Just got back from my interview

I just made my journey back to California and back to my job. god it's so boring.... i never knew a job can be so incredibly mind numbing. The interview was not at all what i had expected. it was very casual and we barely talked about why i want to be a doctor. This makes me think that they already know who they are going to accept based on what they see on paper. the trip is only for you to find out more about the school and the surrounding area. it's also for them to see whether you're crazy or not. However, i think the process is so nerve wrecking that it should be amended somehow. it's not right for people who wants to heal to get discouraged because of the damn application process. everyone that i've talked to, even doctors in their late 50s or 60s said the process can be compared to a rite of passage. it's torturous so that you know you really want to be a doctor. i think that's ridiculous as there's no one out there, saved for a very select few, that knows exactly what they want to do. it's not like we get to try to be a doctor for a month and test it out. since this profession requires such a stringent set of skill that it's impossible for anyone without medical training to try out the profession. now some people might argue that you can volunteer at a clinic or go shadow a doctor. I'm gonna make the argument that volunteering and shadowing is not the same as actually doing the job. when you volunteer, the clinic usually gives the volunteer the most boring, labor intensive, and mind numbing job ever. that's because they don't trust you to make the right judgement or more so they can't afford any screw up since you have no accountability as you are just a volunteer. As a result, people's skill set are way underuse. you have college students attending the front desk and etc. comon...i don't understand why after spending 3 or 4 years in college getting a BS, you're still a drone. now i think the above statement is going to receive a lot of flame, but it's somewhat of a rant. The application system is broken, but it has served us so well with many generations of doctors in the making. What I am saying is there's much more to be improved with the system so as to not make the process so stressful for the people that only want to improve the community and care for the weak.