Baby Boomer Profs and their bad habits...

[MONKEYBOY]

Suprizing to me how consistent the following behaviors are of baby-boomer profs (these are consistent with the rest of the bluehaireds that are majority in population):


-Control freaks: they talk, we listen. They point at the powerpoint and we stare. They interrupt, we stop talking. Giving them control in all of their dinner-plate authority realm is the key to their little hearts.

-Never ask questions. Trust me, school is much better once you can condition yourself to not ask while at school.

-Nod and smile. They love this, since it makes them feel like they are hot ****. Forget that they got their Ph.d., last publication, or other degree well before 1980.

-Sitting with good posture while these geezer windbags read us powerpoints seems to help too.

Any other helpful tips?

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[Lidopaine82]

Any other helpful tips?

Yea, come to Case. Our old farts are HILARIOUS! ...not always on purpose

 

[scuzfly]

Suprizing to me how consistent the following behaviors are of baby-boomer profs (these are consistent with the rest of the bluehaireds that are majority in population):


-Control freaks: they talk, we listen. They point at the powerpoint and we stare. They interrupt, we stop talking. Giving them control in all of their dinner-plate authority realm is the key to their little hearts.

-Never ask questions. Trust me, school is much better once you can condition yourself to not ask while at school.

-Nod and smile. They love this, since it makes them feel like they are hot ****. Forget that they got their Ph.d., last publication, or other degree well before 1980.

-Sitting with good posture while these geezer windbags read us powerpoints seems to help too.

Any other helpful tips?

Accept the fact that you will once be in their role and kids will think the same of you when they ask you to shadow or ask you a question about teeth.

Old "geezer" phrase: Put up or SHUT UP.

 

[DrJeff]

Bottomline, put YOURSELF in their shoes for a minute and think about things. They were trained in a era without computers, composite was new, amalgam was king, removable was a big part of dentistry, implants where very new, and to class, you basically wore clinic attire (shirts/ties/long skirts, etc), and if you think that you're "pimped" hard/"ridden" hard by profs now, that's nothing compared to what used to be done.

Nowadays, because of a miriad of reasons, from political correctness to technology, to just a more overall casual environment today's dental education process inspite of what some of you might think, is much, much more user friendly. Some of today's profs can accept this, while other can't. The cold hard truth is that the sooner you learn to "read" one's personality and adapt your approach to them, the better off you'll be not just in d-school, but also in private practice.

 

[ptrianon]

We can also thank the baby boomers for hippies, academic inflation and therefore our skyrocketing tuition costs. Also, when you compare living standards of baby boomers to their parents and living standards of our generation to baby boomers the differences between the former group is much greater (site: discovery channel special on the baby boomers). So that whole you guys are so spoiled and you don't even know it argument is a little bs...