| | i have this annoying friend who seems insecure. he told me he wants to go to medical school. he is already 24 years old and not finished with his clinical degree. he has about 1.5 + to go for his B.S. if he goes to medical school at say, 26 and finishes at 30, he might still be considered a non-traditional student, in the lower range for age deviance, but non-trad nonetheless. after every statement i made, he seemed to retort with "but..." he said i was being negative about his case for med school. quite the contrary, i was just stating that he would be considered non-trad. i told him he is insecure about his wishes and for some reason, he seems to be bounding his ideas off of me. he went on to explain that w/o clinical scientists, the doctors would have no basis upon which to make their diagnoses so that clinical scientists are especially prime for consideration for medical school. this might be true in a biologically clinical sense, however, in the same token, it could be said that w/o nurses, doctors would have no one to carry out the work of patient care so they are esp. prime for medical school or that w/o pharamacists, patients and doctors would have no professionals to carry out the dissemination of medication, which by the way, nurses do too in hospitals.
i am also a non-traditional student. i am 31 this summer and still completing my nursing degree after i received a B.A. in english and worked for a few years. so it irked me especially when hanging out with this friend today, i was studying at his place and b/c i was bothering him to do me an odd favor he retorted: "why don' t you study. i want you to get a good grade since you've been in college for so long." its true that i've been in school basically my whole life and that i am a non-trad student. what does that have to do with my study habits? is he insinuating that i am a long-time student b/c i have bad grades or i am a failure as a student? why can't he acknowledge he is a non-trad student and recognize that i am one too? why is it that whenever i ask him biology questions he doesn't know the answer, whereas i help him immensely all the time with his english related assignments. he doesn't reciprocate and it is especially annoying that he was insensitive enough to make the comments that he did.
i know things have not been easy for him in pursuit of education. however, he tends to put off minorities (blacks an hispanics especially) as well as pander and fish for praise since he thinks his clinical major is so great or difficult. i have taken a class with him before and it was a 400 level microbiology class that i should not have taken since i am not a biology major. he tends to put down those that he perceives as not doing as well as he is. one time he sent me a "joke" text about homeless people and poor women who got raped found with food stamps on their body. how crude. i attribute this to cultural differences as well as economic differences. not to mention he is gay and he sometimes runs from seeming manipulative and a catty female, to sensitive, to insensitive, to harsh and judgemental and just totally a stalwart male. he is all over the fucking place.
i am tired of analyzing him since he is just whacked out sometimes. this is someone i took a "break" from for a year. he has mellowed out somewhat but that is b/c he got my message loud and clear. my gripes with him is that he is overly sexual and overly crass at times.
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