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[Snowdon48]

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[Guero]

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I know rite? Crazyeyes




DAMAGE! You beat me to the Black Friday video posting! Sadclown

Hahaha, reminds me of

 

[BABSstudent]

Why does it have to be finals week? No undergrads came to work in the lab. I have made 12 L peptone water in test tubes, 80 L of DE broth, 800 plates of petri medium and today I will make another 1000 plates.

All by myself.

FML

 

[Guero]

Why does it have to be finals week? No undergrads came to work in the lab. I have made 12 L peptone water in test tubes, 80 L of DE broth, 800 plates of petri medium and today I will make another 1000 plates.

All by myself.

FML

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Ouch. Are you a tech or volunteer? Either way, I do not envy your scut task list. 🙁

 

[Wifey1985]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

 

[Guero]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

I second this question. I feel the same way. All of my friends will be left behind while I attend medical school (and probably residency, too). 🙁

 

[jemstone]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

you're just now starting to get anxious? Girl, I was anxious the week after I got accepted. 🙁 I think it sort of helps to remember that we've all uprooted before for undergrad and all survived. We'll all acclimate and do our best.

 

[dudeliness]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

I second this question. I feel the same way. All of my friends will be left behind while I attend medical school (and probably residency, too). 🙁

Easy. Don't have friends. It's worked pretty well for me...

 

[Guero]

you're just now starting to get anxious? Girl, I was anxious the week after I got accepted. 🙁 I think it sort of helps to remember that we've all uprooted before for undergrad and all survived. We'll all acclimate and do our best.

Remember, not everyone was uprooted for undergrad. (I was, however, uprooted during middle school and was devastated.)

Easy. Don't have friends. It's worked pretty well for me...

Hey, many of us here are your friends! But srsly, are you srs? 🙁

 

[BABSstudent]

Ouch. Are you a tech or volunteer? Either way, I do not envy your scut task list. 🙁

I am a tech. Normally we have volunteers to do this stuff but they all have finals. We have an experiment to run next week and this stuff has to get done.

At least I am getting close to $15 per hour and I have a lot of down time to browse the Internet.

 

[BABSstudent]

Plus, I have an okay view out the window.



The grass was put in on Monday. The building on the right opened up yesterday.

 

[Guero]

I am a tech. Normally we have volunteers to do this stuff but they all have finals. We have an experiment to run next week and this stuff has to get done.

At least I am getting close to $15 per hour and I have a lot of down time to browse the Internet.

Wow. WOW, $15 as a tech!? You rocked the house on landing that job, homie!

 

[Guero]

Plus, I have an okay view out the window.

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The grass was put in on Monday. The building on the right opened up yesterday.

Nice! The molecular neuro lab I volunteered and pub'd in had an awesome view. It was the only floor with a balcony outside the lab, too. We'd have BBQs there and watch the 4th of July fireworks while drinking beer and looking over downtown. I'll take a pic when I go up there next time to celebrate all of their help in landing me in med school. 🙂

 

[Wifey1985]

you're just now starting to get anxious? Girl, I was anxious the week after I got accepted. 🙁 I think it sort of helps to remember that we've all uprooted before for undergrad and all survived. We'll all acclimate and do our best.

Okay, okay, I've been anxious for a while 🙂 I'm only now starting to be honest and open about it 😀

Easy. Don't have friends. It's worked pretty well for me...

Haha, I'm so there, for the most part. But I still have to say goodbye to people at work, and that's weird enough.

Remember, not everyone was uprooted for undergrad. (I was, however, uprooted during middle school and was devastated.)

My sad sad story of uprootings:

(1) After sophomore year of high school, I moved across the country and went to boarding school for junior and senior year.

(2) I went to undergrad in another frickin' country

(3) I moved back to my home town for the first year of grad school

(4) I moved across the country again for the last two years of grad school

(5) I moved again after grad school for my job

... it's not getting any easier 🙁 (Somebody please call the wambulance).

 

[Guero]

Okay, okay, I've been anxious for a while 🙂 I'm only now starting to be honest and open about it 😀



Haha, I'm so there, for the most part. But I still have to say goodbye to people at work, and that's weird enough.



My sad sad story of uprootings:

(1) After sophomore year of high school, I moved across the country and went to boarding school for junior and senior year.

(2) I went to undergrad in another frickin' country

(3) I moved back to my home town for the first year of grad school

(4) I moved across the country again for the last two years of grad school

(5) I moved again after grad school for my job

... it's not getting any easier 🙁 (Somebody please call the wambulance).

