7yearsinbuda

The pre med is not just thought for preparation. Its characteristic feature for the majority of the students should be a hefty reality check!!!

Tuesday afternoon, 5 o'clock, room 009, meeting of the entire school. Out of approximately 220 students, 30 received a special prize for excellent academic results (congratulations Ida and Homan). Another 20 got very good to excellent results as well but no prize because they completely neglect hungarian (no prize for David...). Another solid amount of people with average grades follows and apparently enough people doing bad enough to make the program director tell the entire school that she will advise a number of students to reconsider their carreer choice...

Now you can debate on whether it is appropriate to make such a statement or not. But the reactions of those concerned tends to make me think that this step was necessary...


My class has a chemistry lesson at 8 o'clock on thursdays. Our teacher is very helpful, explains all the questions we have and does a lot of practice with us. But apparently he doesn't make chemistry exciting enough. And a lesson should include crazy entertainment, some weird aquarium on your iphone, or some other stupid application that fills these oh so strenuous minute long waiting periods before a lesson starts or something. I mean, it is important to keep that attention span at the lowest possible level AT ALL TIMES!

So that type of kids who constantly run from on entertainment to the other have developed a very nice attitude towards such a statement from the program director: "This isn't right!"
Well maybe but you prove her point by not showing up for lectures, not practicing what you learn in class and never think about it.

Gosh I am so tired of the generation following mine. What happened to guts??? Not saying they are the ultimate but damn people cry around so much it tends to make you forget how many kids are dying every day of malnutrition and easily treatable disease (50,000). How leprous beggars rot away on streets without any care provided by anyone.

Guts is not a facade. It is not an old remnence from a male dominated past. It is something you need to persevere through studies like that. And guts can come from something very healthy: surrender. The now unfolds in this form: YOU NEED TO SIT ON YOUR ASS AND STUDY! You can say no, but then you won't become a doctor. Or you start saying yes and do the necessary and stop whining about how apparently everyone fails to do what is necessary so that YOU can succeed. Nobody else but you decide that, on a moment to moment basis!

- David