Today was a very special day - it was the day which would decide if i would be a doctor in 7 years or more.
We commuted all the way to the UP College of Medicine, from the Pedro Gil station of LRT-1, and went to the Admissions Office in the College of Medicine building. Surprisingly, Neil (Esguerra) was also there, for his interview as well... well, anyway, let me get started.
You're going to be given a paper with 10 sort-of essay questions... stuff like, do you have any achievements, extra-curricular activities, and what you would want to say to "persuade" the ADCOM to approve your admission... no problem about that. Just remember to have brought a ballpen beforehand.
Then you would have to wait for a while, until it is your turn to be interviewed.
Don't worry. The interview is not really that demanding... at least, for me. The interviewer will just ask you questions about your family, life at school, coping with grades and relationships, how hard it is to be a doctor, stuff like that. Don't be pressured. Try to make a good job of "selling yourself" - they are looking for dedicated students who will not leave the country to study in some university overseas... but then, after the intarmed program, you wouldn't really study in some foreign university, because you would already be working in a hospital by that time.
The main point of the interview is to examine, through your history in high school and elementary, how well you would do as a doctor. So if you're not that serious with it, it would be difficult to feign interest.
Just relax... And you'll be fine...:D
P.S. I don't want to comment about the prom, but this comment itself betrays this purpose, so anyway... For the record... most of us did enjoy the prom... even though there were many... technical difficulties. What touched me most was that the opportunity to dance was able to reunite some people and help fix relationships and make them stronger, even if only for a few hours' time.
I sincerely hope the grad ball turns out to be like that, or most certainly better and more memorable. And I hope there really was some way people like mike could come. They are, after all, batch '08.
I wish that people would stop misunderstanding what other people say. This is were most problems are rooted in...