What do you call a poem that is dedicated to something you HATE? If there isn't word, I will invent it here. It's called a "lode" (with the "l" from "loathe").
I think I am creative but for the death of me I'm just a terrible writer. I remember the first full-length practice MCAT I took I could barely finish the introduction when the 30 minute timeout for the essays came up. It's probably also because I realize that I am not a really good writer. It takes me forever to compose a paragraph. (Somehow I have the word processor to blame for that). I have tried writing outlines, but somehow in the midst of writing the paragraph for my outlines I have a change of ideas and I have to revise the outline again.
So here I am, in the middle of writing the 3rd paragraph to my personal statement and I'm in a deadlock. I decided that rather than wreck my brain around coming up with the next best sentence, I am just going to go on here and rant. Maybe something good will come out of this (probably not).
Anyhow, I'm back to square one about why I think this doctor thing suits me sooooo well. Let's face it. Doctors aren't the most important people in the world. I realize that. So now I have to make a convincing argument about why being a doctor is so important to me (after all I am the most important person in my world...ok I'll leave this tidbit out...lis). I'm better with technical writing, so I'll try to outline those reasons here:
1. LEARNING - scientists learn, engineers learn, what kind of learning does doctors do that appeals to me? well, doctors are associated with a generalist type of learning. Even when they are specialists, they still need to possess knowledge of all workings of the body so that when they see something out of their scope of knowledge, they may have some ideas about who to refer the patient to. Also, I think that doctors have to communicate more with patients than scientists and engineers do so there's an emotional learning involved too. (Actually, that scares me even more than the knowledge stuff).
2. COMMUNITY - doctors can make an impact in society by providing their services to the underserved. (other professional careers that I have considered my not score very high in this field).
3. FLEXIBILITY - doctors' schedules are somewhat more flexible (or less boring) than someone who works a typical 9-5 job (aka accountant)
4. COMFORT - stable career = comfortable life + scrubs = plenty of physical comforts
