wayfaringmd:

get-going asked: What’s a good way to not be a gunner? I’ve realized looking at your and md admissions descriptions for gunners that I am one, and I don’t wanna be!

My suspicion, get-going, is that you are not a gunner. Why? Because gunners don’t worry about being gunners. They just gun away. Like I said before, all high achieving people are a little type A, but you only become a gunner when you take it to the extreme. Also, why avoid being a gunner? Because they’re obnoxious, they make other people’s lives miserable, and they make school unnecessarily stressful. So here are some tips. 

1. Keep your grades to yourself. No one cares about your grades except other gunners, and they don’t need to know. 

2. Don’t ask other people their grades. If they want to tell you, they’ll tell you. 

3. Don’t even ask “how did you do” or “are you happy with the test?” If the person didn’t do so well, you’re embarrassing them by even asking. 

4. Don’t answer a question unless it is asked directly to you.

5. Do not ever ever ever ask a fellow student a question you already know the answer to. Leave the pimping to the professors. The one exception is if the student asks you to quiz them. And even then, don’t be a jerk. 

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THIS. annoying UCLA kids after every midterm… although i’m guilty of some of these too hehe