What NOT to do your first year of med school...

[tchantel21]

okay then. I'll just repeat. Lighten the F*ck up.

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Now that's a good look for you dear. Let's stick with that. 🙂

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[TiggidyTooth]

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Now that's a good look for you dear. Let's stick with that. 🙂

You really are possessed (sp?) to get the last word in aren't you.

 

[joe6102]

The frustrated SDNer who feels like the thread has been hijacked into something very different than the OP intended, all because some people are overly sensitive and must vent their insecurities publicly by attacking others.


[Inertial dampeners online...bracing for impact.]

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Imagine if some of these people tried to watch an episode of the Dave Chapelle Show.....or Chris Rock stand-up 😱

 

[j0v1al]

two words...

"white privilege"

why colored individuals can't lighten the f*ck up is because of centuries of institutionaled racism and persecution that enables people to shrugg off ignorant statements such as the original story of debate and all of the responses supporting it.

don't try to tell african americans, or any colored person, when he/she should "lighten" up after a ridiculously ignorant post. Are you crazy? It's easy to stand by such nonsense on internet posts, but I got my money that you wouldn't ever say anything like that in real life, especially in the presence of those you offend.

 

[j0v1al]

oh,

props to tchantel and his articulate explanations. quite erudite if i should say so myself. you should start a blog or write a blog somewhere. i for one would read it. 👍

 

[wolferman]

oh,

props to tchantel and his articulate explanations. quite erudite if i should say so myself. you should start a blog or write a blog somewhere. i for one would read it. 👍

I like how you immediately assume that because a person is articulate in their explanations, they must be male (note your use of the word "his"). I'm sure it never occurred to you that tchantel might be a female?

😉

 

[darkjedi44]

two words...

"white privilege"

why colored individuals can't lighten the f*ck up is because of centuries of institutionaled racism and persecution that enables people to shrugg off ignorant statements such as the original story of debate and all of the responses supporting it.

don't try to tell african americans, or any colored person, when he/she should "lighten" up after a ridiculously ignorant post. Are you crazy? It's easy to stand by such nonsense on internet posts, but I got my money that you wouldn't ever say anything like that in real life, especially in the presence of those you offend.

That's all well and good...however, this thread is called "What NOT to do your first year of med school...", not "Lets all see how politically correct we are and compare E-peens." If you have an issue with something someone said, please, complain in PMs...its why systems like that exist!

WITH THAT SAID, lets please get back to amusing stories🙂

 

[ForbiddenComma]

Ack, stop the flame war please. This started off as such a funny thread. And being a white male, I have no right to talk about racial things anyway.

Not that I believe in generalizations, myself... Oops, time to drive over in my BMW SUV to Pottery Barn for some wine glasses. Where's my Norah Jones CD? Is it under my DVD of "Sideways"? Drat, no. Well, there's always Radiohead

 

[aragonh]

WITH THAT SAID, lets please get back to amusing stories🙂

Yes, Lets please get back. Any MedStudents w/ more stories??

 

[NPursuit]

don't try to tell african americans, or any colored person, when he/she should "lighten" up after a ridiculously ignorant post. .

Lighten up, jackass.

And that goes for all the other highstrungs on this thread.

Some people. 🙄

 

[Ambs]

Gosh, this thread USED to be cool. 🙁

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

Gosh, this thread USED to be cool. 🙁

Seriously!

ENOUGH, CHILDREN!

Racism is bad. If you want to talk about that some more, start a new thread entitled "Racism is bad", "So-and-so is anal", "So-and-so doesn't understand racism because of his white privilege", or "Stereotypes aren't always wrong". I don't care who starts it or what you call it, but PLEASE-- take this discussion out of this thread. I don't care whose "side" you're on, you must agree that this conversation is not appropriate for this thread. If you want to continue bickering, take it elsewhere. Like PMs, for example. Just not here.

Now. Any other on-topic posts?

