so my favorite professor in the world (who I secretly refer to as Papa Bear, he likes to give life lessons at the end of class) just told me that when he’s tired in the middle of lecture he looked at me last year for some positivity. Wait, what, me? yeah, he looked at me! So if you’re weird like me and nod along to your professors and mouth the answers to their questions, yes they absolutely notice! he also told me i was the light of the lab last year since i was always happy and wore violently pink scrubs. He even let my sig fig help in lab and he gave me an awesome life tidbit today. He said, “if you love and respect someone going to McDonald’s can be the best thing in the world, but if you don’t and you go to the fanciest place, you’ll be miserable.” seriously, can i invite him to the wedding?
"Can you please tell all your fellow students something for me? Tell them to look at their patients when they’re talking to them. A lot of us old folks have trouble hearing, and it’s even harder when we can’t see your mouth move. Plus it’s rude to talk to someone and look in the other direction. Oh, and if you take their hearing aids out, please put them back in."
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My grandmother.
Sounds like common sense, but a lot of people fail on this. Your patients can’t follow your advice if they never heard it to begin with.
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Related to this, a neat trick I learned somewhere: if your patient is hard of hearing, but doesn’t have hearing aids with them, let them use your stethoscope as a hearing device! They wear it in their ears, you talk quietly into the other end — PRESTO, temporary solution!
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zandraau asked: doing all of that while maintaining stellar grades. Any advice? Sorry for bothering you with this by the way but you give me such better answers than my adviser. How's the wedding planning going? :)
you’re not bothering me at all! sorry for the very delayed answers lots of projects going on at school right now. Don’t take on everything at once. If you feel like you can volunteer and you find something you like and can work and still do well in school go for it. Let yourself get comfortable doing that and then see if you can reasonably take on something else. (There are lots of research positions that are very flexible if you look around enough and find a relaxed mentor.) If you don’t feel comfortable taking on anything else right now, don’t. It’s totally ok! Wait until summer and then when you have less class to worry about throw in another activity. Make sure you enjoy your summers too because soon enough you’ll be in med school and you’ll have less free time. Overall, don’t stress yourself out too much! If this is the right path for you and you work, it will all come together in the end. (Oh, and as for your standing out comment, just do what you love and be passionate during your interview when the time comes and that’s enough)
