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I have to retake intro biology because I transferred schools, and the other day I heard a girl (who is in the 'teenage mother' group in class) say the following-

Mom #1: " Yeah, I am going to major in pediatric anesthesiology, hopefully my boyfriend will be able to help out with the baby, but I should be done with school in four years or something like that" **
Mom #2: "Oh really? That's so cool, I want to go to medical school to be a physical therapist!"
Me: Biting my tongue.

** Mind you this same girl asked how boys were different than girls if the Y had no information on the chromosome...
😕
 
emilym said:
I have to retake intro biology because I transferred schools, and the other day I heard a girl (who is in the 'teenage mother' group in class) say the following-

Mom #1: " Yeah, I am going to major in pediatric anesthesiology, hopefully my boyfriend will be able to help out with the baby, but I should be done with school in four years or something like that" **
Mom #2: "Oh really? That's so cool, I want to go to medical school to be a physical therapist!"
Me: Biting my tongue.

** Mind you this same girl asked how boys were different than girls if the Y had no information on the chromosome...
😕
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They sound hot
 
I know a pre-optometry student who likes to talk about how he's going to medical school.
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emilym said:
I have to retake intro biology because I transferred schools, and the other day I heard a girl (who is in the 'teenage mother' group in class) say the following-

Mom #1: " Yeah, I am going to major in pediatric anesthesiology, hopefully my boyfriend will be able to help out with the baby, but I should be done with school in four years or something like that" **
Mom #2: "Oh really? That's so cool, I want to go to medical school to be a physical therapist!"
Me: Biting my tongue.

** Mind you this same girl asked how boys were different than girls if the Y had no information on the chromosome...
😕
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Ignorance is bliss.
 
YankeeBean said:
The worst:

When I'm doing like 15 hour days in the library, and maybe my mom won't hear from me for a few days so she'll text me:

Mom; "YankeeBean, how's the studying going?"
Me: Miserably (or some other loathesome comment)
Mom: "Are you sure your not taking on too much, trying to get into medical school?"
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Here's your high horse comment:

You do a crazy week of studying like what? Once a semester? Take that week, and stretch it over about 10 months. That's just MS1. Welcome to med school. And yes, I god damn love it.
 
Member09282013 said:
I am interested in becoming a regular - allopathic - medical doctor, specifically an anesthesiologist. I want to know what is the specific name of the associate degree I will need before completing my bachelor degree.
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"Because, you know, the general name is freely available everywhere on the site, but nobody will tell me specifically which one to get"
 
BlueLabel said:
"Because, you know, the general name is freely available everywhere on the site, but nobody will tell me specifically which one to get"
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Get the one with a warranty, always a warranty. 😉
 
Admissions dean from a medical school did a presentation and Q&A at my school tonight.

After just answering a professor's question about her thoughts on Obamacare,


Girl: As a physician, what is your opinion on the Affordable Care Act?

Room gets dead quiet and everyone turns and stares at her.
 
TheFool said:
Admissions dean from a medical school did a presentation and Q&A at my school tonight.

After just answering a professor's question about her thoughts on Obamacare,


Girl: As a physician, what is your opinion on the Affordable Care Act?

Room gets dead quiet and everyone turns and stares at her.
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TheFool said:
Admissions dean from a medical school did a presentation and Q&A at my school tonight.

After just answering a professor's question about her thoughts on Obamacare,


Girl: As a physician, what is your opinion on the Affordable Care Act?

Room gets dead quiet and everyone turns and stares at her.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx2scvIFGjE
 
This was bavk in July...
After finding out another guy is a pre-med and applying this cycle.

M:I go on and on about how important applying early is...
PM:I haven't started my application yet.
M:...oh... Howd you do on the MCAT?
PM: I haven't taken it yet
M:..... oh.... well good luck(walks away)
 
I'll play.

I was telling a freshman about how historically difficult the anatomy class is at our UG college..

Him: "I'm really not too worried, I learned the names of bones when I was in 5th grade, so I should be pretty well set."

Me: .....
 
Buckeye1992 said:
This was bavk in July...
After finding out another guy is a pre-med and applying this cycle.

M:I go on and on about how important applying early is...
PM:I haven't started my application yet.
M:...oh... Howd you do on the MCAT?
PM: I haven't taken it yet
M:..... oh.... well good luck(walks away)
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You haven't taken the MCAT and it's July? Lololol idiot! SDN-LYFE BOIIIII!!
goforbroke754 said:
I'll play.

I was telling a freshman about how historically difficult the anatomy class is at our UG college..

Him: "I'm really not too worried, I learned the names of bones when I was in 5th grade, so I should be pretty well set."

Me: .....
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Classic.
 
goforbroke754 said:
I'll play.

I was telling a freshman about how historically difficult the anatomy class is at our UG college..

