joooj86 said:
LSR1979 said:
From the different dental students (from different schools) I've spoken to, this HIGHLY varies depending on what dental school they attend.prazmatic said:
), we go out, you can definitely have a social life in dental school. My classmates are amazing and we have a great time when we go out. I am not trying to compare Med and Dental school, but our med students tell us all the time that we have it much harder. They are in class from 8-12 and are free for the rest of the day. Dental school is extremely demanding and there will be times when you are like "I can't take anymore", but somehow it always works out! Good luck!! 
joooj86 said:DcS...it sounds like u are attending harvard. well i hope you can cope with the hell hole u live in..as far as ur boards. i suggest u dont even show up
First you start a thread asking people to tell you about dental school life, then when someone responds, you make fun of him?joooj86 said:
joooj86 said:
Who is the third one, their nanny??jpollei said:DcS can't win a hand to save his life (online or in Vegas)...and he forgot to mention his 30-hr a week part-timer on the side to cover his poker losses.
I'm sure it varies for everyone. I'd say my school is relatively stringent clinically and didactically as compared with many friends at other places (that will remain unnamed to prevent banter). We haven't had anyone fail out of our class at UNC--as yet--with 6 months to go till graduation...even DcS. No summer make-ups here because we go to school year round, so yes we do study then.
1st and 2nd year class or clinic 8-5 M-F; I studied about 1-2 hrs/night Mon-Sat on average and did fine (top 5%, 95 part I). Took Sunday off. 3rd year still 8-5, but very little evening studying. 4th year is 10-4, long lunch (like most places). Work part-time...just 4-5 hrs/week on average since start of 2nd year (though that includes being paid for some of the research I do).
Each weekend is spent chilling with 3 ladies (before you get crazy ideas, two of 'em are my daughters). Life is great, especially 4th year. Just gotta hang around school enough to get my clinic attendance credit so as to graduate.
Life as a DDS student is great, if you make it that way.
aphistis said:
joooj86 said:chill...i thought he was being sarcastic..i mean i didnt expect someone in D4 to have his day like that...but thats good news i guess..good luck on ur boards dcs
about the 3 ladies for a second i thought d4 turns u into someone like the owner of playboy
....until you realize it's a train.divertete said:
Rezdawg said:
Sprgrover said:
sjdent said:
I had a few of those days where everything went great, the patients were on time, and you had good faculty. It really made me leave school those days feeling like a million dollars. But that was definately the exception... most of the time I felt like a buck-fifty.aphistis said:Today:
Rounds from 8-9, listened to a couple case presentation discussions from classmates, helped myself (as usual) to coffee & bagels brought by our clinic director. Tricky class IV resin took the whole morning session (9-12), I'd never had to rebuild the entire distal half of a tooth before, particularly with the adjacent proximal surface cavitated too. After lunch, saw an easy perio patient at 1:30, root planed his upper arch and convinced him to let me put a few GI's on exposed roots next time so he doesn't brush his teeth in half. Out of the building by 3, went to the gym, home about 4:15.
Clinic days aren't always great, but this one was definitely a keeper.
Rezdawg said:
superchris147 said:
Tzips said:Yeah - it is NOT like undergrad, at least not my undergrad - some classes it takes all I can do just to pull a C+. When you try to cram in all of (very detailed) human physiology into one trimester, things get bad.
