Yes, dental students are crazy, and have a slightly skewed sense of reality, especially when under pressure. This weekend 'my' senior is taking the national boards and I get to be his dental assistant. Basically this is the test you must pass in order to become a practicing dentist, and there is a written part as well as a clinic part. It's set up where you have to accomplish so many specific procedures on a patient, and then get graded on your work. It's all very cloak and dagger because there are no names involved - just numbers (I am now known as C205) - and the graders aren't allowed to see the student that is doing the work, which is where I come in! I lead the patient to the back of the clinic where they have a bunch of screens set up, so even I can't see what is going on back there. Only the patient knows what happens behind the curtains. The only feedback they get is if they receive the dreaded pink paper, which indicates a critical error, or even a fail. Luckily my senior received none of those (yay)! All in all, it was a nice preview of what I'll be doing in two years when I get ready to graduate from dental school!
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