101 Things You Wish You Knew Before Starting Medical School (Excerpt) 3. Only half of your class will be in the top 50%. You have a 50% chance of being in the top half of your class. Get used to it now. 13. Most of your time on rotations will be wasted. Thrown away. Down the drain. 17. You’ll ask post-op patients if they’ve farted within the last 24 hours. 37. It’s always the medical student’s fault. 41. As a medical student on rotations, you don’t matter. In fact, you get in the way and impede productivity. 46. If you’re in it for the money, there are much better, more efficient ways to make a living. Medicine is not one of them. 48. If there is anything at all that you’d rather do in life, do not go into medicine. 53. Somebody in your class will be known as the “highlighter whore.” Most often a female, she’ll carry around a backpack full of every highlighter color known to man. She’ll actually use them, too. 54. Rumors surrounding members of your class will spread faster than they did in high school. 59. Gunners always sit in the front row. This rule never fails. However, not everyone who sits in the front row is a gunner. 87. Subjective evaluations are just that – subjective. They aren’t your end all, be all so don’t dwell on a poor evaluation. The person giving it was probably an asshole, anyway. 89. 90% of surgeons are assholes, and 63% of statistics are made up. The former falls in the lucky 37%. 90. The best time of your entire medical school career is between the times when you first get your acceptance letter and when you start school. These were only a few highlights. See the rest! bit.ly/LdGK5
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