Weird Pre-Meds. What kinds have you seen?

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You know who I'm talking about. There just some people that don't act normal at times. Not to sound demeaning in anyway...but do you folks ever notice their odd nature?

My first year at college I saw a Pre-Med climbing a 30 foot tree with his backpack during the first day of classes. He proceeded to collect leaves for his "experiment" that he was going to conduct in his room?!?!?!
 
I'm probably the weirdest premed I've ever seen.

I have seen some pretty odd premeds though ... this one girl on my floor had a whole wall plastered with post-it notes; on these notes were sentences of her psychology textbook. Pretty hardcore to have entire sentences on them.

I saw one guy high-five the premed advisor and then do the same with 3 other people on his exit from his advisor meeting. He was a freshman so who knows what the heck he was celebrating.
 
Also my first year at college. a Pre-med was doing something sketchy on one of the tall trees, it almost appeared like he was trying to get leaves. Then another kid came over and started to talk to him (maybe to befriend him?), I personally don't understand why anyone would approach the tree climber.

Turns out the the tree climber didn't want any of this new kid and he said no. As I was walking by I hear the kid that was rejected mutter "Stupid pre-med weirdos"
 
Slowpoke said:
Also my first year at college. a Pre-med was doing something sketchy on one of the tall trees, it almost appeared like he was trying to get leaves. Then another kid came over and started to talk to him (maybe to befriend him?), I personally don't understand why anyone would approach the tree climber.

Turns out the the tree climber didn't want any of this new kid and he said no. As I was walking by I hear the kid that was rejected mutter "Stupid pre-med weirdos"
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This one time freshman year I saw this weird kid climbing a tree to get leaves or something. Another premed was talking to him and a third weirdo was standing in a corner like a loser just staring at the two weirdos like he wanted to be friends.

Talk about a circus.
 
And you know what's worse? All these weirdos congregating in this ridiculous online forum termed SDN. Damn those are some sick bastards in that place ...
 
The weirdest pre-med I've seen is probably one I've already posted about before. One day in one of my classes we had a doctor in as a speaker. When the doctor asked the kid what his major was, the kid (a freshman) responded that his major was "pre-med for anesthesiology." I still cringe for him when I think about it. (And no, our school does NOT have a pre-med major.)

Guess he's not really a weird pre-med...just a sadly ignorant one.
 
While I was volunteering at the ER, the other male premed volunteer
 
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Two girls who looked like Elle Woods out of Legally Blonde. Slept through class, gave themselves makeovers during breaks, and tried to ask the professor if he could just 'drop' their 30% midterms. Best part: one day, they had a shouting match during lab over whether acne was "inherited or contagious".

Other than them, I know a premed who works at a strip club and moonlighted as a prostitute years back. Don't think she's getting in, though, with her 2.2 GPA. Does she still count?
 
bigbad said:
This one time freshman year I saw this weird kid climbing a tree to get leaves or something. Another premed was talking to him and a third weirdo was standing in a corner like a loser just staring at the two weirdos like he wanted to be friends.

Talk about a circus.
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:laugh::laugh: well played sir.
 
Turned out that kid in the tree sat next to me the first day of gen chem...weird.
 
One premed kid in my gen chem 2 class would always yell out questions to the prof even if she were in mid sentence, starting with "excuse me, professor, but....". They were the stupid kind of questions that had no application at all to what we were being lectured on and that could wait until the end of lecture. The way he presented the questions was also hilarious, it was somewhat how Nicholas Cage talked in the movie Kick Ass (which differed from how he talked outside of lecture).
 
There was one kid in one of my science class last year who was Asian. However he claimed to be Jewish (he had no Jewish ancestors at all) and his father was a southern baptist preacher. On top of this he would ask questions everyone day, and not even on topic questions. For example my prof once said something about doves and this kid asks really loud, "oh do you sacrifice doves too!"

