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the only thing i learnt from pharmacology is that killing your patients is a bad look

 Alt Title:  Education, Expectations, and Equality of Opportunity Maths class. You begin writing, scrawling really.   Chap. 5 Q1 a.  4a^3 c.  10c^6 e.  32 e^7 You eventually get into a rhythm, jotting down the answers without really thinking about the questions.   You begin to talk with your friends.  Actually, no.  Not with.  At your friends.  You don't really concentrate on what you say - words just fall out of your mouth haphazardly, as you continue to scribble down numbers and powers and parenthesis and... Eventually, for some reason, you hit upon the topic of uni. "Why would anyone want to do maths in uni?" You ask. You look up.  You see your maths teacher standing in front of your row. Fuck. *** So when I was practising for my interviews (thanks mum), the concepts of teamwork and cooperation kept popping up.  Of course, an interview process is anything but cooperation - you have to compete with others to ge...