Posted on 10/03/2022 9:25:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I had a cousin with a similar mindset. He lacked one year of finishing his degree before getting drafted. Somehow the Army removed any desire for him to finish his degree. The remainder of his life was spent living at home doing odd jobs, working in garages or bowling alleys, etc. His brother, just as intelligent, finished his doctorate and became the head of the chemistry department at a major university.
I graduated from Pharmacy School. Chem, Math, and Physics, in prepharmacy got rid of those that could not make it in pharmacy school. Those that make it to pharmacy school have a very high graduation rate. In my class only three did not. Two could not make it due to personal reasons and thus dropped out. The third switched his major to toxicology. He was bright and making good grades. He just decided he wanted to be a toxicologist instead of a pharmacist.
What makes pharmacy school difficult is not the material that you must learn. It is the massive amount of material and time required to learn it. It is a long process over years.
Twenty years after I graduated from the university with several business related degrees, I returned as a student and picked up a degree in psychology.
They were the easiest classes I ever took. One of the easiest was statistics, but the failure and drop rate for psychology majors was over 50%. They were afraid of it.
I went on to study Anatomy & Physiology and neuroscience. Far more interesting than tax law and business.
Now I’m getting tired, and losing my intellectual curiosity that motivated me my entire life.
I’m finding that surrender within opens a whole new reality.
When I attend psychiatry grand rounds at the medical school with over a hundred MD’s, I can actually feel my consciousness shift toward the group intellectual consciousness. It’s a left spinning feeling several feet above my head.
Being there would fry an emotional consciousness.
Just get the textbook and self study. There are excellent instruction videos on Youtube to fill in the gaps. That’s how I did it.
Used textbooks only one edition back are very cheap.
Would have loved to have a seat in that classroom. Princetown University too. Worked my butt off to get a 3.5 when I took it back in the 70’s.
A friend of mine quit school in 7th grade. At 18 got married and immediately had three children.
Started taking classes, got her GED, and continued classes through a PhD in Statistics at Baylor.
The human soul is very resilient, especially when it finds its niche.
Emotional trauma and PTSD of military experiences can do that.
I have a friend who just finished taking the pharmaceutical exam for his license. He must have revised for over a month. A long and hard exam, but I want the person giving me my meds to know what he is doing.
And it's worse now...
Happens more that most realize.
What makes pharmacy school difficult is not the material that you must learn. It is the massive amount of material and time required to learn it. It is a long process over years
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IQ is essentially ability to abstract reason and speed.
Medical school is the same way. Docs don’t actually use organic chem day to day. But, the skill set is still relevant. Thinking in 3D. Mechanisms and competing mechanisms.
Likewise acceptance rate vs attrition. Acceptance rate was ~10-15% of the pool. Attrition was 2%, with a mix of cheating, academic failure and change of career.
You are correct...
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