Baylor2012 not sure what's up with the trees at Waco but I once saw two student putting hammocks pretty high in the trees, I asked what they were doing and they said they weren't coming down til they were ready for finals. Sure enough they stayed up there for all of dead days. It was pretty weird.
 
So before class started we were talking about how hard Calculus was and one guy started saying "this is how hard pediatric medical school is, and there are a lot of information and not enought time to study"

😕 Pediatric medical school!??!
 
JoshuaGuit said:
One premed kid in my gen chem 2 class would always yell out questions to the prof even if she were in mid sentence, starting with "excuse me, professor, but....". They were the stupid kind of questions that had no application at all to what we were being lectured on and that could wait until the end of lecture. The way he presented the questions was also hilarious, it was somewhat how Nicholas Cage talked in the movie Kick Ass (which differed from how he talked outside of lecture).
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:laugh:

These guys drive me crazy. There's one guy who sits through all the bio lectures and stops the lecture for no reason just so he can argue with the professor about some random little thing no one even mentioned. The worst part is he's always wrong.
 
@ Fishin316
The trees are crawling with weirdo's over in Waco....I sometimes like to call it Wacko!

But anyhow....I'd agree with the above posters, I've had those kids in my bio lecture that yell out stupid questions and then repremand other kids that actually ask questions related to the subject matter. I sometimes wonder, if those kids get into medical school what kind of questions they'd ask in lecture.
 
I also had the tourretes guy in my physics class. He would interrupt with "Excuse me, professor! Can you explain how blah blah blah blah." Teacher responds with a blank look on his face, "Yeah, that's what I'm explaining right now." The teacher even joked about bringing a taser to class to keep him under control, and the kid didn't even notice. It went right over his head.
 
Baylor2012 said:
@ Fishin316
The trees are crawling with weirdo's over in Waco....I sometimes like to call it Wacko!

But anyhow....I'd agree with the above posters, I've had those kids in my bio lecture that yell out stupid questions and then repremand other kids that actually ask questions related to the subject matter. I sometimes wonder, if those kids get into medical school what kind of questions they'd ask in lecture.
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I have to stick my finger where...?
 
I never talked to this kid, but one day in class I saw him wearing a Harvard Medical School t-shirt. We were freshman at the time, so he clearly wasn't matriculating there or anything. A bit presumptuous, no?
 
Chops369 said:
I never talked to this kid, but one day in class I saw him wearing a Harvard Medical School t-shirt. We were freshman at the time, so he clearly wasn't matriculating there or anything. A bit presumptuous, no?
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Not necessarily, he could've just had an older brother there.

The one premed who really pissed me off was the one who got his interview at a school, decided to tell me that his "mom knows the doctor and that he's guaranteed to write him a good recommendation". Of course, needless to say he goes to the interview and gets accepted to school. He also likes to one-up everything people say.

I really despise some people.
 
JoshuaGuit said:
One premed kid in my gen chem 2 class would always yell out questions to the prof even if she were in mid sentence, starting with "excuse me, professor, but....". They were the stupid kind of questions that had no application at all to what we were being lectured on and that could wait until the end of lecture. The way he presented the questions was also hilarious, it was somewhat how Nicholas Cage talked in the movie Kick Ass (which differed from how he talked outside of lecture).
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Pretty sure I took organic chem 1 with this kid. His questions were always unrelated and often the prof would say, "um...we haven't even gotten there yet." The kid would then verbally abuse himself saying, "Oh, right, sorry. That was stupid of me. I was just wondering, but I get it now. Sorry, that was stupid..." and then mumble off into silence.
 
Ooooo, oooo I have one and I didn't even start school yet! This happened during freshman orientation. 😛

The class was split into like 20 different groups based on their declared major (mine was bio so obviously this group is overfilling with pre-meds including myself). First part of the orientation we did an ice breaker and we were suppose to tell everybody one cool thing about us. Well there was this one kid (you could tell he was socially inept) and when it was his turn, he started telling a story about how he once met somebody famous (i didn't even recognize the name, no one did) at his Princeton Review SAT Class.

