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I heard it's imperative that you wear pantyhose with a skirt. That's one reason I have 2 pants suits and only 1 skirt....I always get runs in my pantyhose.

thanks for the advice!
 
congrats to everyone that got UNC secondaries🙂 do they interview pretty much everyone that gets one?
 
Hey everyone - I'm mostly a lurker but two of my kids are out of town w/their dad so my house is quieter than usual lol.

Had a question about Kaplan - has anyone taught for them? I'm in the middle of a divorce and could use a little extra money but am still in school full-time, so the schedule seemed flexible and the pay decent. Any first hand experience?

I'm so jealous of all the interview invites (though, of course, happy for you all!)! I applied EDP to my state school, so I'm just waiting to see if I go 1 for 1 on the interview thing. Hope to hear soon...

Have a good weekend, everyone!
 
Hey everyone - I'm mostly a lurker but two of my kids are out of town w/their dad so my house is quieter than usual lol.

Had a question about Kaplan - has anyone taught for them? I'm in the middle of a divorce and could use a little extra money but am still in school full-time, so the schedule seemed flexible and the pay decent. Any first hand experience?

I'm so jealous of all the interview invites (though, of course, happy for you all!)! I applied EDP to my state school, so I'm just waiting to see if I go 1 for 1 on the interview thing. Hope to hear soon...

Have a good weekend, everyone!

Hope you get an invite from Maryland.:luck:
 
dude they wont pimp you and expect you to know it...they might ask a random question but i wouldnt spend my whole weekend studying something like taht!

Hmmm, I don't know about that... He might just do that, and in front of his residents.

Yay! Neuro rocks! 👍

:highfive::woot:

true. there's a good chance that the doctor will act like you aren't even there

I doubt it. I've worked with him before and we are currently affiliated with the same lab. So, I'm thinking he might find it humorous to stump me.

or be irritated by the fact he has some pre med following him around constatnyl lol😛


Ha ha. He actually seemed excited/happy/flattered when I asked.
 
Hey everyone - I'm mostly a lurker but two of my kids are out of town w/their dad so my house is quieter than usual lol.

Had a question about Kaplan - has anyone taught for them? I'm in the middle of a divorce and could use a little extra money but am still in school full-time, so the schedule seemed flexible and the pay decent. Any first hand experience?

I'm so jealous of all the interview invites (though, of course, happy for you all!)! I applied EDP to my state school, so I'm just waiting to see if I go 1 for 1 on the interview thing. Hope to hear soon...

Have a good weekend, everyone!

It's a lot of low income "training" then you get to teach the classes for 3 hours at $20 an hour. Sometimes you'll only have one class a week, but other times you'll have 2 or 3 a week. Usually 1 to 2 though. Then there is a lot of review time at $7 an hour. Some people like it and others hate it. This is personal preference though.

Good luck with your EDP!
 
Hey everyone - I'm mostly a lurker but two of my kids are out of town w/their dad so my house is quieter than usual lol.

Had a question about Kaplan - has anyone taught for them? I'm in the middle of a divorce and could use a little extra money but am still in school full-time, so the schedule seemed flexible and the pay decent. Any first hand experience?

I'm so jealous of all the interview invites (though, of course, happy for you all!)! I applied EDP to my state school, so I'm just waiting to see if I go 1 for 1 on the interview thing. Hope to hear soon...

