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Bigger threat to Florida than a Category 5 Hurricane

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(This post was last modified: 11-05-2018, 10:12 AM by mikesez.)

(11-05-2018, 09:32 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:
(11-05-2018, 09:17 AM)mikesez Wrote: LOL I guess they didn't tell me that on career day.  Point is, there were many reasons why I didn't ever consider becoming an MD.  The length of time in school and the need to get nearly straight-A's were just two of them.  Needing to get straight-A's didn't scare me so much, I knew I could do it if I worked super hard, but I was always a "relax and take the B" kind of guy.  I worked just as hard as I needed to to get the B.

So it sounds like the work you decry to get that MD did its job in keeping you out of the field. Had the requirements been less you might've made a huge mistake.


No, I wouldn't have become an MD anyways.  That's my point.  My gut reaction to people in pain is "stop whining." I'm not the right person for that job regardless of the academic requirements.
But I've made a nice career for myself and seen enough to know that while making the academic requirements harder does screen out some people, it does not necessarily screen out the right people.  Some of the engineers that got better grades then me have indeed had more career success than me, as you would expect.  Many have not.  I got B's in those weed-out classes like calc 2 and physics 2. Some of the kids who barely skated out with their C ended up being better engineers in the capstone classes.  Academic screening is a crude and very limited tool.
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RE: Bigger threat to Florida than a Category 5 Hurricane - by mikesez - 11-05-2018, 10:10 AM



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