tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post8003319180311879877..comments2024-03-11T00:26:35.303-07:00Comments on The Many Banes of My Existence by Alexis: A Most Tenuous TopicAlexisARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-57892583740407845712015-11-07T14:44:43.735-08:002015-11-07T14:44:43.735-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chuck Bluesteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291807414895185920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-50819056703810080962015-11-07T06:35:52.531-08:002015-11-07T06:35:52.531-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chuck Bluesteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291807414895185920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-83983114307314900312015-11-07T05:40:01.902-08:002015-11-07T05:40:01.902-08:00"red-flag," BTW, not "read-flag&quo..."red-flag," BTW, not "read-flag"AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-63132181218181412962015-11-07T05:38:30.389-08:002015-11-07T05:38:30.389-08:00You're right. and I'm honestly not quite s...You're right. and I'm honestly not quite so concerned about the exam itself as I am about the prep. I can't walk in with just the information i'm carrying inside my head right now even though i probably know what i need to know enough to pass it already. i still have to go through at least the motions of preparing.<br /><br /> The people in control of this test are so freaking paranoid that they read-flag people for going into the test knowing too little, as in those people are taking the test to gain information about the test and not making a good-faith attempt to pass the test. I've not heard of it happening, but the people overseeing the test as a whole have the power to black a person from ever taking the test again (and consequently from EVER becoming a physician or surgeon) based on irregular behaviors and their perception that a test-taker has some agenda regarding gaining information about the test. I know that if I took the test this morning i would know enough that my performance would be viewed as a legitimate attempt to pass the exam, but it's still freaky. these people fingerprint you if you use the bathroom during the eight-hour tasting procedure except during the fifteen-minute break. (They also fingerprint you after the fifteen-minute break.)<br /><br />Doctors don not talk about what's on this test. they're even retroactively spooked about the whole testing security thing.<br />It's probably worse than the mormon temple "never tell what goes on here" stuff. in the olden days (anything from sometime around 1990 or 1991back) Mormons in their temple ceremony took some sort of oath pantomiming the actions of slitting their own throats and disemboweling themselves as a way of pledging that either that's what they would do to themselves or that's what would be done to them (I'm not sure which; I'll ask my dad) if they ever revealed the secrets of the temple ordinances. My dad, despite having done all of the pantomiming mumbo jumbo, has told me all about the temple ceremony. He's never said a damned thing, however, about the exam which shall remain nameless because i don't want to red-flag myself so that I show up in a test Nazi google search.AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-49274116191062107932015-11-07T02:37:25.588-08:002015-11-07T02:37:25.588-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chuck Bluesteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291807414895185920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-16552881420200116852015-11-06T07:42:26.334-08:002015-11-06T07:42:26.334-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chuck Bluesteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291807414895185920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-19434711071478286462015-11-05T08:40:34.855-08:002015-11-05T08:40:34.855-08:00Whatever happens, happens. I guess that's not... Whatever happens, happens. I guess that's not the most reassuring encouragement, but it's probably the most accurate. Just study hard, do what you do best; with your history there's no reason to suspect that this will play out any differently for you. Anxiety is a difficult thing to overcome, however. When I trip up, it's because I'm projecting too far into the future and putting far too much weight on something that, in the large scheme of things, is actually pretty trivial. I don't mean to imply that this is trivial, but I think in regards to whatever you are aiming to do, this test is just a tiny piece of your whole picture. It's a part that you need to accomplish well in order to get to that next level, a level that you are probably more than capable of entering already regardless of what results from the test. Beccanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-69380177523426544332015-11-04T02:46:48.348-08:002015-11-04T02:46:48.348-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chuck Bluesteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291807414895185920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-67021164046789453432015-11-04T01:48:00.714-08:002015-11-04T01:48:00.714-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chuck Bluesteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291807414895185920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-23539321817226117902015-11-04T00:38:49.832-08:002015-11-04T00:38:49.832-08:00I suspect you'll do fine. I have met a lot of...I suspect you'll do fine. I have met a lot of idiots who have MDs. You are not an idiot. When it's over, you'll feel like you took a big crap.knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-56434837232432107812015-11-03T22:44:15.177-08:002015-11-03T22:44:15.177-08:00No. This test is in a league all of its own, thoug...No. This test is in a league all of its own, though. I'm actually more worried about the ordeal of preparing than about the test itself (sort of like for a colonoscopy). I don't want to jinx myself, but I suspect I'll get through this just as I've gotten through everything else. It's mostly the tedious studying I dread.AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-60193479085377353472015-11-03T22:35:45.810-08:002015-11-03T22:35:45.810-08:00You've never gotten an F before, have you? ;-...You've never gotten an F before, have you? ;-)knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.com