Have a good weekend, everyone!

glad you chimed up finally, lurker-mom 🙂 coulda used some comforting words of wisdom from one parent to another (potential) 😛

anyway, i taught for a bit for kaplan. if youve had teaching experience, its a walk in the park. i just couldnt juggle that, research and a d1 sport :/
what you do is apply online to a center near you, list you MCAT (forget if they ask for GPA), then if they like what they see, they invite you in for a mini presentation.

its a 5 min How To speech on how to do anything your little heart desires. you good at baking a cake? teach the group how to bake a cake. good at making a worm composter (i swear someone did this during my interview)? then give a how to on that. just make sure youre confident, articulate, and engaging. try to be as interactive as possible and have a logical flow to it all. they like presentations with 3 parts to it.

and then if they like that, theyll give you an offer! that simple. as for pay, i believe it was about 10 bucks an hour when i was there. its pretty decent as a side job, wouldnt quit my day job for it though because they have lots of teachers and they may not have a class for you immediately.

hope that helped. good luck with Kaplan, and with EDP!!

and next time you get a chance wed love to hear some of your comments on our nonsensical bullsh|T 🙂
 
Got an interview invite from Pittsburgh!!! :highfive:

Also, tried on my suit today for the fitting and it looks pretty good. 😎
 
I'm already feeling the love! 😍 I forgot to mention in my earlier post - I already did the online Kaplan application and they just called to make an appt for the audition. Got to figure out what to talk about. I taught adjunct for awhile and did training in my former life (I worked in IT for 8 years before staying home with the kiddos for a bit), so hopefully it will go well. I might have another job lined up through one of my professor's grants to TA a class. Hopefully that and Kaplan will be enough to close the gaps on my bills. I'm taking 2 upper-level Physics and 2 upper-level Chem classes this fall (and I have 6 kids), so I'm not sure I'll have time for much more.

I'll try to jump in more often - you all are a fun group!
 
hmm i dont think lurkerMom is going to get a chance to read our responses to her inquiry...shes too slow. maybe she doesnt realize the awesome power of 2014 thread...how fast and swiftly it develops! and carries away any semblance of a decent conversation in the vortex of the pages... 🙄
 
I'm already feeling the love! 😍 I forgot to mention in my earlier post - I already did the online Kaplan application and they just called to make an appt for the audition. Got to figure out what to talk about. I taught adjunct for awhile and did training in my former life (I worked in IT for 8 years before staying home with the kiddos for a bit), so hopefully it will go well. I might have another job lined up through one of my professor's grants to TA a class. Hopefully that and Kaplan will be enough to close the gaps on my bills. I'm taking 2 upper-level Physics and 2 upper-level Chem classes this fall (and I have 6 kids), so I'm not sure I'll have time for much more.

I'll try to jump in more often - you all are a fun group!

I teach for TPR but our interview process was the same. Make sure you ask people questions and make it fun. I taught everyone how to do a dance that the LSU colorguard does when the football team forces a punt. See the guys do it was awesome!
 
I'm already feeling the love! 😍 I forgot to mention in my earlier post - I already did the online Kaplan application and they just called to make an appt for the audition. Got to figure out what to talk about. I taught adjunct for awhile and did training in my former life (I worked in IT for 8 years before staying home with the kiddos for a bit), so hopefully it will go well. I might have another job lined up through one of my professor's grants to TA a class. Hopefully that and Kaplan will be enough to close the gaps on my bills. I'm taking 2 upper-level Physics and 2 upper-level Chem classes this fall (and I have 6 kids), so I'm not sure I'll have time for much more.

I'll try to jump in more often - you all are a fun group!

hmm i dont think lurkerMom is going to get a chance to read our responses to her inquiry...shes too slow. maybe she doesnt realize the awesome power of 2014 thread...how fast and swiftly it develops! and carries away any semblance of a decent conversation in the vortex of the pages... 🙄

wow...she just showed me! i like it. lurkerMom is ballsy...welcome to the group lurkerMom!! 😎
 
hmm i dont think lurkerMom is going to get a chance to read our responses to her inquiry...shes too slow. maybe she doesnt realize the awesome power of 2014 thread...how fast and swiftly it develops! and carries away any semblance of a decent conversation in the vortex of the pages... 🙄

Can she be ex-lurkerMom? She's not technically lurking anymore.
 
