I have been accepted into the fine Medical University of Leuven, Belgium

[Ulcasterdropout]

Congratulations ,Orbling...
I hope this is what you want and not what your parents want.
It's a long education and it'll be too easy to lose focus
on subject matter that bores you.

 

[Smurfy]

If you're so smart, what are you doing here?









j/k! Congrats i bet your family is so proud of you. I know we are

 

[Robert Jan]

In Canada it works the same way as Europe. Once you finished HS you get go to med school. It's 5 years plus 2 as a trainee if I'm correct. It's not that hard to get in (not as hard as many folks think), but it's just that few people actually think 7 years of hard studying are worth the crappy pay check you get after (thank to socialized medicine).

Well in Holland we have a sort of semi-socialised medicine, it's not as flat as in canada but its rather socialist, and specialists make a lot of money here.

I think practically any specialist who works full time makes over 100 k and some specialisms like radiology, cardiology, some plastic surgeons make 200-300k.

You'll never be a millionaire (unless maybe if you start a very succesful private clinic for plastic surgery or so) but you'll live pretty luxuriously forever and you're ensured of a job.

Also, even if it paid rather crappy, I would still want to be a doctor.
I see studying medicine in University as more of a goal than a means really. I'm not a very materialistic guy. Right now, I wouldn't even know what to do with a few hundred grand a year. I'd probably be uncomfortable, feeling obligated to spend it.

 

[Robert Jan]

Congratulations ,Orbling...
I hope this is what you want and not what your parents want.
It's a long education and it'll be too easy to lose focus
on subject matter that bores you.

My parents haven't pushed me towards this. In fact my mother suggested I become a biologist and my father always wanted me to study in a science-Uni, to study Physics or Math or Chemistry. (my father has a Phd in both dentistry and chemistry)

My father, as well as my grandfather who is also an engineer, can't stop telling me how medicine is hard work and a lot of info you need to know, but the actual insight and understanding and mindpower required is great, but inferior to that of an engineer.

I like the fact it isa long education... I don't want to grow up yet. not for a long time.

 

[Pamela]

I thought all along you were just a pimp on The Sheets Board..J/K!!

Congrats..

 

[Robert Jan]

I thought all along you were just a pimp on The Sheets Board..J?K!!

Congrats..

I can be a pimping Dr. right?

 

[Pamela]

I can be a pimping Dr. right?

Sure! But don't get caught!

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

you bastard. you have no business getting into med school before me (since youre like 12 anyways) but congrats nonetheless...

 

[Robert Jan]

I'm 18 gawd damnit lol.

18 1/2!

I look older.
really.

 

[MR Pink]

congrats man ...so how are the chicks in Leuven....I was in Antwerpen a couple of weeks ago ...and 90% of the chicks I saw where hidious. And goodluck with speaking Vlaams it's a funny dialect but I bet you're gonna say Huh??? alot in the begining