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Interview questions from lassiterfics:
1. What would you have studied if not medicine?
I wouldn't have minded doing Honours in psychophysics, actually, because I did a lot of that in my undergrad degree and really enjoyed it, but I don't know if I'd want to do it (or anything purely research-based) as a career. If I didn't get into medicine I was going to apply for a graduate job at the Australian Government Department of Health & Aging (you know you're an ANU student when your default is the public service) and go into health policy, with an interest in maybe doing a Masters in International Public Health at a later date. (I still might do an MPH or MIPH in the future.)
2. And because I just woke up from a nap and nightmare (read: retrospectively hilarious dream) about just this: what would you do if a komodo dragon was chasing you through the hallways of your school?
See, this one depends a lot on which part of my 'school' you're referring to. If it were the hospital, I'm sure I could find a needle or some disinfectant to spray in its eyes or a bed to roll over it with or something equally dangerous. Actually the buildings in which we have path labs etc. are pretty full of potentially weaponisable chemicals as well.
In the absence of anything handy, though, I imagine I'd end up locking myself inside a room and calling people. Komodo dragons are FREAKY.
3. What is your favorite thing to cook, not necessarily to eat?
I am a baking kind of person! I like to cook cakes and muffins and cookies, because they often involve a lot of measuring and stirring and other stuff I can do with a DVD on in the background, and you can sit around reading a book while the oven is producing lovely smells. However, there is also something to be said for making stir-fry when you're in a bad mood -- large knife, blasting music, lots of chopping and sizzling and flicking minced garlic & ginger & chilli off teaspoons and into the wok.
4. What is your favorite article of clothing?
OH MAN. Probably my amethyst short-sleeved business shirt from Cue; I can't afford Cue's clothes normally, but I picked this one up in the post-Christmas sales last year and it fits me perfectly and I wish I had one in every colour available because I wear at least every second week on hospital days. When I have money I will be shopping at Cue a LOT.
Runners-up in this category are definitely my Year 12 formal dress, which is a fabulous violet crushed-velvet thing from Garfunkel into which I can still fit (quel miracle), and my ankle-length black wool coat with the cinched waist; it makes me look like a vampire, but it's sadly too warm for Sydney's temperate climate, so it's living in my closet in Canberra.
5. Tell me about the first time you went to another country.
I am fairly certain my family went to Fiji when I was tiny, but I have no recollection of it whatsoever, so that doesn't count. We DID move to Europe for two years, between my second and fourth birthdays, and I remember bits and pieces of that; going to playgroup in Birmingham, wrapped up in a cardigan my aunt had knitted for me and learning to make gingerbread and colour between the lines. Living in an apartment Graz when my brother turned one, listening to my mother order schnitzel in faltering German and ordering my own pommes frites when we were in France. Learning how to dissect a cathedral into its ubiquitous parts: organ, crucifix, stained glass, roof bosses, rows of candles.
1. What would you have studied if not medicine?
I wouldn't have minded doing Honours in psychophysics, actually, because I did a lot of that in my undergrad degree and really enjoyed it, but I don't know if I'd want to do it (or anything purely research-based) as a career. If I didn't get into medicine I was going to apply for a graduate job at the Australian Government Department of Health & Aging (you know you're an ANU student when your default is the public service) and go into health policy, with an interest in maybe doing a Masters in International Public Health at a later date. (I still might do an MPH or MIPH in the future.)
2. And because I just woke up from a nap and nightmare (read: retrospectively hilarious dream) about just this: what would you do if a komodo dragon was chasing you through the hallways of your school?
See, this one depends a lot on which part of my 'school' you're referring to. If it were the hospital, I'm sure I could find a needle or some disinfectant to spray in its eyes or a bed to roll over it with or something equally dangerous. Actually the buildings in which we have path labs etc. are pretty full of potentially weaponisable chemicals as well.
In the absence of anything handy, though, I imagine I'd end up locking myself inside a room and calling people. Komodo dragons are FREAKY.
3. What is your favorite thing to cook, not necessarily to eat?
I am a baking kind of person! I like to cook cakes and muffins and cookies, because they often involve a lot of measuring and stirring and other stuff I can do with a DVD on in the background, and you can sit around reading a book while the oven is producing lovely smells. However, there is also something to be said for making stir-fry when you're in a bad mood -- large knife, blasting music, lots of chopping and sizzling and flicking minced garlic & ginger & chilli off teaspoons and into the wok.
4. What is your favorite article of clothing?
OH MAN. Probably my amethyst short-sleeved business shirt from Cue; I can't afford Cue's clothes normally, but I picked this one up in the post-Christmas sales last year and it fits me perfectly and I wish I had one in every colour available because I wear at least every second week on hospital days. When I have money I will be shopping at Cue a LOT.
Runners-up in this category are definitely my Year 12 formal dress, which is a fabulous violet crushed-velvet thing from Garfunkel into which I can still fit (quel miracle), and my ankle-length black wool coat with the cinched waist; it makes me look like a vampire, but it's sadly too warm for Sydney's temperate climate, so it's living in my closet in Canberra.
5. Tell me about the first time you went to another country.
I am fairly certain my family went to Fiji when I was tiny, but I have no recollection of it whatsoever, so that doesn't count. We DID move to Europe for two years, between my second and fourth birthdays, and I remember bits and pieces of that; going to playgroup in Birmingham, wrapped up in a cardigan my aunt had knitted for me and learning to make gingerbread and colour between the lines. Living in an apartment Graz when my brother turned one, listening to my mother order schnitzel in faltering German and ordering my own pommes frites when we were in France. Learning how to dissect a cathedral into its ubiquitous parts: organ, crucifix, stained glass, roof bosses, rows of candles.