So there another prevet at my school who got into LSU while I didn't. Ignoring the fact that we will be colleagues, he hangs it over my head completely, and runs around telling everyone that "only the best are meant to be Tigers" and all of this crap. When he found out I was applying this year he came over to "hang out" but really came to tell me has a 4.0, his application would be awesome, and the president of the university wrote him a LOR. He made comments about my GPA being too low and getting ready for 2021. I cried for hours after he left and never invited him back. Well today he found me in the library and saw me studying for finals. He started saying stuff like "oh, when I took biochem, we didn't have a final" and "my finals are open notes" and all of this stuff. I'm im the honors college and he isn't so the reason my GPA isn't 4.0 is because my classes were so much more rigorous through undergrad. He hasn't taken near the science hours I have and is way less involved than I've been. Perhaps if I was the traditional biology major, I'd have an acceptance to my IS right now. Sigh. I really want that file review now.
Geeze, what's this guy's damage?
Speaking from personal experience, these people are not only not worth the mental effort it takes to worry about them, but also quickly make
everyone around them realize it. How successful do you think this person is going to be when he talks like this around his future classmates or his professors? How successful will he be given that he seems to have a grand old time crushing the self esteem of other people? How successful do you think he will be when, as a veterinarian (and if he hasn't shaken this attitude by then), he talks down to all of his clients?
Don't get me wrong - getting a 4.0 etc. takes a ton of work and the dude is clearly qualified to be a veterinarian if a school accepted him. He's got the hard skills necessary to do the job. But he's probably going to have to work on those soft skills for a long time if that's his attitude. What you've described is toxic and heartless and no way to conduct oneself around other people, regardless of whatever opinion they may hold of that person.
Hopefully he grows out of it, and I encourage you to hope the best for him if only because seeing any person act like that is so disappointing and sad. I like being able to see the best in people and it really sucks when they make it (really) hard.
I was with you until half way through your post. Keep your head held high and take the high road. You are stooping to the level of this douche with the last half.
In the end, I swear these things catch up with people. Karma is a thing, esp in a tiny profession like this. So don't be the person who has a chip on her shoulders. It's unattractive and people will notice if you keep it up. You're going to vet school. That's all that matters. Just rock it moving forward. That's all anyone will care about as long as you aren't mumbling shoulda coulda woulda.
I agree with Minnerbelle here.
Don't worry about not getting in to LSU (I would also like to add that as much as you're bummed to have not gotten an acceptance, you were waitlisted, which is no easy feat and something you should be proud of!). You're going to vet school at a place that you really like! There's no way that he can lord going to vet school over you because
you're going too. He's picking on the LSU aspect probably because he knows it's a sore spot for you (and people like this usually love to pick at stuff like that). No one at MSU will know that you didn't get into your IS unless you tell them.
From your posts on this forum you seem like a well-rounded, thoughtful, kind person, and that's something that you need to focus on and think about. It can feel really rewarding in a visceral way to talk down about someone who frustrates and upsets you, but it is better for your character and your outlook to ignore them and focus on better things.
Besides, I'm reminded of a quote my dad always used to tell me: "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig loves it." - George Bernard Shaw
