Reply #49: Ironically... [View All]

...I never really wanted to be a physician. I dream of being a marine biologist when I grow up, but the only university in Germany that offers marine biology didn't accept me. I'm having my transcripts evaluated here and intend to complete the courses necessary for a biology degree. They've already said I need an English course!

I'm still digesting the entire experience. From afar, I see these people as drones; homunculi and hindrances to progress, which is necessary and, in the long run, inevitable. Up close though, I really liked the guy. I was never open about my political beliefs, I simply lived them. Although I did laugh to myself that I got him to take Oxy by invoking Limbaugh, but those are the tricks of the trade. Believe me, bedside manner is very important and although you represent a theoretical authority, you must also be something akin to a close friend and allow the person to be weak without shaming him or her.

One day in the near future, I'll be diving somewhere, counting fish or tracking whales. That's where my heart is, but this experience I will never forget, because it challenged me.