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geekmama, i'm just curious, are you a good cook? and have you perfected that mom's touch on laundry? I just wanna know if you are a domestic goddess.
 
msb1190 said:
geekmama, i'm just curious, are you a good cook? and have you perfected that mom's touch on laundry? I just wanna know if you are a domestic goddess.
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Good cook, yes!

Mom's touch on laundry... I'm not sure what you mean there. We have an apartment right now, and we have to use these coin-operated machines in the basement that work like crap. That said, if I scrub something in the sink first, I can get just about any stain out. I nursed Geekchicklet for 7 months, and when they're fed nothing but breast milk, they tend to not poo for sometimes more than a week and then explode (breastmilk is very elemental, and just about all of it is absorbed with little to expel). I would have blown a lot of money on clothes if I didn't perfect that.

That said... *looks around apartment*... I am NOT a domestic goddess. It looks like a bomb went off in here.
 
Geekchick921 said:
Good cook, yes!

Mom's touch on laundry... I'm not sure what you mean there. We have an apartment right now, and we have to use these coin-operated machines in the basement that work like crap. That said, if I scrub something in the sink first, I can get just about any stain out. I nursed Geekchicklet for 7 months, and when they're fed nothing but breast milk, they tend to not poo for sometimes more than a week and then explode (breastmilk is very elemental, and just about all of it is absorbed with little to expel). I would have blown a lot of money on clothes if I didn't perfect that.

That said... *looks around apartment*... I am NOT a domestic goddess. It looks like a bomb went off in here.
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hahaha thank you for the detailed response. that made my night.
 
You're welcome!

In other news, my husband is about an inch away from a job offer. I totally think he's got this job, and I'm praying he gets to hand in his two weeks by Friday.
 
Geekchick921 said:
You're welcome!

In other news, my husband is about an inch away from a job offer. I totally think he's got this job, and I'm praying he gets to hand in his two weeks by Friday.
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what's he do, if you dont mind sharing.
 
msb1190 said:
what's he do, if you dont mind sharing.
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Artist/designer-type stuff. This job is a Flash artist (flash is his favorite program). His current job blows and this one is better in every way.

His dream is to eventually do freelance illustration from home and run a webcomic site on the side. I also think he'd make an awesome game concept artist or designer, but there's nothing like that around here.
 
Geekchick921 said:
Artist/designer-type stuff. This job is a Flash artist (flash is his favorite program). His current job blows and this one is better in every way.

His dream is to eventually do freelance illustration from home and run a webcomic site on the side. I also think he'd make an awesome game concept artist or designer, but there's nothing like that around here.
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nice! thanks for sharing. i think the doctor-artist match is a good one, so kudos for that haha.
 
msb1190 said:
nice! thanks for sharing. i think the doctor-artist match is a good one, so kudos for that haha.
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I agree! It'll be great if he can work from home eventually, if I wind up drawn to nothing but specialties with crap hours.
 
Geekchick921 said:
Good cook, yes!

Mom's touch on laundry... I'm not sure what you mean there. We have an apartment right now, and we have to use these coin-operated machines in the basement that work like crap. That said, if I scrub something in the sink first, I can get just about any stain out. I nursed Geekchicklet for 7 months, and when they're fed nothing but breast milk, they tend to not poo for sometimes more than a week and then explode (breastmilk is very elemental, and just about all of it is absorbed with little to expel). I would have blown a lot of money on clothes if I didn't perfect that.

That said... *looks around apartment*... I am NOT a domestic goddess. It looks like a bomb went off in here.
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I enjoyed that story very much. I also love all of your names for your baby(ies): geekling, geekchicklet...they're all oh so adorable!
 
FloatOn said:
I enjoyed that story very much. I also love all of your names for your baby(ies): geekling, geekchicklet...they're all oh so adorable!
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Aww, thanks! But that's nothing. I have a pretty epic story from when we were trying to give her a bath when she was about 2 months old that I'll spare you. My husband eventually just was holding her over the toilet. My sister was watching her once and she exploded on the couch, to the point where it was coming out of the FRONT of the diaper (like, up by her bellybutton 😱), but I managed to salvage the onesie. There was also a text message he sent me when I was in chem lab about a year ago, about how the wedding was behind us but if I still wanted a chocolate fountain... :barf:.

