walk it off

In medical school, we have a class called doctoring where we meet in small groups and talk about issues in medical school, medicine and life in general. I have two amazingly talented faculty members who facilitate the class. One is my dean. Anyhow, we got our mid-year evals today...

Most evals just say nice job, talk louder, blah blah. This is probably the best evaluation I've ever gotten. It was painfully honest and pinpointed all of my insecurities. The awkward things I say, the way I get easily distracted, my mannerisms, etc. I knew exactly what they were talking about and it kills me because I've been trying to fix these things my whole life. It's surprisingly painful to hear verbalized the things that you know aren't that hot about yourself. Time to walk it off and work on improving those things that have been holding me back. My advisers did me a huge favor today.

-bender