Discussion: Are professors setting us up for failure? - Page 2

KB.

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Originally posted by Doc

I agree with orange; sounds like weed out courses. If you're dedicated about going to medical school, which I'm sure you are, you'll do fine. It just requires more work to overcome the odds your teachers are stacking against you and your fellow students, but it's definitely doable. Good luck

Doc, are you in med school?

Sinningfighter

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Originally posted by I♥COCKiness

What about the ones that give it there all, but are just falling short?

Well, are you working at the moment?

How many hours a week are you studying?

I don't know whats going on in your life so I can't really give any advice there.

I remember when I started, I had classes M-F some days 8-5 (keep in mind this was a program with a set curriculum) and I was driving about an hour to get there. so there's two more hours in my day already wasted. Though by then I learned to record lectures and listen to them on my way and back on the drive.

Our classes were condensed into 12 weeks. So we only had 4 tests (sometimes 5) and that was all that made up our grade. The papers and extra assignments never counted towards that.
Plus if we got a final grade of 73 or below, we that would mean we failed. and I was close to that a few times

Again though I don't know what you are dealing with and how I can help so idk why i just wrote all of this lol.

KB.

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Originally posted by Sinningfighter

Well, are you working at the moment?

How many hours a week are you studying?

I don't know whats going on in your life so I can't really give any advice there.

I remember when I started, I had classes M-F some days 8-5 (keep in mind this was a program with a set curriculum) and I was driving about an hour to get there. so there's two more hours in my day already wasted. Though by then I learned to record lectures and listen to them on my way and back on the drive.

Our classes were condensed into 12 weeks. So we only had 4 tests (sometimes 5) and that was all that made up our grade. The papers and extra assignments never counted towards that.
Plus if we got a final grade of 73 or below, we that would mean we failed. and I was close to that a few times

Again though I don't know what you are dealing with and how I can help so idk why i just wrote all of this lol.

lol I was hypothetically speaking. I'm not working right now and pretty much all of my time is dedicated to school. I'm doing a pretty good job of time management.

Big Smoke

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Originally posted by I♥COCKiness

We had our first quiz in Anatomy the other day. I made the highest grade. A lot of the students were talking about how hard the quiz was when it basically was the basics of what we've been going over since class started a month ago. I actually hate when my friends in classes call me smart because I'm making good grades in the class. Like if you applied yourself as much as I do you could be making the same grades or maybe even better. A lot of times I don't even like studying with some of my friends becausethey expect you to take time out of your busy schedule and spoon feed them the stuff when they haven't opened the book and read or did anything outside of class.

Welcome to higher education. Youre gonna run into a couple of these morons in you stay there. And youre gonna be forced to work with them.

Igrt

IDK tbh.

I have to retake a few courses myself tbh.

evfanjake

Sometimes. I have like hours of reading every night. My social life has been dead and gone for weeks now.

Jennifer

No.

It's just the way it has to be, honestly. It's higher education and it prepares you for real life.

If it was easy, everyone would do it. My doctor better be smart as ****.

I'm a Pharmacist (graduated May 2011), and i can tell you that Pharmacy school was torture at points. But now I see that it was necessary and honestly, school isn't all that bad. I will admit that I prefer working full time (8 hrs a day, 5 dats a week) and getting to go home without having to do homework or study but there are so many social aspects that are gone now. I don't have late night study parties with my friends anymore where we used to run for coffee at 4 am, I don't get to celebrate with beer and wings after a big test, I don't get shitfaced drunk every single weekend with all my classmates/friends. These social aspects of school made it fun and worthwhile, and once you start working, you don't get that experience ever again so do it right and stop complaining! Lol.