Him: "I'm really not too worried, I learned the names of bones when I was in 5th grade, so I should be pretty well set."

Me: .....
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To be fair, that definitely helps.
Anatomy is just volume, not really conceptual, so anything that diminishes the volume, even slightly, helps 👍
But then, I took Anatomy in an 8wk summer session along with 2 other classes, so perhaps I missed out on something?
 
mehc012 said:
To be fair, that definitely helps.
Anatomy is just volume, not really conceptual, so anything that diminishes the volume, even slightly, helps 👍
But then, I took Anatomy in an 8wk summer session along with 2 other classes, so perhaps I missed out on something?
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You think 5th grade bones are really help to college anatomy? Well, how ironic you're posting here.
 
TriagePreMed said:
You think 5th grade bones are really help to college anatomy? Well, how ironic you're posting here.
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Yup I do. Yeah, it's a small fraction of the material, but imagine NOT knowing something that basic before starting. It'd make it that much harder, especially if you're going regionally. I didn't say knowing them would guarantee that you'd do well; that'd be stupid. I said it's somewhat helpful.

Saying it's completely unhelpful is like saying that knowing the first 10 digits of pi so cold that you can't forget them is unhelpful in your quest to learn the first 200 digits. It won't make your game, but it's nonsensical to call it unhelpful.
 
mehc012 said:
Yup I do. Yeah, it's a small fraction of the material, but imagine NOT knowing something that basic before starting. It'd make it that much harder, especially if you're going regionally. I didn't say knowing them would guarantee that you'd do well; that'd be stupid. I said it's somewhat helpful.

Saying it's completely unhelpful is like saying that knowing the first 10 digits of pi so cold that you can't forget them is unhelpful in your quest to learn the first 200 digits. It won't make your game, but it's nonsensical to call it unhelpful.
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"I should be set" is a completely different statement than "well, first week review might be easier."
 
mehc012 said:
Saying it's completely unhelpful is like saying that knowing the first 10 digits of pi so cold that you can't forget them is unhelpful in your quest to learn the first 200 digits. It won't make your game, but it's nonsensical to call it unhelpful.
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Learning the first 10 digits of pi forever would take about 5 minutes to someone with good memorization skills. That's not exactly what I'd call a "headstart"...
 
mehc012 said:
Yup I do. Yeah, it's a small fraction of the material, but imagine NOT knowing something that basic before starting. It'd make it that much harder, especially if you're going regionally. I didn't say knowing them would guarantee that you'd do well; that'd be stupid. I said it's somewhat helpful.

Saying it's completely unhelpful is like saying that knowing the first 10 digits of pi so cold that you can't forget them is unhelpful in your quest to learn the first 200 digits. It won't make your game, but it's nonsensical to call it unhelpful.
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This is something done by a kid learning 5th grade bones: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/89649848805822829/

Explain to me again how this thing you can learn in max 10 minutes as adult is "somewhat helpful" to college anatomy, and please don't try to lawyer me up with some BS about how even the smallest thing is "somewhat helpful" because that's just childish technicalities. When I took Anatomy, I knew what a cecum was before the class and many people didn't. I don't attribute this "somewhat helpful" knowledge for my reason I got an A.
 
TriagePreMed said:
This is something done by a kid learning 5th grade bones: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/89649848805822829/

Explain to me again how this thing you can learn in max 10 minutes as adult is "somewhat helpful" to college anatomy, and please don't try to lawyer me up with some BS about how even the smallest thing is "somewhat helpful" because that's just childish technicalities. When I took Anatomy, I knew what a cecum was before the class and many people didn't. I don't attribute this "somewhat helpful" knowledge for my reason I got an A.
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There you go... humblebragging left and right as always, TriagePreMed!
 
kirbymiester said:
Med school is absolutely, unequivocally more work, but less hard overall because you've accepted the fact that you have to devote your life to studying and don't have the social pressure from family, friends, and classmates to go out and goof around or do extracurriculars. It's the difference between having 40 hrs/week of studying then fitting it into 5 days because you have volunteering, shadowing, and research on the weekend vs. doing 60 hours of studying in 7 days because your life is a b*tch to medicine.
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I once sat in on a top 10 school info. session panel with current students.

Question from audience: How do you handle the work load?

Student: Its really hard and completely different than undergrad. As long as I find time to study 3-4 hours a day I'm straight.

Moderator changes subject.
 
Doudline said:
There you go... humblebragging left and right as always, TriagePreMed!
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Really? Because I've been pretty open about getting Bs in Gen Chem, coming from a low GPA and my first disastrous MCAT.
 
TriagePreMed said:
Really? Because I've been pretty open about getting Bs in Gen Chem, coming from a low GPA and my first disastrous MCAT.
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I think I am now notorious on these boards as the person who has subzero tolerance for braggers, and it's clear to me this was in no way meant as a humblebrag. A point was made forcefully and I endorse it.
 
