mrteeson
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- HSC
- 2012
Hi there bosesr!
I have decided to make this thread about my journey to hopefully become a dentist, what inspired me to do this is from my close friends and family members who I have inspired throughout my lifetime in high school and early undergraduate years. The purpose of this is to give an insight to those who are also passionate for a certain degree or just curious what it feels like to put all hope and dreams on one pathway. So here goes nothing…
About me
My name is Tyson Nguyen (yeah I knew he be Asian…), currently studying in 3rd year medical science at UYSD. I graduated from De LaSalle Bankstown an all boys school with an ATAR of 85, which is where my passion for becoming a dentist grew exponentially.
It’s funny how I want to become something that requires high order of critical thinking, exquisite communication skills with people and only 70 domestic students from a possible of 5000 applicants are chosen from the dental faculty annually. Im not a bright student, never was. My marks in primary was poor, my highschool marks was mostly below average where people even picked me to become the threshold for the cohort or the “juxtaposition” to the dux of my cohort. My grades atm in uni is an average pass from intense studying, and I know you need average gpa of 5.5 to get to the MMI stage interview. So for me its really hard to get into DMD, especially at my current performance, but I don’t easily give up.
Where did the motivation come from?
It came when I told the world what I wanted to do out of school which I could remember the laughter that filled the classroom during year 10 mathematics class “Good joke Tyson”, “ I can only imagine this guy at most doing accounting”. It really got me, when people laughed and told me my dream is off limits and was just plain stupid. But then I realised this happens to pretty much everyone’s dream and passion where the society just shits on your hope and tells you to bend over and obey what it says. This is when my motivation was at its peak and I started to sacrifice almost everything I had, such as relationship (it was complicated anyways), my hobby as a shuffler and bboy dancer, anime and games.
My new lifestyle was just plain studying, this meant waking up at 5am start doing chapter reviews before school, revise during my lunch breaks and after school go to Bankstown library and study past paper till it closed (but this was obviously a bad habit). My results from this commitment did show when I got my HSC marks and got ranked 1 for standard English, especially coming from a below average guy who was ranked around 50 in the cohort and jumped to the top 10.
Although my life atm has improved greatly and is much healthier in terms of balance between studying and socialising. I am seeing my girlfriend and friends almost every week and on the days I’m not I would wake up around 7am and go to usyd library to study every day. I am still having trouble to keep up with the standards the DMD want. But my main reason of why I wanted to become a dentist kept me going at stressful times such as now as I am preparing for the GAMSAT which is less than 2months.
How I can describe this kind of motivation is that I would listen to motivational music usually Japanese ost from drama or anime besides the obvious final fantasy ost on my way to the library. This is where I will get a vision of my future if I made it (pretty much me in the dental Sydney hospital helping patients) and this really gets me pumped to work hard everyday even though its so painful to go through pointless subjects that won’t be applied to my future career.
So that’s a brief summary of my journey so far, I wanted to keep this thread as an ongoing forum where I post up my progress and also I would be pleased if you can leave your experience, questions or just opinion about anything in this thread. I keep you guys posted cheers! (or subscribe if your interested lol)
I have decided to make this thread about my journey to hopefully become a dentist, what inspired me to do this is from my close friends and family members who I have inspired throughout my lifetime in high school and early undergraduate years. The purpose of this is to give an insight to those who are also passionate for a certain degree or just curious what it feels like to put all hope and dreams on one pathway. So here goes nothing…
About me
My name is Tyson Nguyen (yeah I knew he be Asian…), currently studying in 3rd year medical science at UYSD. I graduated from De LaSalle Bankstown an all boys school with an ATAR of 85, which is where my passion for becoming a dentist grew exponentially.
It’s funny how I want to become something that requires high order of critical thinking, exquisite communication skills with people and only 70 domestic students from a possible of 5000 applicants are chosen from the dental faculty annually. Im not a bright student, never was. My marks in primary was poor, my highschool marks was mostly below average where people even picked me to become the threshold for the cohort or the “juxtaposition” to the dux of my cohort. My grades atm in uni is an average pass from intense studying, and I know you need average gpa of 5.5 to get to the MMI stage interview. So for me its really hard to get into DMD, especially at my current performance, but I don’t easily give up.
Where did the motivation come from?
It came when I told the world what I wanted to do out of school which I could remember the laughter that filled the classroom during year 10 mathematics class “Good joke Tyson”, “ I can only imagine this guy at most doing accounting”. It really got me, when people laughed and told me my dream is off limits and was just plain stupid. But then I realised this happens to pretty much everyone’s dream and passion where the society just shits on your hope and tells you to bend over and obey what it says. This is when my motivation was at its peak and I started to sacrifice almost everything I had, such as relationship (it was complicated anyways), my hobby as a shuffler and bboy dancer, anime and games.
My new lifestyle was just plain studying, this meant waking up at 5am start doing chapter reviews before school, revise during my lunch breaks and after school go to Bankstown library and study past paper till it closed (but this was obviously a bad habit). My results from this commitment did show when I got my HSC marks and got ranked 1 for standard English, especially coming from a below average guy who was ranked around 50 in the cohort and jumped to the top 10.
Although my life atm has improved greatly and is much healthier in terms of balance between studying and socialising. I am seeing my girlfriend and friends almost every week and on the days I’m not I would wake up around 7am and go to usyd library to study every day. I am still having trouble to keep up with the standards the DMD want. But my main reason of why I wanted to become a dentist kept me going at stressful times such as now as I am preparing for the GAMSAT which is less than 2months.
How I can describe this kind of motivation is that I would listen to motivational music usually Japanese ost from drama or anime besides the obvious final fantasy ost on my way to the library. This is where I will get a vision of my future if I made it (pretty much me in the dental Sydney hospital helping patients) and this really gets me pumped to work hard everyday even though its so painful to go through pointless subjects that won’t be applied to my future career.
So that’s a brief summary of my journey so far, I wanted to keep this thread as an ongoing forum where I post up my progress and also I would be pleased if you can leave your experience, questions or just opinion about anything in this thread. I keep you guys posted cheers! (or subscribe if your interested lol)
