end of another era

Finally done exams. FREEDOM!!!

LOL. There’s actually a funny story about this quote…

Funny story: even though we know marks don’t really matter where we’re going, for some reason, we love to calculate our marks and try to figure out exactly what mark we need to get on the final to pass the course/get 80% overall average. During one of these discussions, I remember telling a friend: “Don’t aim to just pass the course! Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you’ll still land amongst the stars!”. Haha I guess this image puts that into perspective 😛

So as always – reflections: 

This semester, we learnt all about diabetes and cardiology, amongst other topics. It made me realize something: for some of these topics, ALL we’re expected to know as true professionals, we’re learning now. For example, we’ve covered diabetes exhaustively – and for the rest of our education, we won’t be going back into it in depth.

Diabetes master! Aka recommend metformin 😛

That says a lot to me. It tells me that I need to retain this knowledge, that if I want to be the kind of professional I want to be, I need to work on making sure I remember and can recall this knowledge.

It also tells me that since I’m a third year student now, that I’m basically half-way to being a professional. To be perfectly honest, that scares me a bit because sometimes I don’t feel like I’m ready. There’s so much that I expect from myself, and sometimes I don’t deliver to my own standards, and then I feel like I’m disappointing myself.

But.

Who I am now is not who I’ll always be, and far from who I’ve been. It may be an indicator of who I will be, but that is always subject to change. This is just the beginning of the journey.

Some day, when I’m a legit professional (the awesome kind), I want to be able to look back on this post and think: Man, 3rd year Victor was stressing over nothinggggggggggg :P.

Anyways.

Related food for thought:

TRUTH. Depressing though.

So what’s the bottom line? Simply graduating as whatever profession you’re in may not garner the respect, the responsibilities and the satisfaction that you feel you deserve. And god knows how deserved we feel, what with our generation brought up to feel entitled. At the end of the day, it’s all about how well you express yourself, and how well you demonstrate your capability. If you can do that well, and you are legitly good at what you do, then you will be successful.

Simple equation? – I hope. Otherwise, all that I’ve worked for will be in vain! Haha.

Unless your definition of success is dating one of these girls. In which case: good luck.

Anyways, Music Mondays aka what music did I loop while studying:

Good-sounding vocals. Also, kinda interesting premise for the song/MV. Essentially, the song is about how sometimes, when you meet someone and you feel like you would be great together, it may only take 60 seconds to find out if you really would be great together :P. Doesn’t make sense entirely (but it’s basically a Korean drama-in-a-song, it doesn’t have to make sense).

BEST ANIME MOVIE I have ever watched :P. Keep in mind I was probably 12 or 14 when I first watched this, and I’ve seen this movie maybe 20 times now? So I may be biased. Plus, I grew up watching Gundams haha. Simply put, the music, the premise and the depth behind Gundam Wing Endless Waltz, Gundam 00 and Gundam Seed are all pretty awesome.

For those who are interested, the song is Last Impression by Two-Mix. Great song.

Anyways, time to catch some much-needed snoozles.

pz out for now!