Well, you'll excuse me, your highness-ness, for being merely a lowly premed in the presence of the great, world wise med students here. In my own defense, I've only been paying taxes for eighteen years, much of which as a firefighter/emt. I get to meet all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds in all sorts of situations, so I get where the students in the video are coming from, and where those offended by the video are coming from. I'm all for blowing off steam with crude jokes in an appropriate setting, but a large part of our training as physicians and other professionals is learning to be wise decision makers. On that point, these students failed miserably.
However, my post here was not about the video, but about how many posts on this thread defending the students framed the debate as "hard working students" vs. "entitlement seeking n'er-do-wells". After several years of reading threads on this site, I've learned that many of the posters here have overdeveloped senses of self-importance and feel that 8 or 10 years of hard work should lead to instant respect and high pay. I'm here to tell you it does not. Hard work leads to more hard work, and respect is earned or lost on a daily basis. Those of you with real world experience should know this, and those of you without should try to learn it without getting bitter. If you learn to respect others, they will respect you, if you cannot respect others no one will respect you.
