Signs of Douchebaggery Amongst Dental Students

[phremius]

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- Not doing the work you're supposed to for a group project, and then claiming how "you had too much work to get to it". Bull****! We have the exact same classes, exact same schedule, exact same amount of work.

- Signing off all your emails with:
Name
Doctor of Dental Surgery Program... when you're emailing your own class! We know what the **** program of study you're in, you don't have title in jack ****, get rid of it.

- Claiming that you're just looking to pass and not specialize, but study so much and be so uptight that the air in your rectum gets compressed to industrial grade diamond.

- Being that whiny whiny girl who complains to the row instructors about how you just can't seem to do the wax-ups properly.... and then gets the instructor to do a huge chunk of the work.

- Anything that involves the prospective students who are interviewing....

- Staying up at 3am, and making up an asinine list of douchebaggery instead of getting drunk or studying for the 3 exams coming next week.

 

[dinesh]

Dont blow a gasket

 

[Audio]

I enjoyed it 😀

 

[dinesh]

I'm actually guilty of one of those 😛

 

[Rezdawg]

I'll keep the list going...

- whining on a dental message board.

 

[Zurik5]

Douchebaggery, that's a funny word... Douchebaggery

 

[OMFSCardsFan]

My personal favorite was when people (women) would cry when a project didn't go as planned. We had an instructor who used to walk around our pre-clinical removable pros lab picking up people's projects and taking them up to the video feed. I loved it.

Our Microbio professor was awesome, too. No bullsh*t with this guy. Anyone who walked into his office to complain about a test question would receive a crisp, blank McDonald's application into his/her hand.

I got so sick of all the bitching and moaning that people did in dental school. No, life isn't that tough. No, life isn't that hard. If you'd spend half as much time studying or putting forth some effort as you do trying to convince everyone how much worse your life is than everyone else's, then life would probably be much easier. Ironically, the people who complain about not having enough time to study will always find the time to tell you the 3-hour woeful story of their lives.

 

[HuyetKiem]

I'm actually guilty of one of those 😛

So am I !

 

[vaio]

My personal favorite was when people (women) would cry when a project didn't go as planned. We had an instructor who used to walk around our pre-clinical removable pros lab picking up people's projects and taking them up to the video feed. I loved it.

Our Microbio professor was awesome, too. No bullsh*t with this guy. Anyone who walked into his office to complain about a test question would receive a crisp, blank McDonald's application into his/her hand.

I got so sick of all the bitching and moaning that people did in dental school. No, life isn't that tough. No, life isn't that hard. If you'd spend half as much time studying or putting forth some effort as you do trying to convince everyone how much worse your life is than everyone else's, then life would probably be much easier. Ironically, the people who complain about not having enough time to study will always find the time to tell you the 3-hour woeful story of their lives.

nice post...so ur conclusion is that women bitch too much.... i agree,,,haha just kidding, i luv women

 

[burmafrost]

what about skipping class / lab and leave ur partner to work by themselves while you stay home to study for an upcomming exam while everyone else is working.

 

[Beestieboy]

Anyone who walked into his office to complain about a test question would receive a crisp, blank McDonald's application into his/her hand.

LMAO!!! I'm gonna remember that one. Heck, I need to get a stack on those for the complainers I run into now!

 

[Typo]

I'll keep it going, just for fun. 😛

- Sandbagging, and repeating stories about all the uber-geniuses walking around who barely study and ace tests.

 

[mkathan]

Number one douche bag move. Listing all of you stats like anyone gives a ****. Grow up and don't post on a douche bag post when you are one. Call me when you come and visit my school and I will set you strait.

 

[aphistis]

Number one douche bag move. Listing all of you stats like anyone gives a ****. Grow up and don't post on a douche bag post when you are one. Call me when you come and visit my school and I will set you strait.

Play nice, folks. This is an entertaining thread, don't do anything dumb to make me close it. 😉

 

[DcS]

last time i used the words douchebag i got semi-banned 👍

 

[OMFSCardsFan]

Number one douche bag move. Listing all of you stats like anyone gives a ****. Grow up and don't post on a douche bag post when you are one. Call me when you come and visit my school and I will set you strait.

When you were trying to own the other poster, saying that you would set him "strait," did you mean set him in a narrow channel between two bodies of water or "straight"? I suppose that after he visits your dental school, you can visit my grade school. Don't worry...lots of people have to retake fourth grade spelling...

