instigata said:
Man I don't like undergrad professors anymore, they hate on pre-meds so badly. I guess it's because they never made it 🙄 Just today my professor made fun of me for being pre-med because I'm trying to learn "too much of the details, like every other pre-med out there." I say screw off and let me do whatever I want!
As a future physician, and at the very least a member of society, I wouldn't get too bothered by such things. Everyone has their own views of things just like you have your view about "anti-premed" professors. Although you did mention that you were being sarcastic about professors being that way due to "never making it", making the comment alone is still not a good attitude to have. In a way, I actually find it offensive, since I'm a PhD student. But I can understand your frustrations so I don't take it personally
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From my point of view, the stereotypical pre-med is one of the worst kinds of people to be around and have to deal with. In all honesty, when someone in class asks several questions in one lecture, I would think they were a pre-med. There is no such thing as a stupid question, but there is a place and time to ask for specific questions. Some professors encourage questions all the time, but as a courtesy to others in the class, I would save extensive, detail oriented questions until after the class or during office hours.
I recently took an undergraduate class which fell behind 5-6 lectures due to such questions, and I along with the 9 other graduate students were quite annoyed. Due to stereotypical pre-med characteristics, some of our med school and vet school professors have called these pre-meds "premees"..lol.
As QinQuimica said, pre-meds have a bad reputation, but regardless it behooves you to act better than pre-meds. It is understandable that you want to understand things, but at the same time, if you are coming off as a "stereotypical premed" then it only benefits you to adjust your actions to move away from that stereotype. First impressions are always important.
