I (26F) am a med student at my school, along with hundreds of other students. We just got out of one of our exams, and no one knows any of the scores yet. People were making self deprecating jokes about dropping out and working at mcdonalds, or chugging liquor because the exam stressed them. The topic of curves on the exam came up, and some students were saying they hoped we all equally failed together, so that the curve would bring us all up. A lot of them expressed being reliant on the curve to save them since they found the exam difficult. It was kinda disheartening because I don't think we are dumb students, and I hope many of us passed. I was offended by that, but I didn't say anything cuz I knew it was from a stressed standpoint. When they became really fixated on the curve, I said "imagine if you had a doctor who failed exams and only passed with curves, treating you", in a tongue in cheek kinda way, since we were all making jokes about the whole thing. They started saying that was incredibly mean of me, and that theres nothing wrong with curves. I wasn't trying to be an asshole, and I have no clue what the scores are so this sentiment applies equally to me, but they took it very personally. I dont think theres anything wrong with curves, but I dont think people should say stuff like \*"I hope we all fail equally"\* because you're just \*that\* dependent on curves to get through school. Med school isn't filler stuff anymore. Our exam today was on diagnosing potentially lethal childhood disorders, and it wasn't a good attitude to say that hopefully we failed it just so we can all pretend we understood it later. I wasn't trying to shit on anyone, I just wanted to imply "we need to aim higher cuz this stuff really matters," but I didn't wanna outright say "do better" to a bunch of stressed folks. I wanted to say it in a humorous way. AITA?