Friday, 20 May 2011
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How to Date a Medical Student
My boyfriend and I love each other very much (dating 2 years)...but sometimes I wonder if he really appreciates the crap I have to do training to be a behavioral/clinical psychologist. I think he does a pretty good job for a geology major but here are some tips on how to date a medical student.1. Don't expect to see your S.O. Ever. Dates are few and hard to come by. I promise we really do try to fit you in.
2. Learn to hide your “ew, gross” reactions when we tell you all the stuff you never wanted to know about your bodily functions. For me currently, it's my excitement over the brains I'll be dissecting next semester. (I'm so excited)
3. Support us when we come home after each test, upset because we failed—and gently remind us about how much we studied, how smart we and after we get our passing grade how unnecessary the “I’m going to fail out of medical school and never become an MD” dramatics are. (I swear during finals and midterms I do this like everyday, and I apologize honey)
4. Each week we'll will have a new illness. Some will be extremely rare, others will be more mundane. Doesn’t matter. Each week I'll learn about a personality disorder and swear I have it, or think other people have it. Medical school can, and will, turn even the sanest person into a hypochondriac.
5. There will be weeks we'll forget about everything. I usually forget to eat and he'll have to remind me or bring me food. I love him for that. I've even forgotten about my own birthday once.6. We'll make you hyper-aware that germs are everywhere and on everything. You know that water fountain on campus? YYeeaahh...about that.
7. Romantic date entails of a movie and dinner, rarely. Or him ordering chinese or pizza and us sitting together, talking about video games that I never get to play anymore, while I study.
8. Our study habits will make you feel like a complete slacker. For us, hitting the books 8-to-10 hours a day is not uncommon. I usually study at least 5 hours a day (to just pass). You'll wonder how you ever managed to pass school on your meager one hour of studying per night. And I apologize personally, for making other people feel like slackers or thinking you're a slacker because of this. It's just normal to me.
9. We're expected to know everything. Everything! The name of the 7 million-lettered, Latin sounding disorder, the technical term for one rare disease only found in certain countries. But ask us why your knee is swollen, or what you should do to tame cough, or if you have simple depression, and we won't have a clue or we'll give you 1,000 reasons what it could be.
10. You'll need friends with unending patience who pretend never to get sick of listening to your endless venting and complaints. Or, you'll need to pay a therapist who will pretend never to get sick of listening to your endless venting and complaints.
But take this all with a grain of salt, please. We love you very much anyway and appreciate what you do :)
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- From: awkwardangel7@xanga
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- About Me: I'm a college student about to get my B.S. in psychology. This is my way to express...t..so I rant, I share things, whatever :)
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A PhD isn't the same as a MD, which is why I have a slight issue with you saying you're going to be a clinical psychologist but also say you're a med student. Unless you're going to be a Psychiatrist, that's completely different.
There needs to be a follow up datingish post on how to date a Law school student.
Get you PhD in Psychology does not make you a med student! It's almost laughable that since this is what you are in school for you clearly negate the difference....I know who I won't reccommend as a Psychologist....
You're getting a ... bachelors. Not exactly med student material, no offense.
Even though I see that your "about me" says you are only getting a BS in Psychology, this still makes sense to me. I, at one point, was thinking about going to med school. On top of not knowing if I could get in I pretty much knew that my bf couldn't handle it. He is already whiney and pathetic when I have to study when he comes home to visit for the weekend. He has a full time job this summer and I work a few hours each night so we don't see each other much during the week and he still complains like we've been apart for weeks. I just know he couldn't handle my ridiculous schedule if I did go to med school. Lucky for him I don't feel smart enough to even apply.
It doesn't make sense why you are writing it, but the post itself makes it sound like you understand the schedule of a med student.
You guys do know people are allowed to get multiple degrees, don't you?
@starcrossedloversdivine@xanga - I date a Law student it's not so tricky. He loves to talk about Law topics. And I see him regularly. Nothing complicated.
Also my brother was a medical student (orthopedic surgery). While his time was constrained... that was basically it, beyond "difficulties." lol.
Did Datingish eff up your title? Psychology doesn't fall under the umbrella of medical student.
Been there, tried that. I was in grad school, she was the med student. Although it didn't work out, these tips seem pretty solid.
lol, everything that the first handful of people said is exactly what i was going to say...and then i decided that i've given enough people crap this week.
op: by the way, if you think what you deal with now is difficult, you will never handle things when shit hits the fan in grad school. my friend is at the clinic from 5 am to 9 pm, 5 days a week. i barely ever get the courtesy of a 1-line email response from her when i message her to say hi. good luck.
@AmeliaHart@xanga - Ah, see my boyfriend will be studying over 200 miles away, is going for a dual JD/MBA and he said that he has to be in the top 10% of his class to get where he wants to be in the salary department...
Oh, you're still in undergrad!? Undergrad IS NOT HARD. I worked 40 hrs a week and went to school full time in undergrad, paid for my own place to live & bills, still made it out with a 3.5 gpa. I'll be doing the same in grad school, doing my practicum hours, and labwork as well. I guess difficult is relative...
I'm a pre-vet student, and this sounds like my life. Except I also work. But i appreciate how understanding my boyfriend is, he is so supportive.
should be titled "how to date a melodramatic undergrad"
#9 lol, that's great.
I'm working on my bachelor's at the moment, and look forward to med school soon after. It makes me wonder if it's time to save money now and forget about a job later on... who'll have the time?
@you_picked_me@xanga - Hahahaha
@starcrossedloversdivine@xanga - I don't know HOW my bfs (yes, there was a break up in there, followed later by a new boy) put up with me in law school. If I knew, I'd throw together the "How to date a law student" guide. haha
i don't know about you not being a med student like everyone is freaking about about... but i'm a premedical student and parts of this really sound like me - esp the "i'm never going to get into med school/ i'll never be an md" rants around exams, my boyfriend deals with those meltdowns to regularly! haha.
to top it off....being an emt, he also has to deal with my "i'm in a shitty mood because i had to deal with a bus of hemophilic children that crashed into a glass transport truck, so don't tell me how tiring that laundry was to do" sort of whines.
moral of the story: stay away from people in the medical field. ; ~;
Plagiarized!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452186,00.html Nice try though. ;)
i have multiple medic friends and my boyfriend himself is a medic. they have a lot more free time than others would think. i'm a hopeful medic myself just about to finish my pre-med degree, i study way more than him. just saying..
Ouch... exposed.
@StAinDEyeS@xanga - bingo!! I like these dateline nbc type of investigation ah-ha! moments
we need a how to date a med student while you're an ibanker.