am i a gunner?

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rcd said:
ok, i'm a freshman and this is my first semester in college.

might as well start out with why i don't think i'm a gunner:

-i purposedly sit in the middle - back of all of my classes because i don't like being near the professor and it's often easier to see the projections (for me anyway)
-i'm a freshman and all freshman are kind of like gunner n00bs :laugh:


ok now for why i might be one:

-in genetics, i did ALL of the practice problems (60 maybe in total) and even made a 3 page long word document that contained the definitions of the tons of key terms we were told may be on the test. i also went over each of the 7 essays. and then i only got a 93% on the test. i think that's a low A+/high A (top 25% of A's get A+'s, the A's were 78-98%)

-in intro to psychology i read the book, even though everyone (but the professor) said nothing of the test was on the book. and even then, i only scored a 19/20.

-in intro to ethics i am constantly contributing to the class, and am often the only person paying attention. in the 30-person class, there was a bell-curve, which was established before he finished grading. one of the 6 papers he didn't have graded by the time he established the bell curve was mine, and i scored a 95%, which was the highest in the class. i got the essay back monday (today is wednesday) and still like looking at it and getting a good feeling inside.
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Why do u want to know if you are a gunner? Self-confirmation? You are only a freshmen. Go with the flow of things. Its great that you are putting all that time in to study and prepare yourself for medical school. Continue to do that but also enjoy college. I sure as hell enjoyed my time there.
 
anyone who even knows what a gunner is and is posting on this board their first semester of freshman year IS a gunner.

now it's wednesday night...go find a party to go to
 
rcd said:
ok, i'm a freshman and this is my first semester in college.

might as well start out with why i don't think i'm a gunner:

-i purposedly sit in the middle - back of all of my classes because i don't like being near the professor and it's often easier to see the projections (for me anyway)
-i'm a freshman and all freshman are kind of like gunner n00bs :laugh:


ok now for why i might be one:

-in genetics, i did ALL of the practice problems (60 maybe in total) and even made a 3 page long word document that contained the definitions of the tons of key terms we were told may be on the test. i also went over each of the 7 essays. and then i only got a 93% on the test. i think that's a low A+/high A (top 25% of A's get A+'s, the A's were 78-98%)

-in intro to psychology i read the book, even though everyone (but the professor) said nothing of the test was on the book. and even then, i only scored a 19/20.

-in intro to ethics i am constantly contributing to the class, and am often the only person paying attention. in the 30-person class, there was a bell-curve, which was established before he finished grading. one of the 6 papers he didn't have graded by the time he established the bell curve was mine, and i scored a 95%, which was the highest in the class. i got the essay back monday (today is wednesday) and still like looking at it and getting a good feeling inside.
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Who cares?
 
i care, for one. and it's my post. so that should be obvious

it's not like you can post on this forum and not have an idea of what a gunner is, it's talked about so often.

what i was trying to do is see if i fit that rough profile, and the way i came up with doing that is getting others' ideas.
 
all those classes you just listed are mickey-mouse classes. When you can get As in hard classes, then come back and pretend you're a gunner.
 
rcd said:
ok, i'm a freshman and this is my first semester in college.

might as well start out with why i don't think i'm a gunner:

-i purposedly sit in the middle - back of all of my classes because i don't like being near the professor and it's often easier to see the projections (for me anyway)
-i'm a freshman and all freshman are kind of like gunner n00bs :laugh:


ok now for why i might be one:

-in genetics, i did ALL of the practice problems (60 maybe in total) and even made a 3 page long word document that contained the definitions of the tons of key terms we were told may be on the test. i also went over each of the 7 essays. and then i only got a 93% on the test. i think that's a low A+/high A (top 25% of A's get A+'s, the A's were 78-98%)

-in intro to psychology i read the book, even though everyone (but the professor) said nothing of the test was on the book. and even then, i only scored a 19/20.

-in intro to ethics i am constantly contributing to the class, and am often the only person paying attention. in the 30-person class, there was a bell-curve, which was established before he finished grading. one of the 6 papers he didn't have graded by the time he established the bell curve was mine, and i scored a 95%, which was the highest in the class. i got the essay back monday (today is wednesday) and still like looking at it and getting a good feeling inside.
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THIS IS SO CUTE! 😛
 
ifailedmcat said:
You sound more like a superstar. Gunners intentionally want people to fail so they can look better and succeed.
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i'm sure that's what the op wanted to hear.
 
