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ksmi117 said:
I wouldn't change my major if I could. I love me some math. 😀

Not that anyone cares... but I like sharing.
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I started out as a math major... then I realized that being a math major at MIT meant that you have to be in a whole 'nother league than what I am in.
 
drizzt3117 said:
I started out as a math major... then I realized that being a math major at MIT meant that you have to be in a whole 'nother league than what I am in.
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So... drizzt went to MIT, started out as a math major, played in a couple WSOP main events. Next drizzt's gonna tell me that he counted cards in blackjack and used his winnings to pay for pb + AMCAS + med school. Am I close!?!? jk lol
 
RoadRunner17 said:
So... drizzt went to MIT, started out as a math major, played in a couple WSOP main events. Next drizzt's gonna tell me that he counted cards in blackjack and used his winnings to pay for pb + AMCAS + med school. Am I close!?!? jk lol
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Haha, I am retired at blackjack. I lost a HUGE hand I was playing two handed... it was heartbreaking. Not ever going to play again. I'll stick to poker... I've had bad beats but they are pretty few and far between.

Best and most improbable hand ever happened to me about three weeks ago in a cash game at a local casino...

2-4 no limit, I'd bought in for $300 and doubled up early and had been playing pretty tight for a few hands with a lot of wild betting going on, and then I got dealt bullets, and raised to $20 preflop in 1st position, to which the next player immediately reraised to $40. I called, we were heads up, and I flopped aces full of kings... Of course I checked, and the other guy pushed with ~$500... I was like :wtf: but of course called, and he turned over kings, and I was like 😱 turn was a jack and river was the last ace... 😀 I not only raked the ~1k pot but also we won the bad beat jackpot which got me another $1000 😀 The other guy got almost the same amount total though, so we were both happy... (loser, 40% winner, 20% and rest of the table splits 40%) Pretty good deal all around! Ironically, if I hadn't gotten the river, I would have still almost won the same amount of money (less like $60) haha.
 
drizzt3117 said:
Haha, I am retired at blackjack. I lost a HUGE hand I was playing two handed... it was heartbreaking. Not ever going to play again. I'll stick to poker... I've had bad beats but they are pretty few and far between.

Best and most improbable hand ever happened to me about three weeks ago in a cash game at a local casino...

2-4 no limit, I'd bought in for $300 and doubled up early and had been playing pretty tight for a few hands with a lot of wild betting going on, and then I got dealt bullets, and raised to $20 preflop in 1st position, to which the next player immediately reraised to $40. I called, we were heads up, and I flopped aces full of kings... Of course I checked, and the other guy pushed with ~$500... I was like :wtf: but of course called, and he turned over kings, and I was like 😱 turn was a jack and river was the last ace... 😀 I not only raked the ~1k pot but also we won the bad beat jackpot which got me another $1000 😀 The other guy got almost the same amount total though, so we were both happy... (loser, 40% winner, 20% and rest of the table splits 40%) Pretty good deal all around! Ironically, if I hadn't gotten the river, I would have still almost won the same amount of money (less like $60) haha.
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lol.

Same thing happened to me a while ago... except I lost the pot and won the bad beat. Well, almost the same thing... the pot didn't have over $1000 in it.
 
drizzt3117 said:
Haha, I am retired at blackjack. I lost a HUGE hand I was playing two handed... it was heartbreaking. Not ever going to play again. I'll stick to poker... I've had bad beats but they are pretty few and far between.

Best and most improbable hand ever happened to me about three weeks ago in a cash game at a local casino...

