I'm on the verge of giving up

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I just watched an episode of extreme couponing and I think couponing for a living is my calling, I would also donate the items to random homeless people, I just got inspired. I think I have found my calling.
 
ZedsDed said:
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Thanks.
OP will soon be banned most likely.
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I do not want to be banned because I honestly need this website to get me through undergrad, how do you close this thread cause I'm done with this topic....next thread will be on the classes I'm taking next semester. peace out with the threats.
 
WOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHHH WOAHHHHHHH HOLD UP HOLD UP

OP really ended up being a troll???

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Did not see that coming.
 
I have no idea if OP is a troll or not but you might want to make an appointment with your advisor and maybe go get some stress counseling if it's offered at your school. Debt sucks but in the long run it's not that big of a deal as a physician IMO Plus if you're low-income don't you get the Pell grant or something like that? A lot of things you say are inconsistent so if you genuinely want advice, come clean and list your facts in a clear manner so we can understand and give better advice.
 
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dreamadream said:
I do not want to be banned because I honestly need this website to get me through undergrad, how do you close this thread cause I'm done with this topic....next thread will be on the classes I'm taking next semester. peace out with the threats.
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Not really a good start to your membership.

Starting a thread like that is usually a waste. Just look up the prereqs you need on this forum. Here's the general list: Genbio1&2, Genchem1&2, Genphys1&2, Ochem1&2, 1 sem A&P, Psych, Soc, and preferably 2 math classes (one being stats). Engineer the rest of your schedule however you like but get those done and get A's in all of them.

Or just continue being a troll laughing about how I just wasted my breath on you if you have no intentions of becoming a physician and just wanted to **** with the uptight pre-med population on here.
 
docycle said:
Not really a good start to your membership.

Starting a thread like that is usually a waste. Just look up the prereqs you need on this forum. Here's the general list: Genbio1&2, Genchem1&2, Genphys1&2, Ochem1&2, 1 sem A&P, Psych, Soc, and preferably 2 math classes (one being stats). Engineer the rest of your schedule however you like but get those done and get A's in all of them.

Or just continue being a troll laughing about how I just wasted my breath on you if you have no intentions of becoming a physician and just wanted to **** with the uptight pre-med population on here.
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I am really upset that everyone thinks I'm a troll, you guys are the real trolls.
 
dreamadream said:
I am really upset that everyone thinks I'm a troll, you guys are the real trolls.
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Dude. Even your response saying you're not a troll sounds blatantly trollish.

Make more of an effort to be taken seriously. THEN spew some bs, but like.....believable bs. That is masterful trolling, my friend.
 
Not a good way to start your membership blah blah, my first post on here was "I need some motivation, second was "how to go about shadowing", so for everyone to think that I'm a troll, goodl uck with your success. Shame that you guys think I'm a troll, I was irrational when I first started this post, but everything I said was true, goodbye. I am done with this thread.
 
Here's some pointers, my young friend.

URMs, do vs. md, and obsession with salary.

Now go off. Run free and troll to your heart's content.
 
dreamadream said:
Not a good way to start your membership blah blah, my first post on here was "I need some motivation, second was "how to go about shadowing", so for everyone to think that I'm a troll, goodl uck with your success. Shame that you guys think I'm a troll, I was irrational when I first started this post, but everything I said was true, goodbye. I am done with this thread.
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See now that's a bit better. You're getting there, but not quite. Keep practicing and get back to us for evaluation.
 
