So, I find it funny that one of the 2nd year's who tutors us joined this Facebook group called "Hey Med school, high school called and they want their drama back". How freaking appropriate. I don't even know if it's more from the students or the administration/professors. Hopefully I won't get in trouble for writing this, but sometimes life at this particular med school is not what was I expecting. With all those ice storms over finals week and losing power and all that, finals were one of the most stressful environments for test taking that I have ever experienced. For this reason, many people failed. We were given the option to retake the finals the first week of classes (talk about starting off the semester with a bang!). Some did take advantage of this option. One of the classes was biochem. Now, in the past at my school, biochem has been somewhat of a laughable class. I wouldn't say that it's something that many students get much out of (it is, in fact, the lowest scoring section on boards for our students). Well, the professors, in all their wisdom, decided to change the class around. Good idea, no? Well, it actually turned out to be one of the worse decisions they've made because while they changed the schedule of what information was taught at certain periods of the semester, none of the professors really changed their lecture material (tenure tends to make some lazy), so what could have been just a silly, useless class turned into this huge mess where we were studying 30 pages of condensed notes per test (there were 5 a semester so can you imagine what full note packets looked like). So, anyways, the point to my story....thus far 1 person has been suspended from school, two people have failed the class (both are repeat students who failed other classes but managed to pass this class last year), and one person has been kicked out permanently. Talk about craziness. In general, the feeling of the class is quite depressed. There are numerous students who are no longer showing up for class (I'm sure there are going to be more drop-outs and/or suspensions coming). It just really makes me wonder about whether or not I'm in the right place. I know I've talked about this before and it was during very stressful times of the semester, but right now, I am not stressed quite yet. I know IU would have been very similar with not treating students with gloved hands, so to speak, but it just seems that that caring environment that drew me here is no longer present (at least from the administrator side...it's funny as it's almost a direct reversal from last semester when it felt like the students were the ones creating the problems for each other). I don't know what the future holds, but I would really appreciate some prayer for direction. I don't know if OK is the place for me, or if I'll be returning to IN or going elsewhere. I just hope and pray that where ever I'm supposed to be will be clearly revealed and that it will be somewhere where I am at peace and know for sure that I am supposed to be. I know that the road is not promised to be easy and these experiences that I'm facing may very well be simply tests of my character, but it would be nice to know if they are simply that or if I'm uneasy because of other reasons. So all, not to leave you on a depressing note but I'll write more on that later, but I thought I would leave you with some photos of happy times thus far this semester:-)
This is McKaila and I. She's a very sweet 2nd year. We worked together setting up the Holiday Ball. Don't know what I would do without her sweet smile on some days.
Ronak and Kristen, two very good friends as well. Don't they both look spiffy...well, consider us all looking haggard and wearing scrubs with no makeup and shaving (well, for Ronak at least, lol)
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I'll be praying for you Joanna! Hang in there!!
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