Anyone who goes to a University that issues A+'s automatically does not qualify as a gunner.
 
gildas said:
Who cares?
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:laugh: took the words right out of my mouth...freshman should be banned from the internet. And as for the poster who implored this lad to go find a party...who'd want him?

Ock
 
futuremsfdoc said:
i'm sure that's what the op wanted to hear.
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:laugh: who wouldn't want to hear that (if it were non-sarcastic)? i didn't post for that effect though.


ockhamsRzr said:
took the words right out of my mouth...freshman should be banned from the internet. And as for the poster who implored this lad to go find a party...who'd want him?

Ock
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😎 that's the cycle. work your ass off and have no friends. have no friends and have super amounts of free time. so work your ass off and have no friends. etc.
 
i eat gunners for breakfast.

:meanie:
 
Skeptrix said:
i eat gunners for breakfast.

:meanie:
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Indeed! Poor, poor gunners...they just have to work so hard at it :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Ock
 
There was a great episoide of South Park where the A-Team, (or maybe it was the school nurse) tells Mr. Mackey "It's OK to do drugs, you just forgot to stop. There is a time and a place for everything. It's called college."

You're taking Genetics as a Freshman? How? At my undergrad, you had to have Jr. standing just to get into the class.

I concur with Psycho Doctor. It's a wednesday night. Go find a party. I don't know what type of college setting you're in, but if you're at a rural campus, contact the 21 year old who lives in your dorm (there's one, ask around EVERYBODY knows him), take 'em 20 bucks, and have 'em buy you a case of beer.

Load it up in a backpack, and start walking around where all the Juniors and Seniors live. Listen for base. Walk up, introduce yourself, and hand a beer to the guy who answers the door. Walla! New best friend. Can't find any base, invite all the ladies on the next floor up/floor down, and or next door (depending on how the dorms are integrated), and throw a party in your dorm room!

If you're at an urban campus, it's Wednesday night. Bars have CHEAP beer on Wednesdays. Cops in cities have a lot bigger problems on their mind than underage drinking. Like people getting shot. Talk to the people in your dorm. There is a bar that all the underage kids go.

Now you know how to find parties!

All else fails, call the office of greek life on your campus, and ask about "Rush."

Anything I'm missing out... yeah, if you want, keep studying your ass off. Go ahead. Best of luck to you. If you're that proud about your grades, you're a gunner. Plus, reading SDN as a freshman... hmmm... *shrug*

Afterthought: If you need inspiration, I recommend: Animal House and Van Wilder.
 
ifailedmcat said:
You sound more like a superstar. Gunners intentionally want people to fail so they can look better and succeed.
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Yeah, you just enjoy your classes. And you're doing this for your own benefit, not just so you can Beat People or so you can Raise Your Numbers.
 
Real gunners don't go to schools that give top 25% As (grade inflation), real gunners go to schools that only give the top 15% (one SD above the mean) As. 😀
 
rcd said:
ok, i'm a freshman and this is my first semester in college.

might as well start out with why i don't think i'm a gunner:

-i purposedly sit in the middle - back of all of my classes because i don't like being near the professor and it's often easier to see the projections (for me anyway)
-i'm a freshman and all freshman are kind of like gunner n00bs :laugh:


ok now for why i might be one:

-in genetics, i did ALL of the practice problems (60 maybe in total) and even made a 3 page long word document that contained the definitions of the tons of key terms we were told may be on the test. i also went over each of the 7 essays. and then i only got a 93% on the test. i think that's a low A+/high A (top 25% of A's get A+'s, the A's were 78-98%)

-in intro to psychology i read the book, even though everyone (but the professor) said nothing of the test was on the book. and even then, i only scored a 19/20.

-in intro to ethics i am constantly contributing to the class, and am often the only person paying attention. in the 30-person class, there was a bell-curve, which was established before he finished grading. one of the 6 papers he didn't have graded by the time he established the bell curve was mine, and i scored a 95%, which was the highest in the class. i got the essay back monday (today is wednesday) and still like looking at it and getting a good feeling inside.
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A gunner is a guy who pisses in your solution in chem lab to not only screw you, but to boost his grade as well.
 
Just out of curiousity - which prof do you have for genetics?? The only way to get an A+ in genetics when I took it at MU (I assume that's where you go?) was to score extra credit which NOBODY did...at least when I took it. I had Dr. Cone. Do you have the guy that dresses up like a monk???
 
sounds like you're just a braggart looking for a pat on the back. lemme give you a solution to this - mail the tests back to your parents and then your mom can put them on the fridge so that when you go home every weekend there they are!!!!!
 