 

[Maxillicious]

People talking on their cellphones in the library discussing last nights re-run episode of Sex in the City at the top of their voices...WTF??

 

[teefRcool]

all in all i think if u are in dental school u get some bragging rights. Cmon. You work all your life from childhood to make it in. You gotta freaking show something off or say something were not robots here. Its what spices up life.

 

[DrTacoElf]

Whining if you don't get an A on your waxup. It just angers the professors and they grade everyone harder the next time 🙄

 

[12YearOldKid]

Whining if you don't get an A on your waxup. It just angers the professors and they grade everyone harder the next time 🙄

Totally agree with this one. It drives me crazy to hear all the gunners who whine and complain trying to barter for a few more points on every single grade. They will spend hours going through every single question on the test trying to think up ways to get that extra point.

It just ticks off the professors so they are reluctant to make adjustments when they are truly warranted. That behavior alone is enough to keep me from wanting to teach.

 

[3geminal]

Haha! I'm guilty of some of the above!

But I don't...

-steal instruments from other students

-ignore constructive criticism, only to whine the next time that I **** it up EXACTLY how the instructor said it would

-ask other students "what's going on?" or "what are we supposed to do?", when clearly detailed instructions and supplementary lestures have been provided (****ing WAKE UP! It's called being prepared)

-talk trash about patients in areas where the public can hear

 

[jk5177]

Ah, great threads like this that keeps me away from studying...

~ People complaining about how time consuming, boring, and pointless a class is. (Hello? This is dental school, and it has started for a while, we all know it's not easy, why not save the energy from complaining and channel that to learning. For those that I've offend, don't jump on me.)

~Upperclassmen obviously giving more attention to the girls in my class than the guys. And some do it so obvious that it is funny. (I'm too polite to point it out, but they ought to know that girls are very intuitive and will sense these kind of behaviors)

~Somebody, whoever it is throwing a Halloween party the weekend before midterms week. ("Ugh, do you really expect us to show up?")

 

[jk5177]

Claiming that you're just looking to pass and not specialize, but study so much and be so uptight that the air in your rectum gets compressed to industrial grade diamond.

- Staying up at 3am, and making up an asinine list of douchebaggery instead of getting drunk or studying for the 3 exams coming next week.

Love this OP.

What was that slinging muscle that keeps the rectum closed? ???
Those guys need to send a nerve impulse down the general somatic efferent fibers to relieve themselves.

Phremius, studying for hte 3 exams coming next week, and finding your porn? Did you ever locate them?

 

[flat4]

We have a few guys that ALWAYS finish their exams in 15 minutes no matter how tough or long. The same insecure people every exam. It's like there's a prize for finishing first or something. And when they finish, they make alot of noise to let everyone know THEY were finished first and speed walk up to the professor to be the first one to hand it in.

I sat next to one during an exam and I could tell he was keeping tabs on how fast I was turning the pages so I was turning faster and faster just to **** with him. He started fidgeting really bad and you could tell he was sweating. As soon as he finished, he jolted out of his seat and b-lined it to the prof. I guess if it makes you feel smart. Any of you guys have people like this at your schools?

 

[dinesh]

That used to be me in highschool..though I always topped the classes I did it in..heh
It was fun....

 

[jk5177]

The only time that I ever did that was an exam for my traffic school.

~How about those people who always ask questions in class, and their questions somehow is always a bit tangential, and out of scope of what the professor is trying to convey. Then everyone have to listen to the question, and then the professor repeats that the question is not the depth that will be covered on the exam.

 

[Sprgrover]

...Our Microbio professor was awesome, too. No bullsh*t with this guy. Anyone who walked into his office to complain about a test question would receive a crisp, blank McDonald's application into his/her hand...

I love it! I think I might borrow this idea myself and pass them out to some of my classmates.

 

[bpenly]

I love it! I think I might borrow this idea myself and pass them out to some of my classmates.

Agreed. My wife is a professor and I have been begging her to do this for her first year students. Hilarious.

 

[toofache32]

We have a few guys that ALWAYS finish their exams in 15 minutes no matter how tough or long. The same insecure people every exam...