Babies, especially before they start solids, produce some truly amazing diapers. No lie.
 
Geekchick921 said:
Aww, thanks! But that's nothing. I have a pretty epic story from when we were trying to give her a bath when she was about 2 months old that I'll spare you. My husband eventually just was holding her over the toilet. My sister was watching her once and she exploded on the couch, to the point where it was coming out of the FRONT of the diaper (like, up by her bellybutton 😱), but I managed to salvage the onesie. There was also a text message he sent me when I was in chem lab about a year ago, about how the wedding was behind us but if I still wanted a chocolate fountain... :barf:.

Babies, especially before they start solids, produce some truly amazing diapers. No lie.
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haha, what an awesome text
 
Geekchick921 said:
Aww, thanks! But that's nothing. I have a pretty epic story from when we were trying to give her a bath when she was about 2 months old that I'll spare you. My husband eventually just was holding her over the toilet. My sister was watching her once and she exploded on the couch, to the point where it was coming out of the FRONT of the diaper (like, up by her bellybutton 😱), but I managed to salvage the onesie. There was also a text message he sent me when I was in chem lab about a year ago, about how the wedding was behind us but if I still wanted a chocolate fountain... :barf:.

Babies, especially before they start solids, produce some truly amazing diapers. No lie.
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That's all that counts. 🙂
 
Two pretzels were walking down the street... One was assaulted.
 
msb1190 said:
Two pretzels were walking down the street... One was assaulted.
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So there are two muffins in an oven, and the one says to the other, "Is it just me, or is it really hot in here?"

The other muffin says, "OH MY GOD A TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

... This is one of those jokes that probably works better when delivered in person!
 
CuteMD said:
One of my good friends is a muffin-top. Simmer down now.
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I'm not hating on muffin tops... trust me. 🙁

The hubs and I LOL everytime we see a commercial for those muffin top things. They're supposed to be JUST the top of a muffin that you can make or something. Haha... muffin top.
 
haha oh muffins and muffin tops. its great when you hear professors referring to people on campus as muffin tops.
 
so saddam hussein is sitting in prison and a person comes to him with a laptop and says, you NEED to write your memoirs before you're killed! saddam flips out, saying 'I CANNOT write my memoirs! I AM A DICTATOR!!!!!!'
 
Haha me too. I have never been in an awkward situation, much like Larry.
 
FlowRate said:
Does anyone else freak out a little every time they go to the What Are My Chances? forum?
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I don't usually bother any more. It's either some freak with 3.9/38 asking about Harvard or some bum with a 2.3/no mcat.
 
msb1190 said:
I don't usually bother any more. It's either some freak with 3.9/38 asking about Harvard or some bum with a 2.3/no mcat.
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Geekchick921 said:
Exactly.
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Yeah... it just catches me off-guard sometimes like "I have these glaring 'deficiencies' in my application that I literally don't have time to fix before the cycle starts."
 
FlowRate said:
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Yeah... it just catches me off-guard sometimes like "I have these glaring 'deficiencies' in my application that I literally don't have time to fix before the cycle starts."
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The responses bother me a little, too. Either they're like, "Well, just get a 33+ on the MCAT." or "Get A's in every class from here on out." Oh yeah? Just like that?

Or they nitpick things that really aren't nitpick worthy (like only 100 hours of volunteering or a 3.6 cGPA) unless you only plan to apply to WashU, Hopkins, Harvard and UPenn, or they act like you need every standard EC (research, volunteering, clinical experience, leadership, shadowing) or you have no shot of getting into medical school. 🙄
 
Geekchick921 said:
The responses bother me a little, too. Either they're like, "Well, just get a 33+ on the MCAT." or "Get A's in every class from here on out." Oh yeah? Just like that?