Jeeze. I have a shoulder if you need one to cry on sans creepster moves. 🙂

 

[Juan Solo]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

I have had this feeling since January

 

[guspilgrim]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

Second this. Just closed and sold our house half an hour ago and now wife is starting to look for a job in earnest.

Significant changes.

 

[Juan Solo]

Speaking of views from lab...

 

[Wifey1985]

Jeeze. I have a shoulder if you need one to cry on sans creepster moves. 🙂

Your sans-creepster gesture is appreciated 🙂 To be fair, I brought all of the uprooting upon myself, so I really can't complain. (But I still do.)

I have had this feeling since January

I guess we all share the same FWPs. Sigh.


(fyi, FWP = First World Problem, not Free Writing Prospectus, in case any of you were about to make that mistake).

 

[Juan Solo]

I guess we all share the same FWPs. Sigh.

Have you decided??

 

[dudeliness]

Hey, many of us here are your friends! But srsly, are you srs? 🙁

I'm mostly joking, and yes, I know I have friends here!
To be totally honest though, I moved a lot while growing up. California, Washington state, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Oregon, although I was born in Michigan and loved there the longest straight shot 8yrs. I have no childhood/lifelong friends. We moved states/cities/neighborhoods every 9-12 months growing up, just for work where it was available or when my dad finally went back to school. In fact, besides my family, the person I have been friends with longest is my wife of 6 years (known each other about 6.5 yrs lol) and that's it.

NOW who needs the wambulance, huh?

No, sometimes I'm a little jealous of people like my wife who has been best friends with people since kindergarten. In reality though, I feel like I excel at making friends since I either had to make them quick or be lonely. I'm too social of a person to be lonely so now I like making friends everywhere I go!

On that note, I am very VERY excited to not only meet my fellow c/o 2017ers at COMP-NW, I am stoked that I'll be with them for at least the next 4 years! That's so much longer than I am used to!

 

[Wifey1985]

Second this. Just closed and sold our house half an hour ago and now wife is starting to look for a job in earnest.

Significant changes.

Absolutely! Good luck to your wife in her job hunt! Dragging SOs into the equation makes things extra complicated for sure.

 

[IncognitoGuy]

Free brunch, now graduation practice. This isn't happening..

 

[BABSstudent]

Speaking of views from lab...

Nice view.

 

[Tots]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

I am now worried I am going to move to Chicago and get shot. You can thank Juan Solo for this one.

 

[SilentSoldier]

I need to read the book first. ::braces for blowback::

you mean you didn't have to read it in high school? I thought it was fairly common. I read it back then, i thought it was meh. Then again, I didn't like most books I was forced to read back then.

 

[Guero]

Speaking of views from lab...

I. Want. To. Kill. You. Let alone the fact you're in SF, that view!?!

I'm mostly joking, and yes, I know I have friends here!
To be totally honest though, I moved a lot while growing up. California, Washington state, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Oregon, although I was born in Michigan and loved there the longest straight shot 8yrs. I have no childhood/lifelong friends. We moved states/cities/neighborhoods every 9-12 months growing up, just for work where it was available or when my dad finally went back to school. In fact, besides my family, the person I have been friends with longest is my wife of 6 years (known each other about 6.5 yrs lol) and that's it.

NOW who needs the wambulance, huh?

No, sometimes I'm a little jealous of people like my wife who has been best friends with people since kindergarten. In reality though, I feel like I excel at making friends since I either had to make them quick or be lonely. I'm too social of a person to be lonely so now I like making friends everywhere I go!

On that note, I am very VERY excited to not only meet my fellow c/o 2017ers at COMP-NW, I am stoked that I'll be with them for at least the next 4 years! That's so much longer than I am used to!

I didn't move that far that often, but did move sometimes 3 times a year. I think my final move count from birth to 17 was somewhere arounf 13 or 14, including moving from Los Angeles to TN when I was 12, then to a rural, 170 acre farm with the nearest neighbors a mile away on a gravel road on either side when I was 14 right after I finished my freshman year. I've known my two best friends since I was 14 and 15 respectively. And I'm so glad and happy to have that. I can't imagine having a friend from kindergarten, but know many people in that same boat. My ex was born and raised and lived on the same street for 23 years. 😱

Free brunch, now graduation practice. This isn't happening..

Congrats! You deserve it! Live it up! Spike the punch!

 

[Wifey1985]

Have you decided??

