My vacations are coming to an end. The internship was a blast.

There’s nothing like learning how to cut the plaster with a saw on yourself…

I went to the OR a couple of times for some crazy surgeries (even an 8h surgery! I almost had an orgasm )

And I even managed to recycle my old magician skills making animals with balloons for the kids at the hospital.
It was truly a blast. I loved every single minute of it (yeah, even when I had to clean some Poop )

Otherwise, not much to say, except we (the tutoring association at my med’ school) are preparing the back-to-school season for the first year students. I’m implementing a quiz OCR system for it, because complete solutions are around 10k euros! Can you believe that?! WTF seriously… And finally I’ve been accepted to the Master of Biomedical Ethic course (which I would be doing at the same time than my 2nd medical year).

That’s pretty much it, enough of my life… Next time I’ll try to post a few technical posts again. Maybe about some reverse engineering work I’m currently doing, or about the quiz OCR system… We’ll see. Or, as Pierre pointed out, I should probably post again some stuff about cooking

I’m happy to report my first internship will start next Monday and I managed to get pediatric surgery.

Wish me luck not to kill someone or along those lines

So much happened in my life in the past few years, especially this past year. I took a chance and gambled my life with a great deal of uncertainties and doubts. Was I crazy? Did I really want too much? And after all.. Wasn’t my brain too old already to be up for the challenge?

I got the results yesterday, and I still can’t believe the results… but I passed. Among approx. 2400 people with 377 places for the medical field my final rank is 102nd which means I passed, and with a large margin. Hopefully this will enable me to get the internship I want this summer, I’ll know on Thursday.

Some say you see the movie of your life just before you die. The same happened to me yesterday, except I think it was my re-birth. Sorry for the cliché and for lacking words to describe it right now, but I just wanted to thanks my friends for their support and I’m relieved I didn’t have to disappoint them.

I’m very happy to say that Pauline passed too, but sadly, a lot of my other friends didn’t make it, which gives to this “victory” a really bitter flavor…

Anyway, here are my final results:

First Semester:

• Anatomy: 17.1 / 20 (weight: 1)
• Biology: 10.9 / 20 (weight: 2.6)
• Chemistry: 13.6 / 20 (weight: 2.3)
• Physics: 15.9 / 20 (weight: 2.3)
• Average Grade: 13.816
• Rank: 252

Second Semester:

• Biochemistry: 15.6 / 20 (weight: 2.6)
• Biophysics: 14.7 / 20 (weight: 2.1)
• Histology/Embryology: 12.5 / 20 (weight: 2.1)
• Physiology: 15 / 20 (weight: 1)
• SHS (Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology…): 18.5 / 20 (weight: 4)

Final average grade: 15 / 20
Final rank: 102
Numerous Clausus: 377 (for approx. 2400 candidates)

After “House, MD” (”Dr. House” in France), soon we should have “ChoJin, MD”

We can see Asdin giving a try with the steadicam near the end of the video

PS: Yes I know I should add weights to the sony camera, but I didn’t have anything to do so

Looks like we’re not going to re-do the exams after all…
We still don’t have the real reason of what happened, but an unofficial source said a girl (ranked 35th during the first semester. I can’t even imagine what she must feel like right now…) messed up when giving back her answer grid and gave back something else instead, hence a missing grid when they re-counted everything.

In any cases, the university is not very open about this whole mess up, which is bad considering someone could try to take a lawyer, possibly yielding to very bad outcomes (such as, canceling the whole exams, and having the 9 classes to be taken again…)

I hope I won’t regret not having this 2nd chance… I was starting to get used to it and seeing it from a good side…

Anyway, vacations time again… till the next rebound

But the local tv news talked about the mess up at my med’ school. Here is the video:

For some obscure reasons we have to re-do some exams on June, 16th from 4:30pm to 9:30pm… I guess I’m not in vacations anymore…

Ok, so if now I could wake up and realize it was just a fancy nightmare, that’d be great…

I kind of mess’d up so I’ll probably have to re-do it all next year, but since it’s a competition, I can still hope that everyone else mess’d up as much as I did…

Today is my first day of vacations but it doesn’t make it easier though.

Anyway, we’ll see…