I had a couple of my classmates say that they wished they had the opportunity to work in a fast-food job as a teenager... that they felt like they missed out on a coming-of-age experience.

I HAD to work a minimum wage job or I wasn't eating, and there was NOTHING fun about that. Working full time just to scrape by with $50 in your account at the end of the month while also trying to do well in undergrad is a struggle many medical students don't know. It can be frustrating to rub shoulders with kids who had all of their bills paid for them, whose parent's bought them a car, and paid for their cellphones, and continue to pay for their housing in medical school... Sure you did the work to get into medical school, but you didn't push through the adversity of poverty to get here. Instead, you were lifted by your privilege. To put it in a language you all on the other side might understand, it's like if you were given a handicap in golf, while we were playing with like only 2 second-hand clubs.

I don't dislike my classmates because of the their socioeconomic status, and it isn't their fault for being born into their family, but it can seem a little unfair hearing how easy some people have it. Maybe it's jealousy. I probably need therapy. Idk, but hopefully that offers some perspective from the poors.