On weekends, besides catching up on chores around the house, I often volunteer. This weekend, I volunteered at PrivateU interviewing students for scholarships. It was very interesting.
I was assigned to a team with a current scholarship student, another alum, and myself. Here are some things I noticed.
1. The kid who wanted to major in computer science, really was a computer nerd (nice, but totally freaked out by my interview question I asked all the candidates).
2. Of the applicants our group reviewed, only two of the candidates were boys. The rest (about 10 in all) were girls.
3. Everyone (except for 2) came because PrivateU has a special early admit program to medical school.
4. Not surprisingly, everyone could tell me how medicine was so important and why they wanted to be a physician. Not one of them demonstrated a real idea of what other professionals do in health care, including the kid who planned on majoring in biomedical engineering.
From the description one gave me, it would have been more appropriate to tell her she could spend more time with patients as a nurse, but blowing her mind right then and there seemed like a bad thing to do.
5. I had all of their applications on paper, but was not sent any other details. My co-interviewers obviously reviewed their homework, but I did not. They seemed a little irritated by this at first, but they got used to me, eventually.
One gave me her form, and I reviewed it. I opted out and asked a non-standard question, which they liked, and was not on the suggested questions handout.
Not surprisingly, many more alums will interview more kids next weekend. Frankly, I thought one weekend of that was enough.
A lot of good kids and only so many scholarships. Now I know what I have to do to get Bubba in shape for college. A whole lot of work.
More to come...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Deep Thoughts, part 76
Ah, it's fun when random things enter your world....here's the latest installment of unusual and the usual...
1. Dahey asked recently why a coworker had unusual colored stool. My only guess is that strange things happen among workers at construction sites....port-a-potty chemicals perhaps?
2. Why, oh, why can't everything have online billing? I just don't like writing and mailing checks anymore.
3. I just loved this comment I saw recently on the NY Times Well blog article discussing nurse stereotypes. I'd really love to work with this doc!
A postoperative patient became incensed during morning rounds, when the little woman kept responding to the questions he was directing at the big man. He wanted answers from the doctor, not some “dumb nurse.” The ICU nurse–a former Big Ten offensive lineman–politely introduced the man to the cardiothoracic surgeon who had saved his life the night before. The doctor, in turn, introduced him to the “dumb nurse” who “will be keeping you alive.”
— Michigan M.D.
1. Dahey asked recently why a coworker had unusual colored stool. My only guess is that strange things happen among workers at construction sites....port-a-potty chemicals perhaps?
2. Why, oh, why can't everything have online billing? I just don't like writing and mailing checks anymore.
3. I just loved this comment I saw recently on the NY Times Well blog article discussing nurse stereotypes. I'd really love to work with this doc!
A postoperative patient became incensed during morning rounds, when the little woman kept responding to the questions he was directing at the big man. He wanted answers from the doctor, not some “dumb nurse.” The ICU nurse–a former Big Ten offensive lineman–politely introduced the man to the cardiothoracic surgeon who had saved his life the night before. The doctor, in turn, introduced him to the “dumb nurse” who “will be keeping you alive.”
— Michigan M.D.
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