On medical school?? Well, this is embarassing, but I only got a straight acceptance to Georgetown. Really squeaked through this cycle, huh! Luckily, gtown was my 2nd choice out of the schools I interviewed at so the fact that the choice was made for me isn't too big of a problem. Of course, the obscure and distant possibility that I'll get accepted off the waitlist at my #1 doesn't help with my anxiety over the next few months 😀

I'm mostly joking, and yes, I know I have friends here!
To be totally honest though, I moved a lot while growing up. California, Washington state, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Oregon, although I was born in Michigan and loved there the longest straight shot 8yrs. I have no childhood/lifelong friends. We moved states/cities/neighborhoods every 9-12 months growing up, just for work where it was available or when my dad finally went back to school. In fact, besides my family, the person I have been friends with longest is my wife of 6 years (known each other about 6.5 yrs lol) and that's it.

NOW who needs the wambulance, huh?

The wambulance is all yours, although you don't really need it when your story is genuinely sympathy-inducing 🙂

P.S. - Love that you've been married to your wife for 6 out of the 6.5 yrs you've known her. 👍

 

[Guero]

you mean you didn't have to read it in high school? I thought it was fairly common. I read it back then, i thought it was meh. Then again, I didn't like most books I was forced to read back then.

Nope. I didn't even read Catcher in the Rye or 1984 until my 20s, specifically because I felt jipped. That said, look where I went to high school sophomore through senior year. :/

I just bought Moby Dick a month or two ago and just now started it. I think my favorite book from grade school was The Trumpet and the Swan. My favorite book from high school, hands-down, was Lord of the Flies. LoL I read that one while spending the rest of my freshman year in In-School-Suspension for my third smoking infraction, the perfect read for a kid in ISS. Hahaha, oh boy, I was not a good kid back then. But I am now, thankfully!

 

[Wifey1985]

Have you decided??

P.S. have you decided?

I am now worried I am going to move to Chicago and get shot. You can thank Juan Solo for this one.

Oh noes! Juan Solo was wrong, nobody gets shot in Chicago! Are you narrowing in on a decision? Will you be taking your talents to Chicago? Have you been asked this question more than 100 times this week?

 

[SilentSoldier]

Nope. I didn't even read Catcher in the Rye or 1984 until my 20s, specifically because I felt jipped. That said, look where I went to high school sophomore through senior year. :/

I just bought Moby Dick a month or two ago and just now started it. I think my favorite book from grade school was The Trumpet and the Swan. My favorite book from high school, hands-down, was Lord of the Flies. LoL I read that one while spending the rest of my freshman year in In-School-Suspension for my third smoking infraction, the perfect read for a kid in ISS. Hahaha, oh boy, I was not a good kid back then. But I am now, thankfully!

lol, the only book in that post I read was Lord of the Flies, which I thought was awesome. I had to read books like A Tale of Two Cities (never finished), To Kill a Mockingbird(never finished), Huck Finn (awesome), Catch-22 (awesome), Of Mice and Men (never finished, even though its like 100 pages). Now that I look back on it, I effectively never finished like half of my required reading books, and the ones that I did manage to finish are either really short (Animal Farm, Woman Warrior, Poetry books), or my choice to read. I don't know how i ever passed english 🙄

And I was a total nerd in high school, ugh I look back and regret being so dorky. Glad I became cool in college 😎

 

[Guero]

lol, the only book in that post I read was Lord of the Flies, which I thought was awesome. I had to read books like A Tale of Two Cities (never finished), To Kill a Mockingbird(never finished), Huck Finn (awesome), Catch-22 (awesome), Of Mice and Men (never finished, even though its like 100 pages). Now that I look back on it, I effectively never finished like half of my required reading books, and the ones that I did manage to finish are either really short (Animal Farm, Woman Warrior, Poetry books), or my choice to read. I don't know how i ever passed english 🙄

And I was a total nerd in high school, ugh I look back and regret being so dorky. Glad I became cool in college 😎

Hahaha, that reminds me, I totally did drugs instead of reading Animal Farm, read the cliff notes at a bookstore without buying them the night before the test, and landed a B. ::shakes head:: Oh dear...

 

[Juan Solo]

I am now worried I am going to move to Chicago and get shot. You can thank Juan Solo for this one.

I hope you mean this in the best possible way 🙂

I. Want. To. Kill. You. Let alone the fact you're in SF, that view!?!

I know, I am lucky. I have been looking out at that magnificent view from this lab bench for 5 years.

On medical school?? Well, this is embarassing, but I only got a straight acceptance to Georgetown. Really squeaked through this cycle, huh! Luckily, gtown was my 2nd choice out of the schools I interviewed at so the fact that the choice was made for me isn't too big of a problem. Of course, the obscure and distant possibility that I'll get accepted off the waitlist at my #1 doesn't help with my anxiety over the next few months 😀

I apologize, I didn't mean to make it embarrassing. I was just curious if you knew where you were going and how excited you must feel! Next time I will PM you.

