my patience for work is slowly wearing away. i can still study for tests, the cramming and all, but it's the problem-sets, the weekly quizzes, that i really don't care about. the day-in, day-out school work. come to think of it, i never really did do many problem sets, because they were more of an annoyance than anything else. now i sort of do them, but all along, i'm thinking, why do i care? what will happen if i just stop doing this now? the answer is, apart from a slight grade drop, nothing. nothing will happen. i could be doing so many things that aren't a waste of my time right now, but i should do this problem set so i can get a half letter grade higher. i don't know how well this bodes for the 2 more years of real school i have left after this college business is over. i've been thinking of taking a couple years off before starting whichever program i get into, maybe do teach for america. but after that i'd still have 7-8 years of md/phd, which would mean that i wouldn't be starting real life until i'm 30. not sure about how i feel about that yet. it's not that i really care about the delay in my professional life, it's more that i do want to start a family some day, and i just hope that all this 'career' crap won't get in the way. i guess that's all still a long way off.
- posted by Maxime @ 6:03 PM