devsonfire wrote...
You'd be disgusted if you really were here. I wasn't, luckily.
Yeah apparently. Even in my country it takes at least 5-7 years to be a full-fledged doctor. Not sure here. As long as you enjoy it.
Yeah, the people's fine, and the assignments too. But it's different. Going to uni kinda turned on my skeptical switch. I started to see the world from a different point of view now. Can't say I'm the best person in the world, but I'm starting to understand a little bit more.
Oh well, good luck with your stuff. It's hard shit, but you said you got it going, so I'm sure it's gonna be all good.
Yes, in Australia it takes that long as well, and that doesn't include starting specialisation.
Going to university from high school was really a life changing experience for me. As you might know, doing a postgraduate Doctor of Medicine here in Australia actually requires a 99.90+ ATAR from high school, unlike the United States (where high school results are meaningless, and they only look at your undergraduate achievements).
The environment where every single person had at least 99.90+ ATAR was incredibly different compared to high school, where more than half of the student body don't even bother with studying or going to university in the first place. I realised how true it was that the more intelligent the people around you, the more sinister the environment gets. A "skeptical switch" being flipped is a good way to describe what happened to me regarding my social interactions as I entered into Pre-Med.
Anyway, if I find the time, I'll probably bump my thread in SD. Thank you for your comment and I'm sure you'll handle your assignments without a problem too. As for people, I'm sure you're intelligent enough to take care of everything as long as you exert the right amount of scepticism and caution.
In the meantime, let's not derail this thread further, even if it's IB! This is waar's thread, and I patiently await waar's response.