OP why do you keep on venting on a website where random strangers comment without knowing your true situation! I just don't understand how this might help you overcome many difficulties!
My mother always tell me "Never tell your problems to others, half of them don't care and the other half are happy that you are struggling"
Best of luck @dreamadream
 
I don't understand this thread.
My parents grew up in what you would call absolute poverty, my father had to beg his classmates for textbooks in medical school. And I grew up a few years of my life living in a place where people got shot at playgrounds. So I could sort of sit here on some high horse and say "why are you whining ? My parents did it?"
But I won't.
Because wealth makes things easier.
It means you don't have to work during school, that you can have first and second chances on exams like the mcat or the sat, it means you have a safe place to read and study, that you have time to obsess about getting into the "right" college instead of getting into any college. it is the weight of all those cultural and social connections, a colleague of your parents who doesn't mind if you shadow then. If you're angry at people who grew up privileged, who had parents like mine who did the hard work of raising themselves out of poverty, well you should be. As someone who's seen both sides of it, I can say it is definitively easier on this one.

That said, the anger is not going to help you. What you need is real actionable plans to get yourself out of this situation. you are trying to climb up a long hill to the top and it is going to be a longer and harder hill than most other's trajectory.

In the meantime, debt. Debt will allow you to take loans ( small ones) for food.
Move to campus and leave house so you can be in a dorm and perhaps get an on campus job or something.
Keep looking for jobs on campus and close to you.
Never give up. Think of your children and the world you want to offer them.


In the end, what people on sdn desperately try to avoid is that while moving up the social class ladder takes hard work. it also takes a lot of luck.
It takes the right job at the right time. my parents wouldn't have been able to get out of poverty if I hadn't grown up under clinton's america where we were not constantly at war, and the economy was still relatively good. My parent's marriage would never have held together if my dad hadn't somehow against all odds gotten a residency in the most unlikely of ways.

Things are neither as black or as white as anyone likes to believe.

Good luck and don't give up. If my parents had given up, through nights spent pulling all nighters to repass the boards,through days spent sneakily reading index cards of medical terms while in foxholes, through applying for nearly a hundred residencies everywhere in NYC and hundreds of rejections, I wouldn't be where I am today.
 
dreamadream said:
I do not want to be banned because I honestly need this website to get me through undergrad, how do you close this thread cause I'm done with this topic....next thread will be on the classes I'm taking next semester. peace out with the threats.
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You NEED this website?!?! OP, no offense, but I think you need a job 🤣🤣

and also "needing this site" maybe the cause of your predicament... I'll admit that I am a frequent poster here and spend about 10-15 minutes of my day on here but I definitely do not need it...

@Silence in ER

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If the OP is still reading this and if her situation is true...

LOOK FOR A JOB at, near, or on your way to school. You have transportation to school, so use that to your advantage for getting a job.
 
dreamadream said:
I can't afford to take a gap year, I'll be a old hag by time I go into med school.
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If this is sincerely what you believe, then please spend some time growing yourself as a person by talking to physicians, other premeds, PIs and mentors. I don't doubt for a second that medicine is what you want to do, but you ought to know your enemy before fighting this battle.

Edit: Whoops, didn't realize OP was a troll until I read that he "took cabs to school" at UG while complaining about poverty.
 
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Well, as pointless as it turned out to be, the silver lining to this thread (besides being entertained as I waste my time instead of studying for finals) is that I've read some things that have left me in awe of the people who are in or are currently applying to medical schools. I've struggled with anxiety and depression a lot, and I think both of those things make me more inclined to have periods of wallowing in misery and self-loathing. It's a different kind of hell, but I couldn't even imagine having to deal with financial troubles or a severely volatile, dysfunctional family on top of that; maybe it would snap me into shape, but probably it would just break me completely. So, I'll do what OP should have done had she not been a troll and thank @familyaerospace, @Krabbeman, @MrLogan13, @Krupke, @member000000000, @psychtx, @Silence in ER, and anyone else whom I missed who shared their stories. Really, truly inspiring stuff.
 
Slightly upset I poured out my help to a troll. I honestly was like, probably a troll, but maybe on the chance its a real story, I'll try to be inspiring. Then it was a troll.

