Fined
One of the biggest (10/10 on a pain score) pains of any medical student is undoubtedly FINANCE.
FINANCE.
It's a horrible thing to ask politely RM350K from your parents to fund your education to train as a physician in a private university. Most of us in the earlier years of medical school are naive enough to believe that the fees stated are all there is to our training.
But being in my 4th year, I have learnt better.
The cost of being a medical student (not counting the costs to live as a normal human being) entails that you buy expensive medical books to augment your study, move out of home to attend rotations, travel expenses, find ways to pay for your medical electives, and spend money on clothing to make you look the part.
There are indeed a lot of hidden costs.
Recently I have been fined - adding to, a long list of my financial worries. I have submitted the second half of my tuition fees late, and have been fined RM1000.00 in addition to the obscene amount of cash I have to pay to my university in tuition.
Granted it was unprofessional to not have notified the university earlier about my financial tightness from home. But I guess we're all a little bit embarrassed about our problems and try to do the easy thing and ignore the problem altogether.
Submitting an appeal to my university to waive of the fines. Hopefully they can see how genuine I am.
God please. Adding 1000 to my parent's worries is the last thing I need.
FINANCE.
It's a horrible thing to ask politely RM350K from your parents to fund your education to train as a physician in a private university. Most of us in the earlier years of medical school are naive enough to believe that the fees stated are all there is to our training.
But being in my 4th year, I have learnt better.
The cost of being a medical student (not counting the costs to live as a normal human being) entails that you buy expensive medical books to augment your study, move out of home to attend rotations, travel expenses, find ways to pay for your medical electives, and spend money on clothing to make you look the part.
There are indeed a lot of hidden costs.
Recently I have been fined - adding to, a long list of my financial worries. I have submitted the second half of my tuition fees late, and have been fined RM1000.00 in addition to the obscene amount of cash I have to pay to my university in tuition.
Granted it was unprofessional to not have notified the university earlier about my financial tightness from home. But I guess we're all a little bit embarrassed about our problems and try to do the easy thing and ignore the problem altogether.
Submitting an appeal to my university to waive of the fines. Hopefully they can see how genuine I am.
God please. Adding 1000 to my parent's worries is the last thing I need.
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