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I understand people coming on here to celebrate when they get accepted to med school, or when they get a good MCAT score, board score, or match to residency, or whatever. What I don't get it is why people who have accomplished literally nothing so often get on SDN and brag their behind off about how awesome they are to people who are far ahead of them. They often fall into one of these categories:

"Medicine would be lucky to have my genius."
"Let me ask your advice for my terrible idea and then ignore it."
"Hey Med students and doctors, I already know more than you. ACCEPT ME!"
"What's that Med student or intern? You're struggling? Not me, I'm awesome at undergrad!"

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what's your favorite category of A-hole? Did I miss one?
 
BabyDaddy said:
I understand people coming on here to celebrate when they get accepted to med school, or when they get a good MCAT score, board score, or match to residency, or whatever. What I don't get it is why people who have accomplished literally nothing so often get on SDN and brag their behind off about how awesome they are to people who are far ahead of them. They often fall into one of these categories:

"Medicine would be lucky to have my genius."
"Let me ask your advice for my terrible idea and then ignore it."
"Hey Med students and doctors, I already know more than you. ACCEPT ME!"
"What's that Med student or intern? You're struggling? Not me, I'm awesome at undergrad!"

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what's your favorite category of A-hole? Did I miss one?
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There's a reason for the ignore button. What's w/ the yapping? Don't you don't have anything better to do than being affected by bs from kids?
 
Black Coffee 24/7 said:
There's a reason for the ignore button. What's w/ the yapping? Don't you don't have anything better to do than being affected by bs from kids?
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Better yet, just ignore the premed forums completely. There is an Ignore Forum feature for that!
 
BabyDaddy said:
I understand people coming on here to celebrate when they get accepted to med school, or when they get a good MCAT score, board score, or match to residency, or whatever. What I don't get it is why people who have accomplished literally nothing so often get on SDN and brag their behind off about how awesome they are to people who are far ahead of them. They often fall into one of these categories:

"Medicine would be lucky to have my genius."
"Let me ask your advice for my terrible idea and then ignore it."
"Hey Med students and doctors, I already know more than you. ACCEPT ME!"
"What's that Med student or intern? You're struggling? Not me, I'm awesome at undergrad!"

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what's your favorite category of A-hole? Did I miss one?
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Any internet forum is an opportunity for people to act in a way they would never dare to face-to-face in the real world. A lot of the people you're referring to have a lot of pent-up angst and they can't let it out in the meatspace so they put up a front here.

My personal favorite is the experts. In reality they only have anecdotal experience and are usually just regurgitating what they've read here - which makes SDN a highly repetitive experience if you've been here long enough. The same posts, with the same questions, followed up by the usual responses, with the usual utterly predictable devolvement into bickering after about a page or so.
 
Anecdotes might be n=1 but someone might be able to apply a tip on getting into a lab, or landing a scribe job, to their own lives. People just need to qualify it as "this is my experience. It may or may not help you."

The regurgitaters are the worst problem on SDN. Not only are they are obnoxious to read, but they perpetuate bad information and over-generalization. The latter can really be a big issue. There's a lot of helpful adcoms around SDN but their word has sort of become gospell regardless of the shape or size of the applicant. What's good for a 22-year-old might not be good for a 26-year-old. "We don't want to hear about your sick great aunt you saw once" soon becomes "ya dont write about ur dead mom. write underserved a lot. the more underserved first-generation transexuals in rural inner cities the better!!!!"
 
My favorite is when people are asking if they need biochemistry before taking the MCAT. Plenty of people say just self-study, even though the test has biochem in two sections. Why act like self studying is a breeze? Just because one person succeeded, it doesn't mean that biochem isn't a huge part of the new test.
 
BabyDaddy said:
I understand people coming on here to celebrate when they get accepted to med school, or when they get a good MCAT score, board score, or match to residency, or whatever. What I don't get it is why people who have accomplished literally nothing so often get on SDN and brag their behind off about how awesome they are to people who are far ahead of them. They often fall into one of these categories:

"Medicine would be lucky to have my genius."
"Let me ask your advice for my terrible idea and then ignore it."
"Hey Med students and doctors, I already know more than you. ACCEPT ME!"
"What's that Med student or intern? You're struggling? Not me, I'm awesome at undergrad!"

