Do
you remember when girls were overtly discouraged from choosing careers in
science? I never thought it was
happening to me. I just thought I was
bad at science - struggling with poor grades in high school chemistry
(completely forgetting I had just completed biology with the highest grade in
the class!). And if I couldn’t “do
science”, I couldn’t be a doctor. How
many of you had an experience like that?
How
many of you, as I did, returned many years later to something that you loved,
or perhaps went on a different path completely?
Many of us discovered eventually that we could do science, or whatever it was we had been told we were no
good at. What was it for you? For me, I was shocked, when, after graduating
from U.C. Berkeley in anthropology, and then living for a year in an anarchist
collective (getting work typing manuscripts for professors), I figured out that
I wanted to be a doctor, after all. Two
years of pre-med science and four years of medical school later, I was
deliriously happy to graduate from medical school. I was a doctor.
I’d
appreciate comments with your experiences…
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