At this moment, I am exhausted; however, I feel like to put down something here to "celebrate" this accomplishment. It doesn't matter what I get on this practical when I find out in next couple days, it is just this emotional moment I want to share..
Today is our very last practical exam, the whole day practical that is scheduled for 7 hours, no kidding... ( 9-5 with 12-1 off for lunch). Through out these two years, I've wrote several blog posts related to practical exams: the anxiety before the nights of pracitcals, the fear on the days of practicals, the sorrow on the days I found out I failed or did poorly on the practicals, and of course there are happiness in good days.
On the top of regular class times every single day, I ( and most of the classmates) spent countless extra hours at night times/ weekends in the preclinic lab working.
The reason why we all work so hard is of course to finish up all of our assigned homeworks and projects and aim to perform well on the practical exams. Those to us, the dental students, might be the most "short-term goals", but we (and the instructors) all know that students can only learn operactive dentistry through unlimited practicing. So I guess I can say those countless time I devoted in the lab was the way of learning dentistry, the most direct way.
I don't want to repeat the same old story over and over to bore my readers. But, this afternoon, when I got a chance to take a short break from bending my neck to fix a crown prep for 2 hours, I saw the whole hard-working class. That is ths picture I will store in my brain forever.
It shouldn't surprise me as much since I've seen that "hard working class" for the past two years.. but, this is the last time for us, as a whole class, to work in that preclinic--"our second home". 104 of us, in white lab coats, working in our own speed and path, with the same goal-- "gotta get that thing done nicely before 5:00 pm". Our first year preclinic instructor used to announce her last sentense before each practical started, " MAKE US PRIDE!!" All the way til today, I think we all are getting there...
Even though it's always more complaints than joys, I will definitely miss the moments I shared with my classmates in the preclinic. That is the first place and our very first apporach to be a real dentist. :-)
2 comments:
You are one step closer to become a dentist. : )
I'll be ready with my teeth for you Yang...and a pair of good running legs in case you decide to go trigger happy in my mouth. ^_^
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