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Yes, but in correct alphabetical order. Thyroid Stimulating Hormone will do nothing to educate you

:laugh: as i was typing up there, i thought of the thyroid too.

the deal with HST is that 80% of grads go into academia, 17% go into industry, and 3% are never spoken of again (i presume they actually see patients). i'm kind of unsure of what i want to be doing after med school (*gasp* it might even consist of actual clinical medicine, rather than dealing with administrative BS all day whilst attempting to build and run a lab), and HST might not have the advising resources in place to deal with that kind of uncertainty. i feel like the reaction i'd get there is "wtfbbq go back to lab :slap:"
 
It's always easier to go downhill than uphill if you change your mind, and the uphill in this case would be academia & high paying industry, while the downhill is the clinic. Dude seriously. You already know this. HST is essentially like an MD PhD without the years and has added prestige in most cases.
 
Hey Tatas I'm in the same boat, I was kicked to the curb by Duke... But my biggest reason I wanted to go there was for the basketball haha so I'm not giving up on the Blue Devils!
Haha well I really liked the 3rd year research option since I want to get into academic medicine. I know though that I don't need Duke for that, I just need me...and I am the kind of person that will climb walls with bare hands to get what I want.
I am determined to be an amazing doctor. It is going to happen.
i automatically dislike schools like dook with inhumane secondaries
I liked the secondary. And it made the rest of my secondaries easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
 
:laugh: as i was typing up there, i thought of the thyroid too.

the deal with HST is that 80% of grads go into academia, 17% go into industry, and 3% are never spoken of again (i presume they actually see patients). i'm kind of unsure of what i want to be doing after med school (*gasp* it might even consist of actual clinical medicine, rather than dealing with administrative BS all day whilst attempting to build and run a lab), and HST might not have the advising resources in place to deal with that kind of uncertainty. i feel like the reaction i'd get there is "wtfbbq go back to lab :slap:"

You could be one of those 3% - think of it as motivation. :laugh:
 
Haha well I really liked the 3rd year research option since I want to get into academic medicine. I know though that I don't need Duke for that, I just need me...and I am the kind of person that will climb walls with bare hands to get what I want.
I am determined to be an amazing doctor. It is going to happen.

I liked the secondary. And it made the rest of my secondaries easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Damn straight.
 
It's always easier to go downhill than uphill if you change your mind, and the uphill in this case would be academia & high paying industry, while the downhill is the clinic. Dude seriously. You already know this. HST is essentially like an MD PhD without the years and has added prestige in most cases.

i guess you're right. you made me feel better 😀
 
Hey hey everybody! What are you fine folks up to tonight?

Also, happy birthday ksmi!
 
bleargh, you get a tip of the hat for being non-sketchy and helpful

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Haha well I really liked the 3rd year research option since I want to get into academic medicine. I know though that I don't need Duke for that, I just need me...and I am the kind of person that will climb walls with bare hands to get what I want.
I am determined to be an amazing doctor. It is going to happen.

I liked the secondary. And it made the rest of my secondaries easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
well fck dook anyway.

i could not climb walls. bare hands or otherwise...

i guess you're right. you made me feel better 😀
damn i love hearing that

bleargh, you get a tip of the hat for being non-sketchy and helpful
F you guys I am not sketchy!
 
disneyland! i've never been

is it much different from disney world?
 
Hey hey everybody! What are you fine folks up to tonight?

Also, happy birthday ksmi!

Catching up on what I was supposed to do yesterday. Also, it's pouring outside right now, but it's supposed to be 80 degrees later this week. Spring is finally hereeeeeee!
 
I haven't been around these parts in awhile, but I am also pissed Duke won. I know everyone is thinking that, but I am going there. Duke is a really white team for a major program. Seeing them play against West Virginia will be like a bizarre Texas Western - Kentucky reenactment.
 
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:laugh: taco do you think i'd call you sketchy if you really were sketchy? you know where i live 😎
never heard that one before. at all!

I do not know how to quit.

sure you could.
that image stuck with me ever since I first saw Randy Pausch's Last lecture. No wall is going to keep me from doing what I was born to do.
no way. when i see a wall i go "oh well looks like i'm done"
 
I do not know how to quit.

sure you could.
that image stuck with me ever since I first saw Randy Pausch's Last lecture. No wall is going to keep me from doing what I was born to do.

Randy Pausch is incredibly inspirational, and not just for his career and the academic work he's done... I'm just as impressed by the way he treated his family and his constant positive interactions with them even as he was dying.

For those who haven't watched it yet, do yourself a huge favor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
 
I haven't been around these parts in awhile, but I am also glad Duke lost. I know everyone is thinking that, but I am going there. Duke is a really white team for a major program. Seeing them play against West Virginia will be like a bizarre Texas Western - Kentucky reenactment.

I believe Duke won 78-71 against Baylor? 😕
 
Randy Pausch is incredibly inspirational, and not just for his career and the academic work he's done... I'm just as impressed by the way he treated his family and his constant positive interactions with them even as he was dying.

For those who haven't watched it yet, do yourself a huge favor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
🙂
👍👍👍
 
My fault. This is what writing a paper does to a brain. I meant I am pissed Duke won. Hence, my comment about them playing West Virginia.

It's all good, I don't really care about basketball. 🙂
 
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👍👍👍

randy pausch is also in the most recent star trek movie!

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so in addition to being inspiring and amazing, he is pretty badass

EDIT: in case you didn't catch him, he's the guy that walks by towards the end who says "captain we have visual"
 
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Randy Pausch is incredibly inspirational, and not just for his career and the academic work he's done... I'm just as impressed by the way he treated his family and his constant positive interactions with them even as he was dying.

