Respect
People give me way too much respect just because I am in medical school. All of these old filipinos that my parents only sort of know are always trying to talk to me after church is over. Which would be cool if they had hot young daughters which they never seem to have. Or if they wanted to ask me for medical advice which would be cool... at this point in my medical education I think I can generally fake like I know what I'm talking about with laypersons.
But instead they usually want to talk to me about their daughter's friend's friend who used to go to medical school or something completely unrelated to... anything, really. Not that I necessarily mind listening to boring ramblings from which I can't escape. But where were these people 3 years ago, when I was 'just' a software engineer but probably a nicer person. Is my head-nodding now that much more appealing to others, because I'm heading into a 'noble' profession?
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Everyone wants to marry a doctor, but What's so great about doctors anyways? They're way too busy, for one. And it's no secret that I don't think the average physician is all that smart. I'd wager the average computer science grad student at a good school like stanford is much smarter. I go to an average school with very above average board scores so I think I can tell.
But my friend and I were talking about this a few weeks ago, thinking through our class of 170 people with nearly 100 guys, and we could not come up with little more than a handful of dudes who weren't so flawed in some way or another from a superficial distance that we'd be comfortable with them dating a theoretical younger, eligible sister. That's 7 or 8 people, including, perhaps out of courtesy on his part, each other.
That is, to say, not much better or worse than the general worthless population, 90% of which is, according to the wise Jerry Seinfeld, "UNDATEABLE!"
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In general, I think I probably make for a poor admissions committee member. To steal a line from the departed, I don't trust people with an immaculate record. Or maybe I'm too forgiving of people with flawed records. Take the kid with A's/A-'s in lecture ourses but C's in labs. Explanation? Just wasn't interested. At this point most people begin to shake their heads, wonder "what happens if they come across a class in medical school they don't like?" etc. My take? That is EXACTLY my kind of dude. Labs are seriously stupid. Especially premed labs, my god...
The dude with the shitty grades but the awesome MCAT? Could be a mad genius, let's take him! Mediocre grades and MCAT, interesting hardship/background? Take him. Completely mediocre applicant who sounds just like I did? Let's give him a shot!
I guess it's a good thing I'm not in charge of this sort of thing. I mean you gotta have some standards. There's probably no better way. I just find it disgusting how coachable the whole thing is. And despite the numerous qualified decent people you get through, you also select for quite a few of the arrogant paper-resume'd ass-kissers that i completely despise. The kind that tend to get selected for committees and such.
One thing about medicine is that few people quit once you're sucked in. You're just too far invested. Time, money, etc. So the person with 5 shadowing experiences doesn't know any better or worse that they want to do medicine than the person with only 1. They're just as likely to be a bitter person who wants a return on their suffering. So why make the good people suffer jumping through hoops in order to weed out a few bad apples? They're going to suffer enough once they get in. We're just putting lipstick on pigs.
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i wrote all of that on the plane 2 weeks ago and then forgot to post it. i realize i am quite the cynical bastard hahaha.
amusing how homogenous our flight got after our stopover in LA. It was like going from a quilt of different cultures to then being a plane full of whites, a few blacks, me and a couple of others.
LA from the sky is a concrete freaking jungle.
must get back... to california.
Song of the Week - Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love.mp3 From the british 'x-factor' winner. She's pretty hot too. More here (angel and better in time are very good)
Ughh youtube won't let me embed so - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF84pIhP5UM
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edit: ohyah i forgot to add, congrats to my protege julius aka strong-side for being done with his mcat! Over-bitching about school is a stupid little hobby of mine but in all honestly despite my constant whining I actually like it quite a bit and i'm very happy I made the big leap.
But instead they usually want to talk to me about their daughter's friend's friend who used to go to medical school or something completely unrelated to... anything, really. Not that I necessarily mind listening to boring ramblings from which I can't escape. But where were these people 3 years ago, when I was 'just' a software engineer but probably a nicer person. Is my head-nodding now that much more appealing to others, because I'm heading into a 'noble' profession?
...
Everyone wants to marry a doctor, but What's so great about doctors anyways? They're way too busy, for one. And it's no secret that I don't think the average physician is all that smart. I'd wager the average computer science grad student at a good school like stanford is much smarter. I go to an average school with very above average board scores so I think I can tell.
But my friend and I were talking about this a few weeks ago, thinking through our class of 170 people with nearly 100 guys, and we could not come up with little more than a handful of dudes who weren't so flawed in some way or another from a superficial distance that we'd be comfortable with them dating a theoretical younger, eligible sister. That's 7 or 8 people, including, perhaps out of courtesy on his part, each other.
That is, to say, not much better or worse than the general worthless population, 90% of which is, according to the wise Jerry Seinfeld, "UNDATEABLE!"
...
In general, I think I probably make for a poor admissions committee member. To steal a line from the departed, I don't trust people with an immaculate record. Or maybe I'm too forgiving of people with flawed records. Take the kid with A's/A-'s in lecture ourses but C's in labs. Explanation? Just wasn't interested. At this point most people begin to shake their heads, wonder "what happens if they come across a class in medical school they don't like?" etc. My take? That is EXACTLY my kind of dude. Labs are seriously stupid. Especially premed labs, my god...
The dude with the shitty grades but the awesome MCAT? Could be a mad genius, let's take him! Mediocre grades and MCAT, interesting hardship/background? Take him. Completely mediocre applicant who sounds just like I did? Let's give him a shot!
I guess it's a good thing I'm not in charge of this sort of thing. I mean you gotta have some standards. There's probably no better way. I just find it disgusting how coachable the whole thing is. And despite the numerous qualified decent people you get through, you also select for quite a few of the arrogant paper-resume'd ass-kissers that i completely despise. The kind that tend to get selected for committees and such.
One thing about medicine is that few people quit once you're sucked in. You're just too far invested. Time, money, etc. So the person with 5 shadowing experiences doesn't know any better or worse that they want to do medicine than the person with only 1. They're just as likely to be a bitter person who wants a return on their suffering. So why make the good people suffer jumping through hoops in order to weed out a few bad apples? They're going to suffer enough once they get in. We're just putting lipstick on pigs.
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i wrote all of that on the plane 2 weeks ago and then forgot to post it. i realize i am quite the cynical bastard hahaha.
amusing how homogenous our flight got after our stopover in LA. It was like going from a quilt of different cultures to then being a plane full of whites, a few blacks, me and a couple of others.
LA from the sky is a concrete freaking jungle.
must get back... to california.
Song of the Week - Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love.mp3 From the british 'x-factor' winner. She's pretty hot too. More here (angel and better in time are very good)
Ughh youtube won't let me embed so - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF84pIhP5UM
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edit: ohyah i forgot to add, congrats to my protege julius aka strong-side for being done with his mcat! Over-bitching about school is a stupid little hobby of mine but in all honestly despite my constant whining I actually like it quite a bit and i'm very happy I made the big leap.
posted by Gerlad at
10:58 PM
2 Comments:
Glad you're happy with your decision. I'm still figuring out what I think. :)
i'm going to be so happy no more labs after today's final ochem lab. it really is the pits
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