No, seriously, Merrin took a year longer at med training and bulled through on sheer determination, took longer to reach adequate performance levels on sim training, her school records show that she didn't learn to program a computer until age eight.  Merrin is a stamina monster, basically.  She exploited her stamina and determination to run lots and lots of sims, and get lots and lots of training, until she was carrying half of the hospital's emergency-cert load by herself.  But Merrin doesn't meet the intelligence requirements for Exception Handling, or for care operations-coordinator at a major hospital -

No, seriously, Merrin took a year longer at med training and bulled through on sheer determination, took longer to reach adequate performance levels on sim training, her school records show that she didn't learn to program a computer until age eight.  Merrin is a stamina monster, basically.  She exploited her stamina and determination to run lots and lots of sims, and get lots and lots of training, until she was carrying half of the hospital's emergency-cert load by herself.  But Merrin doesn't meet the intelligence requirements to train for Exception Handling, or for care operations-coordinator at a major hospital -

No, seriously, Merrin took a year longer at med training and bulled through on sheer determination, took longer to reach adequate performance levels on sim training, her school records show that she didn't learn to program a computer until age eight.  Merrin is a stamina monster, basically.  She exploited her stamina and determination to run lots and lots of sims, and get lots and lots of training, until she was carrying half of the hospital's emergency-cert load by herself.  But Merrin doesn't meet the minimum recommended intelligence to train for Exception Handling, or for care operations-coordinator at a major hospital -