For those who haven't watched it yet, do yourself a huge favor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

I thought his book was pretty average until I got to the end when he started talking about how concerned he was for his kids because they're going to grow up without a father. That's when I lost it and started sobbing.
 
:laugh: as i was typing up there, i thought of the thyroid too.

the deal with HST is that 80% of grads go into academia, 17% go into industry, and 3% are never spoken of again (i presume they actually see patients). i'm kind of unsure of what i want to be doing after med school (*gasp* it might even consist of actual clinical medicine, rather than dealing with administrative BS all day whilst attempting to build and run a lab), and HST might not have the advising resources in place to deal with that kind of uncertainty. i feel like the reaction i'd get there is "wtfbbq go back to lab :slap:"

that 80% academia means like clinical academia right? right clinical asst professor (which is basically ever dr at the hospital). cuz 95% of md phd graduates go into clinical (something other than non-basic science academia/lab) and only 5% go into science. i can't see hst being that much different than a md phd program that gears to building scientists with physician resources.
 
oh BTW

I just took down Jackson in the first round of fantasy bball

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So I was hanging out with some of my friends, then we call up this other friend who's supposed to meet us and ask him how far out is he. He put us on speaker phone, and we could hear a girl in the background in his car. We were like, wtf, is this Liz(one of the guys' ex)? Then we he showed up, he showed up with that girl. Like who the F does that? Just show up to meet your friends with one of their ex, with no warning. Needless to say, it was pretty awkward.
 
So I was hanging out with some of my friends, then we call up this other friend who's supposed to meet us and ask him how far out is he. He put us on speaker phone, and we could hear a girl in the background in his car. We were like, wtf, is this Liz(one of the guys' ex)? Then we he showed up, he showed up with that girl. Like who the F does that? Just show up to meet your friends with one of their ex, with no warning. Needless to say, it was pretty awkward.

Not cool - you should ask permission first.
 
happy birthday kat!

i was going to try to find that dance party emoticon sammich posted in this thread a few hundred pages ago, but... it's the thought that counts.

use your imagination here:

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Fixed :d


dook is not well liked around here parts

True story. Jerkfaces.

:laugh: taco do you think i'd call you sketchy if you really were sketchy? you know where i live 😎

She has a point.

I haven't been on SDN once today and there were only 2 pages to catch up on? What's up with that?
 
So I was hanging out with some of my friends, then we call up this other friend who's supposed to meet us and ask him how far out is he. He put us on speaker phone, and we could hear a girl in the background in his car. We were like, wtf, is this Liz(one of the guys' ex)? Then we he showed up, he showed up with that girl. Like who the F does that? Just show up to meet your friends with one of their ex, with no warning. Needless to say, it was pretty awkward.

Ew, that's messed up.

Btw, I've been listening to The Perishers songs I downloaded on repeat. "Weekends" and "Pills" are really good too.
 
that 80% academia means like clinical academia right? right clinical asst professor (which is basically ever dr at the hospital). cuz 95% of md phd graduates go into clinical (something other than non-basic science academia/lab) and only 5% go into science. i can't see hst being that much different than a md phd program that gears to building scientists with physician resources.

yeah you're right, many of them work clinic but at least the mission and big push of HST is to produce basic science researchers (who often go on to do clinic in addition to research, but a disproportionate number go into fields with limited patient contact - something like 6 out of 30 went into rads last year, 6 more into anesthesia, etc). my admittedly limited interaction with a handful of HST faculty (i'm thinking my PI and my two faculty interviewers) has just given me the impression that physically seeing patients is not as big a priority in the HST culture as research. one of my faculty interviewers specifically said she went into pathology to stay away from patients :laugh:

either way, HST gets the same clinical training in years 3 & 4 as NP so i guess the difference really just boils down to preclinical preferences. HST likely ends up being what you make of it, so bleargh is right in saying it will open doors to all sorts of things (not just research, despite the self-selection for people more likely to end up on that route).
 
Yea, fasho, it was a pretty douchy move. Then he denies he's dating her, though he later told me it was because it'd been an awkward conversation. I was like, you didn't think it'd be awkward to bring her along without asking?

Anyhow, the perishers have some pretty good songs, Pills and Weekend are good, To Start Anew is pretty good too. Nothing Like You And I was used in Greek, IIRC.
 
yeah you're right, many of them work clinic but at least the mission and big push of HST is to produce basic science researchers (who often go on to do clinic in addition to research, but a disproportionate number go into fields with limited patient contact - something like 6 out of 30 went into rads last year, 6 more into anesthesia, etc). my admittedly limited interaction with a handful of HST faculty (i'm thinking my PI and my two faculty interviewers) has just given me the impression that physically seeing patients is not as big a priority in the HST culture as research. one of my faculty interviewers specifically said she went into pathology to stay away from patients :laugh:

either way, HST gets the same clinical training in years 3 & 4 as NP so i guess the difference really just boils down to preclinical preferences. HST likely ends up being what you make of it, so bleargh is right in saying it will open doors to all sorts of things (not just research, despite the self-selection for people more likely to end up on that route).
giiiirl...I am not even going to lie I am jeli like WHOA!
I would say that HST is prob the best option because it does not preclude you from being an amazing clinician, if you so choose after your 4 years but it does give you a leg up on the research aspect that people like me can only dream of.
Besides...you seem to really like Harvard as your current home and you have established your support system there. I would think it may be easier to go into something as demanding as med school with things like that settled. (Big part of why I want to get into Emory still).
 
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I'd love to stay up and chat with you late nighters, but I am so sleepy 🙁

I hope all of your weeks start of amazingly!
 
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