Check for Rocky, CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK for Naruto (see my screen name). I have been a Naruto fan for 5 years now, and you sound just like pre-time skip Neji if you know what I mean.
Everybody can change. Life gives us second chances. I literally faced death 3 separate times, but life gave me a 4th chance. I don't expect you to have been a genius all your life. Nobody expects their pharmacist to have been an undergrad genius (unless they got a BPharm haha). The point is that when there is an open, burning mind for improvement, there will be light. Not that they all aren't drunkards or etc., but there *ARE* sooo many people who'd rather be in our shoes and get a 2. whatever but be in SCHOOL.
Hahaha, I do watch naruto too, so I know exactly what you mean by the neji comment.
On the other hand, if you're just going to go around acting like you're so great compared to other "lesser" beings, then to me you're worse than the homeless guy next door.
Where did everyone get the idea that I'm acting like an elitist. Be honest here. Would you really want someone with a C average to be your pharmacist. I'm not saying that it won't change, but currently, I think no one will openly say that's good, or even good enough to be a pharmacist. This is not surprising, even the OP knew that... otherwise she wouldn't have made this post.
I am only surprised that the admission requirements to get into pharmacy in the states are so low compared to over here.
Can you explain the BPharm part? In canada, most of the pharmacists are BPharm, and getting pharmD is an extra 2 years after the 4 years to get the BPharm (Only need BPharm to practice pharmacy). I know in the US you get pharmD in 4 years.
People change. And the idea is to change for the better.
See, I think this is where I differ from most people.
We have ideologies, but many times, the ideologies fail. Communism ideally is a great place. But in practice, it fails miserably. So the idea is for people to change for the better, but it's not necessarily always the case. Nor do people always change. Some people just stay stagnant.
PS: this is also where the naruto thing comes in. When you're 100lb and fighting some one 200lb solid rock of muscles, being angry or determined to win doesn't really help. To me, it seems naruto really gets the benefit of strength not because he works hard, but because he gets upset and taps into the nine-tail. I think this kind of crap is spewed by mass media to the point where a lot of us think we can get something without putting the effort into it. The result is that the lot of us don't know what real hard work and effort actually mean, so they casually throw the word around. Like saying, "all I need to do (this and that) is to work hard, how hard can that be?"