2-4 no limit, I'd bought in for $300 and doubled up early and had been playing pretty tight for a few hands with a lot of wild betting going on, and then I got dealt bullets, and raised to $20 preflop in 1st position, to which the next player immediately reraised to $40. I called, we were heads up, and I flopped aces full of kings... Of course I checked, and the other guy pushed with ~$500... I was like :wtf: but of course called, and he turned over kings, and I was like 😱 turn was a jack and river was the last ace... 😀 I not only raked the ~1k pot but also we won the bad beat jackpot which got me another $1000 😀 The other guy got almost the same amount total though, so we were both happy... (loser, 40% winner, 20% and rest of the table splits 40%) Pretty good deal all around! Ironically, if I hadn't gotten the river, I would have still almost won the same amount of money (less like $60) haha.
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Sheesh! 😱 I always laugh when I see someone get beat on the river anywhere.. but that's only when the winner had a hand that he had no business going all in with, etc. And of course, I'm not laughing if I'm the one who got screwed by the river card! :laugh:

Fortunately I don't consider myself good enough at poker that I'd buy into a game with more than $20. I was decent enough to win games against other kids in the dorms (ah, freshman year was great) in 1-2 no limit.. but I know I won't be any good when I go up against people who have at least some control over their non-verbal communication (tells, etc). I tend to rely a great deal on visual cues in my daily life, lol. You'll know what I mean when you meet me in the fall.

But don't be dragging me to any local casinos on WI.. I didn't know WI had casinos
 
RoadRunner17 said:
Sheesh! 😱 I always laugh when I see someone get beat on the river anywhere.. but that's only when the winner had a hand that he had no business going all in with, etc. And of course, I'm not laughing if I'm the one who got screwed by the river card! :laugh:

Fortunately I don't consider myself good enough at poker that I'd buy into a game with more than $20. I was decent enough to win games against other kids in the dorms (ah, freshman year was great) in 1-2 no limit.. but I know I won't be any good when I go up against people who have at least some control over their non-verbal communication (tells, etc). I tend to rely a great deal on visual cues in my daily life, lol. You'll know what I mean when you meet me in the fall.

But don't be dragging me to any local casinos on WI.. I didn't know WI had casinos
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We'll have a bunch of poker events in the first few months of school, me and a few other people usually organize poker nights (either tournaments or cash games reasonably often (every month or so).

Did you know there is a deaf guy in our class? (I believe he has either cochlear implants or hearing aids though) He has a woman that the school pays for to follow him around with some sort of device and transcribe all the lectures to his laptop. Is that normal?
 
drizzt3117 said:
We'll have a bunch of poker events in the first few months of school, me and a few other people usually organize poker nights (either tournaments or cash games reasonably often (every month or so).

Did you know there is a deaf guy in our class? (I believe he has either cochlear implants or hearing aids though) He has a woman that the school pays for to follow him around with some sort of device and transcribe all the lectures to his laptop. Is that normal?
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Interesting. I might have to join y'all in poker if I end up going to MCW.
 
Raryn said:
Interesting. I might have to join y'all in poker if I end up going to MCW.
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Cool! We have some interschool events, with WMS. The last event was about 2 weeks ago, and WMS paid for MCW people to attend a conference and go to some really nice restaurants on WMS's tab. They had a mixer with UW and it was pretty fun (although there were some communication problems, we were invited to the dinner but they never told us about it) Oh well, it was a good time and we had fun partying with the MCW people!

We had one pretty big tournament this year with 22 people, the total pot was about $500. Most of our cash games are pretty small time ($20 buy in and unlimited rebuys, of course). In business school we had BIG tournaments and cash games ($2-3k total payouts) but med students don't have as much money haha I like to alternate poker between tournaments and cash games just so it stays interesting!
 
drizzt3117 said:
Cool! We have some interschool events, with WMS. The last event was about 2 weeks ago, and WMS paid for MCW people to attend a conference and go to some really nice restaurants on WMS's tab. They had a mixer with UW and it was pretty fun (although there were some communication problems, we were invited to the dinner but they never told us about it) Oh well, it was a good time and we had fun partying with the MCW people!

We had one pretty big tournament this year with 22 people, the total pot was about $500. Most of our cash games are pretty small time ($20 buy in and unlimited rebuys, of course). In business school we had BIG tournaments and cash games ($2-3k total payouts) but med students don't have as much money haha I like to alternate poker between tournaments and cash games just so it stays interesting!
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Sounds like a good time.
 
