Archive for October, 2008
Thinking in Terms of Ranges
The following concept is pretty different from what I normally write about, but I think it’s really neat, and hope some people will find topics like this quite interesting! The Most Useful Course in High School (in my opinion) If you were to ask me today what my most useful high school course was, I [...]
What do YOU Want to Hear About?
I usually write about what’s on my mind, but I’m really curious about what the readers of this blog are interested in learning about. I feel like I am a pretty honest person, and as people can probably tell, I don’t like to sugar coat things when I write. So I’d be interested in creating [...]
A Common Question Students Get Wrong on Tests and the Difference Between A and A+ Students
On Tuesday I took my first test for my Molecular Biology course. It was a pretty interesting format. There were 20 multiple choice questions, each with five choices (A to E). All of the questions were “Which of the following statements is correct” or “Which of the following statements is incorrect“, with only one correct [...]
What? You need a 98 average to get into McMaster Health Sciences?
Last night, Eden, a good friend of mine, asked me whether you needed a 98+ average to get into McMaster Health Sciences. At first, I was like: “lol what? No way!” So she told me that a friend of hers found this article that suggested it, and that this friend was starting to worry a [...]
The Benefits of Teaching and Mentoring
When people hear the word “teacher”, they often imagine a school teacher standing at the front of the classroom or a professor lecturing in a large university hall. Personally, I have a much broader interpretation of the word “teacher” to also include mentors, coaches, speakers, and so on. What is a Teacher Really? I think [...]
To be Successful, You need to Keep Putting Yourself in Position to Succeed
Whenever we hear about successful people in the newspaper, magazine, television, the Internet, or even directly from other people, we only hear about their success stories. We never hear about their failures, mistakes, or shortcomings. I guess it’s because hearing about other individuals’ successes are positive things, and hey, I’m all for positive things. In [...]
I clicked submit last night: turns out I am an idiot
So I haven’t written much in the last week, primarily because I had been busy finishing my Ontario medical school applications. For those of you who don’t know, it is a pretty lengthy process, requiring an autobiographical sketch listing up to 48 items to describe yourself, a 1,000 word essay for the University of Toronto, [...]
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