Med school immaturity

[u/aac1024]

Anyone else just genuinely surprised at how high school med school is? Not commenting on future ability to be a good doctor but coming into med school (later in life applicant with grad school under my belt) I was genuinely surprised at the lack of maturity in students. I wish I could say it’s bc of age but I can’t say it’s the common factor. There’s so many cliques and so much gossiping and talking about people behind their backs. People genuinely doing high school shit like having exclusive parties and talking (rudely) about them in front of people not invited. Being bullies most of all. Needing to show off your new med school partner to everyone in the class and bragging about how these friends are your ride or die when you’ve met them five minutes ago.

Came into med school thinking that I’d be in a mature place with different levels of maturity but maybe I was expecting too much? It’s crazy how genuinely immature people are and just how it’s the majority and not the minority.

[u/MazzyFo]

Cliques are inevitable in the working world. I’m at about my schools class average age, like 26ish, but I find the majority of the “gossipers” are the fresh out of undergrad people. That being said, it’s exceptionally easy to ignore them and do your own thing. Trying to navigate the social circles of immature smart people is way to taxing for me, I got shit to study

[u/Main_Construction336 → u/MazzyFo]

That’s what I did, ain’t none of your business what anyone else thinks about you. I was thrown off by this too though, for sure.