Got an interview invite from Pittsburgh!!! :highfive:

Also, tried on my suit today for the fitting and it looks pretty good. 😎


Congrats!!! I'm jealous. Pitt would be sweet! Now come on MCAT score! Daddy needs triple 15's!!!!
 
I teach for TPR but our interview process was the same. Make sure you ask people questions and make it fun. I taught everyone how to do a dance that the LSU colorguard does when the football team forces a punt. See the guys do it was awesome!

youre so freakin weird...i woulda hated you in my audition group! the heck is wrong with you, making strange boys dance like that...:nono:



:meanie: bet it was funny though!
 
wow...she just showed me! i like it. lurkerMom is ballsy...welcome to the group lurkerMom!! 😎

Thanks! I should change my screen name. :laugh: Actually, I think I'm going to go take a nap, so I'll probably maintain radio silence for a bit.
 
I'm already feeling the love! 😍 I forgot to mention in my earlier post - I already did the online Kaplan application and they just called to make an appt for the audition. Got to figure out what to talk about. I taught adjunct for awhile and did training in my former life (I worked in IT for 8 years before staying home with the kiddos for a bit), so hopefully it will go well. I might have another job lined up through one of my professor's grants to TA a class. Hopefully that and Kaplan will be enough to close the gaps on my bills. I'm taking 2 upper-level Physics and 2 upper-level Chem classes this fall (and I have 6 kids), so I'm not sure I'll have time for much more.

I'll try to jump in more often - you all are a fun group!


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I don't get how you can manage that... My life suddenly seems so much easier.
 
hmm i dont think lurkerMom is going to get a chance to read our responses to her inquiry...shes too slow. maybe she doesnt realize the awesome power of 2014 thread...how fast and swiftly it develops! and carries away any semblance of a decent conversation in the vortex of the pages... 🙄


Or you'll just go back through and delete everything... :meanie:
 
Can she be ex-lurkerMom? She's not technically lurking anymore.

once. nickname. made. nickname. STICK.

otherwise people with nicknames like marshmellow (fat white kids) or speed (fast white kid) or lumpy (fat white kid) would be able to just change their nicknames. wheres the fun in that?!

although i would agree to a nickname substitution period if lurkerMom is distraught by this nickname (i like it because it reminds me of Lurkers from SC :meanie: they are spikey and lay in wake of prey underground)
 
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I don't get how you can manage that... My life suddenly seems so much easier.

It's a lot easier now that I'm separated lol. My mom lives with us, so that's a huge help, and the 4 oldest are in school when I am. I just don't sleep much.

Speaking of sleep - really going to take that nap now...
 
Or you'll just go back through and delete everything... :meanie:

hey. neophyte. shut it. adults are talking 😛

and in all seriousness, something that serious shouldnt have been on SDN. disclosing that was my fault. i apologize

I feel oh so loved.

oh babe no worries. youre more than welcome to take a shot at me when the time is right. any no one is around to see me cry :scared:
 
It's a lot easier now that I'm separated lol. My mom lives with us, so that's a huge help, and the 4 oldest are in school when I am. I just don't sleep much.

Speaking of sleep - really going to take that nap now...

I recently read in an article it takes about a quarter million dollars to raise a kid to 17 years of age.:scared:
 
once. nickname. made. nickname. STICK.

otherwise people with nicknames like marshmellow (fat white kids) or speed (fast white kid) or lumpy (fat white kid) would be able to just change their nicknames. wheres the fun in that?!

although i would agree to a nickname substitution period if lurkerMom is distraught by this nickname (i like it because it reminds me of Lurkers from SC :meanie: they are spikey and lay in wake of prey underground)


so i have a funny story that you talking about nicknames reminded me of:

-a couple days ago at work this VERY large man that always comes in and gets food to go from the restaurant i work at was sitting waiting for his food. There was another to go order at the same time for people with the last name of Hefty. So, the host who is not the brightest gets the food ready for the Hefty family and brings it to the overweight man and says, "Oh! This must be for you Hefty. It's great that you can joke about your weight like that!" When that wasn't his order the host felt quite bad to say the least:laugh:
 
It's a lot easier now that I'm separated lol. My mom lives with us, so that's a huge help, and the 4 oldest are in school when I am. I just don't sleep much.