 

[njbmd]

Hi there,

In the interest of getting back to the original topic another story:

This story is from my Department Chairman: Back in the day when my chairman took his General Surgery Board exams, getting the results back took months. After you had taken the written exam, you would be subjected to a grilling by the board called the oral exams. (This has not changed but you get your results back a little sooner).

My chairman remembered being lectured by the examiners and told not to call the Board under any circumstancs to inquire about results. He said that he had been so nervous but he remembered that stern warning. "Don't call the Board!"

He had gone onto fellowship and several months had passed when his fellow physician colleagues kept coming in and announcing that they had received their certificates for passing the boards. One by one had made the happy announcement but for him, no certificate. He kept remembering, "Don't call the Board under any circumstances." ; so he continued to wait.

After a couple of weeks had gone by and his colleagues were beginning to smirk and hint that he might not have passed the Boards, he was starting to feel a hint of despiration. Still, he did not call the Board.

When his birthday rolled around several weeks later, his wife presented him with his certificated neatly framed as a birthday present. He said that he didn't know whether to kill her or hug her since she had no idea of the ribbing he had been taking by his fellow physicians.

Moral of the story: Don't call the Board! Let you wife know that holding onto your certificate is a bad idea.

njbmd 🙂

Let's get back on topic for this thead or it will be closed.

 

[xSTALLiONx]

I'm sorry but u sound more than a bit judgemental. Have you ever had a conversasion with "ABW"? Do you know her life experiences? If you did, could you truly empathize? Does her facial expression in conjunction with her being black lead you to the definitive conclusion that she is cut from the same fabric as the decidedly ignorant "angry-black-man"? Also the "ABW" designation probably seems cute and convenient to you for inside-joke-type discourse. That's fine, but IMHO, it should've stayed right there...inside that is.

angry white man/woman exists too
when a person looks angry, it sucks for them.. they just have that facial structure where the edges of their mouth curve down instead of up and their eyebrows point town toward their nose instead of up above their nose..

ie. Angry White Woman..

She might be happy nice woman but her droopy face shows "anger".. You're inability to recognize that and categorize her into Angry White Woman (AWW) would put you as borderline ******ed PC loser

Same is with Omarosa from Apprentice..

Just because he said Angry Black Woman.. doesn't mean he is racist..

Plus, being a Pre-Med, I would think you have the reasoning and intellect to understand that humans are pattern recognizing machines.. they place things into clusters or groups.. this means having a category for angry black woman, angry white man, white-trash man, british hooligan..

For example, I categorize Russel Crowe into Angry White Man... but I still admire him for his talent.. etc.. but he will always be an angry white man unless he smiles in that moment that I see him in a picture.. it's just his outside...

And i refused to not judge a book by its cover.. too Politically correct + against the human way of analyzing a thing at first glace to determine danger and then categorize it into a group/create a group for it..

I hate politics.. and hate political correctness even more.. and it seems the PC crowd is mostly liberals.. so I hate them more than anything.. 👎 😀

 

[Psycho Doctor]

if you decide to watch a surgery, don't pass out

if you do pass out, try to avoid any sharp metal objects/machines on the way down and at least have the decency to wait until the procedure is over 😳 😳 😳

yea tell mm about it. i was shadowing a doctor and saw a heart transplant. I passed out cold and on my way down i conveniently hit the sterile tray and sent sterile instruments flying all over the place. 😳 Next time I'll have to strategically plan where to fall if i decide to pass out again. 😀

 

[Psycho Doctor]

if you decide to watch a surgery, don't pass out

if you do pass out, try to avoid any sharp metal objects/machines on the way down and at least have the decency to wait until the procedure is over 😳 😳 😳

ok this is the third time i have typed this b/c right now sdn is sucking...

when i was shadowing a physician i observed a heart transplant and passed out cold, but not before hitting the sterile tray on my way down, sending sterile instruments flying all over the place. 😳 Next time I'll have to strategically plan where to fall if i decide to pass out again. 😀

 

[Psycho Doctor]

How To Be Really Popular: Interpersonal Tips

- leave your cell phone on at all times, with the ringer on as loud as possible. There is no need to miss an important call just because you're in lecture.