I had 3-4 of those in my dental school class. Every one of them are now general dentists in the middle of nowhere. Here's my point: you dental students need to worry more about the "closet gunners" (like I was) rather than the loud-mouths who are all talk...they're also full of $hit. If they're actually trying to get somewhere beyond dental school (specializing) then they will keep their damn mouths shut if they're actually doing well.

 

[12YearOldKid]

~Upperclassmen obviously giving more attention to the girls in my class than the guys. And some do it so obvious that it is funny. (I'm too polite to point it out, but they ought to know that girls are very intuitive and will sense these kind of behaviors)

Of course they "sense these kind of behaviors." And that behavior is rewarded. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. Positive reinforcement, buddy.

Dental school is one of those rare times in life where just being older makes you cooler. Kind of like high school. Take advantage of that. Don't be jealous; it'll be your turn soon enough. 😀

 

[12YearOldKid]

We used to have people finishing 50 question exams in like 10 minutes if it was mostly repeats from old tests. We had to get together as a class and make a rule that you had to sit their and pretend to busy for AT LEAST 20 minutes so the professors didn't think it was too easy.

That being said I am often one of the first ones to finish an exam - and it is usually because I didn't have a clue what the answers were. It doesn't take long to fill in 100 random bubbles on a Scantron. 😀 Definitely not something to brag about.

The people who usually do the best on the exams are the guys still sitting in the room 2 hours later until the professor kicks them out. They have usually finished the exam about an hour earlier but they are in there checking for the fourth time to see that there are no discrepancies between their scantron bubbles and their test answers. Then they need to time to write all the little paragraphs beside each question explaining why they chose the option they did and how other options really had some merit. Basically just legal disclaimers that will allow them to argue with the professor later. And if they still have time after all that they will just sit there reading the exam again and again - I guess in the hopes that they will somehow remember some obscure piece of trivia that will get them that one extra point.

 

[OMFSCardsFan]

I had 3-4 of those in my dental school class. Every one of them are now general dentists in the middle of nowhere. Here's my point: you dental students need to worry more about the "closet gunners" (like I was) rather than the loud-mouths who are all talk...they're also full of $hit. If they're actually trying to get somewhere beyond dental school (specializing) then they will keep their damn mouths shut if they're actually doing well.

I was one of the fast finishers...I always wanted to get to the golf course...

This kinda extends into the rest of my life, too. Ask my girlfriend...she hates it when I golf...heh heh...

 

[dinesh]

I'm looking forward to getting to year 2...watch out 1st years

During essay/structured paper exams I usually put my head on the desk for a couple of minutes after I'm done, and more often than not some crap comes to my head that would be great to write on paper 😉 Managed to ace a bunch of exams like that.
It's really funny when I pop up from my snooze smiling..I swear last time the examiner jumped as well.

 

[gryffindor]

The people who usually do the best on the exams are the guys still sitting in the room 2 hours later until the professor kicks them out. They have usually finished the exam about an hour earlier but they are in there checking for the fourth time to see that there are no discrepancies between their scantron bubbles and their test answers. Then they need to time to write all the little paragraphs beside each question explaining why they chose the option they did and how other options really had some merit. Basically just legal disclaimers that will allow them to argue with the professor later. And if they still have time after all that they will just sit there reading the exam again and again - I guess in the hopes that they will somehow remember some obscure piece of trivia that will get them that one extra point.

Haha, I was one of those exam takers. Until I got to the Part II boards where I shocked myself with how quickly I finished that exam.

 

[flat4]

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying finishing early is a bad thing...I've finished one or two early myself (thank you back tests). It's the same two or three people that HAVE to finish first every single exam no matter the situation and make a scene about it to let everyone know that they were done first. I really think it's an insecurity issue. As someone mentioned earlier, the professors start to think the exam is too easy (just a few weeks ago, we had a 68 question exam we had to finish in 50 minutes and when we asked the prof if he could make it a little shorter next time, one of his arguments for not changing it was the fact that some people had finished in 15 minutes...even though most of the class needed all the time 🙄 ).

 

[OMFSCardsFan]

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying finishing early is a bad thing...I've finished one or two early myself (thank you back tests). It's the same two or three people that HAVE to finish first every single exam no matter the situation and make a scene about it to let everyone know that they were done first. I really think it's an insecurity issue. As someone mentioned earlier, the professors start to think the exam is too easy (just a few weeks ago, we had a 68 question exam we had to finish in 50 minutes and when we asked the prof if he could make it a little shorter next time, one of his arguments for not changing it was the fact that some people had finished in 15 minutes...even though most of the class needed all the time 🙄 ).

