An Email to the Dean from Jesus Christ, Medical Student
While my MCAT scores were not the most competitive, I am a self-directed learner with strong communication skills and also I died for your sins.
Fredrick Martyn is a writer and resident physician from Toronto. His words have appeared in Slackjaw, GomerBlog, and Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, among other places. Find his words at fredrickmartyn.weebly.com
While my MCAT scores were not the most competitive, I am a self-directed learner with strong communication skills and also I died for your sins.
Oh, is turkey a Thanksgiving item too? I guess I never really noticed, until now. Sure, maybe just go ahead and don’t make that one either.
Just thinking about it gets me so angry. It makes me want to explicitly slice Raphael instead of the usual implicit slicing I do.
What’s the point of locating a family to scare and waiting under a bed, if when I crawl out to scare the kid, they’re not even in there?
And you charged me for all of it?! That’s over $15,000! Listen, I’m not made of that Tony Stark money
Better find a good cuddle buddy for "The Strangers 3: Come On In The Door’s Unlocked!", "The Exorcism of Celine Dione," and "Get Out, Please."
I’m an Ewok, you idiot. Not a Wookiee. Do all intelligent, bipedal, brown, hairy non-humans look the same to you?
How is communicating in sign language, walking on sand trails, or keeping your children in soundproof rooms, really that different from recycling?
I am a strong, independent, intraplate earthquake with good near-field vertical ground motions. I don’t need a bunch of tools telling me my worth.
Doctors always say things like "watch that cholesterol." They are unwarrantedly suspicious and overtly vigilante over an entire group. It's profiling!
Who the heck owns a letter opener anymore? I’ll tell you who: people like me, looking for socially acceptable ways to always have a knife nearby.