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I'm in need of a good slap. This morning I answered incorrectly in a lecture - the first time ever since I got into medical school (that doesn't say much though, I'm in second year) - I ALWAYS know, and I'm usually first, and I have no idea what happened, I knew the answer, but I was so flustered that my lecturer didn't understand what I meant, and I wasn't given a chance to redeem myself. I hesitated twice during the first half of the lecture, letting excellent opportunities for acknowledgement fall onto someone elses lap. The cursory, 'excellent' doesn't cut it anymore. The perfunctory, 'good work' doesn't satisfy me any longer. Now I'm so despondent that I'm actually bunking a lecture as I type. Decadence sets in like gangrene. As if getting overtaken by some guy, who's on a roll these days (I'm positive he'll be first this year), wasn't enough, the results of our latest exam were released this morning, and I scored in the 87th percentile - lowest mark this year, and someone made a remark that I may be in the running for top student, but that's because I try so hard and if everyone else had to sit up, I'd melt into mediocracy - they weren't nearly so elaborate, but if they had such command of the english language, I'll bet that's what they'd say. I know sulking is hardly earning credit for my character, but I need it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not weak, I've just been having a bad day. Any suggestions on how to keep your cool in a pressurised lecture situation, answering to a decorated professor, whom you've been secretly stalking and reading everything they write?

 

[ninjapenguin]

I farted the other day and thought I had soiled my pants. But I didn't cause it turns out you just have gas and no actual fecal matter when Red Bull is all you live off.
That's the type of dedication it takes to be #1. You don't have it, so just quit school now.

 

[GZA]

Have you thought of other career options?

 

[Prefect]

Your unkindness has me taken aback - but of course I've thought of other career options, and I could pursue them all in time, I'm only 19 after all.

 

[URHere]

(Assuming that you aren't trolling - which I really think you are), I would say that you really really really need to lighten up. If you are this dejected/anxious about saying one incorrect thing and earning a score in the 87th percentile, then I can't even imagine how you are going to cope when you actually do mess up something important.

The reality is that if you keep your grades competitive, consistently beating out all of your classmates on everything really won't mean that much - it will likely just make them uncomfortable around the giant ball of stress and tension that it seems like you are. For your own sake, breathe and get over it.

 

[FoundationsFan5]

Any suggestions on how to keep your cool in a pressurised lecture situation, answering to a decorated professor, whom you've been secretly stalking and reading everything they write?

Well, for starters, you could spell your username correctly when you sign in to SDN.

 

[kastle6797]

I farted the other day and thought I had soiled my pants. But I didn't cause it turns out you just have gas and no actual fecal matter when Red Bull is all you live off.
That's the type of dedication it takes to be #1. You don't have it, so just quit school now.

I love you

 

[bcat85]

Good to hear prefect. I don't have much advice for you though. You should start getting drunk before lecture... maybe you won't be as stressed out.

 

[78222]

Your unkindness has me taken aback - but of course I've thought of other career options, and I could pursue them all in time, I'm only 19 after all.

Future trolls take note at how this troll blew it. With the original post it's quite possible for the OP to have riled up A LOT of people who actually believed he was being serious. However, by following it with this second post, he has clearly exposed himself as a troll. Sure he will still get a lot of naive posters all flustered, but most people will just say "oh, he is just a troll" and move on.

 

[DocPsychosis]

I prefer the technique of hijacking threads that started out as pointless trolls. In this case, I'm thinking "SDN Bacon Station".

I prefer crispy.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Weak, weak trolling.

 

[JaggerPlate]

I prefer the technique of hijacking threads that started out as pointless trolls. In this case, I'm thinking "SDN Bacon Station".

I prefer crispy.

I like it softer.

 

[FutureInternist]

I have yet to experience the taste of this supposedly delicious meat that gets Homer drooling so much 🙂

 

[Ashers]

I prefer the technique of hijacking threads that started out as pointless trolls. In this case, I'm thinking "SDN Bacon Station".

I prefer crispy.

Agreed... AND covered in maple syrup.

 

[PreMedMommy]

OOOOH, I love crispy bacon. But I usually put them in omelettes. With tomatoes and green onions. Chop it all up and let it simmer for a while so all the flavor comes out and mixes together, then slap that in the middle of an omelette, spinkle in a bit of cheese. Yummy!

 

[francisco84]

I like it softer.

I am ALL about the softer bacon. Crispy often has a little bit of a burned taste to it, and I like to chew my meat rather than have it shatter into pieces.

Also, Biscuits! with or without gravy but ALWAYS smothered in butter

 

[Lopyswine]

omg, I love crispy bacon with maple syrup. I am just about to head to they grocery store and I think I'll be buying bacon...

 

[da8s0859q]

Funnier than these lame-ass posts is the fact that people still post crap like this in an attempt to be amusing.

 

[Julietcf14]

I farted the other day and thought I had soiled my pants. But I didn't cause it turns out you just have gas and no actual fecal matter when Red Bull is all you live off.
That's the type of dedication it takes to be #1. You don't have it, so just quit school now.

I am studying for finals next week and that totally made my day.

I am currently on the coke zero diet. It makes me less gassy!


As to the OP, I always wondered what happened to the kids on the premed board who posted stuff like "I have a 41T and 3.97 GPA from Harvard, I cured cancer, and I saved 30 kids from a burning orphanage last week.... Do I even have a chance of getting in to medical school or should I just get a job at Burger World????" Now I know what happens to them...

 

[calnation]

Way funny. Come on guys lighten up.

 

[digitalising]

I prefer a mix - where the edges are crispy and the center is soft. It makes a nice contrast in the mouthfeel, and you can better appreciate the interplay of the fat and the meat.

