This is a true life story of a girl.
I know a girl. She had a dream of becoming a doctor. It was
a childhood dream. She envisioned herself the day she would wear a lab
coat on her slim body, wrap the stethoscope around her neck and "doctor"
would be her new name.
She had worked hard in secondary school and now she found
herself in IJMB. She had been hearing about how hard IJMB was but it was
way beyond what she expected. There were periods of gyri and some
periods of sulci also. What kept her moving forward was the desire and
the conviction to be a doctor.
She would not let anything stop her from feeling of saving
patients. She had seen it before. How a mother who had cried out all her
tears from the fear of losing a child would suddenly light up when the
doctor gave her good news .
When the results of the IJMB were released, so many
thoughts crossed her mind. 'What if......' . What if she doesn't make
it. What is she going to tell her parents. Does it mean her dreamed is
crushed? What is she going to do next? .....She was happy when the news
came that she had passed.
She didn't waste any time . She naturally applied to A.B.U.
Zaria as her choice of institution. Medicine . She chose from the drop
down menu.
Medicine was well...what it is. It is fun knowing about the
anatomy of the human body part. Wow. So many parts to learn. The
physiological working mechanisms of the body was another awe. The only
problem was that there was a lot of things to learn. And there was just
so so so so little time.
It was hectic. Lectures were cumbersome. Practicals were
tiring. Fatigue was setting in. Tests were always popping up regularly.
Before she could realize it, the exams was already knocking at her door.
She did what she had always been doing. Getting up and busting her
body. She had never studied as hard as she did for the mb1 exam in her
life before.
Finally it was over. It was obvious that she had been
shaken by the exams. Her fair skin had gotten darker. She had lost some
flesh also. She was finally home. She slept like a baby.
She results were finally out. She opened her WhatsApp and
clicked on the class group chat. She downloaded the results and scrolled
through the list to find her number.
SHE FAILED.
......................intermis
She collapsed on her bed. She couldn't believe it. Were her
eyes playing a trick with her? . She picked up her phone again and
looked at the list again. She located her registration number. She
recited out the number slowly beneath her breath. U -1-5-M-D-2-0-0-* .
It was definitely her's.
And WITHDRAWN was clearly written across it.
She screamed in her head.
A lot of thing passed quickly from telling her parents to applying for a new course.
She was now in Botany. Of course she didn't like it. She
was just there by accident. Many people tried to encourage her. They say
that time heals everything. As the time went by, she started to like
the course. The main push for her was the fact she was having EXCELLENT
scores in her test and exams. Her hard work was paying off. While she
was always struggling to keep her head above water in Medicine, she was
breezing through Botany.
At the end, she graduated with ..
it is based on a true life story. only 3 things are factually correct 1. she was an IJMB student. 2. she was withdrawn from MBBS 3. She graduated with first class in Botany. other things were added for theatrical effects
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7 Comments
This is exactly what happens in medical school! A place where you see naturally gifted people who are excellent and hardworking fail the MBE, a place where students withdrawn therein later excel in their chosen paths, a place that strips people of their confidence and leaves them to build their self esteem from the scratch. Medical school is indeed a place of lessons! And this story has hit too close to home for me. Where i read as if i was going to die and still end of failing, i cry, brush up and repeat the process only to succeed just as i am about to give up all hope. May we get to actualize our dreams of helping people the medical way, ameen.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King Jr once said: "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
ReplyDeleteCongrats to her.
Such is life, I am also passing through a similar experience right now and I can relate quite well. Sometimes in life it is not what happens to us that define us, but how we choose to redefine ourselves after what happened to us. Congratulation to her and to all the new graduating students out there.
ReplyDeleteSuch is life, I am also passing through a similar experience right now and I can relate quite well. Sometimes in life it is not what happens to us that define us, but how we choose to redefine ourselves after what happened to us. Congratulation to her and to all the new graduating students out there.
ReplyDeleteI believe no atom of hardwork goes for waste. Acts done or carried out with sincerity, hardwork and passion always pays. If not now, then later. And if not in plain sight, then in disguise.
DeleteWe choose what we want to be, what we want to do and what we want, but there is an all knowing and all seeing that makes the best decisions for us.
I performed poorly in engineering and got withdrawn so I ended up in chemistry. There too things weren't looking bright for me. Insecurities about myself started setting in stronger than before. Peer pressure, choking family comments and worst of all, my depleting self-esteem. With all that negativity in my life, I still got one thing right. My believe in THE CREATOR. Life becomes clearer with the right connection with Him. There is this relief and spiritual emblem that envelopes one when you seek and tell Him your problems.
I am not a failure!
I strive at humanity. I strive in my believe. My failure doesn't define me but wat I make out of it does.
I may have oversaid things, but they are actually what I feel and they are real. This is not just wanting to write a cool comment but the need to be heard. I've seen alot of strong people crumble due to failure and I've seen the reverse too.
I pray this story touches alot of people in the right way.
I love this wrote up.
ReplyDeleteThe writer wrote an amazing piece with so much emotions and imaginations that you can't help but visualize the situation in your mind
I think alot of students at some point in their life have dreamt of being doctors,I know I have, I had that dream for a really long time,but it wasn't meant for me,I learnt something from this story and from my experience too,wherever you are is where you are meant to be,its much more rewarding to give your best to that situation. Congratulations to her and nay Allah grant us the best out of all our situations. Ameen.
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