You Know You Are A Neurotic Premed When...

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hahaha......I wish I had time to waste.
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My friend is that way. She wants to go on prescription speed so that she would not have to sleep and waste time anymore 😱
 
When you are responding to random threads to get your posts up
 
when you get a 45 S on your MCAT and ask AAMC to re-grade your writing sample.
 
theserbatron said:
when you program your gmail account to forward any e-mails to your cell phone that come from a domain ending in ".edu" (somebody on here posted a thread about that... 😱)
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Busted :meanie:
 
You are neurotic if you check for your MCAT score on THx 5 times a day a week before the score release date. GUILTY AS CHARGED!! But, ended up with a 31N. It could have been worse.
 
You aliquot your ejaculate.
 
You constantly check the "Official Rejection Thread" with ambivalence...
 
When you always compete with total strangers in your class, and after you get your test back you go around asking random people what they got on the test.
 
Techmed07 said:
SDN is your equivalent of Facebook
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I'm always checking SDN and my boyfriend is always reading a law school forum. sooo I guess we're a neurotic pre-professional couple. SDN is better than facebook, because with SDN I can pretend I'm being productive and preparing for my future.
 
.... when all your midnight restroom breaks are accompanied by checking your email and SDN ...
 
You argue with your TA during office hours about that one point she took off your homework for "something that is just not important."
 
pakbabydoll said:
When you always compete with total strangers in your class, and after you get your test back you go around asking random people what they got on the test.
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Guilty 😳 lol
 
pakbabydoll said:
When you always compete with total strangers in your class, and after you get your test back you go around asking random people what they got on the test.
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that's so true!
 
you feel obliged to ask questions even though you already know the answers (because you were neurotically reading med school websites the night before)when an interviewer asks, "so do you have any questions?"
 
double post
 
pakbabydoll said:
My friend is that way. She wants to go on prescription speed so that she would not have to sleep and waste time anymore 😱
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Man, it seems like everybody is on that stuff these days. I hear kids talking about how to get prescriptions and what to tell the Doctors specifically. Overheard some girl in one of my classes talking about how she has to pop one right before class otherwise she gets bored and stops paying attention.

Sometimes school feels like baseball in the late 90s...you're at a competitive disadvantage if you aren't on something.
 
When you start studying for step 1 in freshmen year of undergrad
When you read med school books in undergrad because they'll give you a head start.
 
Jew Alcindor said:
Man, it seems like everybody is on that stuff these days. I hear kids talking about how to get prescriptions and what to tell the Doctors specifically. Overheard some girl in one of my classes talking about how she has to pop one right before class otherwise she gets bored and stops paying attention.

Sometimes school feels like baseball in the late 90s...you're at a competitive disadvantage if you aren't on something.
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I hear about this a lot at my university too. It doesn't gives them much of an advantage if they feel that they need it now. When they're flooded with a tsunami of information in medical school, I won't be surprised if I see a few hospital cases.

I'm not sure if it is addictive, but they can easily become dependent on its effects.
 
When you get a 37/38 on a test, and search for hours for the person with a 38/38 knowing well that your professor said that your score was the highes
I KNOW ITS OUT THERE SOMEBODY GOT A PERFECT SCORE!
 
When you drive by a sewage treatment plant and think hmm, STP, standard temperature and pressure.
 
when you're spending hours on one problem only to later find out that the solutions manual was wrong and now you wanna hunt down the publisher and bash in his momma's face.
 
You want to use the bathroom......because it gives you a valid excuse for a study break.
 
You have a dream about getting your first acceptance to med school. Then you wake up and realize it was a "wet" dream....:laugh:
 
...you give a printout of your MDapplicants page to your interviewer when he/she asks "So tell me about yourself"

Edit: Maybe that just makes you a very unsmart premed?
 
during cigarette breaks, walking to class, waiting for a ride, etc., you start daydreaming about how you're going to respond to an interview question about your GPA.

you talk with other pre-meds and the question "so, how's life?" comes up, and you know it really means "what have you been doing recently to bolster your app?"

you only have space on your bookshelf for one or the other, so you throw away your 5 years of nintendo power magazines to make room for your shiny new exam kracker books. :cry:
 
When you call the lady at Northwestern and have her check around the office for your LORs every other day. She hasn't yelled at me yet so I'm gonna freakin keep calling.
 
when you forgo your social life for two weeks to study for a test, get a perfect score, and then try to act like you didn't do so well so you don't get a shoe thrown at you.
 
AsclepiusI said:
when you forgo your social life for two weeks to study for a test, get a perfect score, and then try to act like you didn't do so well so you don't get a shoe thrown at you.
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Co-sign
 
Jew Alcindor said:
Sometimes school feels like baseball in the late 90s...you're at a competitive disadvantage if you aren't on something.
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Wait . . . you don't seriously think baseball (or any other sport at all) is any cleaner right now, do you?
 
gradu8in2003 said:
LOVE it!

You get the only A in the class on a test, but you're upset because it's just an A and not an A+. You silently begin thinking "A's won't get me into med school... I need A+'s. I need perfection!"
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Then you get pissed off when you find out that AMCAS reports all your A+'s as regular A's!
 
you know you are a neurotic premed when other people greet you by asking how the admissions process is going (you then casually laugh as you tell them no new news, but freak out on the inside because there is no new news since you last checked your e-mail and status pages 5 minutes ago! 😱)
 
When you ask your prof about the highest grade in the class (hoping it's you), after the exams have been graded. 😀
 
jlee022 said:
during cigarette breaks, walking to class, waiting for a ride, etc., you start daydreaming about how you're going to respond to an interview question about your GPA.

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So true..
 
AlXguy said:
When you ask your prof about the highest grade in the class (hoping it's you), after the exams have been graded. 😀
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lol, well ones I asked my prof my grade and he told me and he was smiling so I asked him if that was the highest grade or not.
 
Aynsl156 said:
you start losing all of your friends because all you ever think about are applications anymore, and you have to mentally stop yourself and make an effort to focus on the other person in the conversation.
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OH MY GOSH! YES! so true. lol
 
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