Raryn said:
Sounds like a good time.
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It was... I personally think Madison is much more fun that Milwaukee to hang out in (but some people disagree, Milwaukee is fun in the summer, with summerfest and all that) Chicago is of course the best though in the area...
 
drizzt3117 said:
It was... I personally think Madison is much more fun that Milwaukee to hang out in (but some people disagree, Milwaukee is fun in the summer, with summerfest and all that) Chicago is of course the best though in the area...
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Speaking of Chicago, my current other choice is RFUMS, but I'll decide before next Friday.
 
Raryn said:
Speaking of Chicago, my current other choice is RFUMS, but I'll decide before next Friday.
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RFUMS isn't really in chicago... it's in "north chicago" but I guess you knew that.

My friend is a M1 there, she thought it was OK I guess. My guess is you'll probably get off a WL but I would pick MCW. Is the cost much different?
 
drizzt3117 said:
RFUMS isn't really in chicago... it's in "north chicago" but I guess you knew that.

My friend is a M1 there, she thought it was OK I guess. My guess is you'll probably get off a WL but I would pick MCW. Is the cost much different?
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MCW is (slightly) cheaper, and my probable choice.

RFUMS said they'd get our fin aid packages to us this week though, so I'm waiting a few days just in case.
 
Raryn said:
MCW is (slightly) cheaper, and my probable choice.

RFUMS said they'd get our fin aid packages to us this week though, so I'm waiting a few days just in case.
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That makes sense, that's awful late to be getting out fin aid packages isn't it? I turned in FAFSA last sunday and got my package yesterday already haha
 
drizzt3117 said:
We'll have a bunch of poker events in the first few months of school, me and a few other people usually organize poker nights (either tournaments or cash games reasonably often (every month or so).

Did you know there is a deaf guy in our class? (I believe he has either cochlear implants or hearing aids though) He has a woman that the school pays for to follow him around with some sort of device and transcribe all the lectures to his laptop. Is that normal?
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I actually met him on interview day (my student host bought him over to the conference room we were in), and I'm also told there is a graduating M4 who is deaf as well. They've had great experiences with support at UW, which is part of why I made my decision to go to UW.

I know he wears hearing aids and we have similar levels of hearing loss, I think. What you're describing is real-time captioning and I think it seems to be a good option.. there isn't really a "normal" or conventional method of accommodations - I've found it to be pretty individualized. I didn't use it in undergrad because what we had was a bastardized remote version of it and also because it was useless in 95% of my classes (engineering and math in particular = epic fail).

The arrangement I'm considering is to basically pay attention in class (using a FM transmitter which helps a lot, this has served me well in 2nd half of undergrad and pb) and get the lecture videos subtitled so I can watch it later if need be. I'll get the actual live captioning if I end up needing it.

drizzt3117 said:
Cool! We have some interschool events, with WMS. The last event was about 2 weeks ago, and WMS paid for MCW people to attend a conference and go to some really nice restaurants on WMS's tab. They had a mixer with UW and it was pretty fun (although there were some communication problems, we were invited to the dinner but they never told us about it) Oh well, it was a good time and we had fun partying with the MCW people!

We had one pretty big tournament this year with 22 people, the total pot was about $500. Most of our cash games are pretty small time ($20 buy in and unlimited rebuys, of course). In business school we had BIG tournaments and cash games ($2-3k total payouts) but med students don't have as much money haha I like to alternate poker between tournaments and cash games just so it stays interesting!
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Nice, I'm down for that.. Tournaments can get pretty exciting, definitely does when you get to the final table.

Raryn said:
Speaking of Chicago, my current other choice is RFUMS, but I'll decide before next Friday.
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RFUMS isn't quite in Chicago but I know what you mean. It's nice that Madison isn't that far from Chicago, where most of my old HS friends live now. Where are you leaning towards going right now?
 
Raryn said:
MCW is (slightly) cheaper, and my probable choice.

RFUMS said they'd get our fin aid packages to us this week though, so I'm waiting a few days just in case.
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Go to MCW so you can be classmates with Glory 😉

drizzt3117 said:
That makes sense, that's awful late to be getting out fin aid packages isn't it? I turned in FAFSA last sunday and got my package yesterday already haha
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Yeah, my roommate still hasn't gotten his finaid packages from any of his state schools (VCU and EVMS) and Pitt either. In fact, he won't get the packages from VCU or EVMS until after May 15...
 
