Being aware of life is living
For some time I think I have been a little passive in the ways I think of myself in life. So many questions that came to my mind subsided. Maybe it's because there are more important things to figure out at the moment; maybe I was distracted by more interesting topics.
I have been doing a variety of things in my last semester in Bukit Jalil.
From the beginning, I had a Selective module over a period of 3 weeks. It was the best time I had in the past 2 years in the university. That's because I chose a humanity topic for the module. I was totally excited and glad to have had the chance to get to know more about humanity. I think it is such an important topic for persons like us, medical students and later on, medical doctors, or even pathologists who will be dealing with life and death in the future. If I were given a second chance to choose a Selective topic, without doubt, I will still opt for one related to humanity.
After 3 weeks of that, I went to Batu Pahat hospital for 3 weeks of posting. It was the very first proper hospital posting for me, besides that of the elective posting that I had early this year. I could remember why but I did not expect a lot from myself before the posting started. I just wanted to learn as much as I could. However, it turned out that I probably met my objectives - maybe some of them or maybe all of them. I cannot be sure as I did not set any goals for myself. But of course, I did learn something. In fact, I learned the most from the way some lecturers and doctors treat the patients in the hospital. But still, I thought I should have set some targets for myself to achieve. In this way, at least I will be more certain of what I would have achieved in the 3 weeks of posting.
Well, actually I did not complete full 3 weeks of posting. This is because in the second week I went off to kind of 'take a break' for a conference in Yogyakarta. It was again such a memorable time that I had. It was my second medical conference but the first one abroad. I really never regretted even though I had to skip almost a week of posting for it. I got to build networks with a lot of medical students abroad. Meeting truly passionate people were the best of all.
So, from the very beginning of the 5th Semester, I have had a wonderful time doing Humanity in Selective, and then a good bonding time spent with doctors and friends in the hospital for 2 weeks and then 1 week of unforgettable experience that I had in Indonesia.
Look at my life. I used to complain that my university life is too boring to mention. But things change. They do. But if you do not look back and evaluate them, you might think that you are still living a life that you would expect more.
What is more, now I'm in the third and last week of forensic medicine. Woah. In my life I have never imagined myself learning that in the school, well, not in an undergraduate program at least. Of course I was more than happy to attend all the lectures. There were all so interesting.
I was so delighted and mesmerized when the lecturers gave us the talks. Some were the same old people that I have been having classes with for the past few semesters. I wonder how much of knowledge that is contained in their minds. Forensic science is definitely a whole different branch of study in the medical field but yet all of them were so capable of giving classes, museum sessions etc.
I have been learning.
This is one thing that I have to always remind of myself. Because not being aware enough of what I am doing at the moment is the biggest fault that I could commit as that would mean that I am not putting enough attention, and also, it would mean that I will not keep these good memories with me.
I have been doing a variety of things in my last semester in Bukit Jalil.
From the beginning, I had a Selective module over a period of 3 weeks. It was the best time I had in the past 2 years in the university. That's because I chose a humanity topic for the module. I was totally excited and glad to have had the chance to get to know more about humanity. I think it is such an important topic for persons like us, medical students and later on, medical doctors, or even pathologists who will be dealing with life and death in the future. If I were given a second chance to choose a Selective topic, without doubt, I will still opt for one related to humanity.
After 3 weeks of that, I went to Batu Pahat hospital for 3 weeks of posting. It was the very first proper hospital posting for me, besides that of the elective posting that I had early this year. I could remember why but I did not expect a lot from myself before the posting started. I just wanted to learn as much as I could. However, it turned out that I probably met my objectives - maybe some of them or maybe all of them. I cannot be sure as I did not set any goals for myself. But of course, I did learn something. In fact, I learned the most from the way some lecturers and doctors treat the patients in the hospital. But still, I thought I should have set some targets for myself to achieve. In this way, at least I will be more certain of what I would have achieved in the 3 weeks of posting.
Well, actually I did not complete full 3 weeks of posting. This is because in the second week I went off to kind of 'take a break' for a conference in Yogyakarta. It was again such a memorable time that I had. It was my second medical conference but the first one abroad. I really never regretted even though I had to skip almost a week of posting for it. I got to build networks with a lot of medical students abroad. Meeting truly passionate people were the best of all.
So, from the very beginning of the 5th Semester, I have had a wonderful time doing Humanity in Selective, and then a good bonding time spent with doctors and friends in the hospital for 2 weeks and then 1 week of unforgettable experience that I had in Indonesia.
Look at my life. I used to complain that my university life is too boring to mention. But things change. They do. But if you do not look back and evaluate them, you might think that you are still living a life that you would expect more.
What is more, now I'm in the third and last week of forensic medicine. Woah. In my life I have never imagined myself learning that in the school, well, not in an undergraduate program at least. Of course I was more than happy to attend all the lectures. There were all so interesting.
I was so delighted and mesmerized when the lecturers gave us the talks. Some were the same old people that I have been having classes with for the past few semesters. I wonder how much of knowledge that is contained in their minds. Forensic science is definitely a whole different branch of study in the medical field but yet all of them were so capable of giving classes, museum sessions etc.
I have been learning.
This is one thing that I have to always remind of myself. Because not being aware enough of what I am doing at the moment is the biggest fault that I could commit as that would mean that I am not putting enough attention, and also, it would mean that I will not keep these good memories with me.
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