First Exam for Summer 2010

Its been weeks since i last wrote anything.Well thats bcoz i dont really have much to write.Besides im busy preparing for my exam

And today my first paper was surgery.Ive finished it and just come back home.Well,as well known as it is marks here don't really reflect how much effort u have put.Coz exams here are different.Let me explain it:

1.Bilet(The card which contains the questions)

The bilet that each one of us gets will be different from one another.So its a matter of luck.Some of us might read 50 out or 100 Qs but get the ones he/she read.Some might read 90 out of 100 but gets the rest of the Qs which he/she didnt read

2.the zachot book.

some examiners dont really pay attention to what u say but they just flip through your zachot book to see how u have performed in the past.That is why some people are of the concept that those who performed well in the past will always get good marks eventhough they dont study.And it has some truth in it.Alot of it actually

3.Examiners

Mind you examiners here are a bit weird,irritating and overboard sometimes.They have preferances.Some according to personal tastes,some according to what THEY know,and not what we were taught(classes,lectures,books),and some according to their ideology and perspectives(which to many who realise this,is irrelavant to medicine).

I know friends who got this type of examiner.She answered according to what her teacher taught her but the examiner said its not right and started to explain according to what he knows.What the @#$#%1@???!!!

And i had it today,and this is the reason im writing it here,to let u all know how exams are here in Russia or particularly in Volgograd,my university.

U know,being in russian medium for almost 6 years,where i learn everything in the native language of its people i can catch what they say even if it is in a form of whispers (had a few situations where girls here are being vulgar to me,obviously coz i wear hijab.That's a diff story though).

But TODAY, the examiner said to me - TI NE SLISHALA POTOMU SHTO USHA ZAKRITA PLATKOM!-U CAN'T HEAR WHAT I SAY COZ THE HIJAB U ARE WEARING CLOSES YOUR EARS.

It started like this.I was waiting outside for my turn to go into the exam hall.
While waiting i watch how other students were answering,how the teachers are and i secretly wish(not so badly though coz im well prepared.In fact i finished revising all the questions.So i dont really mind to whom i will answer) that i got him.Why? bcoz i naturally like old people men and women.

So finally it was my turn.I took my zachot book from the laborant and went to him.He opened it and asked me to say my name.I almost spelled it out for him.

Then it came to answering.

My first question was 'gnoiniye zabolevaniye plevri.Klinika'-Pleural empyema.Clinical.

I answered it according to the system: What are the symptoms which can be seen from respiratory,circulatory and general condition of the patient.I speak and speak and speak till i finished my first question.Silent.(I was waiting for him in case he has anything else he wanted to ask.)Then he ask me again 'what are the symptoms?' i look at him unbelievably.Then as if i do not know anything he repeated again my answer and yes,according to the systems just like how i answered.

And through the whole proccess of answering his voice was so slow i can hardly hear him so i bend my head closer.Then he said to me in a sarcastic way- TI NE SLISHALA POTOMU SHTO USHA ZAKRITA PLATKOM!.I was speechless.I mean what the hell is wrong with u?! Well let me ask u, when u were having difficulty reading my name (which is a wonder to me coz it was wirtten in RUSSIAN AND BY A RUSSIAN) did i say to u "Skolko vam let?Chitat ne umeete?-How old are u?U dont know how to read?

Sigh...


I guess this is the result of decades of indoctrination by the illuminatis.People seem to have a DISTORTED idea bout women with hijab.Well,u people out there let me ask u,have i ever said anything bout the way u dress?NEVER.Do u know what i feel about the way u dress? IM DISGUSTED!!

emotional mode begins....

Im disgusted with the way u carry yourself!
Im disgusted with your arrogance!
Im disgusted with this idea that u have-that u are above all others when u can show your body.


-emotinal mode ended-

So back to the story of me and the examiner.He cant fail me obviously,and he wont give me a 5 too coz he has a problem with my hijab.So he decided to give me a four...

From now on i have to keep in mind that if i know that i know,then whatever it is that others say dont matter anymore,be it the examiner,be it anyone..