sooo. monash. was shit. 'lay' person seemed nice and interested in what i was saying and didn't seem immediately put off that i was dressed age appropriately (ie. not like a 35 year old going to court).

when the stone-faced doc-guy asked me if i'd done work experience at a hospital,
i said no, applied but they get lots of applicants.
"well, i guess thats how your learn what you don't want to do" - lay person (smiling)

took about 10-15min i would estimate on the 'detechnicalisation' which was a shocker. then interrupted doctor-guy who cut me off to ask if lay person actually understood and would like me to elaborate (which she did).

completely blanked on all the volunteering and co-curricular i've done. smacked myself in the head as soon as i walked out.

apparently i've got a 1/2 chance given that i got an interview. don't think i'll get in though. possibly cos i won't get a decent enter and probably because I didn't exube confidence and was probably wasn't concise enough. (that and I kept refering to words which i hind sight i don't think the faculty staff would have understood - she was fresh of the boat).

that and i also went something chronic over-time. apparently you have 35-40 min allocated and they spend 5-10 min deliberating. i was in there for an hour. rabbitin/minimal-responing.

oh, and i don't think they're meant to comment, but nice-smiling lady was quote "i think youve shown us that you're rather independant and doing this for the right reasons" (could have been a consolation) - the stone-face doc-guy, faculty-lady didn't look impressed with lay person throughout the whole thing for her friendliness.

oh. and ran into three people from school. sofie fan being one of them.

NOTE: i also don't think i used enough 'examples from the life of kham'.