Awesome Mallory so good to hear!! It's so cool to hear how your experiences are going in school because I remember when you were still a pre-dent! We must learn to always manage our expectations not just in dental school but in life. The grass isn't always greener but it can be if we have the right outlook on things. Thanks for the comment and I hope school is going well!

This is an amazing response right here!! SO well thought out and put together, Harpreet!! Thanks for sharing, and I think plenty will benefit from reading your thoughts!

Yes please continue to give yourself the praise you deserve!! These programs are not easy, but they are this way for a reason. There are only a select few in our society who are entrusted with the care of society as a whole. We are honored to be part of that select few. The path to get there is never an easy one, but our roles as health professionals and care givers in the future should be entirely worth the process!!

@@stephenraydentist I agree it is very rewarding to make such a positive impact in our community. The program has a lot of positives as well, but it is super important to stay in touch with our mental health. Thanks for this video, best of luck!

This is so awesome to hear!! Thank you for your comment and your support! It means so much to me that this was so helpful and came across in this way!

P.S. you were spot on with finding comfort in your peers. After undergrad everyone goes off on their own path, you have to accept that your classmates are now your new team. Old friends will still be there, but don’t focus so much on what they are doing

Both of these comments are absolutely on point! You're completely right that is how it feels. And at times, I have had plenty of free time to enjoy myself and pursue this KZfaq channel which is my hobby. Hang in there! You are right about the light at the end of the tunnel! Great career ahead 💪

Yessir absolutely! That is great advice! There is so much more I could've said but the video would've taken ages. Thanks for the comment!!

@@stephenraydentist Also the feeing that you are actually helping people comes when you start working with people, giving people their smiles back . First years you are a lab rat, but it's a needed "evil" so to say to be able to learn the skill needed since with real people you can't let mistakes happen.

Like exercise...

Thanks so much for the comment, Helen! And yes I'll be making an episode of the podcast that completely covers endo. I'll get into all the details! There is so much on my docket for the next couple weeks. Unfortunately, I don't really have all the time in the world to make it.

I’m responding to old comments that I never got to and thank you so very much for this! It is truly hard for me to articulate how much this comment means to me because the #1 I have always hoped to be on this channel is authentic. Thank you for your comment and for your appreciation of the content! I wish you the very best of luck in your journey 👍

I agree completely!! I will say that the experiences my father had in the late 70s in dental school sound far and away worse than ours today, but that is a matter of perspective. Generally, professors are much more understanding than they once were, but there is still more room for a discussion of how the individual students in dental classes are doing. School is tough, and dental school specifically is mentally and physically challenging. So many people online and on social media glorify dental/medical school as "the promise land". I just think it is important to maintain realistic expectations.

As I’ve posted here & in other YT videos: If college students are a national treasures, why are they abused and castigated especially in grad school?

Professors behaving badly. Besides male instructors sexually harassing female students, some were actually downright nasty. Example: At the downtown free clinic, many street people came in mainly for extractions. Many came in drunk or high. During pharmacology we had learned not to administer anesthesia to patients in these conditions. Instead, give them an appointment when they would be sober. My instructor insisted I administer Lidocaine & extract the molar. When I mentioned there might be a drug interaction, he got really angry & roughly administered 2 carpules. OMG! I successfully extracted the tooth. The patient bolted from the chair immediately after the extraction. I barely had time to tell him to put on a tea bag and not to lose the blood clot. Grade “D.” Another instructor refused permission to seat a crown; even though, the prep, the wax up and the crown’s fit on the cast & Hanau articulator had already been approved by 3 other instructors. Reason for refusal, he did not approve of the anatomy. WTF! Another student was assigned my patient. Grade “D” & Embarrassing =(

Thank you for the comment and I wish you the best of luck with school, your application, and volleyball! I hope you are here at UTHSC very soon!

Thank you so much for this comment, and I apologize for how long it took me to respond to it! I appreciate the UK perspective, and my discussion with Raina was an awesome opportunity for me to be reminded of how different dentistry is around the world! Thanks for watching the videos, and I hope you are able to find value in my content moving forward! I greatly look forward to discussing the transition between dental school and life as a dentist which I hope will benefit my dental colleagues like you!

You've got this my friend!! Thanks for visiting the channel and let me know what happens in a few weeks!

THE man!! I can never get over how intelligent that man is. A treasure!

I don’t like his natalist arguments, but other than that I know nothing about his writing/work. Maybe that he sounds a bit like Kermit the Frog

do you have experience in this field or are you a medical doctor?

I am at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis!!

Thanks so much for the comment!!

That’s none of yo business sir

He’s a student