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It's 2 days until my interveiw. I'm not really nervous yet. It's strange. I had completely set myself up for failiure, i was totally prepared and half expecting it and now i have an interview with an opportunity to embark on the career of medicine..to really be a doctor. What i've wanted all my life. And it's still kind of dream-like.

But, of course, i will prepare to the max. I mentioned that i was having an interview to the school careers adviser and he nearly jumped out of his skin. It was rather amusing. After he'd regained his composure he insisted that we meet to discuss interview technique more, so 15 minutes later i was in the careers office talking to him about what i'd say in an interveiw bla bla bla. It was for much useful. He told me what they usually ask and what they look for, i took the information on board and wrote some notes up afterwards.

There seem to be 5 main questions that they ask;

1. Why do you want to be a doctor (or similar wording)
2. What qualities do you think a doctor needs (or similar)
3. What did you learn from your work experience (or similar)
4. What is your favorite disease and why
5. An ethical dilemma

I think the hardest of all the questions for me to answer is why exactly i want to be a doctor. It's not as if, at 18, i can give a huge difinative all encompassing answer. I don't really know why i want to, it's like a vocation but minus the religion. I just do. And i might get sick of it 20 years down the line but thats why we live in the world of 5 careers. I have this almost blaggable answer which involves talking about how i have natural scientifica ability and this passion to really give back something to society and that a career enabling me to combine them both would be perfect. And then talk some about being a leader and that doctors have to lead and that this also makes me believe that i can do it (here i would bring in about beavers, d of e etc).

But sometimes i think that it's not just science i'm good at; because from the grades i achieve it's not. I'm good across the board. And i would absolutely love to study theology/philosophy at degree level, i truly would. Now it facinates me so devoting an entire 3 years to studying it sounds like heaven. Give me Kant over amino-acids any day. He is just so much more stimulating, so much more relevant to modern life. The philosophical and sociological ideas and thoughts studied are screamingly evident in everyday life. They are the buiding blocks of our society, or, at least, the building blocks of the intelligent thought of our society, amino-acids are the building blocks of the DNA used to create inteligent thought.

Fuck me, science bores me. I would love to study philosophy. But i suppose that's what i really mean by medicine being the best of both worlds; it's not the mind-numbing blur of chemical equations and diagrams of internal organs but it is just enough science speckled with just enough human interaction to be interesting. Now, how to explain that to an interview panel...


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