You know you're a combined degree mph student when...
Mitesh Popat M'07Compiled and Edited using contributions from the MD/MPH and DVM/MPH classes of 2007:
You’ve contemplated for hours what it was like to be a health commissioner in 1930.
You curse the world in ’95.
You visualize the fattening of America by state and in darkening colors.
The selective lottery might as well be the state lottery.
You have perfected the art of grabbing a sandwich, soda, and cookie, and talking to 3 med school applicants – and nonchalantly walking into Biostats a mere three minutes late.
You know removing sex, drugs, and rock & roll from American culture would increase life expectancy by 8.36 years +/- 1.24 (p<0.05).
You are a pro at conducting meetings: you have formal training in the matter.
You accept that yellow is the most visually appealing color for handouts.
You tally verbal pauses such as “like,” “okay,” and “alright.”
You have pondered ingenious applications for market solutions and wondered if you had accidentally enrolled in the MBA program.
You live in the land of PowerPoint excess.
You actually worry about missing class.
You look puzzled when a non-public health professor asks if there are any public health students in the room.
You not only have to come to school on Saturday but you have to do homework for it.
You know too much about a certain person’s prostate and youthful proclivities.
You wonder what the other Tony Robbins is up to nowadays.
Your IQ undergoes a linear regression.
You are now an expert on the history of public health.