I usually end up feeling really stupid when I talk with people who are smarter than me.
No, really! I was jabbering on about my first lab practical in a couple weeks, how I studied for six (almost) straight hours today, the teacher gave us three pages of bones and parts of bones to memorize! I was ranting about a COMMUNITY COLLEGE anatomy class to a freaking MED STUDENT WHO GRADUATES IN TWO YEARS.
His comment: “Oh, it sounds like you’ve got a good head start then, you have a whole two weeks.”
About three seconds after I left, I already had the overwhelming sensation of my foot being placed directly in my mouth and SHOVED downwards. Driving home, I decided to “fix” the situation a little, clarify how difficult the course really is. I’m sure he’s still rolling his eyes. He always tells me to text him when I make it home safely… here it is, word for word.
“Home!.. I almost drifted off into complacency when I thought about 2 wks being a long way off.. but… the 6 hours were just spent on general surface features of cranial bones, haha! i haven’t made it to facial bones! or anything else! and the nerves. study tips? :P”
It’s all true, but there are just so many lame and desperate things about this text. Do I even have to point them out?
We’ve known each other for a year – he knows I’m motivated and he respects that. We’re friends, but we’re not BFFs. Maybe I’m just feeling insecure since he’s only two years older than me, a crazy cool med student with attractive friends, a bright future and an annoyingly nonchalant personality. Another good example of me needing to impress people to feel like I’m worth something. Especially since I just told him tonight that I’m going to be a music major.
At least when I was in nursing, we were on common ground – even if he was on a mountain peak and I was being squashed like a bug underneath said mountain (I wrote “muffin” the first time, apparently my mind is elsewhere..).
Happy Pancake Day!
"... And the Halfling forth shall stand." 