There are very, very few gunners in Columbia, MO. Any school where everyone in the class is sharing notes whilst waiting for the test to be handed out is not a "gunner rich environment".
 
would it really make a difference if everyone who replied to this thread said you were a typical gunner? would that change your study habits at all? i don't think it will. you will get recognition for your hard work when you apply to and are accepted to medical school. there are other ways of stroking your ego. go show your transcript to your grandparents/aunts/uncles. but don't come to studentdoctor and try to get validation and praise from a group of people who are generally at least four years older than you and have seen dozens of "your type" - people who start threads saying "i have a 3.99 and a 36, can i get in to med school?"

in any case, gunners do not have any friends because they want everyone else to fail. do you find that all of your classmates roll their eyes when you walk by? if not, then you are probably not a gunner. if you want a true description of a gunner, go here.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=150616

if you want to know what kind of person you are, go here:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=146694
 
I think I'm a gunner and I didn't even know what a gunner was until this year and I'm a junior now. It looks like you have a head start. I don't think I'm a full blown gunner though, so that might explain it.
 
Gerg said:
You're taking Genetics as a Freshman? How? At my undergrad, you had to have Jr. standing just to get into the class.
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all you need here is bio and chem, its course number is 202. mostly sophomores in the class i think.

i have birchler, he dressed up as a monk when presenting mendellian genetics.

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what other classes are you taking?
 
You seem to have divided your repliers into two camps.

The real question is, why are you asking? Are you looking for an egostroke? Or are you concerned that you will become a 'pre-med leper?'
 
I don't even know what a gunner is (although I do have an idea). I got an 'A' on a biology test, was 1/7 of a class of 70+ students that did. Does that make me a gunner or are my classmates just *****s? (the class average was a 65%) :meanie:
 
my classes:
intro to ethics, genetics, classical mythology, intro to psych

roja said:
You seem to have divided your repliers into two camps.

The real question is, why are you asking? Are you looking for an egostroke? Or are you concerned that you will become a 'pre-med leper?'
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I'm not looking for an egostroke, I feed my own ego well enough 😀.

More concerned about whether I'm becomming a 'pre-med leper.' I'm afraid of both burning out and being the type of dork that pissing people off. I mean, I'm working my ass off for these grades, in the classroom and out.

I guess there's a fine line with regards to the pissing people off thing, and I'm on the wrong side of it with this post. But I'm starting to think that too many of the people in the pissed-off-you're-wanting-an-egostroke camp are just unwilling to give me the benefit of the doubt, psuedo-McCarthyism style. And so it's ok for me to take their input with a grain of salt.
 
Thank god I don't know you, I'd be so embarassed.
 
Rcd, it seems like you are concerned because gunners are hated and shunned by everyone. In which case, you're probably not one. Maybe a little self conscious and annoying at times, but definitely not hated by everyone.
 
rcd said:
my classes:
intro to ethics, genetics, classical mythology, intro to psych



I'm not looking for an egostroke, I feed my own ego well enough 😀.

More concerned about whether I'm becomming a 'pre-med leper.' I'm afraid of both burning out and being the type of dork that pissing people off. I mean, I'm working my ass off for these grades, in the classroom and out.

I guess there's a fine line with regards to the pissing people off thing, and I'm on the wrong side of it with this post. But I'm starting to think that too many of the people in the pissed-off-you're-wanting-an-egostroke camp are just unwilling to give me the benefit of the doubt, psuedo-McCarthyism style. And so it's ok for me to take their input with a grain of salt.
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Heh, you posted before me. Yea, just as I thought. Don't worry, if you're this concerned about pissing people off, then you're definitely not a gunner. A gunner wouldn't give a damn.
 
It might be that people who get good grades are smart and study well!? :sarcasm: That doesn't make you a gunner. If your studying gets in the way of normal human interaction and you partake in trying to screw over your classmates, and you are constantly thinking about homework, then you're a gunner. And weird. So go join your student government or campus newspaper, meet some people, and you can still do well in class. No gunner-status for you then. My $0.002. Sheesh.
 
RCD- studying hard is not what makes a gunner. as most have pointed out, gunners often are malicious (at worst) and at best (if that can be applied to the gunner status) go around saying things like 'oh god, I never study, I flunked that test' when in reality they studied thier ass off and got an A. They are constantly in need of making others feel stupid and making themselves feel smart.

They have failed to realize that there is ALWAYS someone smarter, beter, etc than they are...

