I like to be entertained. Life is full of routines. Those ideas often clash together, especially with most of life revolving around school, faculty meetings and various presidential duties. As much as I love being in med school, this year feels too routine. Start a block, slack the first couple of weeks, work on an assignment, cram for the exam, do well on the midterm, and repeat with another block. However, I finally had the chance to do something a bit unusual with the GI block's assignment. Each group chose a GI related topic and was asked to create a presentation to show during a symposium for students, professors, and drug rep.
Once we had our topic chosen, we brainstormed for ideas, and then I jokingly mentioned we should do an interpretive dance of our topic - Meckel's Diverticulum (for info about this, see our website).
Soon it was the big symposium day. It was very hectic. Students, profs, drug reps walking around everywhere, visiting every station. We didn't know when we could break out into our surprise presentation. We were pumped. I was ready to make a fool of myself. We got everyone's attention, we told them to sit down for an interpretive dance of this disease. It was funny to see people's reaction at our statement. Some laughed, dismissing it as a joke, some looked at each other, thinking "are they serious?", others just followed our request and sat down.
Then the dance began. I'm not really sure what the class' reaction was because I was trying to focus as hard as I could to not laugh at how silly this presentation was. But by judging the laughter in the video (see below) it was obvious everyone enjoyed it.
Then last week, one of the professors who was present at the symposium came up to me and said "thank you for that presentation. Every year I teach, I see how routine things are and I wonder what's wrong with people, but you broke out from it, you put a creative touch and made us laugh. I've never laughed this hard in a long time, and I had to tell my wife about it when I got home!" I guess, I'm not the only one constantly looking for an escape from the daily mundane routines.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comments:
*giggle*
Oh Wissam... you're fantastic. I loved the "poop", although if your poop comes out with that high of a velocity perhaps you have something else too :P
Post a Comment