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nadaba said:
I just wanted to get to 900 that day.

Tell me, what is the secret of your immense spamming talent?
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In all seriousness? Heat waves, and most of my friends are away on vacations. Mine starts next week. Europe here I home!

I will have my phone with me though. So I can drop by and post once in a blue moon.
 
CodeBlu said:
In all seriousness? Heat waves, and most of my friends are away on vacations. Mine starts next week. Europe here I home!

I will have my phone with me though. So I can drop by and post once in a blue moon.
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Jealous. I'll get a vacation next summer, either to relax before med school or forget my sorrows of not being accepted.
 
CodeBlu said:
Hey negative Nancy... gtfo.

You'll get in!
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I was just reading the thread about the girl/guy who was depressed after not being accepted w/ 7 interviews. There are just so many good candidates that don't get accepted.
 
CodeBlu said:
In all seriousness? Heat waves, and most of my friends are away on vacations. Mine starts next week. Europe here I home!
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Oh, I get it... so when you say you're from "Detroit" what you really mean is "Bloomfield Hills / Grosse Pointe" 😉 Yeah, I'll go hop on my private jet and meet you over in Europe on my yacht off the coast of my Italian villa. 😀
 
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Buttermellow said:
I was just reading the thread about the girl/guy who was depressed after not being accepted w/ 7 interviews. There are just so many good candidates that don't get accepted.
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It's not cuz I lift weights or I'm a bit of a health nut that takes way too much Omega-3 fish oil, and chromium picolinate.... but if you're obese... not just a little bit of extra weight... but OBESE... You need to fix that.

I knew a girl who interviewed 3 places one year... got 3 rejections. She was grossly overweight and it showed. She lost 40 pounds and got 6 interviews the next year, and 4 acceptances.

Rule of thumb: Don't trust a thin chef, or a fat doctor.
 
CodeBlu said:
It's not cuz I lift weights or I'm a bit of a health nut that takes way too much Omega-3 fish oil, and chromium picolinate.... but if you're obese... not just a little bit of extra weight... but OBESE... You need to fix that.

I knew a girl who interviewed 3 places one year... got 3 rejections. She was grossly overweight and it showed. She lost 40 pounds and got 6 interviews the next year, and 4 acceptances.

Rule of thumb: Don't trust a thin chef, or a fat doctor.
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Yeah, I'm sure that nobody on adcoms would admit it, or even mention it to other members, but being obese would hurt your chances.
 
Buttermellow said:
Yeah, I'm sure that nobody on adcoms would admit it, or even mention it to other members, but being obese would hurt your chances.
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Well, if you're not in good health before you start med school, heavens knows what you'll look like after Step 1 + clinicals + residency.
 
I feel like I should start a blog with my MDApplicants account.
 
So back to fitness... and that fake curriculum I made up about the CB school of medicine.

I know someone that is at Jagellonian Medical College in Poland. They have a gym class. They have to complete 2 athletic sporting events every year. Like running a 10km race or biking 20km or something.

I think that's a great idea.
 
aSagacious said:
Agreed. Now of course the gold standard has been set by NickNaylor so it is your obligation to 1-up him.
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NickNaylor behaves like a troll sometimes. He can be extremely rude to some of the scared first timers. He means well most of the time, but he's got a Dr. Cox for real personality on here sometimes.
 
CodeBlu said:
I know someone that is at Jagellonian Medical College in Poland. They have a gym class. They have to complete 2 athletic sporting events every year. Like running a 10km race or biking 20km or something.
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So... I pay someone cash money (at med school tuition rates) to bust my butt exercising? Hellz no!
 
CodeBlu said:
NickNaylor behaves like a troll sometimes. He can be extremely rude to some of the scared first timers. He means well most of the time, but he's got a Dr. Cox for real personality on here sometimes.
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Agreed (though he has improved a lot recently) but that does not take away from the well-written MDApps profile that I was referring to. 😉
 
CodeBlu said:
It's ONE class. And their tuition is only like 17,000 USD.
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Depends on what the class options were. I'm definitely not a sports-oriented person. However, I would definitely do something like badminton. But running a race, that's out of the question.
 
CodeBlu said:
US Tuition is GROSSLY over inflated.

Don't even get me started on my McGill rant. $3500 for medical school tuition. Uhhhhhh
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I know you're not about to start a political discussion all up in my Class Of thread? No way shooga!

