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jackson1 said:
probably nothing. the local store is having 50 cent ice cream cones to celebrate, so i'll probably take the little one to get those. no exciting night time plans though.

i'm about to go take my first ever guitar lesson! the town i live in is offering 8 classes for 60 bucks, so i figured i couldn't pass it up since i've always wanted to learn. i've never played an instrument in my life though, so it should be quite interesting haha. i'm excited🙂
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I have to work in the clinic alllllllollll day. But come night time I am going to follow my friends (who will be much further far gone then myself) through a slurry of Boston's Finest pubs and proceed to get Sh*% 🙂ed.
 
dude, someone posted an email response from the admissions office at ucsd. basically it says LOIs are worthless, don't send them. the committee doesn't even see them, they in NO way affect the decision on your application.

now that i think about it, do we think it could be some sneaky gunnerism? :ninja: haha, the ever-vigilant, cynical, doubting pre med i am.
 
Tatastrophy said:
arggggggggg! I hate when that happens...I lost my favorite pearl earrings a few weeks back...looked around like crazy, finally found them like a week later in my jewelry box.
So maybe your water bottle will turn up too.
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It did, where I left it. I just had to traipse around for half an hour to figure out where that was.
 
bobsmith said:
that would be epic gunnerism

but really, Brian at UCSD is awesome and him writing an email like that makes complete sense, so it doesn't surprise me at all
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i don't underestimate peeps on here anymore.

i thought brian was a cool. it makes complete sense and helps calm my slight uneasiness that i felt no desire to write one in the first place.

EDIT: i was more impressed that brian took the time to write that. perhaps he assumed that it will make it on here and get dispersed to the most neurotic of applicants, thus reducing the number of phone calls/emails/mail he gets every day.
 
RunningDiva said:
i don't underestimate peeps on here anymore.

i thought brian was a cool. it makes complete sense and helps calm my slight uneasiness that i felt no desire to write one in the first place.

EDIT: i was more impressed that brian took the time to write that. perhaps he assumed that it will make it on here and get dispersed to the most neurotic of applicants, thus reducing the number of phone calls/emails/mail he gets every day.
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from the way it was explained, it really does make a lot of sense and also seems like a much fairer way of choosing people off the waitlist.

after seeing other schools that seem to be open to intense LOIs, second interviews with the deans, and hand-written love letters, it's nice to see a school not playing the pre-med games and also being really open about it
 
RunningDiva said:
i don't underestimate peeps on here anymore.

i thought brian was a cool. it makes complete sense and helps calm my slight uneasiness that i felt no desire to write one in the first place.

EDIT: i was more impressed that brian took the time to write that. perhaps he assumed that it will make it on here and get dispersed to the most neurotic of applicants, thus reducing the number of phone calls/emails/mail he gets every day.
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Haha, I wouldn't be surprised of the gunners. I'm still going to write LOI's too... to every single school I get an interview from.
 
ksmi117 said:
It did, where I left it. I just had to traipse around for half an hour to figure out where that was.
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I am so wise!


hahah
ooh greys tonight. lets hope they dont try to cram too much bs into this epi
 
bobsmith said:
from the way it was explained, it really does make a lot of sense and also seems like a much fairer way of choosing people off the waitlist.

after seeing other schools that seem to be open to intense LOIs, second interviews with the deans, and hand-written love letters, it's nice to see a school not playing the pre-med games and also being really open about it
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👍 for more openness from schools and fair play.

oaklandguy said:
Haha, I wouldn't be surprised of the gunners. I'm still going to write LOI's too... to every single school I get an interview from.
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i know me neither. write away my friend, especially if it helps you feel like you've done everything in your power to improve your decision status. but i doubt that ucsd is alone in thinking like this. it may not help, but hopefully it doesn't hurt.
 
Sorry to sound corny as hell but effort is never corny. Maybe USC does trash em, maybe they dont. But take Albert E, on their website they practically spell out that you need to send one if you want to be taken seriously!
 
Mandiblespeaks said:
Sorry to sound corny as hell but effort is never corny. Maybe USC does trash em, maybe they dont. But take Albert E, on their website they practically spell out that you need to send one if you want to be taken seriously!
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pitt and washu seem to take them seriously as well.

EDIT: and just wish more schools were upfront about the necessity of them and how much weight they give these letters.
 
Sammich117 said:
Oh ffs, I had a nice multiquote, but accidentally hit backspace which brought me to the previous page and had to do it all again.... and then accidentally hit backspace AGAIN and I refuse to do it a third time.

So I'll just say goodmorning 🙂

And dingy - you're sketchy. And wow, that comment was just.. wrong.

Float - I'm excited!