- arrive late for lecture every day. Walk across the front of the room. Sit in the middle of a row. You have more important things to do than be courteous to the lecturer. Bonus points for skateboarding or rollerblading into class 10 minutes late.

- if the lecture is boring, do your best to amuse people sitting close by - talk about your hair, your new girlfriend, etc.. Shoot spitballs. Play games. Keep things interesting. If the person in front of you shoots you an evil look, remember that they are just a boring lameass gunner. Bonus points for skateboarding or rollerblading out of class after 20 minutes - why waste your time?

- when checking test results, if you got a perfect score, be sure to pump your arm in the air and loudly say "yeah! another perfect test!" It is best if several people hear you, so they can share your happiness.

- if you miss a question or two on a test, it is best to announce your frustration loudly in public while you are standing next to other people. Hopefully you will demoralize someone who was feeling good because they actually passed.

- if other students are not doing well, it is not your job to help them. If they can't cut it, they should leave. What good will it do you to spend your time helping them?

- if you are doing well at school, and enjoying your weekend trips to places like Aspen and Paris, be sure to let others know. A good way to do this is a class-wide e-mail that directs people to a web site with photos from your fun trip.

- if you have taken anatomy before, you can ensure a perfect dissection by taking command of your group's cadaver. Do not allow other inexperienced students to mess up a good dissection and decrease your grade; they will learn just as much by observing.

Maybe some of this sounds a little far-fetched. People in my class did all of this, and more. Please spare your future classmates this kind of stuff.

some of those were hysterical. come on someone didn't really skateboard late into the classroom??

 

[Psycho Doctor]

What's interesting to me as a black woman is not that you quoted an SNL skit or that tchantel21 responded to with probably the best posts I've EVER read on SDN.

What's interesting to me is that had "angry black woman" been "angry white woman" and been hit in the face with a snowball by 2 black male medical students playing around, the students would probably gotten their next view of snow from a jail cell.

you're probably right! 🙁

 

[criminallyinane]

angry white man/woman exists too
when a person looks angry, it sucks for them.. they just have that facial structure where the edges of their mouth curve down instead of up and their eyebrows point town toward their nose instead of up above their nose..

ie. Angry White Woman..

She might be happy nice woman but her droopy face shows "anger".. You're inability to recognize that and categorize her into Angry White Woman (AWW) would put you as borderline ******ed PC loser

Same is with Omarosa from Apprentice..

Just because he said Angry Black Woman.. doesn't mean he is racist..

Plus, being a Pre-Med, I would think you have the reasoning and intellect to understand that humans are pattern recognizing machines.. they place things into clusters or groups.. this means having a category for angry black woman, angry white man, white-trash man, british hooligan..

For example, I categorize Russel Crowe into Angry White Man... but I still admire him for his talent.. etc.. but he will always be an angry white man unless he smiles in that moment that I see him in a picture.. it's just his outside...

And i refused to not judge a book by its cover.. too Politically correct + against the human way of analyzing a thing at first glace to determine danger and then categorize it into a group/create a group for it..

I hate politics.. and hate political correctness even more.. and it seems the PC crowd is mostly liberals.. so I hate them more than anything.. 👎 😀

I think it's less about how things are categorized and more about the fact that it seems in our society, people only describe someone's race in conjunction with their attitude, persona, or physical descriptors when that person happens to be a minority.

I am not really on either "side" in this argument but I see both points. I also sympathize with tchantal because I feel s/he has spoken pretty eloquently and her views have not been given much respect simply because she is against the majority opinion on this thread.

