Poll: On a scale of 1-10 how much exaggeration is in this video

[mclinkin94]

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[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhNJJ7S0QE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

This is mostly an exaggeration, at least in regard to the college life part. College is easy and enough about the organic chemistry pains, it's not that bad. I don't think I've ever spent more than 2 hours a week studying and I've never dipped below a 3.5 or obtained a C. Furthermore don't try to be special, do what you like when you volunteer, not what you think medical schools will like.

 

[MDschoolorbust]

This is mostly an exaggeration, at least in regard to the college life part. College is easy and enough about the organic chemistry pains, it's not that bad. I don't think I've ever spent more than 2 hours a week studying and I've never dipped below a 3.5 or obtained a C. Furthermore don't try to be special, do what you like when you volunteer, not what you think medical schools will like.

True. Although I did have an 80.67 as my final grade for Orgo 1. So happy I didn't hit the C.

 

[PianoMajor]

Undergrad is just very expensive day care...

 

[circulus vitios]

I graduate next semester. I've never been in my school's library and I've never studied for more than 4 hours a day. Organic chemistry sucked, though. My two lowest grades to date.

 

[Doctor246853]

Undergrad is just very expensive day care...

Not even close to a day care, what school do you go to?

 

[SpecterGT260]

This is mostly an exaggeration, at least in regard to the college life part. College is easy and enough about the organic chemistry pains, it's not that bad. I don't think I've ever spent more than 2 hours a week studying and I've never dipped below a 3.5 or obtained a C. Furthermore don't try to be special, do what you like when you volunteer, not what you think medical schools will like.

Orgo IS talked about like some boogeyman by many undergrads. I remember my undergrad tours clearly and so many people at that level hated it. These were the people who were unaware that analytical and physical chemistry are real things
but yes, there are a good couple pre-med weed-out classes which makes the gen population fear things that really arent that bad.

but this video is not funny enough to watch all 6 min 🙁

 

[Neurosis]

Not even close to a day care, what school do you go to?

fine arts major...

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Not even close to a day care, what school do you go to?

I went to UMD and I can admittedly say that a lot of my courses, especially in the biology and psych department are very daycare-esk. I'm taking mandatory discussions, busy work ( akin to coloring in drawings), wasteful lectures that include the teacher spending more time elaborating upon concepts than actually teaching new concepts, worst of all clicker points ( i.e you're not allowed to skip classes and stay at home to study unless you want to lose about 10% of your total points). I can honestly say that undergraduate is a lot of busy work so you don't end class before 5.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Orgo IS talked about like some boogeyman by many undergrads. I remember my undergrad tours clearly and so many people at that level hated it. These were the people who were unaware that analytical and physical chemistry are real things
but yes, there are a good couple pre-med weed-out classes which makes the gen population fear things that really arent that bad.

but this video is not funny enough to watch all 6 min 🙁

Honestly gen chem 2 was a lot more of a bitch than organic chemistry, though the labs for orgo were probably the worst emotional trauma I've ever had to go through in my life. Not to say that I've never had trauma, I just honestly have had more control over the outcomes in those events than orgo labs.

I can honestly say that I would have considered doing biochemistry, as I do enjoy a lot of the lectures and theory behind the classes. But I just don't have a talent for chemistry in the lab. Sucks for me 🙁

 

[MDschoolorbust]

Honestly gen chem 2 was a lot more of a bitch than organic chemistry, though the labs for orgo were probably the worst emotional trauma I've ever had to go through in my life. Not to say that I've never had trauma, I just honestly have had more control over the outcomes in those events than orgo labs.

Those 5-6 hour blocks made my eyes bleed.

 

[PianoMajor]

fine arts major...

u mad bro?

 

[SpecterGT260]

my gen-eds were pretty daycarey. But i did many of them as a junior and was in discussion classes with freshmen... its like they think they have real opinions....

But then I got over that nonsense and started the chem courses. No more babysitting.

 

[SpecterGT260]

Honestly gen chem 2 was a lot more of a bitch than organic chemistry, though the labs for orgo were probably the worst emotional trauma I've ever had to go through in my life. Not to say that I've never had trauma, I just honestly have had more control over the outcomes in those events than orgo labs.

I can honestly say that I would have considered doing biochemistry, as I do enjoy a lot of the lectures and theory behind the classes. But I just don't have a talent for chemistry in the lab. Sucks for me 🙁

im a chem guy so, while I cannot necessarily understand where you are coming from, I am not gunna dispute it with you 👍

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

im a chem guy so, while I cannot necessarily understand where you are coming from, I am not gunna dispute it with you 👍

Lol, things break, product lost, book is dense and you read sodium sulfate, but you accidentally get the sodium bicarbonate that is right next to it. Meh, and if it happens after two hours of work you honestly feel bad.

 

[MDschoolorbust]

Lol, things break, product lost, book is dense and you read sodium sulfate, but you accidently get sodium bicarbonate, which is right next to it. Meh, I should have learned to cook better before taking orgo.

But on the bright side you learned more about making meth than you ever will in another course. Probably.

 

[thelaw986]

i only watched the first half, and I'd have to say it's pretty darn accurate

 

[tantacles]

I noticed there isn't an 11 in your poll. Tsk tsk.

 

[Aerus]

I would say that it's an over exaggeration of pre-med by a bit, since you won't be studying from 8 until they kick you out unless you're not the brightest student.

The part about medical school is a bit under exaggerated when it talks about the clinical years. Not only will you not sleep for 36 hours+ many times, you will be so physically, mentally, and emotionally beat up that you look forward to going home and memorizing another 10000000 terms.

 

[Koosalagoosagoo]

I feel like I have been studying like a machine for my finals lately.

