talent vs. experience

It makes me wonder why talent becomes second place when it comes to picking the right candidate. 

Why is experience more valued? 

or the million dollar question... 

How can one gain experience, if one can't get the chance to gain the experience? 

A Little Motivation..

You Can't Have It All

We can't have a job that pays well and have a good work environment at the same time. We can either have one or the other. But we can't have both things at the same time. One has to give in order for the natural order of things to remain balanced. 

Tell me about someone who had it all -- money, power, love, stable life, good education -- and you can banish my opinion. I believe that not everyone has what they want in their life. 

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Skills that I have gained to date:

1) Strong - willed - I wasn't one before. 

 

2) Resilience - The ability to bounce back from one rejection to another and I am developing a strong and thick skin and I will continue to develop it until the day I die. 

3) Attentiveness - I still have the quality of making sure that others are well taken care of, whether directly or indirectly.

4) Great attention to detail - I become really obsessive when a shirt in a pile is wrongly folded. I mentally slap myself whenever I make a mistake on a simple thing that I could've avoid in the first place i.e. checking if tags are correct or not. 

5) The ability to maintain composure in the midst of chaos and aggressiveness.  

6) The ability to move fast when the need arises. 

7) The ability to finish a task that I started. 

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TIP FOR THE DAY:

ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT IN EVERYTHING!

How freakin' cute are they??????

(credit: the budget fashionista)

S.o.B

I am a little frustrated right now. I spent probably 15 minutes just solving a simple Chemistry problem. ONE effin problem. I know the equation to use and the only thing the made me take so long in completing it is the stupid effin ALGEBRA MATH!

ugh!!!!

I HATE CALCULATORS!!!!! WHY DID MY PROFESSORS AND MY TEACHERS ALLOWED THEM DURING CHEM AND PHYSICS CLASSES? WHYYYYYYY??????

or better yet, WHY WERE THEY EVEN INVENTED!?!?

50:50

The ratio of right vs wrong in my Biology practice questions without using any timer. 

Cold Blues

I am OD-ing on post holiday sales. I hate working in retail this time of the year. Oddly enough I realize I enjoy post holiday sales more than end of summer sales, maybe because during this time of the year the weather is so crappy that I have nothing else to do but shop/window shop/internet shop -- aside from studying of course.

Windy/Rainy this week. I have sniffles too. 

Givenchy and MCAT

I tried this on last weekend when we went to Downtown and boy did this pair made me wish for smaller thighs (for the first time in my lifetime). Anyway, I am still averaging 3/5 with my verbal practice. Reviewing concepts gets boring that my head floats around while I'm doing so. I should do questions later.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAN JEN!

Verbal Reasoning Practice

On average, I score 3 out of 5.

It's frustrating. I always thought I could do well in this portion. Argh.
I practiced on 3 passages today. They were not that long to read but somehow they contain information that is hard to grasp in the span of 2 minutes. I tried the Kaplan approach of mapping the passage but somehow I feel like it doesn't work.

I think I should buy the Examkrackers Verbal practice. I hear it's a reliable one compared to Princeton or Kaplan.