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BlackDr2b said:
So when does AMCAS open for yall?
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It's supposed to open tomorrow, but who knows if it will be on time.


On a brighter note (not that you guys care, but I though I would share anyway) I'm done with my thesis!!! BooooYaaaaaa!!!!


:soexcited::banana::soexcited:
 
0Complications said:
It's supposed to open tomorrow, but who knows if it will be on time.


On a brighter note (not that you guys care, but I though I would share anyway) I'm done with my thesis!!! BooooYaaaaaa!!!!


:soexcited::banana::soexcited:
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YAY
🙂👍
 
Myuu said:
You'll come crawling back to us with questions about AMCAS. Then we'll laugh and say "no."


...err, wait. We'll be the picture of helpfulness?
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ill come crawling to you when i interview at case 😀
 
0Complications said:
It's supposed to open tomorrow, but who knows if it will be on time.


On a brighter note (not that you guys care, but I though I would share anyway) I'm done with my thesis!!! BooooYaaaaaa!!!!


:soexcited::banana::soexcited:
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What a good feeling huh? Hopefully I'll be getting that feeling in August.

I'm so pumped about my chicken curry cooking in the crock pot overnight! That'll be lunch for a week.
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cbrons said:
is everyone ready for amcas to open tomorrow?
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sorta...

The first death on your watch isn’t even your fault. You’re just one of the many interns who rush to the bedside when the code is called, peering at the doctors crowding around. As the patient gasps and chokes, you too gasp and choke as each electric shock blasts through the body. The doctors are grim-faced but determined; you hopelessly wonder why they even bother. Again and again the voltage is cranked up, but thunderbolts can only do so much.

The doctor holding the paddles slowly turns away from the flaccid flesh and another quietly asks, “Time of death?” You back away, feeling as if the defibrillator was really meant for you as your heart pounds out its own furious pace. A devastated mother takes your wrist. “Time of death?” she whispers, mis*taking you for a doctor, someone who tried his best to resuscitate her darling daughter, someone who knew what he was doing, someone with guts enough to challenge death. Not a first-year intern who never could remember which number was the systolic for blood pressure, not someone who didn’t even dare to take blood sugar levels.

“I’m so sorry for your loss,” you blurt. “You’ll be able to talk to the doctors inside …,” you mumble, patting the trembling hand. She bites her lip and nods, letting go of the scrubs that you shouldn’t be wearing, the scrubs reserved for those who can save lives, not for those who don’t even know how to gently break death to a loved one.

The third death is similar, only this time you’ve been dragged along for scut work. You’re the one ramming your hands into the sternum, trying to force the fluttering heartbeat into your rhythm. You’re the one leaping out of the way of the defib paddles, jumping back to start compressions again. The patient bottoms out, but after the paddles thunder a third time, you can feel the thump of the heart, tangoing with yours as you collapse against a chair, arms quivering with strain. You shudder with relief. You brought him back. You saved him. You.

The eighteen death is the hardest. That little baby in neo-natal care should never have been forced to live on machines. Each breath is a struggle, and the medications are flowing in a poisonous concentration for such a small body, yet the parents insist on continuing the farce of life. They’re unwilling to bear any grief while their baby boy wheezes and thrashes weakly, seeking comfort but receiving only the hard embrace of a hospital cradle and the groan of machines.

The mother shrieks, “He’s blue! Do something!” After you reach the crib and despair at the readouts, you motion the code team away and beckon to the mother and father.

“The best thing for him is to take him off the machines,” you say.

The dad glares. “You want to kill him.”

They don’t understand the torture they have put him through. “If he even survives a year, he will be severely physically and mentally disabled. For life,” I persist.

The mother moans, “He’s blue! I don’t care. Just save him! Now!”

You nod at the code team, maneuvering yourselves around the tiny crib and pulling off the oxygen mask, trying to fit your large palms against the flimsy baby with his face scrunched up in a silent wail. The heart drugs aren’t having any effect due to the amount of medication already flowing through his body.

“Use the shocker!” the mother wails.

“We can’t!” you snarl, trying to give compressions to a weak chest and an even weaker malformed heart. “Your baby is too small and his heart is deformed! If we do, we’ll kill him!”

The code leader shakes his head. “Time of death ….”

“No!”

“3:36 p.m.”

The thirty-third death is the best death. You’re the one in charge. If a code is called, you will wield the paddles, call out “Clear!” You have the final say on time of death if it occurs. You won’t let those words pass your lips.

But she smiles at you through her pure white hair. “I’m ready to leave. Are you ready to let me go?”

You sob, throw down the clipboard. “No, Mom! I don’t want you to.”

She still wears the tender smile of years past as her body wastes away and shrivels to a mere fraction of her vitality. “But it’s necessary. I need you to. And you know it.”

“Mom ….”

And she brushes her hand against yours, squeezing it once before closing her eyes. “You’re ready.”