Think of it this way - how often do you hear, "Some whites moved in across the street." Hardly ever, right? But what if it was a black family? Far more often, you'll hear someone say, "A black family moved in across the street." (Just an example.) Why do we feel the need to insert one's race when they are a minority? Does that give us additional information that we need to understand the anecdote? Not usually. But it seems to happen anyway - and mostly with just minorities.

 

[PiccoloPlaya]

Norah Jones is half Indian herself...just thought that was kind of funny...

And being a white male, I have no right to talk about racial things anyway. Not that I believe in generalizations, myself... Oops, time to drive over in my BMW SUV to Pottery Barn for some wine glasses. Where's my Norah Jones CD?

 

[Will Hunting]

This thread is great. Many of you gave great advice. The thread was hijacked. I thought the joke was funny as did most people. I think that people need to lighten up. Could the guy involved be viewed as bigoted and ignorant? Yes. However, that wasn't his intent. He was just trying to tell a funny story. Chantel calm down, they weren't being racist. Look at DAve chappelle. He makes millions making jokes about black stereotypes. Who do you think buys most of his dvds? It's white america. It's unrealistic and hyprocritical to have people hear and see funny stereotypes and not reference them. It doesn't make one racist, so calm down. Anyway, keep the posts coming.

 

[hunniejl]

yea tell mm about it. i was shadowing a doctor and saw a heart transplant. I passed out cold and on my way down i conveniently hit the sterile tray and sent sterile instruments flying all over the place. 😳 Next time I'll have to strategically plan where to fall if i decide to pass out again. 😀

Any tricks to avoid passing out during your first surgery? Like pinching yourself or wringing your hands? 🙂

 

[hunniejl]

tchantel, please stop being a hypocritical snob. i am a minority and was not offended by the original post. even though you were, that's no reason to completely discredit, invalidate, and insult every opinion differing from yours.

by the way, you're really not as eloquent as you think you are, so please stop with the insulting remarks regarding the writings of other posters.

 

[WUcrewbie]

tchantel, please stop being a hypocritical snob. i am a minority and was not offended by the original post. even though you were, that's no reason to completely discredit, invalidate, and insult every opinion differing from yours.

by the way, you're really not as eloquent as you think you are, so please stop with the insulting remarks regarding the writings of other posters.

Amen to that. And back to more hilarious stories...

 

[PiccoloPlaya]

At our school someone rollerbladed into physiology lecture half an hour late and crashed into a back table. The whole class (at least the people who come to class anyway) were in hysterics but the professor (who uses hearing aides) didn't notice because he was facing the board...that student has not been seen since October of 2004, and my best friend was his ex-roommate and told me he just one day packed up and left school...but then my friend was expelled from school in December of 2004 because he was playing disgusting pranks with the cadavers so neither has been heard from since.

some of those were hysterical. come on someone didn't really skateboard late into the classroom??

 

[carrie198]

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[ForbiddenComma]

but then my friend was expelled from school in December of 2004 because he was playing disgusting pranks with the cadavers

:O

Sounds like a good story for this thread. 🙂

 

[Kazema]

Not medical school, but one of my friends used to come into the lecture hall, sit in the front row, put on his sunglasses, lean back, and PUT HIS FEET ON THE PROFESSOR'S TABLE and go to sleep!!!

He did this every single day. The professor never said a thing.

 

[DrJ2B]

My group's cadaver, for lack of a better word, was very juicy, so when I tried to cut through the one-inch thick layer of fat on his back (yes, it was hella-gross) to get to the muscles, I got massively squirted with cadaver juice.

Lesson to be Learned: Do not cut taut skin and fat quickly, even if there are massive amounts of it. It will only get you splizzashed with cadaver juice and mocked by a 2nd year who says you reek of "Eau de dead old man". 🙄

 

[andrew88]

Judging from your misappropriated anger, profanity, and "twig and berries" (not to mention your quote) you yourself have a flair for making your own ignorant folly theatrical and amusing.
Others have delineated my simple point quite well for me already, but if things are still nebulous let us now examine the phrase "angry black man/woman". Let us gain an understanding as to why people like me don't get to share in the laughter after reading a post like this.

