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I got accepted into a mediocre, second rate pharmacy school somewhere in the great United States of America. Although I possess a proficient level of intelligence, I know nothing about pharmacy practice, and I have horrible ADHD and behavior problems. I was inspired by “Tales of IT,” (google it, it’s hilarious), and I realized that my life as a pharmacy student has become eerily similar. I am sitting in a useless lecture at this very moment and I’m bored. These are my stories.
 
  • First day of class, we have biochem lab

  • Instructor is 50-ish year old world-weary woman who was a pharmacist like 30 years ago

  • Insists at the top of her lungs that we wear disposable lab coats and re-use them, gives us zip-lock bags

  • A BEAGGY

  • “Grab a BEAGGY for your LAYUB FRAHK”

  • I laugh the whole time and I fudge all the answers on my lab report, everything after the 1st page is scribbles

  • Future pharmacist of America
 
Yobogoya said:
First day of class, we have biochem lab
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What's the point of biochemistry lab in pharmacy school? The only lab we had was for compounding, which actually is relevant to pharmacy practice.
 
I am on board for this thread. I am a fan of mockery of stuck up pharmacy educators.
 
  • Be day 2,

  • get my lab report back, grade is 100, despite the fact that i scribbled incoherently all over it

  • “Didn’t read lol”

  • Biochem professor gives us a pop quiz

  • “There are 4 questions and 1 bawnus”

  • Wtf is a bawnus? It appears to be pharmacy language for the word “bonus”

  • It’s on blackboard so we get to see our answers when we’re finished

  • My grade is 125%, didn’t even study

  • Looks like I got the bawnus

  • Professor spends 15 minutes futzing with the projector, I play sudoku
 
You guys seem to be enjoying my ADHD- fueled pharmacy school misbehavior, so I will continue to post when I can, here is day 3:

  • We have a new class today, it’s about drug information
  • The professor is literally Mr. Mackey from South Park personified
  • He tells us that he does not use tinder or grindr and therefore he has no online presence
  • He reads slides out loud for 50 minutes, at least my teachers can read
  • “Mmmmmkay” between every sentence
  • A classmate starts keeping a tally
  • He reaches over 61 “mmmmkaaays” in 50 minutes
  • Mmmmkaaaay
 
Alright, last one for tonight:

  • Be the following week
  • 8 am pharmaceutical calculation class, joy to the world
  • The teacher tries to teach us volumetric conversions but she can’t keep her units straight
  • This one also has trouble getting the projector to work, eventually we do nothing in class, so I play clash of clans on my phone
  • Somebody in China raids my village and takes all my gold
  • I curse out loud in the middle of class, all 110 of my classmates stare at me
  • The teacher pauses but continues struggling with the projector
  • I could probably help but I’m too busy fortifying my defenses
  • Eventually I get my gold back by the end of class
 
RxVampire said:
Disrespectful youth these days...maybe one day you'll realize your incoherentness won't be of any help in the real world. Real good waste of time & tuition
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It's more likely that he's just acting out in order to relieve stress.

We had a guy just like him in my class.
Social problems, but he expressed himself by being a meme-master.

They use internet humor as a prosthetic personality
 
RxVampire said:
Disrespectful youth these days...maybe one day you'll realize your incoherentness won't be of any help in the real world. Real good waste of time & tuition
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I'm actually trying to drop out, I met with the dean's office for two hours this morning and they basically spent the whole time begging me to stay because they want MUH DOLLARS. Here is day 5:

  • We have our first patho exam, this is the only class I have actually studied for so far
  • I am geared up for med school pathology
  • 1st question on the test is what color are red blood cells
  • Well I guess they’re blue
  • 100 emoji
  • Later in the exam, a question asks which of the following is not a form of ionizing radiation: X-rays, gamma rays, or whale songs
  • I go with whale songs, apparently the proctor does not like students who laugh during exams and I get a warning
  • This is an idle threat so I don’t mind
  • That night, I look at my patho grade on blackboard, it’s curved to a 119
  • Class average is a 55, Rho chi or die
  • It’s a message from god
  • I crush beers in the library and play WoW on my school’s high speed internet while my classmates complain on facebook about the patho exam
 
Yobogoya said:
I'm actually trying to drop out, I met with the dean's office for two hours this morning and they basically spent the whole time begging me to stay because they want MUH DOLLARS. Here is day 5:

  • We have our first patho exam, this is the only class I have actually studied for so far
  • I am geared up for med school pathology
  • 1st question on the test is what color are red blood cells
  • Well I guess they’re blue
  • 100 emoji
  • Later in the exam, a question asks which of the following is not a form of ionizing radiation: X-rays, gamma rays, or whale songs
  • I go with whale songs, apparently the proctor does not like students who laugh during exams and I get a warning
  • This is an idle threat so I don’t mind
  • That night, I look at my patho grade on blackboard, it’s curved to a 119
  • Class average is a 55, Rho chi or die
  • It’s a message from god
  • I crush beers in the library and play WoW on my school’s high speed internet while my classmates complain on facebook about the patho exam
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How old are you?