You kiss her cooling cheek then note: “Time of death: 9:12 a.m., Thursday, April 24 ….”
 
is this ur fake PS
or ur real PS
or just a cool story??
 
its my really cool fake ps story
 
should i make it my final blueelmo?
 
it wud be interestin for final
but does it answer the question "why medicine"
or is it because u get to call out "time of death"
 
Sorry lukkie, I haven't actually read it. It looked long, and I read chinook's post, so I assumed it was a PS. :laugh:
 
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eefilsihfotuotegottnawtsuji
eenimfotuotegotmihtnawidna
eemsnetaerhtgnikcufehtub
eeeromynaodottahwwonktnodidna
eeevaelottnawtsuji
dddneotlllatitnawi
rrrrreverof
niagaecafsiheesottnawreveni

ugebi...emevasesaelpdog
:cry::cry::cry:
 
its May 5
AMCAS 2010 still not up

i dunno why im sooo excited for it anyways
i dont even have my PS and other stuff done
 
chinook said:
its May 5
AMCAS 2010 still not up

i dunno why im sooo excited for it anyways
i dont even have my PS and other stuff done
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It's not open yet because it's still May 4th, 10:53pm on the West Coast. 😉
 
chinook said:
its May 5
AMCAS 2010 still not up

i dunno why im sooo excited for it anyways
i dont even have my PS and other stuff done
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I'm actually not looking forward to it. It's extra work... as if I need more of that.

Activity tonight is real slow.
 
BlueElmo said:
I'm actually not looking forward to it. It's extra work... as if I need more of that.

Activity tonight is real slow.
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yes it is
and i shud be memorizing historical facts
but i just cant get around to it
so im BOREDDDDDDDDDD
 
Count me among the neurotic. I lay down in bed and was almost asleep when I realized it's May 5. . . AMCAS day. Like you all said, though, it's not open yet

Anyways, just so I know, once it does open will we just sign in where the 2009 app folks sign in? I mean, same web page and all, right? There will just be a 2010 sign-in?
 
MDman87 said:
Count me among the neurotic. I lay down in bed and was almost asleep when I realized it's May 5. . . AMCAS day. Like you all said, though, it's not open yet

Anyways, just so I know, once it does open will we just sign in where the 2009 app folks sign in? I mean, same web page and all, right? There will just be a 2010 sign-in?
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i believe so👍
 
Cool, thanks. I don't know why I'm so anxious since I haven't even finished my PS or anything yet. . .

Anyways, going to bed now (this time for good)
 
I'm going to stream some lectures and then I'm going to bed as well.
Where the heck is everyone?
Tomorrow is Tuesday by the way.
 
Bryson17 said:
What a good feeling huh? Hopefully I'll be getting that feeling in August.

I'm so pumped about my chicken curry cooking in the crock pot overnight! That'll be lunch for a week.
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You know it! Actually, I just sucked myself back into some edits after running through some final review... 🙁 But it will be done in about an hour, and this time for da reeeaaaaalz. 😀

Good luck on yours, man. And don't do what I did and put it off... Sigh. That curry sounds tasty btw. I typically cook for the week as well. It helps control the budget and the food urges. 👍

CielloStelatto said:
congrats.

best feeling ever.
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Thanks! Yep, it feels soooo good. I really just want to be done with finals though. I talked one prof into letting me take one of my finals early, but the others aren't very flexible. Which is cool. I figured it was worth a shot.


BlueElmo said:
I'm actually not looking forward to it. It's extra work... as if I need more of that.

Activity tonight is real slow.
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Man, to be honest, I'm looking forward to it as a break from MCAT studying. I'll work on my AMCAS when I can't focus on physics any longer. 😀

BlueElmo said:
I'm going to stream some lectures and then I'm going to bed as well.
Where the heck is everyone?
Tomorrow is Tuesday by the way.
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Ummm... Technically, tomorrow is Wednesday... Apparently you and your Pats have one thing in common... You both fail!!! :meanie:
 
ksmi117 said:
Too. early.

Final in 45 minutes. Must do well.

6 hours of sleep or less the past 3 nights.

Is it Saturday yet?
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good luckkk 🙂
good morning everybody :hello:

AMCAS is still not up
and i blieve by now it is officially May 5 all over the US👍
 
ksmi117 said:
It's open. 😱

Edit: nvm... the link's there but it doesn't work???
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It's open and functional. For those that are reapplying, your AMCAS ID remains the same, and many things have been pre-filled for you.👍


Best of luck, boys and girls!😎
 
Myuu said:
It's open and functional. For those that are reapplying, your AMCAS ID remains the same, and many things have been pre-filled for you.👍


Best of luck, boys and girls!😎
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Woo...

Ok, for preferred name, should I put my nick name? Or just leave it as my real name??
 
ksmi117 said:
Woo...

Ok, for preferred name, should I put my nick name? Or just leave it as my real name??
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Please define nickname. Generally you should put what you're comfortable being called (that isn't Puppylover or that sort of thing).👍
 
Yay
its open
no i wasnt checking every five minutes..
i did check last night at aroudn 2 am and then this morning when i woke up 🙂
this is exciting
in an awkward way
 
chinook said:
Yay
its open
no i wasnt checking every five minutes..
i did check last night at aroudn 2 am and then this morning when i woke up 🙂
this is exciting
in an awkward way
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And you'll fill it all in tonight and wait a month to hit the button!🙂
 
Myuu said:
And you'll fill it all in tonight and wait a month to hit the button!🙂
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I've already filled in everything I can. I have to write the description of my IA before I'm allowed to enter coursework, so I suppose I'm at a stand still until I get to writing.
 
Can't work on it until tonight though. Stupid classes and research.🙁
 
I hope that tutorial at the beginning wasn't very helpful. I exited the web-page (stupid classes and research :laugh:) and can't find that tutorial again.
 
MDman87 said:
I hope that tutorial at the beginning wasn't very helpful. I exited the web-page (stupid classes and research :laugh:) and can't find that tutorial again.
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Not terribly, no. There's 102 pages worth of manual if you get confused.👍
 
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