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My sister just said that premeds have no right to talk about having worked hard to get where they are. She said, "I've enjoyed far more days of school than days of work."
I said, "That's because you never took O-chem." I then proceeded to talk about the fact that being a premed also means having to volunteer time, most have spent time working in hospitals and/or labs, and... and then I see she's giving me this glazed look of disgust. I say, "Why are you giving me that look?"
She says, "I hate the way science majors don't respect the humanities." (She majored in English).
Now, any of y'all who are familiar with my posts likely know that I often recommend humanities, and I see them as important. I generally only dog bio majors, and that's because I was stupid enough to not major in the subject where I'm strongest. But, dude, I think we all know that if O-chem wasn't required for high paying jobs like medicine and engineering, there would be about seven people taking that class each semester NATIONALLY.
I later said to my sister, "Don't accuse me of disrespecting; you're the one who said school wasn't work." She came back with the fact that "I've never had a real job. You said that what you liked about Target was that you didn't take it home with you."
Now, I worked at Target for 5 1/2 years, 40 - 70 hours/week, going to work between midnight to 4am. I unloaded trucks, throwing frieght down the skate as fast as possible, having boxes fall on me, standing in huge puddles of spilled fabric softener, choking on the dust of the cat litter used to soak up the fabric softener... Working with boxes until my hand got so dry they cracked and bled every winter, climbing ladders with freight on my back, dealing with @sshole customers, scrubbing shelves on my hands and knees... She, on the other hand, has always worked as an admin.
I'll say this: my lab partner in my Process Design chemical engineering class is a bit older than my sister. She's worked a variety of jobs as well, and now works for a chemical company. Yet we both agree that we can not wait to get out of school and be done with it. Simply put, no one who has ever taken o-chem or p-chem, or had to debug a bunch of code, or had to pull an all-nighter to finish the lab presentation which had been holding you up because you had two equations and four unknowns and didn't know where to make your simplifying assumptions, or had to stay 2 hours late in bio lab because your DNA gel was running slow because too many people were on one power source, or sat up all night studying for their neuroanatomy lab and imagined the smell of formalin all night because of it's association in your mind of that stench in lab... none of these people would ever say that school isn't work.
Sorry for ranting. Please carry on with your day.
I said, "That's because you never took O-chem." I then proceeded to talk about the fact that being a premed also means having to volunteer time, most have spent time working in hospitals and/or labs, and... and then I see she's giving me this glazed look of disgust. I say, "Why are you giving me that look?"
She says, "I hate the way science majors don't respect the humanities." (She majored in English).
Now, any of y'all who are familiar with my posts likely know that I often recommend humanities, and I see them as important. I generally only dog bio majors, and that's because I was stupid enough to not major in the subject where I'm strongest. But, dude, I think we all know that if O-chem wasn't required for high paying jobs like medicine and engineering, there would be about seven people taking that class each semester NATIONALLY.
I later said to my sister, "Don't accuse me of disrespecting; you're the one who said school wasn't work." She came back with the fact that "I've never had a real job. You said that what you liked about Target was that you didn't take it home with you."
Now, I worked at Target for 5 1/2 years, 40 - 70 hours/week, going to work between midnight to 4am. I unloaded trucks, throwing frieght down the skate as fast as possible, having boxes fall on me, standing in huge puddles of spilled fabric softener, choking on the dust of the cat litter used to soak up the fabric softener... Working with boxes until my hand got so dry they cracked and bled every winter, climbing ladders with freight on my back, dealing with @sshole customers, scrubbing shelves on my hands and knees... She, on the other hand, has always worked as an admin.
I'll say this: my lab partner in my Process Design chemical engineering class is a bit older than my sister. She's worked a variety of jobs as well, and now works for a chemical company. Yet we both agree that we can not wait to get out of school and be done with it. Simply put, no one who has ever taken o-chem or p-chem, or had to debug a bunch of code, or had to pull an all-nighter to finish the lab presentation which had been holding you up because you had two equations and four unknowns and didn't know where to make your simplifying assumptions, or had to stay 2 hours late in bio lab because your DNA gel was running slow because too many people were on one power source, or sat up all night studying for their neuroanatomy lab and imagined the smell of formalin all night because of it's association in your mind of that stench in lab... none of these people would ever say that school isn't work.
Sorry for ranting. Please carry on with your day.