If you're in pharmacy school you're probably too old to be such a 4 Chan parrot
 
Do you go to TSU? everything sounds so familiar
 
Caffeine QAM said:
I am so curious as to what school this is, if this is in fact real.
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Sadly it is very real, I wish it weren't... I will probably stop posting on here since people are getting offended.

I wanted to use this avenue to vent about how ridiculous my pharmacy education has been. All of my friends and family think I'm crazy for dropping out and that pharmacy is a secure, safe profession with opportunity for advancement and a long stable career. Last April there were 30,000 pharmacist jobs on glassdoor. Right now there are 11,000. There are literally more P4s in pharmacy school right now than there are job openings for pharmacists in the US. Go look for yourself: https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/jobs....t&sc.keyword=pharmacist&locT=&locId=&jobType=
(other sites like monster and careerbuilder are posting redundant job listings)

I feel like I'm chicken little yelling that the sky is falling and no one is listening to me.

This afternoon my teacher fell asleep IN HER OWN CLASS! She made the new faculty hire lecture, and she sat in the 2nd to last row and she slept for 80 minutes. We all have videos of her snoring in her own class. This is the same woman who wrote the top 200 spreadsheet for the P1s and wrote down that every atypical antipsychotic was indicated for seizures. Every single one, aripiprazole, quetiapine, risperidone, clozapine, all had an indication of seizures and epilepsy. SHE WROTE THAT CLOZAPINE WAS INDICATED FOR SEIZURES!!!!!!! IT HAS A BLACK BOX WARNING!!!!!! This woman was in Rho chi, she has done a PGY1, a PGY2, she has her BCACP certification, she teaches 3 courses in my program, and she thinks that clozapine is indicated for seizures. I had to show her the black box warning on Lexicomp to convince her that it might not be ok to give it to an epileptic patient. This is who is educating and precepting the new grads who are going to be working with you.

The take-home lesson here is that if you are faculty at a pharmacy school or a preceptor, I am begging you to please, please take some pride in your work. Don't be like the faculty in my program. The dean won't even let me drop out. I have a 30-rack in my fridge that I'm going to drink belligerently in the front row in class tomorrow if the dean continues to refuse to sign my program withdrawal paperwork so I can get thrown out and leave this nonsense. I want nothing to do with this place, I am out.
 
Yobogoya said:
Sadly it is very real, I wish it weren't... I will probably stop posting on here since people are getting offended.

I wanted to use this avenue to vent about how ridiculous my pharmacy education has been. All of my friends and family think I'm crazy for dropping out and that pharmacy is a secure, safe profession with opportunity for advancement and a long stable career. Last April there were 30,000 pharmacist jobs on glassdoor. Right now there are 11,000. There are literally more P4s in pharmacy school right now than there are job openings for pharmacists in the US. Go look for yourself: https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/jobs....t&sc.keyword=pharmacist&locT=&locId=&jobType=
(other sites like monster and careerbuilder are posting redundant job listings)

I feel like I'm chicken little yelling that the sky is falling and no one is listening to me.

This afternoon my teacher fell asleep IN HER OWN CLASS! She made the new faculty hire lecture, and she sat in the 2nd to last row and she slept for 80 minutes. We all have videos of her snoring in her own class. This is the same woman who wrote the top 200 spreadsheet for the P1s and wrote down that every atypical antipsychotic was indicated for seizures. Every single one, aripiprazole, quetiapine, risperidone, clozapine, all had an indication of seizures and epilepsy. SHE WROTE THAT CLOZAPINE WAS INDICATED FOR SEIZURES!!!!!!! IT HAS A BLACK BOX WARNING!!!!!! This woman was in Rho chi, she has done a PGY1, a PGY2, she has her BCACP certification, she teaches 3 courses in my program, and she thinks that clozapine is indicated for seizures. I had to show her the black box warning on Lexicomp to convince her that it might not be ok to give it to an epileptic patient. This is who is educating and precepting the new grads who are going to be working with you.

The take-home lesson here is that if you are faculty at a pharmacy school or a preceptor, I am begging you to please, please take some pride in your work. Don't be like the faculty in my program. The dean won't even let me drop out. I have a 30-rack in my fridge that I'm going to drink belligerently in the front row in class tomorrow if the dean continues to refuse to sign my program withdrawal paperwork so I can get thrown out and leave this nonsense. I want nothing to do with this place, I am out.
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I mean, you do... you do know you can just stop going... right?


EDIT: By the way, I wasn't offended.

I just personally think people who spew "internet humor" like you do shouldn't be babied.
 
So you only got into a cut rate school, and your plan is to drop out and go to med school? lol. This has to be a joke.
 
You probably can't afford to drop out. Dropping out doesn't erase student loans and after P1 year it's do or die because an undergrad degree likely won't be able to get a job that can pay off the loans.

Also, ACPE should exist to protect the public from schools like this if this is in fact real. No such program should remain accredited.
 
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