So, if you study hard, keepyour kindness to others adn keep perspective, youll be fine.
 
w00t roja, well put. I still think PsychoDoctor is right about going out. It is a wednesday, afterall.
 
gunners are weak-minded and possess no inkling of self-confidence. their insecurity causes them to find ways of reinforcing a (most-likely) average intelligence by putting their peers down. like i've read before countless times, the truly gifted work hard, perform well, and do what they can to help others. as for me, im neither the former nor the latter - just your average farm boy from ks who wants to be a doctor.
 
phleebie said:
gunners are weak-minded and possess no inkling of self-confidence. their insecurity causes them to find ways of reinforcing a (most-likely) average intelligence by putting their peers down. like i've read before countless times, the truly gifted work hard, perform well, and do what they can to help others. as for me, im neither the former nor the latter - just your average farm boy from ks who wants to be a doctor.
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those truly gifted to help others, even at their own expense are the ones who will make the best doctors...
 
What about the guy whose profile is: "I was a gunner, I spent 40 hours a week in anatomy class." - my anatomy teacher

ok, there's actually no point to this.
 
most students in the pre med classes dont want me in their section because they know that I ruin the curve for them. am I a GUNNER?
 
Nobody likes a gunner, and all you freshman in college need to realize this before you waste 4 years being an ahole.

Do well, but be friendly and have fun.
 
willthatsall said:
I think I'm a gunner and I didn't even know what a gunner was until this year and I'm a junior now. It looks like you have a head start. I don't think I'm a full blown gunner though, so that might explain it.
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really? you wouldn't shar eyour notes with classmates? you wouldn't help someone if they didn't understand something? you wouldn't study with a fellow classmate? you'd sabatoge other people's work? you'd brag about your grades and wish others to do poorly?
 
RaiderNation said:
A gunner is a guy who pisses in your solution in chem lab to not only screw you, but to boost his grade as well.
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sounds like you speak from experience..i would never have thought of that one 👍
 
If you have to ask if you are a gunner or not, you are only a wannabe. 😎

Besides, gunners arent that great because they have to try, unlike true genii (yes genii, NOT geniuses).
 
guys i have a question for you,

i sit in the front row and ask a lot of questions (even if they arent that necessary). in one class i got an A instead of an A+ but thankfully I still have a 4.0gpa after three years of college. also, during ochem lab I mixed 10M HCl in one kids drinking water because he scored a 100% on the test just like me, and I coulndt stand having a person as good as me. Would you consider me a "gunner"?

Im pretty sure im not but I just wanted to make sure with you guys. Thank you.
 
MedKiddo said:
guys i have a question for you,

i sit in the front row and ask a lot of questions (even if they arent that necessary). in one class i got an A instead of an A+ but thankfully I still have a 4.0gpa after three years of college. also, during ochem lab I mixed 10M HCl in one kids drinking water because he scored a 100% on the test just like me, and I coulndt stand having a person as good as me. Would you consider me a "gunner"?

Im pretty sure im not but I just wanted to make sure with you guys. Thank you.
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No. If anyone got a 100% on a chem test I would have to question the difficulty of the class. I don't think your classes are tough enough to qualify you as a gunner.

Sorry man.
 
rcd said:
i care, for one. and it's my post. so that should be obvious

it's not like you can post on this forum and not have an idea of what a gunner is, it's talked about so often.

what i was trying to do is see if i fit that rough profile, and the way i came up with doing that is getting others' ideas.
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FAIL!

rcd said:
Hi guys, here goes nothing 🙂
:

MCAT:
PS - 11
VR - 11
BS - 12
=34 P

Undergrad: State school.
3.96 Overall, 4.0 BCPM

Expecting an outstanding letter of rec from my research PI. So-so from my professors.

No publications, one poster.

1 year research, 1 summer (140hrs) volunteering at a hospital, ~30+hours shadowing.
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rcd said:
my classes:
intro to ethics, genetics, classical mythology, intro to psych



I'm not looking for an egostroke, I feed my own ego well enough 😀.

More concerned about whether I'm becomming a 'pre-med leper.' I'm afraid of both burning out and being the type of dork that pissing people off. I mean, I'm working my *** off for these grades, in the classroom and out.

I guess there's a fine line with regards to the pissing people off thing, and I'm on the wrong side of it with this post. But I'm starting to think that too many of the people in the pissed-off-you're-wanting-an-egostroke camp are just unwilling to give me the benefit of the doubt, psuedo-McCarthyism style. And so it's ok for me to take their input with a grain of salt.
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you are pissing me off...and "pseudo-McCarthyism"-definitely giving yourself too much credit...and pissing me off more.
 
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