Elusive Hearts

I’ve been very lazy busy for the past few days. Shall I say both lazy and busy then? (Hey! It rhymes! :hehe: ) Lab reports, PBL reports, Lab, PBL, PBL, PBL!!! Urgh! I had enough of those shits! PBL just drives me mad. I’ve been coping with it for the past few months and I feel so sick whenever I have to attend PBL discussion.

Oh, sorry. I guess you guys don’t know what the hell is PBL. PBL is some kind of method of torture for all medical students throughout the whole wide world. :bored2:

No. I was kidding. But hey, it might be true you know. Anyway, PBL means problem-based learning. This shit thing is conducted through group discussions. Endless discussions. I was surprised to find about this thing on Wikipedia. So yeah. Basically what we do during discussions is to learn based on a problem, hence the name. The trigger is supposed to stimulate the students to come up with questions and we have the analyse the problem mentioned in the trigger.

For every PBL trigger, we have 2 sessions of torture discussion and a plenary. We need to follow every freaking steps for this thing.

1. Clarification of difficult terms & identification of problems
2. Analysis of problem
3. Development of hypothesis
4. Identification of knowledge needed
5. Knowledge already known
6. Identification of appropriate learning resource
7. Collection of new knowledge
8. Synthesis of old and new information
9. Repetition of previous steps
10. Knowledge not learned
11. Summary

Haha.. I can remember all those silly steps by heart now. For the first discussion, we’re supposed to come up with questions and then, divide the questions to each student. We need to answer the questions that are assigned to us and be prepared to present them on the 2nd discussion. Plenary is where all the groups gather and 2 random groups will be chosen to present their entire findings for that particular trigger.

So you might ask, why do I hate PBL so much? The learning method seems fine as it teaches us not to expect to be spoon-fed by the lecturers. Yeah2, sure. I don’t know. Almost everyone hates PBL here. It’s a total waste of time. I don’t think I learn much from PBL. Really. Every time someone presents, almost all of the time I don’t get almost the whole thing. Not that I’m such a slow learner. I don’t know. Oh well, I don’t expect my friends to understand whatever I present either. I’m really not a good presenter. I don’t like doing presentation. I don’t even know how to. I get nervous everytime it’s my turn to present. And some more, I feel even afraid if no one can understand my presentation.

Oh well. I’m learning to improve my public speaking skill now. Though the progress isn’t much but I’m trying really hard. But the sad thing is, people don’t seem to listen to me while I present. This happened on last Thursday. Okay, I admit that the question that I got wasn’t that important. And some more, people might already got bored since it was almost 3 hours already since we started the discussion. But heck. Couldn’t they just show me some respect?? If they don’t wanna listen to me, fine! But please don’t chat away with the others. I would really appreciate it if, at least, they just pretended to listen. It’s very rude that you’re talking when someone else is presenting.

I was all very semangated when I came to this particular part of my presentation. I wanted to explain on what I know and that thing wasn’t on the paper of my presentation. So, I looked up at my group members to explain but sadly, some of them were too busy chatting away. I continued to talk but they just ignored me. My heart ached. Thank god that I didn’t burst to tears. So yeah, I continued talking till the end. My mind told me to just stop and say this instead:

When PH of blood decreases and the PCO2 increases, it’s called respiratory acidosis.. Okay! I’m done. Since my question isn’t important to you guys, I say, we shall just skip to next question.Thank you.

Really. I was going to say that. But I didn’t. Blahhh..

Ps. Semangated = enthusiastic

Pps. I don’t like my facilitator too. She was too busy playing with her handphone, which wasn’t on a silent mode. And it seemed that she didn’t even care to listen. And the worst part is, she’s our head of module. Oh, for god’s sake!

Ppps. OMG! I keep complaining about the lecturers. Should.stop.now.Period.

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