So... basically what I said, except with an attempt to offer a differential diagnosis without having any background information. You have no idea if the OP fits the criteria required for diagnosis of a somatoform disorder, because you have no way of eliminating non-presenting symptoms without actually knowing if they present.
So... if you wanted to agree with me by simply saying that the guy should think about talking to a psychologist for what MIGHT be a stress-triggered issue, then you could have just said, "I agree with what Tin Man said", and not made yourself look like an idiot by trying to one-up me.
what kinda crappy argument is this. i like your fancy language though. well actually i believe the op has aids and lung cancer. dude you just made up stuff...plain and simple. stress suppresses the immune system, but the op was getting bump-like things - not normal. i think you know what i'm saying. that's my pre-med diagnosis and opinion based on the previously unidentified accumulation of information that I have vigorously and exhaustively recovered from my detailed analysis into the individual's psyche through a extensive investigation into the psychosocial rhetoric that forms the foundation for the op's posts.
i'm not sure how you could say this is not stress-triggered, unless the op is lying. that does not require a medical degree. and if you read the dsm-iv (know your stuff fellow psych major), you'll see that the op doesn't come CLOSE to the previous criteria. i wasn't 100% sure so i looked in a book/online. seriously, hit up wikipedia/psych textbook, you will learn a lot about somatoform disorders and never again lose this point in an argument ever again. i can help you on PM if you want, don't make us psych majors look bad!
i also didn't make a diagnosis at all....how do you come up with this idea? i said he had psychosomatic complaints and psychomatic medicine might help him. pretty general advice. its like saying your ankle has inflammation and you might wanna put ice on it.
"Your math is terrible. Assuming he had a 4.0 before this, the average major requires something like ~120 credits. That means a C will drop his cGPA by ~0.07 grade points and his sGPA by ~0.09 points. IF he had a 4.0. The effects are less if he has a more reasonable GPA such, e.g., 3.5-3.8. You're off by a factor of 10.
People are telling him not to fight it because it sounds like he's in the wrong. Even if his symptoms were what he says, he still didn't bother to notify the professor until late that night. Seriously, it takes less than a minute to write that email, and he couldn't be bothered. If I was going to miss a final, even if I had three broken limbs and could barely breathe, that would be one of the first things I'd do.
In addition, fighting it actually could hurt him. If it turns out that his story doesn't completely check out, he could be charged with academic dishonesty. He could also end up taking the same professor for a later course. He could also need a letter of recommendation from the dean or someone else in the department, and if word gets out about how he handled this, he could completely shoot himself in the foot."
yeah you're right, my bad. i meant to put a 0.04, 0.07, etc. regardless of whether he's in the right, he should still fight it if it doesn't hurt him. of course, if he's lying, then he should not fight it. you can easily get a LOR from a different department (unless its his major dept). the point i was trying to get across is that if he is telling the truth, he should try to get back at least a few points. and if the jerk professor gave him a 0 on a Final....um that prof probably doesn't like him anymore.
"Do you accept Oxford? What about United?"
no, but if you want to argue with me about that, I feel like I could be having even more fun. Arguing with premeds is what makes my days.
