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Anybody got an explanation?!
Anybody got an explanation?!
Anybody got an explanation?!
It's easier to be a tool than to put some originality into your life.
Im not a tool
Talawanda destroyed us in Hockey.Dude - did you graduate from Talawanda? Because we might know each other!
yeah - I've got a friend who had a 36 on the MCAT, but was rejected from all his state (Cali) schools, and was waitlisted at only MCW, and got in very, very close to the first day of orientation. Lots of people assume that a high MCAT = easy applications. So, someone who's concerned might get a lot of angry responses from people who think that they've got it easy.i wonder that too.
i've been trying to figure out why people are so mean on here...sometimes i'll read someone's question and think it's perfectly legitimate so i'll respond. then two minutes later, i'll see 5 other mean responses, attacking the OP. and some people just tend to really come across as being stuck-up know-it-alls when they're actually in the same position as the rest of us.
i don't get it.
Most pre-meds are annoying tools. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one to see this. Hopefully, we won't feel the same way in med school.
Aren't you a little ray of sunshine?I'm afraid to tell you that med school is FULL of pre-meds (do I need to say "duh"?).
Sorry. The tools will still be there, in larger quantities, under the same roof, and with a higher stress level.
It's only going to get worse.
Aren't you a little ray of sunshine?
Yeah. It seems that the application process weeds out the less obnoxious ones.
Let me add that once these tools successfully get in, they treat it as an affirmation of their "greatness," and therefore increases their obnoxiousness exponentially.
Haha
And unlike limited enzymes, they do not have such thing as "saturation levels." The curve just keeps going up and up and up exponentially. It's like an unlimited enzyme supply!!!!! It just keeps catalizing the obnoxiousness/toolness of these people.
By your enzyme kinetics analogy, sounds like you're taking biochem now.
I'm taking anatomy, so I'll just compare them to the rectoanal junction. Goes from bad to worse.
Anybody got an explanation?!
Baylormed, are you a guy? Jk...
Anyway... this whole 'tool' thread -- it just reminds me of that saying of the pot calling the kettle black. Perhaps merely by posting on SDN alone, other non-posters would consider you all to be 'tools'?
I don't think I'm a tool and try not to ever act like one, but then again, people always form their own judgments (sometimes in spite of all evidence to the contrary). So... who knows, really? I don't care what other people think. If I'm trying to get into medical school, I will do what I can... and then if I'm in, then I'll do my best to get as good grades as I can... I don't intentionally put anyone down and I always try to help people out in the meantime, even in the face of disagreements.
Just trying to say that starting a 'tool' thread such as this is playing with fire -- who is to say that others don't consider you a tool?
The only true tools out there are the trolls that put other people down and/or complain about their applications in such a way that it is really bragging about their stats -- every other pre-med, to me at least, is just doing what s/he can to try to succeed in medical school and that is a perfectly acceptable course of action (remember, this is just my point of view).
i wonder that too.
i've been trying to figure out why people are so mean on here...sometimes i'll read someone's question and think it's perfectly legitimate so i'll respond. then two minutes later, i'll see 5 other mean responses, attacking the OP. and some people just tend to really come across as being stuck-up know-it-alls when they're actually in the same position as the rest of us.
i don't get it.
I'm afraid to tell you that med school is FULL of pre-meds (do I need to say "duh"?).
uhhhh.....I think you're gonna have to explain that one to me.
Now you're just playing with me, aren't you?
The reply to your post: No.
I'm afraid to tell you that med school is FULL of pre-meds (do I need to say "duh"?).
Sorry. The tools will still be there, in larger quantities, under the same roof, and with a higher stress level.
It's only going to get worse.
Anybody got an explanation?!
i wonder that too.
i've been trying to figure out why people are so mean on here...sometimes i'll read someone's question and think it's perfectly legitimate so i'll respond. then two minutes later, i'll see 5 other mean responses, attacking the OP. and some people just tend to really come across as being stuck-up know-it-alls when they're actually in the same position as the rest of us.
i don't get it.
It's the constipation.
I know a premed who would wear scrubs around as an undergraduate. He'd wear 'em while working a computer lab.
I've read on here stories about how premeds shadow in a hospital and pretend to be a doctor, even answering phone calls and saying "This is Dr. so and so, please send the lab results to so-and-so".
Some premeds like to begin every conversation with an initial exchange of MCAT score-results. "Hey, man I only got a 36 on the MCAT, that sucks. How'd you do? At least a 34 I'm sure!"
My favorite are premeds who argue over a single point, or some other meaningless small amount of credit, on a test or homework. "This 94 is not good enough, I demand a 95!"
Anyone else wanna add more traits to characterize advanced on-set Premed Syndrome?
Tools exist in every area of academia and occupation. I am an engineering major and would have to say most of my professors this year are tools. They act the same way as premeds when they talk about all the research they do.
Says the guy who's name is mirror-todd....