When I told you all about chat roullete you got all weirded out but you loved it last night. I see how it is. 2014, you are a fickle mistress.
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jla314 said:
dingy wins the award for the greatest number of sketchy posts last night :laugh:
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jla314 said:
i have a great story about lab today!

i got a very dilute solution of benzoquinone (pretty toxic if you inhale, ingest, or bathe in it) splashed on my face by a lab partner (i was wearing safety goggles!!!), but since it was so dilute the teaching staff and i figured i could just rinse off my face and i would be fine.

but my TA, bless her, decided that we should call the harvard safety people just in case.

so we call them, and they put us on hold for like 10 minutes, during which time i decide to actually go rinse my face off in the sink. i come back and my TA tells me that the safety people said they need to do some research and they'll call us back soon. a few minutes later, a safety squad from the chemistry department comes into our lab! they ask me how i am feeling, if i ran water over my face for 15 minutes, etc. and when they are satisfied i am not going to die, they leave.

then ANOTHER safety officer comes in (i guess he was the safety officer for the whole building rather than just the chemistry department), and asks me how i am doing, whether i ran water over my face for 15 minutes, etc. he soon leaves.

two minutes later the safety people we called initially call us back and ask us THE SAME set of questions. we satisfy them and hang up.

this continues on with various people from different departments and offices coming in to check on me - the head TA for the course, another safety person on the phone, the professor for the course, grad students who got curious after seeing a parade of people rushing around our lab - all for a teeny minor splash of VERY dilute solution. my lab mates and TA and i were laughing so hard by the time the 6th person came to check in on us - he thought we were laughing about safety and he told us that safety was no laughing matter :laugh:

to top it off, i just got an email from the safety personnel of the chemistry building urging me to contact them if i think i need medical attention. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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hah, i guess harvard's big on safety. after all, they probably don't wanna get sued by important parents of their students.
 
RunningDiva said:
pitt and washu seem to take them seriously as well.

EDIT: and just wish more schools were upfront about the necessity of them and how much weight they give these letters.
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Well a decent number of school are upfront. AE, Johns Hopkins also VERY VERY SERIOOUS about them (they have a whole page about it). etc. My rule of thumb is ALWAYS better to send them. Who knows when it matters, better to fight.👍
 
Mandiblespeaks said:
Well a decent number of school are upfront. AE, Johns Hopkins also VERY VERY SERIOOUS about them (they have a whole page about it). etc. My rule of thumb is ALWAYS better to send them. Who knows when it matters, better to fight.👍
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that's fantastic, more should as well.

agreed 🙂

i'm in the situation, though, in which i have nothing new to say, i'm status quo compared to my application and interview. it would just be a big, cheesy love letter to the school. i guess my view is that if i don't have anything to add about my qualifications, i won't write. i just feel stuck in that i don't have anything worthwhile to write.
 
damn, GT has 2 lottery players on its team and is still getting blown out by a ****ty UNC team
 
RunningDiva said:
that's fantastic, more should as well.

agreed 🙂

i'm in the situation, though, in which i have nothing new to say, i'm status quo compared to my application and interview. it would just be a big, cheesy love letter to the school. i guess my view is that if i don't have anything to add about my qualifications, i won't write. i just feel stuck in that i don't have anything worthwhile to write.
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RD,

I believe you. And what I am going to suggest is not to lie or fabricate. But instead to think about the things you have done. Look at your personal statement and the EC descriptions and think for awhile. What is something you are doing or something you have done that matches with that particular school in an important unique way. Can you bring something youve done and how it effected you into a new brighter light. It takes some creative bsing, but in the end. 😎 It wont sound that way. 👍
 
metallica81788 said:
Good. Avoiding studying, potentially ruffling some feathers on da Hahvahd thread. Of course, I don't see it that way - I'm simply stating fact.
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I'm also avoiding studying. The harvard thread sounds juicy; I might just have to pop in to visit the thread of my future med-school.

ksmi117 said:
My head hurts and tylenol did not help.
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That sucks. Try peppermint cream and rub it on your temples.
 
Mandiblespeaks said:
MET, the point of a second look is to decide if you are going to stick with a school !!! :meanie: some of the schools I am considering dont have one. rrg
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I am saying to stick with the decision to go to the second look. 😛 Ksmi here has a very fickle mind, and for good reasons. :laugh:

I wish LSU-NO had a second look, but I could always just ask people I know who go there. The problem being that a lot of them had only seen that school and had nothing else to compare to or choose from when they decided to go there.
 
If I end up going to LSU, I really wonder why I didn't apply to more really reach schools (like Michigan) just for the hell of it. Why not? I got interviews at some of my other reaches - I just happened to get rejected by all of them.
 
brooklynblunder said:
do they pay for your expenses?
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Everything but the flight.

metallica81788 said:
I am saying to stick with the decision to go to the second look. 😛 Ksmi here has a very fickle mind, and for good reasons. :laugh:

I wish LSU-NO had a second look, but I could always just ask people I know who go there. The problem being that a lot of them had only seen that school and had nothing else to compare to or choose from when they decided to go there.
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I already RSVPed to both. No going back now.

brooklynblunder said:
i could see kathy in michigan. why didnt you apply there
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Brrr.
 
metallica81788 said:
I am saying to stick with the decision to go to the second look. 😛 Ksmi here has a very fickle mind, and for good reasons. :laugh:

I wish LSU-NO had a second look, but I could always just ask people I know who go there. The problem being that a lot of them had only seen that school and had nothing else to compare to or choose from when they decided to go there.
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AAh, cant wait to come down to LA. I am planning that trip soon! 👍
 
hmm i have a $100 delta voucher that i have to use up soon because of an interview i canceled
 
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