RFUMS isn't quite in Chicago but I know what you mean. It's nice that Madison isn't that far from Chicago, where most of my old HS friends live now. Where are you leaning towards going right now?
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MCW, probably. Might change depending on how generous RFUMS is with the $$$
 
That sounds like it would work. Honestly I think besides rotations/patient contact and M3 year, most of what you learn is on written page/computer anyways. I go to lecture most of the time but I don't necessarily get that much out of it. Josh is an awesome guy, fun to hang out with too!
 
Raryn said:
Oh, and any waitlist acceptances would influence me later too...
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Nice, pining for any waitlist acceptances in particular?

drizzt3117 said:
That sounds like it would work. Honestly I think besides rotations/patient contact and M3 year, most of what you learn is on written page/computer anyways. I go to lecture most of the time but I don't necessarily get that much out of it. Josh is an awesome guy, fun to hang out with too!
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Yup, I've actually met him once way before either of us decided on medicine. Dude's full of great stories, mostly involving alcohol. Ask him to tell you what happened about the one time he got drunk and got on his mom's computer.. 😉
 
RoadRunner17 said:
Nice, pining for any waitlist acceptances in particular?



Yup, I've actually met him once way before either of us decided on medicine. Dude's full of great stories, mostly involving alcohol. Ask him to tell you what happened about the one time he got drunk and got on his mom's computer.. 😉
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WashU, Dartmouth, USC would all make my life interesting.
 
Raryn said:
WashU, Dartmouth, USC would all make my life interesting.
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I can definitely see that.. well, we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for you in the next few weeks as the waitlist moves along.

For now, I think I'm heading to bed.. it's plenty late, I'm just glad I have nothing to wake up for tomorrow morning. See y'all in the afternoon 😛
 
Anyone up? Just got home and my buzz is wearing off...
 
Seeing as it's nearing 4 AM on the East Coast, I'm gonna try and get some sleep 🙂
 
Greetings Children of the Earth. I come with peace and love for all😀
 
Wow, SDN is really quiet at 5 PST...

O well, time to go exercise... if my ankle is not hurting too much...
 
party over here....my trainer is about to kick my arse!!!!
 
Had a nice run around UCLA. The campus is awesome in the morning. It is so calm, peaceful and serene.🙂
 
funkydrmonkey said:
Had a nice run around UCLA. The campus is awesome in the morning. It is so calm, peaceful and serene.🙂
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Jeez, you definitely are embarrassing that early bird who wanted to get the worm. Are you going to miss UCLA? You took a beating in that UCLA vs Baylor thread, haha.

Just made myself a shake, going to relax for the time being then head over to the gym to lift. It's time to buy a new pair of shoes at City Sports - CHOP gave us a 20% off on any 1 item coupon so it's a good time to use it.
 
RoadRunner17 said:
Jeez, you definitely are embarrassing that early bird who wanted to get the worm. Are you going to miss UCLA? You took a beating in that UCLA vs Baylor thread, haha.
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Well, I did go to bed around 9:30... I would have woken up at 3 in the morning, but that is a bit too early...

And yes, I will miss it a lot...🙁
 
Raryn said:
Btw, !@#$ research... I'm trying to wrap my synthetic organic up, and so I've been coming into the lab for hours every day. Ran a multi-step reaction and worked it up yesterday, was in the lab from 11 till 8. Come in today to analyze the fractions, and my !@#$ing column degraded my !@#$ing product into stuff that I can't even come close to recognizing. The NMRs look nasty as hell.
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🙁 Yeah tahts why i no longer work in the natural products lab.. nonstop columns, nmr's, multistep benzylating reactions that dont work... i loved inorganic synthetic chem but the prof i worked with left for another school..
 
ksmi117 said:
I wouldn't change my major if I could. I love me some math. 😀

Not that anyone cares... but I like sharing.
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hehe right up there with you.. except chem for me 🙂😛🙂
 
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