Then as orientation progressed some of the other kids started talking to him out of curiosity. He starts talking about how he came to the school on a Wiffleball scholarship and that he plays on a Wiffleball team with a team of 11 year olds Then he talks about how he is married to a 7 year old and that he has like 20 kids.

Weird kid, he was obviously joking or whatever but the fact he continued with this "act" or whatever for these two days odd.
 
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roseglass6370 said:
Pretty sure I took organic chem 1 with this kid. His questions were always unrelated and often the prof would say, "um...we haven't even gotten there yet." The kid would then verbally abuse himself saying, "Oh, right, sorry. That was stupid of me. I was just wondering, but I get it now. Sorry, that was stupid..." and then mumble off into silence.
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I know someone who has ADHD, and this kid sounds like he has it as well.
 
SlaskWroclaw18 said:
Ooooo, oooo I have one and I didn't even start school yet! This happened during freshman orientation. 😛

The class was split into like 20 different groups based on their declared major (mine was bio so obviously this group is overfilling with pre-meds including myself). First part of the orientation we did an ice breaker and we were suppose to tell everybody one cool thing about us. Well there was this one kid (you could tell he was socially inept) and when it was his turn, he started telling a story about how he once met somebody famous (i didn't even recognize the name, no one did) at his Princeton Review SAT Class.

Then as orientation progressed some of the other kids started talking to him out of curiosity. He starts talking about how he came to the school on a Wiffleball scholarship and that he plays on a Wiffleball team with a team of 11 year olds Then he talks about how he is married to a 7 year old and that he has like 20 kids.

Wierd kid, he was obviously joking or whatever but the fact he continued with this "act" or whatever for these two days odd.
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wut lol
 
SlaskWroclaw18 said:
Ooooo, oooo I have one and I didn't even start school yet! This happened during freshman orientation. 😛

The class was split into like 20 different groups based on their declared major (mine was bio so obviously this group is overfilling with pre-meds including myself). First part of the orientation we did an ice breaker and we were suppose to tell everybody one cool thing about us. Well there was this one kid (you could tell he was socially inept) and when it was his turn, he started telling a story about how he once met somebody famous (i didn't even recognize the name, no one did) at his Princeton Review SAT Class.

Then as orientation progressed some of the other kids started talking to him out of curiosity. He starts talking about how he came to the school on a Wiffleball scholarship and that he plays on a Wiffleball team with a team of 11 year olds Then he talks about how he is married to a 7 year old and that he has like 20 kids.

Wierd kid, he was obviously joking or whatever but the fact he continued with this "act" or whatever for these two days odd.
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lolwut
 
SlaskWroclaw18 said:
Ooooo, oooo I have one and I didn't even start school yet! This happened during freshman orientation. 😛

The class was split into like 20 different groups based on their declared major (mine was bio so obviously this group is overfilling with pre-meds including myself). First part of the orientation we did an ice breaker and we were suppose to tell everybody one cool thing about us. Well there was this one kid (you could tell he was socially inept) and when it was his turn, he started telling a story about how he once met somebody famous (i didn't even recognize the name, no one did) at his Princeton Review SAT Class.

Then as orientation progressed some of the other kids started talking to him out of curiosity. He starts talking about how he came to the school on a Wiffleball scholarship and that he plays on a Wiffleball team with a team of 11 year olds Then he talks about how he is married to a 7 year old and that he has like 20 kids.

Wierd kid, he was obviously joking or whatever but the fact he continued with this "act" or whatever for these two days odd.
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Dude, you're not telling the truth. You don't have to lie about stories to kick in pre-allo. No one is that dumb. 😀
 
ILikeDrugs said:
Dude, you're not telling the truth. You don't have to lie about stories to kick in pre-allo. No one is that dumb. 😀
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You would honestly be that surprised if it was true? I can totally picture it. 😛
 
once said:
I'm probably the weirdest premed I've ever seen.

