On honesty and hard work
Tell me something... How the hell can you get a master's degree in a particular field from an institution that doesn't offer one in that field? Also, how can you get a bachelor's degree from a school when you've only completed freshman-level work there? Um, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to smell a lying rat. It's only compounded by the fact that you're telling one person you're graduating in a few days and telling another that you had to take the semester off because you have cancer (even more compounded by the fact that you've lied about having cancer before).
It's a real shame that some people feel the need to lie about getting a degree instead of sucking it up and putting in the blood, sweat, and tears to earn it like the rest of us. It's even sadder that they feel the need to lie about something like that to get friends (as opposed to doing so to get a job or whatnot); you obviously don't treasure your friendships very much if you feel okay with putting up a dishonest representation of yourself to everyone around you. At least I earned my degree without having to lie about where I went to school, when I went there, and what I did or did not do to get it. And honestly... you can do the coursework and earn the degree to call yourself a doctor, but you can never be a good doctor of any species unless you have a strong sense of ethics. Personally, I wouldn't want to take myself to the kind of doctor who is has no moral problem with being compulsively dishonest. Maybe it'll catch up with them, and maybe it won't, but at least I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that I've done the right thing.
It bothers me even more that the person about which this is written had the balls to tell me she knew "just how hard" I've worked. Not to be disrespectful, but you have no idea how hard I've worked because you haven't done it and you haven't watched me do it. I earned my bachelor's degree in four years despite several attacks of Murphy's Law that could have given me every reason to withdraw from school, not the least of which being a chronic pain condition (real, not imagined). I also managed to get myself into vet school on the first try despite the fact that vet school is one of the most competitive graduate programs out there (even moreso than human medicine; if you don't believe me, go check the stats). Don't bother sympathizing with me when until you've done it.
P.S. Also, so now you're telling people you played basketball at Winthrop? Was that before or after you got your fake degree there? Funny how that story only happened after you alienated everyone at WU who could testify otherwise. Ugh... what a stupid LAME thing to lie about!
It's a real shame that some people feel the need to lie about getting a degree instead of sucking it up and putting in the blood, sweat, and tears to earn it like the rest of us. It's even sadder that they feel the need to lie about something like that to get friends (as opposed to doing so to get a job or whatnot); you obviously don't treasure your friendships very much if you feel okay with putting up a dishonest representation of yourself to everyone around you. At least I earned my degree without having to lie about where I went to school, when I went there, and what I did or did not do to get it. And honestly... you can do the coursework and earn the degree to call yourself a doctor, but you can never be a good doctor of any species unless you have a strong sense of ethics. Personally, I wouldn't want to take myself to the kind of doctor who is has no moral problem with being compulsively dishonest. Maybe it'll catch up with them, and maybe it won't, but at least I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that I've done the right thing.
It bothers me even more that the person about which this is written had the balls to tell me she knew "just how hard" I've worked. Not to be disrespectful, but you have no idea how hard I've worked because you haven't done it and you haven't watched me do it. I earned my bachelor's degree in four years despite several attacks of Murphy's Law that could have given me every reason to withdraw from school, not the least of which being a chronic pain condition (real, not imagined). I also managed to get myself into vet school on the first try despite the fact that vet school is one of the most competitive graduate programs out there (even moreso than human medicine; if you don't believe me, go check the stats). Don't bother sympathizing with me when until you've done it.
P.S. Also, so now you're telling people you played basketball at Winthrop? Was that before or after you got your fake degree there? Funny how that story only happened after you alienated everyone at WU who could testify otherwise. Ugh... what a stupid LAME thing to lie about!