Things I've Already Learned

There is this joke: if you can identify something, you can also create it.  Those things I've learned in recent months - well, at least I can say my education is well-rounded.

I've learned to run an illegal drug cartel.  Actually, the lecture was on how to identify an illegal drug cartel.  We were supposed to be learning how to deny services and script fillings to these individuals.  Instead, if I need to find a job after school, or if school doesn't work out as a whole, I should still be okay.  I can probably run one of the best drug cartels, at least from the deceptive angle, in the city.  I don't suppose I'd be too good at the other aspects of taking over a city corner.

I've also learned how to make meth.  We were in a functional group class - looking at the structures of drugs - and the teacher asked, what can this scripted drug be transformed into?  Well, the answer was meth.  He then proceeded to state where within the molecule you'd cleave to make meth - oh, and then stated that a more difficult, though also more pure form of meth, can be obtained by breaking a different bond.  All of this is to say that if school doesn't work out, I can always go sell meth on the streets - or at least become a meth addict.  It seems I have so many options!

The problem is - the things I'm learning - they're questionable.  These aspects are the parts I master best.  My mastery in organs or cells - that is somewhat lacking.  I mean, who really needs to identify the kidneys versus the liver?  They're interconnected at a cellular level.  Isn't that enough to know?  Seriously, who can possibly remember every freaking cellular interaction?  It happens.  Eventually.  But not without a heap of a lot of head-banging.  And, apparently other people in my class aren't having quite the same difficulty.

We had a class last semester.  Ultimately, we titled it, "How to be a human.  Oh, nevermind."  It was terribly annoying.  I'd learn how to counsel a patient.  I'd learn how to ensure they understood their drug therapy and would receive the best benefits from said drug.  And then, I'd learn how virtually to talk over their heads.  Sometimes, I feel like I'm on-the-fence.  That, in some instances, I cannot quite grasp the 'oh, nevermind' portion of my lectures.  I still talk like a human.  Is this a bad thing?  Well, I would certainly hope not.  Unfortunately, it does in part seem to be a disadvantage.