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I can't read stuff from that time period. It drives me mad.

Being on an LIRR train with 3 drunk/drinking/dickish banker types that were generally being asshats and quoting dickens just about sealed the deal for me.

And they say medicine needs a culture change...
 
Just submitted my final exam, which was more like an impromptu paper 😱 :laugh:
And it looks like I'm getting a Christmas bonus 😀
I hope my boss doesn't flip a table this week...
Anyway, happy holidays to everyone!!!
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Lamel said:
I finished The Count of Monte Cristo a couple of months ago - it was a different level of novel. Gotta invest a lot of time into the behemoth though.
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Have you read other stuff by Dumas?!
After I finally tackle War and Peace, I'll probably give him a try.
 
I love this book discussion!!!! I've read mostly nonfiction lately. I am looking forward to read more books this summer! I'll take your suggestions into consideration for sure 🙂

I have to admit, I'm hoping that a few admissions offices are still open tomorrow and Tuesday... But after that, definitely going to focus on celebrating the holidays and not on looming decisions. After all, it's the most wonderful time of the year!! 😀
 
sunflower18 said:
I love this book discussion!!!! I've read mostly nonfiction lately. I am looking forward to read more books this summer! I'll take your suggestions into consideration for sure 🙂

I have to admit, I'm hoping that a few admissions offices are still open tomorrow and Tuesday... But after that, definitely going to focus on celebrating the holidays and not on looming decisions. After all, it's the most wonderful time of the year!! 😀
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ridethecliche said:
-Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
-Everything by paul farmer and atul gawande
-Everything by David Sedaris
-100 years of solitude by Marquez
-The eternal lightness of being by milan kundera
-Everything by Junot Diaz and Arundhati Roy.
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*The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

What a jolly holiday reading list 😛
 
Lamel said:
I finished The Count of Monte Cristo a couple of months ago - it was a different level of novel. Gotta invest a lot of time into the behemoth though.
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The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books! Always fantastic, especially the full, unabridged version.

I love fantasy, so Brandon Sanderson is always my first recommendation - his worlds are rich in history, have great characters, and use incredibly unique magic systems. They're also not hard to get into, and I practically engulf his books in when they come out. I especially recommend the Mistborn trilogy and the Stormlight Archive books.

The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman is also great -- it's a very clever take on the typical Harry Potter/Narnia story, but far more melancholy, funny, and surprising.

Other recommendations:
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (whole trilogy, The Kingkiller Chronicles)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (the whole series, A Song of Ice and Fire)
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (the whole series is great, and I particularly enjoy the parallel series starting with Ender's Shadow, which is all about Bean... those are even better, I love them)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (amazing series of books)
Lexicon by Max Berry

I'm always a sucker for great YA fantasy, so Artemis Fowl, Charlie Bone, etc. are all big favorites of mine.

By the way, if there are any Harry Potter fans out there looking for a good read in the same universe, try searching for Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality online -- it takes place in an alternate version of the HP universe, where Petunia marries an Oxford professor and they take care of Harry and raise him to be intellectual, enjoy the sciences, etc. So, this Harry, when he ends up going to Hogwarts and discovers the magical world, questions things and experiments and really brings together the Muggle aspects of his education - namely, physics, philosophy, psychology, science fiction, and so on. It has some of the funniest dialogue between characters I've ever read in a book, and the references to moments in the original novels are hilarious. Plus, the author tries to address a lot of the things that we never really got to find out while reading the original HP books through that Harry's perspective. It remains one of my favorite reads of all time, I highly recommend this. Plus, it's free online and available as a pdf that looks like the original books. Check it out!

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was a good read from this past year as well! I could go on and on... The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, House of God by Samuel Shem, of course Atul Gawande's works, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman was a good read... I'm probably forgetting dozens of great books right now, but I'll add on as I think of them.
 
Looking at the MD class of 2018 profile for UMiami and how for OOS applicants, only 350/5694 were invited for interview (6%), I am eternally grateful that UMiami gave me a chance. I know I don't have the best app compared to a lot of people with much more impressive EC's. However, I am willing to try my best with what I am given. Also, @ridethecliche, what date are you interviewing?
 
Cyberdyne 101 said:
Have you read other stuff by Dumas?!
After I finally tackle War and Peace, I'll probably give him a try.
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I haven't really had the time, but I will look into him more during the summer. War and Peace is on my list as well.