I have seen some pretty odd premeds though ... this one girl on my floor had a whole wall plastered with post-it notes; on these notes were sentences of her psychology textbook. Pretty hardcore to have entire sentences on them.

I saw one guy high-five the premed advisor and then do the same with 3 other people on his exit from his advisor meeting. He was a freshman so who knows what the heck he was celebrating.
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LOL! When I was leaving my advisor's office last semester he got up out of his chair, and loudly said, "VERY NIACE! HIGH FIVE!" In the Borat voice. I proceeded to high five him and crack up about it the rest of the night. Cool guy! :laugh:
 
Moosecakes said:
LOL! When I was leaving my advisor's office last semester he got up out of his chair, and loudly said, "VERY NIACE! HIGH FIVE!" In the Borat voice. I proceeded to high five him and crack up about it the rest of the night. Cool guy! :laugh:
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Wow, your advisor sounds awesome. Mine is an old fart 🙁
 
ILikeDrugs said:
Dude, you're not telling the truth. You don't have to lie about stories to kick in pre-allo. No one is that dumb. 😀
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True story, honest to god. I mean it was clear that this kid was putting on an act and lying (probably to get attention) about everything he said, but he was WEIRD which makes my post submitable. 😀
 
There's a kid in my bs/md program who tackled the professor because he called his momma an idiot..

It all started over an alligator and the medulla oblongata.

🙂
 
Serious response:
For the biostatistics class at University of California, Irvine, the final project is a statistical analysis of fallen pine needles.

Humous response: Weird premeds? You do realize that you're posting on a forum with a long running thread about eating a poop hotdog?
 
Electronegative said:
So before class started we were talking about how hard Calculus was and one guy started saying "this is how hard pediatric medical school is, and there are a lot of information and not enought time to study"

😕 Pediatric medical school!??!
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:laugh: 'Pediatric medical school':laugh:
 
XeReX said:
:laugh: 'Pediatric medical school':laugh:
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by the way he was talking he was pretty cluless about medical school admission process, and he always would wear scrubs to math class I thought he was nursing student until that time.
 
Electronegative said:
by the way he was talking he was pretty cluless about medical school admission process, and he always would wear scrubs to math class I thought he was nursing student until that time.
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Why would he come to math class in scrubs?😕 that's so dumb
 
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I have to change my mind now. I met a new one today on a campus tour I inadvertently crashed.

This kid is grossly obese, wearing a Japanese anime t-shirt, smells from five feet away, oily, acne-covered, and munching on a hamburger. She somehow corners me and asks if I'm a student. I say yes. She asks of what. I say Japanese and Anthropology. She gets suuuuuuuuuuper excited and the following exchange takes place:

Awkward Girl: OMG [the letters, not the words], I'm gonna major in Japanese too! Have you BEEN there?!
Me: Uh, yes. I studied abroad. I'm actually done with my requirements because of it, and...
Awkward Girl: WAS IT JUST MAGICAL?!
Me: ...it was like New York City. In a different language. With cleaner streets.
Awkward Girl: You just weren't looking at it right! Japan is magical! My future husband lives there, you know!
Me: Oh, so you've been there too. That's nice. I'm sure your fiance is lovely, but I need to print something...
Awkward Girl: Oh, I'm not engaged. But I'm going to find a husband in Japan. It's a MAGICAL PLACE.
Me: ...more power to you. I really need to--
Awkward Girl: But he'll have to come back to the US for me. I'm going to Harvard Medical School.
Me: ....aren't you here for this school's undergrad orientation?
Awkward Girl: Yeah, but I'm premed for Harvard. I just have to get good grades, right?
Me: .......*escapes*

I have never felt more uncomfortable with another human being in my LIFE. I knew people like her were out there, but still. I didn't need evidence. She now tops my 'crazy premeds IRL' list.
 