 

[Gimlet]

I prefer a mix - where the edges are crispy and the center is soft. It makes a nice contrast in the mouthfeel, and you can better appreciate the interplay of the fat and the meat.

That's how I like mine, too. It should be getting close to crispy, but still soft enough to bend it without snapping in two.

 

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[nogolfinsnow]

I prefer a little crispier in a sandwich (perhaps a BLT or a nice egg sandwich) and a little softer when served as a side to 2 eggs sunny side up with a stack of blueberry pancakes with syrup and butter.

 

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[digitalising]

Full disclosure, I had chewy bacon on pizza tonight and it was heavenly . . . (if anyone is hanging round Houston St in NYC, you owe it to yourself to stop by Arturo's).

So, what's your favorite way to eat bacon? Straight up? With maple syrup? On pizza? On a BLT? In a stromboli?

That pizza sounds really good. I like bacon in all forms - wrapped around scallops (the Costco version is really good), by itself, with eggs, etc. The most odd thing I do is when I eat it with pancakes - take a piece of pancake, a piece of bacon, and some ketchup and mustard. It's awesome.

 

[Prefect]

Nice

This is the most dissappointing display I've seen in a long time. Trust me.

I haven't had time to read your excrement since I've got red-bull to drink. To the gentleman who wrote that statement, do you know what plagiarism is? It's when you take someone elses idea and portray them as your own in order to impress.

After reading the first ten replies, I became clear that all those who use such things as 'forums' suffer from varying degrees of gliosis localised to the prefrontal cortex - and I was one of them for a time. Case and point - the person who advised me to spell my own pseudonym correctly when I log on - you foolish pest. I take it that you didn't go to a private school? All have at least two PREFECTS, meaning leader. Or else you're not privy to ancient roman government? haven't heard of Praefectus dux? Oh, I don't know, open a book or two. Invest in some education why don't you. I call YOU troll in reference to the mythical creature notorious for unrivalled stupidity with nothing but mindless force to drive them.



I go to a 'foreign' medical school - yes, where it is not uncommon, and actually, the norm, for a student to enter medical school as an undergraduate. Yes, I know, why the hell did I think that any one of you would have anything useful to say - something like how to prepare for lectures, or stuff like that. All I needed was a little help advice. Not insults. And bad ones at that - what are your lives like? poverty will do that to you, so maybe there's hope for you yet. But I suppose if you live in a sophomaniac society, you cannot be blamed for thinking in borborygm, glad to rely on someone else's innovation.

Don't bother writing those unjustified insults you were planning to hurl at me, for I have used this thing for the last time, I just wanted to say - shame on you for being openly stupid.

And, I am a medical student. And I'm quite good. Very good. I'm writing an exam today - wish me luck.

 

[MonkeyNuts!]

This is the most dissappointing display I've seen in a long time. Trust me.

I haven't had time to read your excrement since I've got red-bull to drink. To the gentleman who wrote that statement, do you know what plagiarism is? It's when you take someone elses idea and portray them as your own in order to impress.

I take it that you didn't go to a private school? All have at least two PREFECTS, meaning leader. Or else you're not privy to ancient roman government? haven't heard of Praefectus dux?

I go to a 'foreign' medical school - yes, where it is not uncommon, and actually, the norm, for a student to enter medical school as an undergraduate.

Yes, I know, why the hell did I think that any one of you would have anything useful to say - something like how to prepare for lectures, or stuff like that. All I needed was a little help advice. Not insults. And bad ones at that - what are your lives like? poverty will do that to you, so maybe there's hope for you yet. But I suppose if you live in a sophomaniac society, you cannot be blamed for thinking in borborygm, glad to rely on someone else's innovation.

Don't bother writing those unjustified insults you were planning to hurl at me, for I have used this thing for the last time, I just wanted to say - shame on you for being openly stupid.

And, I am a medical student. And I'm quite good. Very good. I'm writing an exam today - wish me luck.

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

Don't bother writing those unjustified insults you were planning to hurl at me, for I have used this thing for the last time

Glad you found a way to improve this forum after all. Don't let the door hit you in the a** on the way out!

 

[digitalising]

Nice

This is the most dissappointing display I've seen in a long time. Trust me.

I haven't had time to read your excrement since I've got red-bull to drink. To the gentleman who wrote that statement, do you know what plagiarism is? It's when you take someone elses idea and portray them as your own in order to impress.

After reading the first ten replies, I became clear that all those who use such things as 'forums' suffer from varying degrees of gliosis localised to the prefrontal cortex - and I was one of them for a time. Case and point - the person who advised me to spell my own pseudonym correctly when I log on - you foolish pest. I take it that you didn't go to a private school? All have at least two PREFECTS, meaning leader. Or else you're not privy to ancient roman government? haven't heard of Praefectus dux? Oh, I don't know, open a book or two. Invest in some education why don't you. I call YOU troll in reference to the mythical creature notorious for unrivalled stupidity with nothing but mindless force to drive them.



I go to a 'foreign' medical school - yes, where it is not uncommon, and actually, the norm, for a student to enter medical school as an undergraduate. Yes, I know, why the hell did I think that any one of you would have anything useful to say - something like how to prepare for lectures, or stuff like that. All I needed was a little help advice. Not insults. And bad ones at that - what are your lives like? poverty will do that to you, so maybe there's hope for you yet. But I suppose if you live in a sophomaniac society, you cannot be blamed for thinking in borborygm, glad to rely on someone else's innovation.

Don't bother writing those unjustified insults you were planning to hurl at me, for I have used this thing for the last time, I just wanted to say - shame on you for being openly stupid.

And, I am a medical student. And I'm quite good. Very good. I'm writing an exam today - wish me luck.

Your original post said you needed a good slap. You got one. What are you complaining about?