If their D2 class is anything like our D2 class, they probably pissed off the faculty by complaining about every little thing that doesn't go their way, expecting to be spoon fed every tid bit of information, hexing/badmouthing every student that didn't hand out personal notes (which they worked extremely hard to make themselves) to the lazy/incompetent classmates, or something along the unprofessional, immature lines. Mind you, this isn't the entire class, but it only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.
Yeah, school's cool here if you don't let the politics, complaining, and INEVITABLE administrative mishaps bother you. What I like about my experience so far is how well the faculty works to help you clinically grow. Their view of the big picture makes it that much greater, and the (as our Medicine prof said) "myopic" view of the students is what makes dental school suck most of the time. That's how I see it.
So, there. I said it. My class is starting to suck! I know, it seemed great at the beginning of first year, but things went downhill once I got fed up with people complaining about everything and being extremely unappreciative/disrespectful of their classmates who took the time and effort to produce quality notes and freely distribute to the class to make learning and passing collaborative and easy. And trust me, we had a great thing going. a good handfull of us were just collaborating and making sure accurate info was being spread out to the entire class to make learning the difficult material easier. It really brought the majority of the class together... the majority. I still like my class, it's just everytime I hear about someone saying "we didn't get that slide in our syllabus" or "your notes that you gave us are missing some info." Let me get this straight. The prof went out of his way to GIVE you verbatim notes so that you have an easier time picking out the relevant material and succeed in clinic, and you're too incompetent to quickly jot down that little bit of information or ask your neighbor for it? I'm sorry, but undergrad should have engrained into your head that you're responsible for getting your own notes, and everything that's given to you is a gift.
So much for that trend. I stopped doing that once I found out (after the fact) the gunners were giving out false information during gross anatomy to gain an advantage, as well as other malicious things, and people complained about missing every ppt slide/picture/sentence/word in a syllabus (rather than copying the info down) and expecting to be spoon fed every piece of note out there. Most of the generous did. So, now I give out stuff to my close friends and let them distribute things as freely as they wish (with the hopes that my classmates will realize that other people's notes are the result of their hard work and effort).
Our class also had a very unprofessional problem that involved a (few) students and some very prominent faculty members. So, our prior (good?) reputation was shot to hell immediately. It's not the entire class that pisses me off, it's just those few who don't take dental school for what it is. A professional school - something that's not meant to be easy, supposed to work you and mold you, expose you to various challenges beyond dentistry, and give a vivid dental career.
For me, that's how it's been so far, and I've been taking in and enjoying as much of it as I can w/o letting the dirt spoil it.
NOTE: Gunners = those who shoot for top, but do so without class/ethics. There's nothing wrong with trying to be the best, but when backstabbing comes into play, that's no longer cool
I should add that my positive dental school experience stems very much from the curriculum, faculty, and administration. My classmates also present a very favorable picture, but I get very peeved with the above. Like I said, the school will work with you, as long as you're willing to work with them.
