Hello chopsticks,
I'm in Year 10 this year and doing 1/2 Methods as well. I'm so excited to finish this year and get stuck into VCE because I love love love all my subjects for next year.
btw I really love your journal, best of luck for your VCE and future endeavours!
Hey, thank you! How are you finding Methods? I personally enjoy it
Which uni course are you currently aiming for
I was wondering why you want to study Medicine since you said you don't like pracs and science subjects and Medicine is pretty much those two things.
I would personally disagree with this but I'm also curious about chopstick's story behind wanting to do med!
Unfortunately, I don't have a really good reason but here's my backstory (that sounds too epic for something not that interesting haha)
I was born in a family mostly consisting of doctors. You would expect someone like me to be like "omg it's my dream to be a doctor like my parents and uncles" but that wasn't really the case. Even though my family kept trying to convince and occasionally pressure me, I was actually always AGAINST being a doctor (same thing with my cousins, none of whom ended up doing med).
However, after growing up, I started to realize I wanted to pursue a stable job with a somewhat okay income (doctors aren't necessarily rich btw, watch the Purple Pen podcast for info). But even then, I wasn't motivated to study med.
Last year, something happened to one of my friends. He was mentally unwell, to say the least. That inspired me to become an adolescent psychiatrist. It's upsetting that even though mental illnesses are more prominent from ages 13-25 (correct me if I'm wrong since I'm stating this from memory), most psychiatrists tend to be paediatric or for adults. Adolescent psychiatrists are still high in demand. It's always been avoided since teenagers have all these other hormones which make them the hardest to treat.
I guess that's my story. I think people will ask me why I'm not doing Psych. Initially, I got rid of it in exchange for Japanese (I wanted to do Bio since I assumed it was necessary for med and I could always study psychology later). I don't want to do 3/4 next year for Psych since I got out of Bio because its a science.
Edit: More info on my "background" story, my uncle who passed away when I was very young was a pretty famous psychiatrist back in those days. He used to counsel his patients over using meds to fix their problems. I also have a lot of friends who tell me antidepressants make things worse (and there is no solid proof it helps last time I checked). I believe it works for some and not so much for others but meds always have side effects. Anyways, that's also why I am interested in it : ))