Did you flunk penmanship in the 1st grade?
Be sure to add that to your experience section under "other". It is evidence that you had the characteristics of a physician from an early age.
What the hell kind of life did you have growing up that there was a first grade honor roll?? All I remember learning was how caterpillars become butterflies and that you have to use your words to resolve conflict
I actually made this joke in a mock interview. They asked "Why medicine" and I replied with "My handwriting has always been terrible so I knew it was meant to be."Be sure to add that to your experience section under "other". It is evidence that you had the characteristics of a physician from an early age.
Yep- catholic schools believe cursive to be the only way of writing AND only in black pen (sometimes blue)- once I graduated 8th grade and went to a catholic HS I never wrote in cursive again and used mechanical pencils erry day. No one cared.
The way teachers said it, I was lead to think I would have a several 10-20 pg papers (I.e. not lab reports) as a science major every semester, so Id have to get used to writing.Ugh teachers love to tell kids how scary upper grades are. When I was in 3rd grade my teacher told us we had to learn cursive because 5th grade teachers won't accept anything else. And then in 6th grade they tell you teachers won't accept pencil, only pen. And then in 8th grade they tell you in high school you have to be able take notes while the teacher speaks. And then in high school they tell you universities cram an entire high school semester's worth of material into one month. So far they've all been lies! This makes me wonder if med school is really as hard as everyone is hyping it up to be...
