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rockaction said:
that one!

direct to director of admissions or the dean, whichever usually is the point-person on it. if you're sending to Vanderbilt, send it to Dr Sagan.
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That's what I ended up going with. For schools that I can actually email the person my letter, then I address the letter appropriately to them. However, some schools only have email addresses provided for their admissions office, and I wasn't exactly sure who to address.
 
Yeah I think it's about time for my update letter too. If it even makes a difference.
 
metallica81788 said:
Sweet - I made it past FloatOn!

That means it's definitely time to go to sleep.

Man, I really hope I get into VCU tomorrow... :xf:
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:luck:

rockaction said:
that one!

direct to director of admissions or the dean, whichever usually is the point-person on it. if you're sending to Vanderbilt, send it to Dr Sagan.
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Hey, I just did that last night! Updating them on everything I've done this past semester hoping for some scholarship monies. :xf:

lstone13 said:
That's what I ended up going with. For schools that I can actually email the person my letter, then I address the letter appropriately to them. However, some schools only have email addresses provided for their admissions office, and I wasn't exactly sure who to address.
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I don't think that'll really matter. You could address it to the school, the committee, the dean, anyone, just not "Hey you." Also, ask to receive an email back saying they received the letter. I had an issue with that when I sent stuff before. If they don't email you back, call.
 
I just met my new "little" for Big Brother's / Big Sisters... it was awesome. I love BB / BS... been doing it since hs. Anyone else in here involved?
 
they have strict guidelines for big bro/big sis in NYC. i think you have to be over a certain age (like 25?)
 
Pedie Packs said:
I just met my new "little" for Big Brother's / Big Sisters... it was awesome. I love BB / BS... been doing it since hs. Anyone else in here involved?
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i was for a year... it's a great program. so much fun 🙂
 
Pedie Packs said:
I just met my new "little" for Big Brother's / Big Sisters... it was awesome. I love BB / BS... been doing it since hs. Anyone else in here involved?
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Kind of. Indirectly anyway. Every year, the honors society I was President of hosted a Halloween Carnival for the local BBBS. It's definitely a great program.
 
metallica81788 said:
I never got one of those emails from Oregon and I just let my secondary expire.

I might regret that, but I think I'm too traditional for them anyway. :laugh:
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Lol they do love the non trads. This was one school I was not surprised I got an interview based on thier reputation
 
i wanted to apply to OHSU but tickets to portland were expensive so even in the case that i was lucky to get an interview, it probably would not have been worth the $500ish.

i def wanna visit portland though
 
I like that kind of correspondence better than wading through the muddy waters haha. A quick, "hey you're awesome, come check us out" or "hey you suck, stay the hell away!" is fine with me!
 
Apparently I'm not going to get my first decision till post x-mas (probably). Ugghhhh.

What happened to the week after thanksgiving?! 😡
 
Whoa! 2 lanes on the interstate has buckled due to all the rain we've been getting!
 
Brooklyn are you going strictly MSTP or do you have only MD schools too?

What do you have in mind if you get into both?
 
Causeway, near the construction that's going on now. Crazy right?
 
Pedie Packs said:
ahh I see. good luck getting off the waitlists.

I feel like you will get into MSTP and change your mind.

Free med school? I mean come on.
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Free med school and +/- four years in addition. It's a good tradeoff for some. A bad tradeoff for others.
 
if i did a PhD, i know i would be in the lab 80+ hours a week cuz that's just me. i would hate to be in that position while my friends go into medicine and PhD is also a specialization degree = realistically less options in residency
 
Pedie Packs said:
ahh I see. good luck getting off the waitlists.

I feel like you will get into MSTP and change your mind.

Free med school? I mean come on.
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Agreed. I'm generally not a research person, but if someone randomly offered me an MSTP, I could totally do free tuition.

Now is MSTP the exact same thing as Md/PHd or is it more like the 5 year CCLCM? As in it takes 6 or 7 years? Because then I would reconsider?
 
The .2 seconds I thought about MD/PhD and researched it, one of the things I disliked was that it seemed like you completely lost touch with your class after the first two years.

I guess it all ultimately depends on what you see yourself doing in the future. If you just want to practice medicine what good is that PhD gonna do? I'm gonna be on the wards, but I want to teach too. Research is blehh for me right now. Maybe I'll like dabbling in clinical trials.
 
metallica81788 said:
Agreed. I'm generally not a research person, but if someone randomly offered me an MSTP, I could totally do free tuition.

