Interesting story...(college-related)

Behnam91
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:51:58 +0000

This is true…not some fiction crap to keep you guys entertained. Nevertheless! It’s still something I think you’d enjoy.

So last Monday, the 21st, my family and I were around the table eating our dinner, when the phone rang. My dad picked it up and talked with the person on the phone for a while, and started jotting down some information. It was a man from the Flagship Resort in Atlantic City. (We live on Long Island, NY) So the guy says that he’ll give us two plane ticket vouchers to anywhere we want to go if we’d go for a timesharing seminar at the resort. We figured it was a scam, but we’d never been to Atlantic City, and thought it would be nice. My parents also have friends in Trenton who we could visit while we’re all the way down there. So we finally got there and saw the resort and went inside. It was really nice, I have to admit. We went to the seventh floor and were approached by a man who would explain the ‘vacation timesharing package’ to us. My dad said we’d just listen and say ‘no thank you’ at the end, because he thought it was it was some sort of a trick, and leave. (The man was VERY good at trying to sell his product. My dad is hard-pressed when he wants to be, but almost considered the offer) So after two hours, my dad said ‘no thank you’, because we did the math and found that it wouldn’t save us money, and we got our two plane ticket vouchers and left. BUT! the exception is that we HAVE TO stay at one of their resorts when we use the tickets. Darn… However, I’m not saying that we’re cheap or anything…while we were driving to our friends’ house, we must’ve seen at LEAST three separate groups of people in Atlantic City selling drugs. RIGHT OUT THERE ON THE STREET! My brother and I were laughing at how bad they were at it…(Not that I’d know how to sell drugs…um…) One of the old dudes was counting the crack rocks he was selling…how wonderful… Anyway, we drove and finally arrived at our friends’ house.

My parents’ friends are two fairly old people. (In their seventies, I’d say) And they’d known each other for a while now, and had had kids who were about my parents’ age. A daughter and a son. The daughter had married a man named Bijan ( I don’t want to give away last names) and they’ve been married a while now. Absolutely great people. I’ve seen them a lot before, and really didn’t think of them as anyone special. Just good ol’ friends. My parents had told me that Bijan was some kind of ‘doctor’, but I’d never really asked about it until we were there… I got to talking to Bijan about college and premed (my chosen college ‘program’ is premed, bless my weak-minded self) and was just shocked at how much he really knew about this stuff. He was telling me that he’d had an ‘open house’ at one of the colleges in NJ, and I was pretty surprised to hear that…He finally got up and walked to talk to my dad, and I asked his wife’s dad what Bijan did for a living. Apparently, it seems that I had been speaking to a mechanical engineer, with a pHD, who is also a professor of mechanical engineering at the College of New Jersey, as well as a dean there. I was about to pee in my pants, because not only had he scared the s*&% out of me, after I’d gloated about how ‘smart’ I am (my ass!!), with his extreme emphasis on how hard premed and med school actually are, but now I find out that he’s got quite a reputation… Ugh… I’m home schooled, and he told me that he spoke to a home schooled girl my age at the open house, and um…yeah he almost made me want to cry. (Not literally, but he did scare me half to death) Now, a lot of you guys may think he was being really harsh, (because I’ve read a few books on med school and what a career in medicine is like, so it’s pretty hard to scare me about it) but I think he was just being honest and opening my eyes to the reality of the competition out there. He said that most students who apply to his premed had an SAT score of above 1500. D= Yeah…so now I’m going to end the story by saying that, if there’s a few things I’ve learned from this, it’s that : 1) DON’T be a pansy like me and tell a dean that you’re capable of getting into most premed programs!!! 2) DON’T overestimate yourself. 3) EAT ALL OF YOUR VEGETABLES. (Sorry…) 4) If you’re going to sell crack rocks, make sure you know HOW TO. 5) Lastly, for those of you who have a billion EC’s and great grades and fabulous SAT/ACT scores, please try helping those who need help. Give the know-nothings like me a few tips if I ask for them…Please?