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CodeBlu said:
You should!
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Buttermellow said:
I second this.
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aSagacious said:
Agreed. Now of course the gold standard has been set by NickNaylor so it is your obligation to 1-up him.
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Well, I have the first post up.

Don't worry, the later stuff will be better. This is just to test the waters. Also, there's no way I can make my stuff as comprehensive and useful as NickNaylor's blog. That requires way too much effort.

Maybe I'll post my AMCAS / TMDSAS stuff after this cycle's over.
 
CodeBlu said:
US Tuition is GROSSLY over inflated.

Don't even get me started on my McGill rant. $3500 for medical school tuition. Uhhhhhh
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Holy crap. Does the Canadian government really subsidize their med schools that much?
 
Actually, I feel like my blog will be less of a "blog", and more like me ranting about things that piss me off :laugh:
 
Whatyousay said:
Actually, I feel like my blog will be less of a "blog", and more like me ranting about things that piss me off :laugh:
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I rather liked this... made me LOL.

"Right at this moment, my application is floating somewhere in cyberspace, and it makes me nervous. I know you're reading this, AMCAS folks. Don't do this to me. Think of the children."
 
CodeBlu said:
NickNaylor behaves like a troll sometimes. He can be extremely rude to some of the scared first timers. He means well most of the time, but he's got a Dr. Cox for real personality on here sometimes.
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Seconded. I've seen him take up arms against trolls and defend the honor of SDN with heartfelt spiels about how this forum is a sanctuary for aspiring premeds, but it seems like 90% of his posts are snarky one-liners insulting the OP's intelligence and/or the relevance of the thread. Why bump a thread you have no interest in?
 
BHaus9 said:
Seconded. I've seen him take up arms against trolls and defend the honor of SDN with heartfelt spiels about how this forum is a sanctuary for aspiring premeds, but it seems like 90% of his posts are snarky one-liners insulting the OP's intelligence and/or the relevance of the thread. Why bump a thread you have no interest in?
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He does that all the time. Not to **** talk the guy... I'm sure he's really not that malicious. But he probably doesn't have many friends, so he bullies the innocent little pre-meds...

like WYS said... "think of the children!"
 
Whatyousay said:
Actually, I feel like my blog will be less of a "blog", and more like me ranting about things that piss me off :laugh:
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I have a rant: stupid people who live in my dorm. None of them can figure out that the shower curtains go INSIDE the shower. Every day I walk into a half inch of water on the bathroom floor. Also, there was a girl on the phone in the bathroom. Hope the person on the end of the line liked hearing me pee.
 
CodeBlu said:
He does that all the time. Not to **** talk the guy... I'm sure he's really not that malicious. But he probably doesn't have many friends, so he bullies the innocent little pre-meds...
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^ "Saying 'no offense' before I say something offensive protects me from normal social expectations"
 
Buttermellow said:
I have a rant: stupid people who live in my dorm. None of them can figure out that the shower curtains go INSIDE the shower. Every day I walk into a half inch of water on the bathroom floor. Also, there was a girl on the phone in the bathroom. Hope the person on the end of the line liked hearing me pee.
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We should all start blogs about things that piss us off. It's oddly therapeutic to rant about these sort of things.
 
Whatyousay said:
Well... average for an Asian 😉
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AZNaverage... at my school we had the JAVERAGE (jew average)... you either performed, or you didn't.

aSagacious said:
^ "Saying 'no offense' before I say something offensive protects me from normal social expectations"
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:laugh:


Whatyousay said:
We should all start blogs about things that piss us off. It's oddly therapeutic to rant about these sort of things.
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I'd rather do it on here... gets more views.
 
aSagacious said:
So... I pay someone cash money (at med school tuition rates) to bust my butt exercising? Hellz no!
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm willing to pay tuition at all. Busting your brain studying isn't always an experience that seems worth the price of admission either..
 
CodeBlu said:
NickNaylor behaves like a troll sometimes. He can be extremely rude to some of the scared first timers. He means well most of the time, but he's got a Dr. Cox for real personality on here sometimes.
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You think Nick's bad? You should have seen this one guy called ColeOnTheRoll!
 
BHaus9 said:
Sometimes I wonder why I'm willing to pay tuition at all. Busting your brain studying isn't always an experience that seems worth the price of admission either..
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I am against higher education in principle... but not practice.

The Khan Academy is great example, so is wikipedia.

Why should you have to pay obscene tuition to LEARN? I learn more by reading the internet, than I do in some classes.
 
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