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what's your favorite category of A-hole? Did I miss one?
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I've seen plenty of #2 but honestly I can't recall seeing many of your other examples.
 
raiderette said:
Why act like self studying is a breeze? Just because one person succeeded, it doesn't mean that biochem isn't a huge part of the new test.
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This lol. "I self-studied biochem and got a 131 on that section" without putting it into the perspective that you are the guy who plays Halo the entire month before the O-Chem test and then reads the book the night before and rolls a 98 and has a 4.0 GPA.

Unfortunately the same stuff happens in the medical school forums too. It just looks more like this, "I didn't study for boards at all until dedicated and got a 267."
 
My favorite SDN post of all times was a woman asked if she could take the MCAT pregnant. She gets some advice from other women (med students, doctors) who were in her shoes once. Nice supportive advice that she can do it!

And then a male undergrad, who has not taken the MCAT, has to STRONGLY caution her against it because he learned in college that the fetus pushes on her bladder and she'll need to use the bathroom a lot. Just had to get his $0.02 in.
 
Osteosaur said:
My favorite SDN post of all times was a woman asked if she could take the MCAT pregnant. She gets some advice from other women (med students, doctors) who were in her shoes once. Nice supportive advice that she can do it!

And then a male undergrad, who has not taken the MCAT, has to STRONGLY caution her against it because he learned in college that the fetus pushes on her bladder and she'll need to use the bathroom a lot. Just had to get his $0.02 in.
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Sadly, I have seen that outside of SDN too often. A classmate argued with a professor citing an article that She WROTE, because he misinterpreted it.
 
raiderette said:
My favorite is when people are asking if they need biochemistry before taking the MCAT. Plenty of people say just self-study, even though the test has biochem in two sections. Why act like self studying is a breeze? Just because one person succeeded, it doesn't mean that biochem isn't a huge part of the new test.
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The MCAT has biochem now! That stupid test has changed a lot in the past 6 years.
 
My biggest SDN pet peeve is people posting advice about experiences they haven't had yet. I often see M2s and even M1s posting advice about Step 1 as if it's the gospel when they haven't even taken the test yet. I've seen M2 students chime in about their thoughts about clinical rotations, etc. It gets me heated!
 
BabyDaddy said:
I understand people coming on here to celebrate when they get accepted to med school, or when they get a good MCAT score, board score, or match to residency, or whatever. What I don't get it is why people who have accomplished literally nothing so often get on SDN and brag their behind off about how awesome they are to people who are far ahead of them. They often fall into one of these categories:

"Medicine would be lucky to have my genius."
"Let me ask your advice for my terrible idea and then ignore it."
"Hey Med students and doctors, I already know more than you. ACCEPT ME!"
"What's that Med student or intern? You're struggling? Not me, I'm awesome at undergrad!"

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what's your favorite category of A-hole? Did I miss one?
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Osteosaur said:
My favorite SDN post of all times was a woman asked if she could take the MCAT pregnant. She gets some advice from other women (med students, doctors) who were in her shoes once. Nice supportive advice that she can do it!

And then a male undergrad, who has not taken the MCAT, has to STRONGLY caution her against it because he learned in college that the fetus pushes on her bladder and she'll need to use the bathroom a lot. Just had to get his $0.02 in.
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raiderette said:
Sadly, I have seen that outside of SDN too often. A classmate argued with a professor citing an article that She WROTE, because he misinterpreted it.
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bananafish94 said:
My biggest SDN pet peeve is people posting advice about experiences they haven't had yet. I often see M2s and even M1s posting advice about Step 1 as if it's the gospel when they haven't even taken the test yet. I've seen M2 students chime in about their thoughts about clinical rotations, etc. It gets me heated!
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bananafish94 said:
My biggest SDN pet peeve is people posting advice about experiences they haven't had yet. I often see M2s and even M1s posting advice about Step 1 as if it's the gospel when they haven't even taken the test yet. I've seen M2 students chime in about their thoughts about clinical rotations, etc. It gets me heated!
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On the med school page on College Confidential there is a dad who started posting advice before his daughter even was accepted into school. He somehow became an expert on residency when she was MS2.
 
Goro said:
The people who ask for advice, proceed to ignore it, and lash out when they are told why it's a bad idea are the worst for me, closely followed by those who actually get offended by said wise advise.
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They are premed or carib students; cut them some slack
 
Goro said:
The people who ask for advice, proceed to ignore it, and lash out when they are told why it's a bad idea are the worst for me, closely followed by those who actually get offended by said wise advise.
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It's fitting to read this in a thread about people who talk about things they don't know about
 
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