White is in, and it has been a long time since it has been in, but I’ve just recently got in on the craze. I am now one of the hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who wear all white on schooldays. We are the caregiver students, student nurses, and medical students. Ordinarily, I hate wearing [...]
I think all medical students since the time medicine has been formally organized have asked this question, “Must I become a doctor?” Others ask this when they are bombarded with patients and the paperwork that come with them. Others ask this when they realize that their life would involve being perpetually exposed to sickness. Others [...]
Photo of a tartanilla* dressed up with national colors. I’m a few days overdue, but considering what our President has done to mangle up our calendar, I guess my greeting of a Happy Independence Day would still be appropriate for now, or not. I’m not a political activist. I’m not even close as a nationalist. [...]
Image taken from Despair, Inc. Last Friday, we had our first Problem Based Learning (PBL) experience. It was different from the traditional learning style that I was used to. Gone were the teachers speaking to a class full of inattentive students. Instead, we were 7 students in a small room doing most of the talking [...]
Today is the 4th day since we officially started class, and I still don’t feel like a med student yet. I’ve met my classmates, and we’ve met the MDs who would be our tutors* and teachers. We have been oriented to the library. We have even had several classes. Yet I still feel as if [...]
Today is Friday, my last day of freedom. Classes would be starting next week on Monday, which means that after about 2 years since UP, I’ll finally be a “full-fledged” student again. I’m not counting Saturday and Sunday as my last days of freedom because students are usuall free during those days. I’m also not [...]