P.S. have you decided?

Oh noes! Juan Solo was wrong, nobody gets shot in Chicago! Are you narrowing in on a decision? Will you be taking your talents to Chicago? Have you been asked this question more than 100 times this week?

No, I have not decided but I have narrowed it down to two. Also, I dont know a damn thing about Chicago, thats my problem 😛

 

[Tots]

Oh noes! Juan Solo was wrong, nobody gets shot in Chicago! Are you narrowing in on a decision? Will you be taking your talents to Chicago? Have you been asked this question more than 100 times this week?

Ug I honestly don't know. I'm so tired about thinking about this. After a long talk with my cousin in Chicago I not even sure I could put up with living in Chicago.

 

[dudeliness]

I didn't move that far that often, but did move sometimes 3 times a year. I think my final move count from birth to 17 was somewhere arounf 13 or 14, including moving from Los Angeles to TN when I was 12, then to a rural, 170 acre farm with the nearest neighbors a mile away on a gravel road on either side when I was 14 right after I finished my freshman year. I've known my two best friends since I was 14 and 15 respectively. And I'm so glad and happy to have that. I can't imagine having a friend from kindergarten, but know many people in that same boat. My ex was born and raised and lived on the same street for 23 years.😱

That's a lot like me. Born in northern Michigan and moved away very young. Lived in "bigger" towns like davenport, IA or moline, IL and then moved back to Michigan where we drove 40 miles to get groceries, the nearest town had 350, and my playmates were squirrels and porcupines. Diversity, maybe not a racial type, but diversity nonetheless.

Also, to the bolded, I would die. I have to be on the move!

The wambulance is all yours, although you don't really need it when your story is genuinely sympathy-inducing 🙂

P.S. - Love that you've been married to your wife for 6 out of the 6.5 yrs you've known her. 👍

I just meant that it sounds like a bad thing, all that moving, but it was the best thing ever for me. I'm a ramblin man at heart, part of the reason why I'm doing the HPSP, and moving so much was an AWESOME experience!

Also, I too think its kinda cool that I've known my wife nearly as long as I've been married to her. Not the kind of quick decision that I would recommend or that always works out so well, but with our 6 yr anniversary coming up this Sunday (yes, we got married on cinco de mayo!) I think we made the right choice!

 

[sinombre]

I'm starting to get anxious about uprooting and moving to a new place 🙁 And I hate long, drawn-out goodbyes. Anybody have good advice for coping with these awkward transition periods?

I'm kind of in the same boat. I feel weird leaving my girlfriend... I've lived with her for the past 2 1/2 years, so it'll be an adjustment for sure. To be honest I'm more excited than nervous... I haven't really had a "home" since I was a kid, and I think that makes it easier to move away from somewhere I've lived for a while.

Plus, I have an okay view out the window.

I wish I had a window. I literally work in a closet that was converted into an office, and in a clinic which is underground. I'm surprised working here for the past year and a half hasn't sent me into a deep depression.

Speaking of views from lab...

Wow... how the hell do you get anything done? UCSF is so awesome. Looks like I'll have to hit the ground running so I can head back up north for residency

Nope. I didn't even read Catcher in the Rye or 1984 until my 20s, specifically because I felt jipped. That said, look where I went to high school sophomore through senior year. :/

I just bought Moby Dick a month or two ago and just now started it. I think my favorite book from grade school was The Trumpet and the Swan. My favorite book from high school, hands-down, was Lord of the Flies. LoL I read that one while spending the rest of my freshman year in In-School-Suspension for my third smoking infraction, the perfect read for a kid in ISS. Hahaha, oh boy, I was not a good kid back then. But I am now, thankfully!

I actually just read Catcher in the Rye a couple of months ago. It definitely reminded me of what it's like to be an angry teenager. That false feeling of isolation... something I really don't miss. And yet somehow thinking about my life a decade ago elicits feelings of nostalgia.






Anyway, back on topic.

 

[dudeliness]

No, I have not decided but I have narrowed it down to two. Also, I dont know a damn thing about Chicago, thats my problem 😛

Chicago is a cool town. So much variety so much to do so much good food. A lot of that is true for just about anywhere other than where I've been living recently though...

 

[dudeliness]

Anyway, back on topic.

Well played sir, but please make it bigger next time. 😉

 

[sinombre]

Chicago is a cool town. So much variety so much to do so much good food. A lot of that is true for just about anywhere other than where I've been living recently though...

