It is finished...and I didn't cheat

The test is over.

It was a tough test. There were actually a couple questions where I narrowed it down to two, but didn't have an inclination either way and had to just guess between the two answers. That doesn't happen very often. I think I did ok though.

All of my life I have had teachers impress upon me that cheating is wrong. As I grew older more and more teachers emphasized the issue of trust. It is unprofessional to treat someone as a cheater, unless they have shown that they are. As a teacher I learned that the more you tell someone by your actions that they are cheating, the more likely they will be to cheat.

In short, I'm used to teachers trusting me to not cheat, and I'm used to rewarding that trust by not cheating. So the testing in medical school is strange to me. It's a little dehumanizing. They take everypossible step to ensure there is no cheating. They assign seats, and change your assigned seat every time. They go with you to the bathroom. They herd you around like cattle to ensure that there is not even momentary mixing of the two groups of students. There are five or six people watching you all the time. The people from testing services are rude and sour (as I guess anyone who devoted there life to keeping students from cheating would be).

It is insulting. And it is strange to be receiving this treatment in medical school. From there behavior you would think they're training us to be criminals rather than professionals.