Now is MSTP the exact same thing as Md/PHd or is it more like the 5 year CCLCM? As in it takes 6 or 7 years? Because then I would reconsider?
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MSTP is one version of an MD/PhD. the funding for MSTPs comes from the government. some MD/PhD programs are funded by private grants. but i think most are MSTP.
 
Pedie Packs said:
The .2 seconds I thought about MD/PhD and researched it, one of the things I disliked was that it seemed like you completely lost touch with your class after the first two years.

I guess it all ultimately depends on what you see yourself doing in the future. If you just want to practice medicine what good is that PhD gonna do? I'm gonna be on the wards, but I want to teach too. Research is blehh for me right now. Maybe I'll like dabbling in clinical trials.
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This is how I feel. I'm not really a huge fan of research. I'm not saying I won't get involved in medical school, because you kind of have to. Plus, I think I could find some part of clinical research that I like.

But why would I want a PhD if I want to actually practice medicine? It would be pointless.
 
Hi all. I'm bored and my job is killing me slowly.
 
dw2158 said:
MSTP is one version of an MD/PhD. the funding for MSTPs comes from the government. some MD/PhD programs are funded by private grants. but i think most are MSTP.
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I never knew the distinction myself. Thanks dw.
 
i think MD/PhDs make less money though in their careers plus if you really are considering surgery of have any interest in that, its hard to go into a 7 year residency after a MSTP even though tons of virgins do
 
i like doing research but at the same time feel shallow cuz you do really drag out experiments sometimes to go after the top tier journals and what not.

if you are a md/phd, then i think the goal is to run a basic science lab with the resources to do translational. ie, use the md to get specimens, organs, and access to patients so you can bypass the obscure and irrelevant cell line and ask questions directly to primary cells/organs/patients from what you learned from basic science research.
 
a typical MSTP is about 7.7 years. some places go towards 8+ going into 9, like rochester.

some md/phds (non fully-funded) like you to bounce like d cups after 6 or 7 years
 
Pedie Packs said:
Where do you work / what do you do?
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That's the thing. It's not hard or challenging work. It's just so monotonous and never ending. I work on campus in the meal plan office. It only sucks now I'm because pretty much the only person doing the grunt work.

I know that the way the world functions is that the grunt work is kinda shuffled on down the totem pole. Well, I'm at the bottom as a student worker, but I also do most of the student worker grunt work because I come in earlier than the other worker.

And now It's even worse because our supervisor is on maternity leave, and so we're trying to do the things she usually does (which was crazy stressful because we were being trained for her job between classes for only a 2 week period...and she does a LOT of stuff...).

I know I'm just whining. It's not hard work. It's just sooo BLAH. Oh. And my boss does nothing. At all. (Ok, that's a lie. She does the meetings and budget plans and stuff. Also, she spends at least 1 hour of her office time in the gym and spends most of the time in the office changing her background/screensaver and breaking the laptops/printer/fax machine) Which is why my supervisor had so many things that we had to learn.

For instance. I came in today for the first time since finals started, and I pretty much had to go through all the voicemails and e-mails that we received since 12/5. 😴
 
Pedie Packs said:
The .2 seconds I thought about MD/PhD and researched it, one of the things I disliked was that it seemed like you completely lost touch with your class after the first two years.

I guess it all ultimately depends on what you see yourself doing in the future. If you just want to practice medicine what good is that PhD gonna do? I'm gonna be on the wards, but I want to teach too. Research is blehh for me right now. Maybe I'll like dabbling in clinical trials.
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this is definitely true from what i hear. of course you make friends with weird graduate students. at the same time, i think most med students lose touch with their classmates during the last 2 years of medical school (not as much as mstp-ers)
 
brooklynblunder said:
this is definitely true from what i hear. of course you make friends with weird graduate students. at the same time, i think most med students lose touch with their classmates during the last 2 years of medical school (not as much as mstp-ers)
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But you can always have other med students doing the same rotations as you and stuff like that. So you don't completely lose touch.
 
Luun said:
That's the thing. It's not hard or challenging work. It's just so monotonous and never ending. I work on campus in the meal plan office. It only sucks now I'm because pretty much the only person doing the grunt work.

