Goodness knows I saw it coming

Jun. 10, 2012 at 6:24pm with 20 notes

LMAO at this list I found on a Spanish social media site. “Reasons to go to Pharmacy school” (I didn’t include some of them because they were untranslatable)

Because there’s nothing good on TV in the mornings.
Because Saturdays ARE schooldays too.
Because I can draw hexagons like a robot.
Because nobody will beat me at scrabble.
Because throwing parties is so mainstream.
Because ‘spare time’ to me is the lapse of time between classes
Because messing around in the lab is worth what you pay for your school fees.
Because my children will get to see me graduating.
Because in order to sell an aspirin, I need to know which plant its active ingredients come from, its pharmacological effects, human phisiology, which pathology you intend to cure, its second effects, how a espectrofotometer works, how a car engine works…
Because if the pilot faints, I’ll be the only one who knows how to drive a plane (I learned it in 2nd year Instrumental Analysis)
Because going to the library is the best afterhours.
Because thanks to Parasitology, crabs and I are really bonding.
Because “many are called, but few are chosen”.
Because killing yourself by slitting your wrists was way too easy.
Because half of the professors don’t actually teach at Pharmacy school.
Because private tuitions weren’t included in your fees.
Because the Media school has better labs than we do.
Because copying and pasting from wikipedia is known as “writing a paper”.
Because you skip classes to go to the cafeteria; we skip classes to go to the library.
Because I don’t need to think what to do in my free time.
Because I want to know what kind of cocaine Pete Doherty is snorting.
Because “to be or not to be” can be read as “to eat or to sleep, I don’t have time for both”
Because you have Red Bull with muffins for breakfast.
Because I crammed all my Botany notes in two days, and I even got half an hour of sleep.
Because I’ve been trying to kill myself for years… but I haven’t got the time.
Because those who finish their degrees will be known as survivors.
Because a proper exam doesn’t require less than 200 pages of notes.
Because no grass grows back again wherever we study Botany.
Because the day more than 60% of the class passes, there will be an X-files episode about us.
Because 82% of what you learn in Pharmacy school is unnecessary.
Because Chuck Norris almost finished this degree once.
Because I took 6 pages of notes about the phisiology of the inner ear in 50 minutes and I ended up selling cotton buds.
Because one day I dropped my Pharmaceutical Chemistry notes on the floor and it caused the division of Pangaea.
Because the guy at the copying machine begins to sweat when he sees me.
Because professors are the real bullies.
Because the name “Micro”biology is a contradiction itself.
Because we don’t play farmville… we grow bacteria in the virtual lab.
Because my parents party more than I do.
Because God created all living things in 6 days, and I can study them all in 3.
Because the boy in the stripped pyjamas had more freedom than we do.
Because you need to minor in Latin to understand Pharmacognosy.
Because you can’t leave the house for ten minutes without feeling a deep sense of guilt.
Because I’d rather eat my notes than study them.
Because if taking drugs is bad for you; studying them is even worse.
Because sunlight gives you cancer.