Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Obviously in order to be a doctor, you have to be smart, you have to be convincted, study hard, and you also probably have to have a talent for the feild of science already, and you should be mentally stable, be able to perform well under stress. I mean getting into med school is not easy, and being a doctor sure as hell isn't a cake walk, extremely so depending on the feild. My roommate is none of those things. At all. He says he wants to be a pediatric surgeon.

We are both freshman. He got all C's through highschool, but says that it's just because he didn't try. Now in college he's saying he doesn't study or try because this is "just the basic stuff" and he will try harder once he gets to the advanced stuff. I'm a bio major, so right now our courses have a lot of crossover. He can't do the homework, but I refuse to help him with it because he doesn't pay attention in class and never studies, the college offers free tutors but he won't go. He flunked general chemistry first semester and still isn't taking it seriously this semester. 

He has anxiety and depression and is very far from a mentally stable person. He's moody and says he gets panic attacks over small tests, again not a trait for a CHILD SURGEON. 

He says he loves the feild, but he spends all of his time watching make up videos, he never ever seems interested in his studies in the slightest. 

This semester, we learned that he is only taking 11 credits and working 10 hours as a cashier. He complains all the time about how busy he is none the less even though we know it's all bullshit. 

His parents are from a culture that makes them want for him to be a doctor, his friends are all dumb so they encourage him with no thought behind it, the college only wants his money, I am the only person who I feel is being honest about what is extremely evident. This guy will never be a doctor, and pretending like he will be is just costing him hundreds of thousands of dollars and waisting his time, and I worry about what he will do when he comes to this realization.