When did it hit you that dental school is a farce?
I mean, when did it hit you that you're just memorizing things for the sake of memorizing them? Or avoiding certain profs because they go out of their way to insult/diminish/make-things-harder for you. But it's more than just some professors on a power trip (or whatever their mental/personality disorder). It seems to be completely endemic of dental schools, from what I gather.
I'm not talking to the gunners, nerds, etc, here. And I don't care whether or not you do consider yourself one - if you've never thought twice about the real world necessity of memorizing some random crap then don't even reply to this thread. I'm talking to the people - some, perhaps, who have even been out working in the real world - who have been devastated to realize that getting through dental school is mostly just a series of hoops you are required to jump through.
And no matter how asinine the hoop may be - in fact, often times there will be faculty or staff members who agree it's a trite/useless/vindictive hoop - you need to do whatever it takes to jump through it, or face the adverse consequences; including threat of failure and/or dismissal from school.
I'm hopeful it changes at least a little bit when I get to clinic, but I've seen enough to know I should never get my hopes up.
There are a few people with enough "common sense" in my class who see the big picture now, and the absurdity of a lot of it, and I've heard second-hand stories of others schools, but I guess mostly I'm just looking for others' firsthand experience.
I mean, when did it hit you that you're just memorizing things for the sake of memorizing them? Or avoiding certain profs because they go out of their way to insult/diminish/make-things-harder for you. But it's more than just some professors on a power trip (or whatever their mental/personality disorder). It seems to be completely endemic of dental schools, from what I gather.
I'm not talking to the gunners, nerds, etc, here. And I don't care whether or not you do consider yourself one - if you've never thought twice about the real world necessity of memorizing some random crap then don't even reply to this thread. I'm talking to the people - some, perhaps, who have even been out working in the real world - who have been devastated to realize that getting through dental school is mostly just a series of hoops you are required to jump through.
And no matter how asinine the hoop may be - in fact, often times there will be faculty or staff members who agree it's a trite/useless/vindictive hoop - you need to do whatever it takes to jump through it, or face the adverse consequences; including threat of failure and/or dismissal from school.
I'm hopeful it changes at least a little bit when I get to clinic, but I've seen enough to know I should never get my hopes up.
There are a few people with enough "common sense" in my class who see the big picture now, and the absurdity of a lot of it, and I've heard second-hand stories of others schools, but I guess mostly I'm just looking for others' firsthand experience.