Speaking of sleep - really going to take that nap now...

Still sounds like a lot of work to me. I can't even manage my life, better yet someone elses...

hey. neophyte. shut it. adults are talking 😛

and in all seriousness, something that serious shouldnt have been on SDN. disclosing that was my fault. i apologize

Actually, that's the kind of SDN fodder I go looking for. Good stuff. A lot more entertaining than this cycle info. 😉

I recently read in an article it takes about a quarter million dollars to raise a kid to 17 years of age.:scared:


Yeah, but I bet with 6 you get the bulk discount rate.
 
so i have a funny story that you talking about nicknames reminded me of:

-a couple days ago at work this VERY large man that always comes in and gets food to go from the restaurant i work at was sitting waiting for his food. There was another to go order at the same time for people with the last name of Hefty. So, the host who is not the brightest gets the food ready for the Hefty family and brings it to the overweight man and says, "Oh! This must be for you Hefty. It's great that you can joke about your weight like that!" When that wasn't his order the host felt quite bad to say the least:laugh:

:laugh: Poor guy.
 
so i have a funny story that you talking about nicknames reminded me of:

-a couple days ago at work this VERY large man that always comes in and gets food to go from the restaurant i work at was sitting waiting for his food. There was another to go order at the same time for people with the last name of Hefty. So, the host who is not the brightest gets the food ready for the Hefty family and brings it to the overweight man and says, "Oh! This must be for you Hefty. It's great that you can joke about your weight like that!" When that wasn't his order the host felt quite bad to say the least:laugh:


:laugh: What did the guy say?
 
Well it's died here at least. In the mod forums, it's still alive and kicking.

if youre aching to be called kissme, im sure we could call you that too. or is that not the nickname you had in mind.
 
Couple schools sending out invites just now, and no news for me.🙁
 
:laugh: What did the guy say?

The poor guy just was like "uhh that's not mine, my name is ___". He kind of just rerouted the conversation away from his weight and took his food and left haha.

It was almost as bad as the other day where my manager said to a man and his butch-looking wife "right this way, gentlemen!" Needless to say they got their dinner for free😀
 
The poor guy just was like "uhh that's not mine, my name is ___". He kind of just rerouted the conversation away from his weight and took his food and left haha.

It was almost as bad as the other day where my manager said to a man and his butch-looking wife "right this way, gentlemen!" Needless to say they got their dinner for free😀

How mean.:laugh:
 
Couple schools sending out invites just now, and no news for me.🙁

Me either-SUNY Downstate and Einstein are both schools I'd really love to go to too, hopefully we'll be in the next batch of interview invites
 
if youre aching to be called kissme, im sure we could call you that too. or is that not the nickname you had in mind.

I'm not dying to be called it. It's a horrid nickname. Nicknames just make people feel more accepted. Thus my happiness and sadness about it. I want a cooler nickname. Think of something.
 
Me either-SUNY Downstate and Einstein are both schools I'd really love to go to too, hopefully we'll be in the next batch of interview invites

Where's the love from NY schools?
 
The poor guy just was like "uhh that's not mine, my name is ___". He kind of just rerouted the conversation away from his weight and took his food and left haha.

It was almost as bad as the other day where my manager said to a man and his butch-looking wife "right this way, gentlemen!" Needless to say they got their dinner for free😀


:laugh: Now that's priceless. I've actually done that before. With some women you really can't tell.
 
I'm not dying to be called it. It's a horrid nickname. Nicknames just make people feel more accepted. Thus my happiness and sadness about it. I want a cooler nickname. Think of something.


Oh nice! I like your nickname... Kissme. I think I can manage that one. 😉
 
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