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Posted by alexandra_k on February 12, 2015, at 23:07:13
In reply to Re: uh oh?, posted by alexandra_k on February 6, 2015, at 21:28:58
So I finally registered for the UMAT... And they have done little youtube videos working through the answers for some of the problems! I haven't looked at them, yet. I... Want to try and do them myself, first. I don't know what the quality will be like, etc. But I feel... Excited about it. I have been feeling... Despair... About the UMAT. But the Khan Academy website... No matter how low into despair you feel about physics or chemistry or whatever... You can always watch a little youtube video. Of course you can. And you are getting into your work, before you know it :)
I hunted out a medical journal for this country, too. A few articles on the selection process and stuff... One on people's reflections on their first year (later year pharmacy and medical students). So... I feel like in reading that... I have some quality advice. Reliable. Stuff on the selection process... And I can read between the lines a bit, too. They DID do me a favor in not letting me into Otago. I WOULD have bombed out on their first year curriculum (as I would have bombed out here if I had have done this years work last year...) Most other students do, you see. The ones they let in on the pathway I applied to... The ones without the chemistry / physics background... The main interviewer... One of the paper authors... So... I accept that now. I mean... I would be delusional to think it was written for me... But things feel like they make sense.
Also... Discretion, yeah. For diversity. I think that is a good thing. It is something they... Down-play... I guess because they think the public won't understand. I think... Science communication rah rah we under-estimate the public, sometimes... I think there is still a little of the old school 'we need to believe they are the best of the best of the best!'... And a little of the... Incomprehending (honestly, some of the articles people seem barely literate the standard of writing is appalling!)... Times are changing... Something about... Giving people an out, too. The interview. It helping the community feel involved (interview panel) and it helping give people an out. As... I guess... I guess I took with the last interview. In saying what I did. In giving them the opportunity to give me an out for (it turns out) probably the reason that they did.
This time... Well... I decided I wanted it enough to take the preparatory year... And pay for the UMAT... And purchase the prep books (as 1/2 of the interviewed people who were accepted said they did)... And so on... I really do think... It is going to be okay. Yeah.
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:12:27
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:12:40
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:12:53
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:13:08
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:13:21
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:13:34
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:13:48
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:14:01
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:14:14
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:14:27
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:14:40
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:14:52
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:15:05
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:15:20
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:15:33
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:16:03
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:16:16
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:16:29
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:16:41
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:16:54
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:17:07
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:17:19
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:17:33
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 13, 2015, at 16:17:47
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