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Side 2

It's interesting to me how this process brings out so many things that one puts behind one, or represses -- you know, or pays no attention to, as one moves along from day to day. The process itself is a catalyst or stimulant for recalling.

Yes. That's not an unusual experience. In fact, it happens more often than not.

To me, it's similar to analysis. Well -- you ask some questions.

Yes. I wanted to go back here, when you mentioned your negative reaction to your fellow pre-med students, and yet your reaction to the older med students (that you lived with) had been quite positive. How do you account for this difference?

I guess, among other things, time. Don't forget, I met the medical students when I was a fresh freshman, and they had a very positive influence on my life, during my freshman year. Well, you grow up, and the things that changed me away from medicine were, among other things, the fact that my science teachers were not particularly good. They were pedestrian. They didn't make science come alive. You know, fulfull the potentials of science. They taught science as if you could learn it just by memorizing the atomic table, or the phylogenetic scale, or something of that sort. It was kind of boring. It could have been taught -- and I don't suppose this is peculiar to science teachers at Howard. I have a feeling that science