Twisted Logic

To kick off my med school pre-reqs, I took Physics I with Lab this summer. The Lab (which was about 4 hours long a day) was taught by a fetus who had many more tattoos and piercings than I care to recount.

Now, I graduated from my undergrad college with a very good GPA. I never took Physics, because...who the hell takes Physics unless it's mandatory? I was not going to be an engineer, and I was not going to major in Physics. Being honest, the only reason I took this class was to get the pre-req out of the way and to prep for the MCAT.

I took this class and discovered...that yeah, I hate Physics. And have no natural talent or ability for it.

So, I met with the T.A. (who began our first class with "I am NOT a T.A. I have a master's degree in blahblahblah Physics specialty. You can call me Mr. X or Professor X, but do not dare call me by my first name. I am not your friend, or your buddy."

OK, dude. Maybe people wouldn't think you of you as their crony if you didn't have 8000 piercings in your face and ears.

I ended up meeting with him one day when I was making up a lab, and he told me he was 26. He also told me that when he was in college he wanted to go to law school. So I asked how he ended up majoring in Physics and going to grad school in Physics instead. And he said, without a hint of irony and with the confidence and smugness that only a person in their mid-20s can muster, that Physics was the ONLY remaining area of study that required logic to understand. He said, "Everything else is just memorization." Really, dude? REALLY?? You KNOW I'm a lawyer, right? And forget law, what about philosophy? Chemistry? Any of the other sciences?

I think my mouth might have fallen open a little at the arrogance of this comment. I'm all for believing in what you do, but really? This is the same guy that told us on the first day of class that he had measured his mass in Duncan Hines cupcakes. "For fun".

Enough said.