Deadlifts said:
"I should be set" is a completely different statement than "well, first week review might be easier."
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I also never said the guy wasn't being dumb, just that knowing the bones was still helpful. Sorry, I wasn't 100% careful with my wording cuz it was kind of a throwaway comment and I didn't realize that I'd have to defend myself from people calling me dumb for a comment that essentially boiled down to: having any anatomy structures memorized is helpful for situations where you have to have memorize all of the anatomy structures.
 
TriagePreMed said:
This is something done by a kid learning 5th grade bones: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/89649848805822829/

Explain to me again how this thing you can learn in max 10 minutes as adult is "somewhat helpful" to college anatomy, and please don't try to lawyer me up with some BS about how even the smallest thing is "somewhat helpful" because that's just childish technicalities. When I took Anatomy, I knew what a cecum was before the class and many people didn't. I don't attribute this "somewhat helpful" knowledge for my reason I got an A.
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First of all, that link must be from a really ****ty elementary school, because in mine we had to know all of the bones except the names of the specific carpals/tarsals and a few of the skull bones (e.g. vomer, ethmoid, lacrimal...the small ones and the ones you can't see from the outside.)

Second, I think anything that gives you an introduction to the vocab style and the basic building blocks (because really, all of the structures outside of the abdominal cavity are generally described in relation to the bones) of a subject is a good beginning, even if it's nowhere near sufficient on its own. It certainly doesn't hurt, even if it doesn't help much

Third, 'lawyering you up' would be appropriate here, since my original comment was pretty much just a snarky 'well he's technically correct' type thing until everyone got so bent over it. 🙄
 
mehc012 said:
First of all, that link must be from a really ****ty elementary school, because in mine we had to know all of the bones except the names of the specific carpals/tarsals and a few of the skull bones (e.g. vomer, ethmoid, lacrimal...the small ones and the ones you can't see from the outside.)
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And now you're trying to argue over who went to the better ****ing elementary school. Jesus ****ing christ.

No wonder everyone hates premeds.
 
I don't even think I learned how to spell "bones" at my elementary school....I was so behind in my anatomy class when I got to undergrad =(
 
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mehc012 said:
First of all, that link must be from a really ****ty elementary school, because in mine we had to know all of the bones except the names of the specific carpals/tarsals and a few of the skull bones (e.g. vomer, ethmoid, lacrimal...the small ones and the ones you can't see from the outside.)
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Yeah, but what kind of dodgeballs did you have in PE?
 
LOL @ N E ONE who diDn'T LeArN dA BoNeZ by Jr. High lyke lololololol
 
GuyWhoDoesStuff said:
And now you're trying to argue over who went to the better ****ing elementary school. Jesus ****ing christ.

No wonder everyone hates premeds.
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I don't care who went to a better elementary school; it happened to be relevant for that specific comment because what '5th grade bones' meant to me and what was in that link were different.
I called it ****ty because this whole discussion is irritating the crap out of me. Didn't realize that people would be sensitive about it, especially considering that wasn't even a school that any of the posters here went to.
I love how you've roped me into the whole 'superiority complex premeds' schtick over calling an elementary school '****ty' while everyone else is mad because I didn't explicitly and directly say "oh yes, that guy is an idiot and we are all smarter than him for recognizing it." (though again, also didn't contradict it.)
 
Alright guys, this argument on how useful (or useless) pre-studying anatomy is boring and off-topic. I'm sure you guys can discuss that in the social thread. So... let's go back to posting jokes k?

Btw, stop making the joke thread into another flame war just like you guys do for every single thread in preallo and often in allo. Tbh, it's annoying and unwarranted.
 
We used steel dodge balls in our gym class 😎
 
mehc012 said:
First of all, that link must be from a really ****ty elementary school, because in mine we had to know all of the bones except the names of the specific carpals/tarsals and a few of the skull bones (e.g. vomer, ethmoid, lacrimal...the small ones and the ones you can't see from the outside.)

Second, I think anything that gives you an introduction to the vocab style and the basic building blocks (because really, all of the structures outside of the abdominal cavity are generally described in relation to the bones) of a subject is a good beginning, even if it's nowhere near sufficient on its own. It certainly doesn't hurt, even if it doesn't help much

Third, 'lawyering you up' would be appropriate here, since my original comment was pretty much just a snarky 'well he's technically correct' type thing until everyone got so bent over it. 🙄
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In 5th grade I learned about bugs in the playground.
 
as1212559 said:
LOL @ N E ONE who diDn'T LeArN dA BoNeZ by Jr. High lyke lololololol
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I hope adcomz will be impreSed with my elementary school skillz, Tis' was ranked highest in clinical teaching skillz. Best cow eyeball dissection program in the greater county areazZ
 
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