to enter med school (aside from its painstaking, high soaring tuition fee) because most of them think that their chances would be lessened because only "intelligent" people are in. Well, even the MDs and the higher batch agrees that Med school is not just all brains.
It's basically about perseverance (:
Take me, for example.
My college days are really not exemplary at all. I live a practically normal college life, without any grandeur regarding my grades and my extracurriculars. I trodded the UST path in my most ordinary self. And look at me now, in Med school. I just survived my first year and I'm off to start surviving my second and then my third and then my clerkship rotations.
I've had my fair share of failing marks (quite a lot, actually), my fair share of sleeping through my studies during the wee hours of the morning, my fair share of KATAM (KATAMaran = laziness) and procrastination. But I survived and is still surviving. For even though I do have my downside, I know when and how to get up and start up-ing my perseverance and motivation meter.
I really, really, REALLY WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR SO BAD I'D DO ANYTHING FOR IT. Even if I had to look like a zombie by mid-August because of too much lack of sleep and my screwed up eating habits. Haha. Really, looks aren't that important for me anyway. I'm pretty in my own way.
Ha.
This, because of one shirt design. Triggered something for me to share. And because I miss blogging and I know I will miss it more. Gaaah. And I love how my first love (BIOLOGY) coincided well with my ultimate love (MEDICINE). Very, very nice (: ♥