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I'm still grinding out my last few secondaries, and I've run into a couple of situations where I really feel like a square peg, because the forms are so obviously designed for traditional students.
Columbia: About how many hours per week, if any, did you spend in work for which you were recompensed during the college year?
Hmm. During college, about 10. During the next 20 years of my life, about 60.
NYU: If you have taken any time off or have graduated, describe what you have done during this time (1500 chars. max)
Oh, nothing much. I just had an entire career and a couple of kids ...
Albany Med: Asks you to list ECs (again, even though they're on AMCAS), as well as paid employment, with total hours for each activity or job. When I got to the jobs, it got pretty amusing: I had one with 22,500 hours! (I couldn't even put a comma in the number, because there wasn't enough space in the box.) I bet that one will make their eyes bug out, when they're mainly used to seeing people working a few hundred hours at the school library.
Columbia: About how many hours per week, if any, did you spend in work for which you were recompensed during the college year?
Hmm. During college, about 10. During the next 20 years of my life, about 60.
NYU: If you have taken any time off or have graduated, describe what you have done during this time (1500 chars. max)
Oh, nothing much. I just had an entire career and a couple of kids ...
Albany Med: Asks you to list ECs (again, even though they're on AMCAS), as well as paid employment, with total hours for each activity or job. When I got to the jobs, it got pretty amusing: I had one with 22,500 hours! (I couldn't even put a comma in the number, because there wasn't enough space in the box.) I bet that one will make their eyes bug out, when they're mainly used to seeing people working a few hundred hours at the school library.