IHTFP - Loving it or hating it, come discuss.

differential
Sat, 17 May 2008 15:26:42 +0000

From the article “Woes of a Premed - The Tech.”

“But, then again, when was the last time my $46,000 a year bought me anything other than a lot of homework and a whole lot of misery?”

Since when has MIT turned into a daycare? What are you expecting, a silver platter with gourmet options handed down to you in every direction? If you want something, even at MIT, you need to fight for it and pursue it yourself.

Personally I feel that if you want to be a premed student, you should carefully consider whether you want to come to MIT. There are many other schools out there which cater specifically to premed students, and life will likely be less stressful there. But if you come to an engineering/science oriented institute of technology, decide in your third year that you want to become a premed student, and suddenly realize the institute does not revolve around, nobody is going to pity your *****ing.

I have plenty of premed friends, and many of them have told me that the only extra thing to worry about being a premed is making careful rational choices. You can’t expect to make a series of idiotic choices and then have everyone undo them for you just because you pay $46,000 a year.

Finally, if you are really worried about $46,000 a year (which the vast majority of MIT does not actually pay in full), calculate the consulting fee’s for one-on-one time with professors, and then figure out how much time you need to spend with the professors to get $46,000 out of it? Remember to factor in that many of these profs are at the top of their field.