Edit: I should have known. I'm below the poverty line and my Financial aid (federal + state) completely covers my state school tuition. I actually get reimbursements of nearly $3k/yr. So it should have been extremely obvious when the OPs aid only covered "books and fees". If you truly live in poverty, your aid should cover most to all of your tuition if you go to a cheap state school like I do.
 
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UPDATE #2: Have another job interview on Tuesday along with my second session of therapy. Just don't know about the $500 thing for tuition because it needed to be paid last week soooo.
 
Goro said:
Joining the military and serving your country is always an option.
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Hell yes. My father did twenty so his boys could have a chance. My brother is now an officer, and I'm accepted - I'd say this option is one of the best.
 
@Lawper I'm quite offended you compared me to @dreamadream

OP you might be living in poverty, but clearly you are spoiled because my parents would kick me out of the house for acting that way. Don't let the cycle continue and sit on your ass all day on welfare in the future.
 
lalex said:
@Lawper I'm quite offended you compared me to @dreamadream

OP you might be living in poverty, but clearly you are spoiled because my parents would kick me out of the house for acting that way. Don't let the cycle continue and sit on your ass all day on welfare in the future.
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I know you don't mean anything by your post, but I feel obliged to point out that I grew up knowing many people on welfare and the vast majority of them were extremely hard-working.
 
ZedsDed said:
I know you don't mean anything by your post, but I feel obliged to point out that I grew up knowing many people on welfare and the vast majority of them were extremely hard-working.
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And I completely understand that and everyone I know on welfare is extremely working.

Just saying, OP will be one of those people that gives welfare a bad reputation.
 
I have been there! I had to take care of my disabled brother and my two sister and my niece who turned out to be a surprise(not on purpose) for 2 yrs and worked 2 jobs( As a CNA) all while attending community college without to help of my dad to whom could have helped us! I helped them get on their feet and proceeded to move 4hrs away to attend a university, I have given up a number of times, have been diagnosed with major depression, dysthymia, and PTSD, been on academic probation then suspension and got off by working my ass off also have to work a full time job as a CNA to be able to have housing and food etc. Now I am in my last year of college preparing for the MCAT and a 1 yr Masters of Medical science degree. Life is not always gonna go the way you want it or as fast as u want but don't give up because you will get there eventually and it will all be worth it🙂 promise
 
medskool23 said:
I have been there! I had to take care of my disabled brother and my two sister and my niece who turned out to be a surprise(not on purpose) for 2 yrs and worked 2 jobs( As a CNA) all while attending community college without to help of my dad to whom could have helped us! I helped them get on their feet and proceeded to move 4hrs away to attend a university, I have given up a number of times, have been diagnosed with major depression, dysthymia, and PTSD, been on academic probation then suspension and got off by working my ass off also have to work a full time job as a CNA to be able to have housing and food etc. Now I am in my last year of college preparing for the MCAT and a 1 yr Masters of Medical science degree. Life is not always gonna go the way you want it or as fast as u want but don't give up because you will get there eventually and it will all be worth it🙂 promise
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According to OP, she doesn't need to take care of her mom. She isn't willing to work hard like you did..
 
Woooooooow....I just read through this entire post. I must say : u guys have some sick advice. Thank you! As for OP, you should review what everyone is telling you AND WRITE IT DOWN. PLAN UR LIFE!!! Life is not easy. If you don't learn that by now, you're never gonna be successful. GL.


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I have read through a substantial amount of OP's posts. She actually isn't a troll. She IS of less-than-average intelligence. And I don't mean SDN average intelligence, which I consider higher than the US population. Conscientiousness, analytical intelligence, you name it - low. There is sincerity in the post, but the hate makes it worse than trolling because you don't feel as bad for the troll.

There is a ridiculous amount of rage and addiction to the drugs called social injustice and victimhood which comes from a completely preventable situation caused by parents. There is no point in giving any academic advice to a person who has the temperamental control of a physically-abused 4-year old because you'll end up giving her a 3 hour dopamine hit as she responds to your "ignorance".
 
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