My neuro professor always has an discomfitingly contemtuous look on his face --he always seems to be angry. He is also white.

If I perceive him to be angry and white, yes he meets the "demanding criteria" (awk) for being an "angry white man".

Somehow, though, the phrase doesn't resonate with the same uncomfortable derision as the more familiar "angry black man" epithet. Why?

Well since you entirely missed the gestalt of my first post I will keep my conclusion brief and simple so that even an individual with limited reasoning ability and poor judgment can follow along:

The phrase "angry black man" carries with is a number of implications and caustic notions about blacks and the way they perceive themselves and the world. The phrase "angry white man", on the other hand, simply names 2 seemingly unrelated traits and does little in the way of comic ingenue. Thankfully though, "angry-black-man" is good for hours of All-American fun and loads of laughs. It can also be applied (offensive, stereotypic implications and all!) indiscriminately to every person that has the gaul to be unfriendly AND be black at the same time...the nerve.

But I'm not here to censure your thoughts. Be as sheltered and ignorant as you wanna be in the dimly lit arena of your mind. Share your witty racial banter with friends and loved ones. Just use common sense when your foolishness might actually be heard beyond the green hills of Kentucky. You may be bold on SDN but trust me when I say that even YOU, with all your bombastic candor would not have the gall to tell a story like this in a room with me in it -- this I guarantee.

In any case, my post was far from controversial. The needless diatribe, the cursing and the "twigs and berries" comment leaves little room to wonder what type of individual you are. So cheers to you, dynx -- a veritable buffet for your trollish appetite 👍

I think you should watch Chris Rock Uncensored, maybe get a little laugh out of it.

 

[winstonm]

I'm starting med1 in a few weeks, but I've learned one thing from this thread: do not waste precious time writing lengthy posts while contributing to the 1345707th SDN post that went off topic and ended up revolving around race.

The snowball story could have been told with the same effect while leaving out the B in ABW, though.

 

[redruby]

What's up with all these people rollerblading into class late? Are they trying to show off how "cool" they are? I don't get it! This girl in my class used to rollerblade into class late every day and instead of entering the lecture hall from the back like everyone else, she would rollerblade right in front of the lecturer to the opposite side of the class. Everyone else would roll their eyes and hope she'd eat it someday.

Maybe if you're running late, you strap them on to get to class faster and then you don't want to waste time taking them off before you go in? I have no idea. I don't know how to rollerblade so luckily, I'll never have that problem.

 

[TheFlash]

don't be the idiot who feels the need to read every assigned chapter in the reading from every assigned text book. stick to lecture notes/slides/review notes/review books. you'll retain everything you need to know for your tests and the highest yield info for your upcoming step I exam. brs and high-yield pwn.

 

[tchantel21]

tchantel, please stop being a hypocritical snob. i am a minority and was not offended by the original post. even though you were, that's no reason to completely discredit, invalidate, and insult every opinion differing from yours.

by the way, you're really not as eloquent as you think you are, so please stop with the insulting remarks regarding the writings of other posters.

😕 I stopped posting here days ago hun. Please stop the flaming (proper terminology?) I'm not going for literary prowess here hunniej. My goal is to be clear. If some people felt that my posts were well written that was their take, not mine.

 

[Deleted member 72527]

don't be the idiot who feels the need to read every assigned chapter in the reading from every assigned text book. stick to lecture notes/slides/review notes/review books. you'll retain everything you need to know for your tests and the highest yield info for your upcoming step I exam. brs and high-yield pwn.

pwn?

