Nice to hear from you, Travis! Agreed, we all have had such different experiences. I bet you could write a whole list of 10 more things that I didn’t think of! I never experienced that problem with classmates, but you are not alone in that, and many others have shared that was their experience too. Hope you’re well!

I didn’t see this mentioned in your ten, so maybe this didn’t apply to you, like pervy teachers didn’t apply to me: classmates. Look, I’m all about having pride in oneself, especially if you managed to get this high on the educational ladder, and eventually, have the ability to really change a person’s life.

But…you can’t forget that you’re still just a human, like everyone else outside the walls of your school and the practice you’re working in, and thus can still bleed and get hurt like anyone else. And quite frankly, there were a few times I wanted to prove that to some students.

The worst people I’ve ever met in my life, I met while I was in college and dental school. I think I’d rather get in fights every day in elementary and middle school.

Them, and various other people who worked in the school, such as maintenance workers lamenting on their current position in life, and looking at and treating me like I’m a problem. I’m not the reason you are where you are and I’m not what’s holding you back, either.

Kwon, when we were in dental school, our teachers used to tell us how easy we had it. That was 20 years ago! Are they still telling you the same thing? I don’t know if you saw it, but I wrote 10 reasons I loved dental school… I think you’ll see those are universal too. Good luck in school– you’ll love getting your nights back to yourself after you graduate!

That sounds great! I went to Baylor in Dallas. I don’t know if they have an international program there, but they do at University of Colorado. It’s funny… I was just speaking with someone in India who wants to study abroad too!

Thank you for your advice! I’m currently planning secretly to apply on another dental school overseas. But I need to decided which school that can accept transfer from overseas student

Can I know which school that you attended?

Yeah, what a horrible pressure to have placed upon you. I will say while we don’t have to fight over chairs here, we do have to wait in line to have everything checked by teachers. It is nice to not worry about that after you graduate. I guess the dental students here to have a lot to be thankful for, but it is very expensive here too… and also highly regarded, by the way. Thanks for sharing your experiences from Indonesia!! Keep us posted on how your story turns out!

Anyway, Im from Indonesia

Its actually pretty exiciting except the part of find our own patient. Plus teachers in certain dept wouldnt let us work immediately, we have to take some ‘discussion’ first, fill a patient medical records also their own dept status. That kind of discussion is depressing, we’re short of time(6 semesters maximum, or drop out) and more than half of my upperclassman get stuck until now. Our special clinic building for dental care(or our labs) hold more than 200+ student, and half of them is already get a title as late for graduate. There’s only around 70 dental chairs, so I swear almost everyday I see every student lowkey get in a fight(include me) for get that empty slot of dental chair for our own patient. Oral surgery is the most encouraging one, despite there’s so many risk if we didnt be careful.

I really wish I can enroll to overseas dental school. And yours sounds like a heaven for us. Will move if I can, but I didnt see a light for it. Im scared if I cant graduate on time and get drop out. My allowance is empty to the point I didnt really eat well now bcs I must get ready for pay my patients every single days(include a person that provide us a patient but they cost more like 3x of my daily expense) not to forget to buy tools.
I want to drop out bfr I get too old but my family already spent too much for this(bcs in my country, medical faculty is just like a God. You’ll get a “wow future doctor/dentist! Hope you will grant me a free treatment after graduate”