I know that the way the world functions is that the grunt work is kinda shuffled on down the totem pole. Well, I'm at the bottom as a student worker, but I also do most of the student worker grunt work because I come in earlier than the other worker.

And now It's even worse because our supervisor is on maternity leave, and so we're trying to do the things she usually does (which was crazy stressful because we were being trained for her job between classes for only a 2 week period...and she does a LOT of stuff...).

I know I'm just whining. It's not hard work. It's just sooo BLAH. Oh. And my boss does nothing. At all. (Ok, that's a lie. She does the meetings and budget plans and stuff. Also, she spends at least 1 hour of her office time in the gym and spends most of the time in the office changing her background/screensaver and breaking the laptops/printer/fax machine) Which is why my supervisor had so many things that we had to learn.

For instance. I came in today for the first time since finals started, and I pretty much had to go through all the voicemails and e-mails that we received since 12/5. 😴
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I think it's time for you to quit.

Two week notice please.

Other job options... hmm, bartend?
 
brooklynblunder said:
i like doing research but at the same time feel shallow cuz you do really drag out experiments sometimes to go after the top tier journals and what not.

if you are a md/phd, then i think the goal is to run a basic science lab with the resources to do translational. ie, use the md to get specimens, organs, and access to patients so you can bypass the obscure and irrelevant cell line and ask questions directly to primary cells/organs/patients from what you learned from basic science research.
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The way you explain it, this makes sense to me. Aren't you still an MD/PhD after the MSTP is through?

brooklynblunder said:
a typical MSTP is about 7.7 years. some places go towards 8+ going into 9, like rochester.

some md/phds (non fully-funded) like you to bounce like d cups after 6 or 7 years
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😱 That's torture... WHY?? And lol at the bouncin' D cups

metallica81788 said:
But you can always have other med students doing the same rotations as you and stuff like that. So you don't completely lose touch.
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I think it depends where you go. I got two different tastes of it actually. Wright St. they ship you off to 7 different sites within a half hour of the school. Yeah, you prolly lose touch a little.

NYU... their clinical sites are within 3 blocks of each other in Manhattan. You will be seeing your classmates all the time I think. I would like that a lot.

brooklynblunder said:
i think MD/PhDs make less money though in their careers plus if you really are considering surgery of have any interest in that, its hard to go into a 7 year residency after a MSTP even though tons of virgins do
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:laugh: Yikes man. Specialized surgery residency after an MSTP. No way. Nooooo way. I want to have a life, then eventually a family. That would just be absurd.
 
Pedie Packs said:
I think it's time for you to quit.

Two week notice please.

Other job options... hmm, bartend?
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I don't know about Luun, but I know it's been time for me to quit my job.

I just can't work with these unmotivated people anymore. It was nice in high school when I had a lot in common with everybody. Now I need to be around people that know where they're going in life and aren't just stalling. Workers there have no concept of work ethic and effort. I've just grown out of it.
 
Pedie Packs said:
The way you explain it, this makes sense to me. Aren't you still an MD/PhD after the MSTP is through?



😱 That's torture... WHY?? And lol at the bouncin' D cups



I think it depends where you go. I got two different tastes of it actually. Wright St. they ship you off to 7 different sites within a half hour of the school. Yeah, you prolly lose touch a little.

NYU... their clinical sites are within 3 blocks of each other in Manhattan. You will be seeing your classmates all the time I think. I would like that a lot.



:laugh: Yikes man. Specialized surgery residency after an MSTP. No way. Nooooo way. I want to have a life, then eventually a family. That would just be absurd.
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yea MSTPs are MD/PhD programs with government funding so you still get the dual degree.

I think MSTPs are beneficial for people who want to do a PhD. the average length of a PhD is almost 5, with some places going towards 6. you might as well do a MD/PhD if thats the case and gain stability in your job.
 
dont you need a bartending certification to bartend?

they make decent money though. also if you go to like a top spring break spot you can make loot bar-backing.
 
Just call 1-800-Bartend

I hear that damn commercial on the radio all the time.
 
brooklynblunder said:
dont you need a bartending certification to bartend?

they make decent money though. also if you go to like a top spring break spot you can make loot bar-backing.
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Some places around here I know will train you, so that's awesome. I thought about it, but I can't do the hours and expect to have a normal outside life. You make $$$$$$$$$$$ though.
 
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