 

[Paws]

At our school someone rollerbladed into physiology lecture half an hour late and crashed into a back table. The whole class (at least the people who come to class anyway) were in hysterics but the professor (who uses hearing aides) didn't notice because he was facing the board...that student has not been seen since October of 2004, and my best friend was his ex-roommate and told me he just one day packed up and left school...but then my friend was expelled from school in December of 2004 because he was playing disgusting pranks with the cadavers so neither has been heard from since.

Holy cow! are you serious?! that is too funny (I think ... ).

Yeppers, we have had:

1) coming into class ten minutes late with high heels, and a big cup of starbucks and wanting to sit in the middle of the row. Then chit-chattng with girlfriends all morning about hairstyles, guys or whatever.

2) people who are perhaps bored with the lecturers' (yes, ALL lecturers) style and so they conduct their own mini lecture within a lecture. I know, I know what you're already thinking: isn't that just the niftiest idea in the world? aren't you sorry you did think of that one yourself? Too late buddy. What you need to do is sit with your several other, equally bored friends who are clearly too smart for this two-bit class, and you sit there in the front wth the students who are trying to get away from the other students in the back of the class who talk all through lecture. But you're not like them! You want to be down front with the other smarties. Anywhoo, so you all sit together in the third row of our tiny little lecture hall, which is crowded because we don't have a note service so you are royally scr^wed if you don't come to class. But! you each sit and pontificate over what you feel REALLY are the correct answers to what the lecturer is ignorantly not telling us. Sometimes you ask a far out question, but then since you are so busy with your own individualized mini-lecture, you just tune the prof out and go back to your friends and their continuing discussion.

If other classmates ask you to pipe down or shush you, even tho they may do this many times, just ignore them because obviously your need to study in a way that suits you is the most important thing here. They obviously don't understand.

3) And another thing, when there is free food at a lecture (which is there so that students will come ... how sad ...), please do not go down to the front of the room, take a whole pizza box and seven cans of soda and then leave the lecture hall so you and your friends can have your lunch outside in peace. Some people actually may want to hear the speaker, and even ! have a slice of pizza.

4) please don't whizz empty soda cans over the heads of your fellow classmates trying to score a rim shot with the trash can which, unfortunately - but what a challenge! - is halfway across the lecture hall. And, if the soda can is still full, I would also reconsider this strategy as heavy soda cans careening in someone's immediate direction can cause some serious anxiety and trauma.

Other than that, just use your best judgement and try and keep a sense of humor - and an outside life.

 

[wolferman]

The comments Paws made about food related faux pas (pun intended) reminded me of another annoying don't:

When someone passes around a sign-up list for a meeting that you don't want to go to, don't show up later just because you find out there is free food. Several times we were short at meetings because some inconsiderate person stole the food of someone who had signed up rightfully.

 

[Pythagoras]

pwn = own (to beat or to dominate)

used in the context of the above poster, those texts he listed dominate all others on the subject.

it is gamer terminology (leetspeak), ie. ::: i pwn nubs :::


if you like FPS'ers or you know the game CounterStrike you will think this is hilarious, if you dont, and just wanna see a really crazy guy playing some games still check it out, it is funny as hell

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/toomuchcs.html

 

[Indryd]

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/toomuchcs.html

Ok, as a *not so proud* CS l337xxxor, I gotta say that was funny...

"What do you mean? Everyone runs faster with a knife!"

"What happens if I get lag out there in real life? I heard there's not even respawn points in *RL*"

gg

 

[Pythagoras]

sweet. im not the only computer nerd here 😛

my favorite line... " I can dance all day..I can dance all day , try an hit me "

 

[welovelamarodom]

here's a funny story

fatty and skinny went to bed. fatty rolled over and skinny was dead.

that is all. i love kobe.

 

[Indryd]

here's a funny story

fatty and skinny went to bed. fatty rolled over and skinny was dead.

that is all. i love kobe.

Ok, you f'ed that all up:

Fatty and skinny sleepin' in bed
fatty laid a fart and skinny was dead
fatty called the doctor and the doctor said
"one more fart like that and we'll all be dead!"