April 9, 2009

• The new Death Cab for Cutie EP, The Open Door EP, is awesome .  Some common threads exist between the songs lyrics (I smell fear for committment?).  I like them a lot though, and am itching to go to the concert!!  I can't wait!  But at the same time I can wait, since not too long afterwards I have an interview to do.  Yiikes!

   

  I think my humility some times undermines my apparent confidence.    I'm actually very stubborn when I am confident about things, though I will be subtle with it.  My professor who is doing one of my letters of recommendation mentioned this, and it worries me, since confidence is important (and who wants a doctor who isn't confident?).  He is right, I need to show more outwards confidence, but this is something I have struggled with for a while.  Because some people are terrible about balancing confidence with cockiness, and those boastful people are often times outspoken and annoying; but then I'm mousy and discreet.  I don't want to seem like that (boastful or thinking my idea is better) when I am sure about an answer but people are offering contradicting opinions (sort of like that scene in Mean Girls, where she's being tutored by the guy, but knows that he is wrong...), since I definitely give thought to others' opinions.  Siiiigh.  I will have to figure this out sometime.  How to be confidence without being a burden.

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