Yeah Chicago is a cool place. Minus the traffic and inevitable flight delays. I went to Chicago three times last year, and every flight was delayed. Every single one (all at O'Hare).

 

[Juan Solo]

Wow... how the hell do you get anything done? UCSF is so awesome. Looks like I'll have to hit the ground running so I can head back up north for residency

Who said I get stuff done?

Chicago is a cool town. So much variety so much to do so much good food. A lot of that is true for just about anywhere other than where I've been living recently though...

Yeah, I know Chicago is fun, I have only visited but I guess my concern is I don't know anything about where and how to live in Chicago. I blame living in California for my entire life for having this problem

 

[SilentSoldier]

Ug I honestly don't know. I'm so tired about thinking about this. After a long talk with my cousin in Chicago I not even sure I could put up with living in Chicago.

Chicago is awesome though. Except in the winter, when it's not.

Did that help?

 

[sinombre]

Well played sir, but please make it bigger next time. 😉

One does not simply resize a giant sloth meme...

 

[sinombre]

The dude just started a new thread in Spanish, and I have no idea what any of it says. I probably shouldn't have taken German for four years in high school.

 

[Wifey1985]

I apologize, I didn't mean to make it embarrassing. I was just curious if you knew where you were going and how excited you must feel! Next time I will PM you.



No, I have not decided but I have narrowed it down to two. Also, I dont know a damn thing about Chicago, thats my problem 😛

No need to apologize, don't be silly 😛 I could have easily answered where I am going without commenting on my success this cycle. Apparently, I never pass up an opportunity to be self-deprecating 😉

Congrats on narrowing it down to two, the hard part is (almost) over!

Ug I honestly don't know. I'm so tired about thinking about this. After a long talk with my cousin in Chicago I not even sure I could put up with living in Chicago.

Chicago (and by Chicago I mean the midwest generally) is pretty much the only place in the States that I know nothing about. But only bad things could come from living in a place called the "Windy City". I'm sure that's helpful to you 😳

Also, I too think its kinda cool that I've known my wife nearly as long as I've been married to her. Not the kind of quick decision that I would recommend or that always works out so well, but with our 6 yr anniversary coming up this Sunday (yes, we got married on cinco de mayo!) I think we made the right choice!

I agree, but it always makes me happy to hear success stories 🙂 Happy anniversary!

I'm kind of in the same boat. I feel weird leaving my girlfriend... I've lived with her for the past 2 1/2 years, so it'll be an adjustment for sure. To be honest I'm more excited than nervous... I haven't really had a "home" since I was a kid, and I think that makes it easier to move away from somewhere I've lived for a while.

Yeah, but I miss having a home to go home to. Still, I'm super excited 🙂

I didn't know you would be leaving your gf 🙁 For some reason I was under the impression that you already live where you're going to school. Bummer, sorry to hear that!

 

[dudeliness]

The dude just started a new thread in Spanish, and I have no idea what any of it says. I probably shouldn't have taken German for four years in high school.

Ven a aprender, nunca es demasiado tarde y sólo te será útil como médico.

And google translate is your friend. 😉

 

[anguisette]

One does not simply resize a giant sloth meme...

Also, I second all the anxiety in this thread. Just thinking about making 'The Decision' makes my heart beat faster. Someone else choose for me please.

 

[Guero]

I hope you mean this in the best possible way 🙂



I know, I am lucky. I have been looking out at that magnificent view from this lab bench for 5 years.


. . .

Would you mind PMing me whose lab you're in so I can try to land a post-doc or try to do my PhD during residency if I get into UCSF? Good lord, that is just...ugh. UCSF is my dream residency. SF's culture has spoken to me since I was a wee teen. 😍

Chicago is a cool town. So much variety so much to do so much good food. A lot of that is true for just about anywhere other than where I've been living recently though...

Omg, especially the German food! 😍

Chicago is awesome though. Except in the winter, when it's not.

Did that help?

What!? It ROCKS in the winter! Unless you have to walk long distances in a suit, anyway... I love snow.

Also, I second all the anxiety in this thread. Just thinking about making 'The Decision' makes my heart beat faster. Someone else choose for me please.

Omg, that was the CUTEST ever!

 

[487806]

Also, I second all the anxiety in this thread. Just thinking about making 'The Decision' makes my heart beat faster. Someone else choose for me please.

So awesome. 😍

 

[487806]

Ven a aprender, nunca es demasiado tarde y sólo te será útil como médico.

And google translate is your friend. 😉

👍👍👍👍👍