Or they nitpick things that really aren't nitpick worthy (like only 100 hours of volunteering or a 3.6 cGPA) unless you only plan to apply to WashU, Hopkins, Harvard and UPenn, or they act like you need every standard EC (research, volunteering, clinical experience, leadership, shadowing) or you have no shot of getting into medical school. 🙄
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I like your point about the GPA/MCAT thing... When I comes to GPA and people ask for my advice, I just tell them to try their best -- it's impossible to tell someone to just get a 4.0. But when it comes to the mcat.. I give pretty straightforward advice about what they need to get into a school (31+ is competitive) or into the schools they say they like (34+ is usually needed). I had never really considered how difficult the MCAT can be.

So many hoops to jump through... I wish I had really read through SDN earlier; my first two years of college, I worked a little, volunteered a little, and studied hard, because that's the advice I had been given previously. I wish I had gotten more involved in research/clubs/leadership, etc.
 
FlowRate said:
So many hoops to jump through... I wish I had really read through SDN earlier; my first two years of college, I worked a little, volunteered a little, and studied hard, because that's the advice I had been given previously. I wish I had gotten more involved in research/clubs/leadership, etc.
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*Sigh* Me too. I didn't start my path to medical school until the day of my college graduation. If I could do it all over again, I would have done the PSU/Jeff BS/MD program straight from high school. Oh well.
 
Hi guys! I am class of 2015 , new to this forum. What a great resource for application stuff.

I made a thread about tihs, but is anyone on here planning on working full time while applying? I will be working 50 ish hours a week starting june (will have primary submitted before work starts), and i'm starting to panic that I won't be able to do secondaries amidst all this...
 
Welcome to SDN! I will be working part time... nowhere near as many hours as you, but when I'm home, my husband and I have a toddler who is nuts, so I know what you mean!

I have heard the prompts are usually the same year after year, and you can see right now in the school specific discussions subboard what they are. They will also go up probably as soon as someone gets a secondary and posts the prompts this coming application cycle. You can get started on them that way, before you even get your own copy.
 
full time work starts in June for me. you can pretty much do the secondaries now if you want to, since they rarely change year to year
 
Chem2MD said:
Hi guys! I am class of 2015 , new to this forum. What a great resource for application stuff.

I made a thread about tihs, but is anyone on here planning on working full time while applying? I will be working 50 ish hours a week starting june (will have primary submitted before work starts), and i'm starting to panic that I won't be able to do secondaries amidst all this...
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i did this and its not a big deal. Also do them now. They are all very repetitive and do not change. I did about 42 secondaries and filled almost all of them out before june 1st. Come 2ndary time in late june or july, all of them stayed the same basically except maybe 4. Even then they were minor changes. Only 2 of them changed radically.
 
Geekchick921 said:
*Sigh* Me too. I didn't start my path to medical school until the day of my college graduation. If I could do it all over again, I would have done the PSU/Jeff BS/MD program straight from high school. Oh well.
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Same here! I wish I had known about BS/MD.. Then again, I'm not sure if I was involved enough in HS to actually apply BS/MD.

Geekchick921 said:
Welcome to SDN! I will be working part time... nowhere near as many hours as you, but when I'm home, my husband and I have a toddler who is nuts, so I know what you mean!

I have heard the prompts are usually the same year after year, and you can see right now in the school specific discussions subboard what they are. They will also go up probably as soon as someone gets a secondary and posts the prompts this coming application cycle. You can get started on them that way, before you even get your own copy.
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bleargh said:
full time work starts in June for me. you can pretty much do the secondaries now if you want to, since they rarely change year to year
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Good advice here. Totally forgot about how most secondaries are the same. I'm still behind on my PS tho =(
 
CuteMD said:
You know, I go back and forth on BS/MD programs. Yeah, it would have been nicer to have the MD sooner and assured. I'm old now. But still....I don't think a lot of BS/MD graduates are very mature and don't have a real college "living experience".

Plus my main motivation to be a doctor came from college.
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I totally agree. While I don't know any BS/MD's personally, I have friends who know some and hear all sorts of other anecdote that just to me screams of entitled smart children. I, too, have found my main inspirations or, perhaps more correctly, confirmations of my desire to be a doctor during college.
 
can someone explain to me why that user Premedinho was marked as a troll? Alright, she was stupid to ask about cardiology, but i guess any new user on here would ask something like that... seems kind of harsh.
 
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