Stop whining and learn to work faster. Unless, of course, you want to be a periodontist. Then, by all means, take as much time as you need...

 

[flat4]

Stop whining and learn to work faster. Unless, of course, you want to be a periodontist. Then, by all means, take as much time as you need...

Just ordered Hooked on Phonics. And Perio is my backup specialty in case you were wondering...right behind Dental Public Health, but not that far behind.

 

[Dr.BadVibes]

Just ordered Hooked on Phonics. And Perio is my backup specialty in case you were wondering...right behind Dental Public Health, but not that far behind.

hey whats wrong with dental public health douchebag

 

[flat4]

hey whats wrong with dental public health douchebag

 

[dinesh]

 

[toofache32]

 

[flat4]

It's okay, this Canadian needs to be put in his place 😉

Back on topic:
-ALWAYS asking others for back exams/copying others notes (b/c you're too cool for lecture) yet, when you finally get your hands on a back test no one else has, you hold out and keep it to yourself.

-Asking a professor a question from a back exam by taking the actual back exam to them and asking them directly from it. (This ones more stupidity than D-bagging)

-Telling your professor that the exams are not fair because they are too similar to the back exams and to change the exam questions on the following one. Yup, this really has happened here and by more than one person 🙄

 

[3geminal]

-Asking a professor a question from a back exam by taking the actual back exam to them and asking them directly from it. (This ones more stupidity than D-bagging)

For real??? This happened at our school too! I think you should automatically get kicked out and given a Mcdonald's application for this one. Although they'd probably **** up the fries too...

 

[HuyetKiem]

-Telling your professor that the exams are not fair because they are too similar to the back exams and to change the exam questions on the following one. Yup, this really has happened here and by more than one person 🙄

Yeah, couple peoples in my class too. They also complained about this matter to other professors as well. 😡 😴

 

[dinesh]

We have a prof that more or less only brings questions from a Multiple choice anatomy book he published 😉
Studying for his exams is such fun

 

[sjdent]

- *******es who waste our already boring senior Pros class time by asking, "so, the other day, I was seeing this patient, and I used Visco-gel, and uh...blah blah blah..." and then they and the prof basically have a one-on-one 10 min. long conversation with the rest of the class just staring at the two of them, deep in conversation...for the love of God, SHUT UP!! And it's always the same damn people.

- Totally agree about the fast test-takers - always the same people, too. Not a race. Not a race. Repeat.

 

[Midoc]

- Totally agree about the fast test-takers - always the same people, too. Not a race. Not a race. Repeat.

I take tests rather fast actually and I try to make as little noise on the way out as possible but when you're the only person moving in a room of people getting bored reading questions then it becomes hard to be inconspicuous. Some times there is a bit of a competetive component to it but it would really only be between the other fast test takers. Mostly though I do it because I do better on tests that way. I read a question, know the answer, pick it out of the list and go on. If I don't know an answer right away I'll flag the question and come back to it. I find that agonizing of a question is usually a waste of time as I don't get those right more often than if I just go by gut instinct.

 

[OMFSCardsFan]

Totally agree about the fast test-takers - always the same people, too. Not a race. Not a race. Repeat.

If it's not a race, why are you acting like a sore loser? When I took a test in 10 minutes, it was because I studied and knew the answers. It takes approximately 10 seconds to read a question, another five to read the choices, and maybe another five to fill in the bubble. What takes 50 minutes? Maybe if you spent less time whining and more time studying, it wouldn't take you all day to finish either...

All of you complaining about fast test-takers are probably the same ones that were always picked last for the recess kickball game. I'm was so happy to finish dental school so I didn't have to listen to anyone whine about the "smart kids" anymore. Give it a rest. I must have missed that part in the Student Handbook about hanging around an extra twenty minutes after a test so that the rest of the class can feel better about their performance. Grow up, man. Or, get some Paxil to help you deal with your feelings of inadequacy.

 

[phremius]

10% of any segment, be it college, dental school, whatever, are smart
10% are dumb
80% are average Bs and Cs students.

By now you know what group you fall under. Accept it and move on. I have.

 

[toofache32]

....Grow up, man. Or, get some Paxil to help you deal with your feelings of inadequacy.

....or one of the vacuum pump thingies.