Everyone seems to be talking about how they did on the boards. It's weird. Numbers are getting passed around. I had one person today ask me three times if I'd gotten a 270.
"Stop blowing smoke up my ass," I said, "Nobody gets a 270. Did YOU get a 270 or something?"
"I wish. No seriously though," he insisted, "How'd you do?"
My standard line is: I did well enough that I am certain my scores will not prevent me from getting whatever residency I want. That I'm very satisfied with my score.
For some reason, this doesn't satisfy people. They want THE NUMBER.
Once a pre-med, always a pre-med I guess.
The pathetic part on my behalf is that sometimes it seems like they think I'm actually disappointed in my score. That they think I did badly. Part of me wants to be like, "I got a 2XX. See you were WRONG. I did AWESOME, BIATCH. I'll bet my score kicks your score's ass." I want to wring their little competit-necks as they look sad and nod sympathetically when I refrain from such shenanigans.
But I don't.
Why do I even think about this crap? I'm just as bad as they are.
Is this something that people actually share? It seems to me beyond rude. Am I overreacting?
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Funny, I've actually noticed this in my PhD program. For what it's worth, I don't share my grades - even when they are enviable.
You know what I think is more rude? People asking me how much we paid for our house. Seriously? Is that anyone's business??
When my bf class took the Step 1, scores started flying around as soon as they were published. He shared his score but when I was in school I rarely shared my grades. It's no ones business but your own.
In a few months people will begin taking their Step 2 and I'm sure numbers will be flying for many months...
Penelope, Ah house buying. I recently figured out that there's no need to ask people what they paid (not that I ever did before anyway). All of that information is available online. Kind of scary.
Hahaha- I remember going to a boss's house for a (research) lab get-together and our (non-american) post-doc asked him how much he paid for his house. It was awesome. All I can remember was that there was a sink in the shape of texas built into the bar of the living area (yes, this was in Texas, and he had bought, not built).
Uuugggggggggg, giant pet peeve of mine. There's a classmate of mine who the rest of us bet on how long it will take him to tell us his most recent score/grade/accomplishment... typically under 2 seconds. We even had to hear all of his shelf scores! Come on dude!! No one cares... they do, however, care that you are a giant jerk.
I can't believe this post! I have had exactly the same experience in the last few weeks. We just got our exam results and I was so shocked at people asking me if I got merits, distinctions etc. I think it is very bloody rude.
I would not dream of asking people about their results either.
Enjoying your blog
Anna
xx
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