 

[mclinkin94]

How about the bashing of D.O's.

Did that not trigger any thoughts.

The video said "If you don't achieve the proper GPA and MCAT scores, you get dumped in a D.O. School or Carribean school"

I was very sensitive to that.

 

[Roguelyn]

God, that was awful. Couldn't get past 90sec.

 

[shinbeats]

This is mostly an exaggeration, at least in regard to the college life part. College is easy and enough about the organic chemistry pains, it's not that bad. I don't think I've ever spent more than 2 hours a week studying and I've never dipped below a 3.5 or obtained a C. Furthermore don't try to be special, do what you like when you volunteer, not what you think medical schools will like.

Here we go with that SDN premed crap. I studied 30 mins for the MCAT and scored a 46, I studied 1 hour and got a 5.0 GPA yeah yeah whatever. College is not "easy" it's easier than medical school no doubt but for the norm it's challenging. Roll up to a chsllenging academic institute like UC Berkeley and study 2 hours a week, I'd laugh while you get treated like a cow in a slaughter house.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Here we go with that SDN premed crap. I studied 30 mins for the MCAT and scored a 46, I studied 1 hour and got a 5.0 GPA yeah yeah whatever. College is not "easy" it's easier than medical school no doubt but for the norm it's challenging. Roll up to a chsllenging academic institute like UC Berkeley and study 2 hours a week, I'd laugh while you get treated like a cow in a slaughter house.

We are all entitled to our own opinions, but I honestly I go to a pretty hard school and I don't really find college all that bad. But then again I didn't do the typical premed BS of majoring in something ridiculously hard ( Cough Biochem Cough BME Cough) or trying to overload every semester with hard sciences to *impress* adcoms. So yah, balancing a Bio and Psych major wasn't that bad most of the time, though I won't deny that there were hard times, but generally it was fine.

 

[09ine]

I'm not actually gifted with anything and I don't focus that well, so I do have to spend about 5-6 hours a day just to keep sight of my As. It's a lot of work for my end, but I know there are some super people out there.

 

[Praefectus]

Who else thought that the guy looked like Michael Scott?

Also, I can't wait to find out my MicAyTee score!

 

[Wile]

Who else thought that the guy looked like Michael Scott?

Also, I can't wait to find out my MicAyTee score!

Hopefully it's good or else you might have to attend a DdotO school!

 

[mclinkin94]

Here we go with that SDN premed crap. I studied 30 mins for the MCAT and scored a 46, I studied 1 hour and got a 5.0 GPA yeah yeah whatever. College is not "easy" it's easier than medical school no doubt but for the norm it's challenging. Roll up to a chsllenging academic institute like UC Berkeley and study 2 hours a week, I'd laugh while you get treated like a cow in a slaughter house.

I second that

 

[ur2l8]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhNJJ7S0QE[/YOUTUBE]

Everyone always says organic chemistry (I can't stand the word "orgo") is tough. Ended up being one of my easiest classes to date + really interesting!! Got a 99.9 percentile on the ochem ACS final (also easy).

To me, calc 2 was HARD. Ended up dropping this semester. Got a C in calc 1. Gen Chem is tougher than ochem IMO too. Then again, Math's not my thing.... More of an english-science guy.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Everyone always says organic chemistry (I can't stand the word "orgo") is tough. Ended up being one of my easiest classes to date + really interesting!! Got a 99.9 percentile on the ochem ACS final (also easy).

To me, calc 2 was HARD. Ended up dropping this semester. Got a C in calc 1. Gen Chem is tougher than ochem IMO too. Then again, Math's not my thing.... More of an english-science guy.

Gen chem 2 was in my opinion the hardest prereq course.

 

[mclinkin94]

Everyone always says organic chemistry (I can't stand the word "orgo") is tough. Ended up being one of my easiest classes to date + really interesting!! Got a 99.9 percentile on the ochem ACS final (also easy).

To me, calc 2 was HARD. Ended up dropping this semester. Got a C in calc 1. Gen Chem is tougher than ochem IMO too. Then again, Math's not my thing.... More of an english-science guy.

Nice job in organic chem, what school did you go to?

 

[mclinkin94]

But I must say the poll results seem to go both ways, some say no exaggeration others say a lot of exaggeration. I think that suggests that people have different experiences in pre-med, medical school and residency.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

But I must say the poll results seem to go both ways, some say no exaggeration others say a lot of exaggeration. I think that suggests that people have different experiences in pre-med, medical school and residency.

I'm inclined to believe most undergraduates are ranking it on the low end of the scale and medical school students/ residents are ranking it on the high end of the scale. Premed is not a standardized experience, there are schools that honestly are a complete breeze, such as my states other public school. I know plenty of people who were getting 3.0s here transfered and were getting above a 3.7 their first semester. Likewise there are schools like Cooper and Mud, which are completely grade deflating schools. But i'm inclined to believe that most premeds, at least on here are attending schools that are more on the grade inflating side.

 

[mclinkin94]

I'm inclined to believe most undergraduates are ranking it on the low end of the scale and medical school students/ residents are ranking it on the high end of the scale. Premed is not a standardized experience, there are schools that honestly are a complete breeze, such as my states other public school. I know plenty of people who were getting 3.0s here transfered and were getting above a 3.7 their first semester. Likewise there are schools like Cooper and Mud, which are completely grade deflating schools. But i'm inclined to believe that most premeds, at least on here are attending schools that are more on the grade inflating side.

I can say that I can agree with you on that. I guess that I assumed that only people who have been through it all participate in the poll. I wouldn't understand why a pre med would participate in this poll because they don't understand what its like. I watched this video for the first time (as a pre med) and it opened my eyes on the topic and that lead to creating this poll.