I always see those ppl in scrubs. I've even seen a guy walking around with a surgical mask between classes. I wonder whats going on in his head? Who knows...
 
I have to change my mind now. I met a new one today on a campus tour I inadvertently crashed.
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People like that give us anime fans bad name. If someone met me and my friends and talked with us they probably wouldn't be able to tell that we watch anime.
 
Electronegative said:
People like that give us anime fans bad name. If someone met me and my friends and talked with us they probably wouldn't be able to tell that we watch anime.
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Hey, when I was in Japan I watched a little myself, since it was on. Never followed any. I've got nothing against it.

But some people do take it too far...
 
Baylor2012 said:
I always see those ppl in scrubs. I've even seen a guy walking around with a surgical mask between classes. I wonder whats going on in his head? Who knows...
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HAHA!! I love it. I mean, I've worn scrubs to class once or twice when I had to leave for work RIGHT after class...but why on earth would you were a SURGICAL mask anywhere but inside an OR?
 
DrTroll said:
Plenty of ppl watch anime, but most don't wear anime t-shirts around and act all weird like that girl.
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Like I said: SOME take it too far. It's entertaining and makes for a great discussion point with friends, but that's it. People whose lives revolve around anime could use a healthy dose of real life. I'm not sure how well they'd handle it, though. Some of them look a little too far gone (Example: while I was in Japan, a guy 'married' an anime-type video game character. Had a wedding with his DS and everything).

I sincerely hope she matures quickly. I don't know how she'll handle real Japanese classes when all she has is her anime otaku vocabulary to aid her...
 
Please tell me...I'm still dying to know what was going on in that kids head.....I regret I never took a picture of him....
 
Janieve said:
Like I said: SOME take it too far. It's entertaining and makes for a great discussion point with friends, but that's it. People whose lives revolve around anime could use a healthy dose of real life. I'm not sure how well they'd handle it, though. Some of them look a little too far gone (Example: while I was in Japan, a guy 'married' an anime-type video game character. Had a wedding with his DS and everything).

I sincerely hope she matures quickly. I don't know how she'll handle real Japanese classes when all she has is her anime otaku vocabulary to aid her...
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lol wut is real and wut is not, explain that to me plz. btw you should watch inception and shutter island first before answering my question, i bet u would think alot differently about the word, real. i am not attacking u or anything, i just though the fact that people throw around this word a little too much.
 
Cleavername said:
lol wut is real and wut is not, explain that to me plz. btw you should watch inception and shutter island first before answering my question, i bet u would think alot differently about the word, real. i am not attacking u or anything, i just though the fact that people throw around this word a little too much.
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why both leonardo dicaprio movies? I say matrix is just as good! 😀
 
DrTroll said:
why both leonardo dicaprio movies? I say matrix is just as good! 😀
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its not about him. if you watched both movies u would understand that they both raise the question of how can you tell if your reality, or rather what you see and experience are real. because everything surrounding you can be your imagination, or may be you are dreaming about it all.
 
Baylor2012 said:
I always see those ppl in scrubs. I've even seen a guy walking around with a surgical mask between classes. I wonder whats going on in his head? Who knows...
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Maybe he's immunocompromised.
 
When I was shadowing a family practice doc, she had me put on a surgical mask when we went in to see patients with wheezing coughs. (It was the only mask they could really find for me.) I can't imagine why anyone would want to wear the things any longer than they have to. It was kinda difficult to breathe.
 
Cleavername said:
its not about him. if you watched both movies u would understand that they both raise the question of how can you tell if your reality, or rather what you see and experience are real. because everything surrounding you can be your imagination, or may be you are dreaming about it all.
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That's total BS, those are just movies, how can you compare those movies to premed students or how they perceive their world? Shutter Island is about a guy who had a real medical problem, that's why he was "Hallucinating" and everything. Inception is a total fantasy.
 
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