I am a huge fiction fan, especially classics from the 1700-1900 era.

spockprime said:
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books! Always fantastic, especially the full, unabridged version.


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Unabridged version is the only way to do it. It is too well written to cut down.
 
Lamel said:
I haven't really had the time, but I will look into him more during the summer. War and Peace is on my list as well.

I am a huge fiction fan, especially classics from the 1700-1900 era.



Unabridged version is the only way to do it. It is too well written to cut down.
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Absolutely! It's crazy how much they take out in the abridged versions. When I was very young I read the smaller version first, and when I realized there was a full version out there it was a very pleasant surprise. I recently bought one of the cloth covered editions, Robin Buss translation.
 
Lamel said:
I haven't really had the time, but I will look into him more during the summer. War and Peace is on my list as well.

I am a huge fiction fan, especially classics from the 1700-1900 era.



Unabridged version is the only way to do it. It is too well written to cut down.
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Ace Khalifa said:
Looking at the MD class of 2018 profile for UMiami and how for OOS applicants, only 350/5694 were invited for interview (6%), I am eternally grateful that UMiami gave me a chance. I know I don't have the best app compared to a lot of people with much more impressive EC's. However, I am willing to try my best with what I am given. Also, @ridethecliche, what date are you interviewing?
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BioEngMD said this over in the UMiami thread and it definitely helped me in preparing for the interview day! Best of luck to you 🙂

"Miami interviews a comparatively small percentage of applicants and they mentioned that your interviewer is one of the adcom members who scored your application, so they are clearly already very impressed with you if you're given an interview invite. The interview itself is very laid back and conversational, so nothing to stress over! Miami has an abundance of unique characteristics and opportunities and they are very good at stressing those and selling their program, so get ready for information overload (in a good way). Congratulations on your II and good luck!"
 
Ace Khalifa said:
Looking at the MD class of 2018 profile for UMiami and how for OOS applicants, only 350/5694 were invited for interview (6%), I am eternally grateful that UMiami gave me a chance. I know I don't have the best app compared to a lot of people with much more impressive EC's BLAH BLAH BLAH STOP THAT NONSENSE. However, I am willing to try my best with what I am given HELLZ YEAH ACEEE. Also, @ridethecliche, what date are you interviewing?
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I took the liberty of editing your post.

I'll be there jan 26-27. The rest of the dates for MD MPH were full. I'm flying on the 22nd and will chillllll in the sunshine for a few days. Hoping to hit the interview with a tan. SUP!
I should buy a ticket. Eep!
 
Also, has anyone successfully read Infinite Jest. I get so lost with that book that I've had to restart it way too many times. I swear I will finish it though. His writing is insanely good but it makes me feel like he's in my head at times and it freaks me out.
 
ridethecliche said:
Also, has anyone successfully read Infinite Jest. I get so lost with that book that I've had to restart it way too many times. I swear I will finish it though. His writing is insanely good but it makes me feel like he's in my head at times and it freaks me out.
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Infinite Jest has been on my list of to-read books for ages now! I always pass it in bookstores, hold it and look at its nice cover and skim through the pages, but always put it down, buying other books instead that might be more manageable given the time constraints I have! Definitely will read it at some point though.
I also am a huuuuge fan of fiction! More of 1900s-present though, particularly post war writing, and stuff that has come out in the past 2-3 decades.
 
ridethecliche said:
I took the liberty of editing your post.

I'll be there jan 26-27. The rest of the dates for MD MPH were full. I'm flying on the 22nd and will chillllll in the sunshine for a few days. Hoping to hit the interview with a tan. SUP!
I should buy a ticket. Eep!
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Haha I'm jealous your job lets you take a vacation period like that so easily. I was not allowed to have more than 4 days off in a row, so it's just fly in on 1/8, interview on 1/9, and then go right back to STL on 1/10.

I hope you do get accepted to the MD/MPH program. I wish we could have interviewed at the same time, but I impulsively chose the earliest MD-only interview day.
 
Ace Khalifa said:
Haha I'm jealous your job lets you take a vacation period like that so easily. I was not allowed to have more than 4 days off in a row, so it's just fly in on 1/8, interview on 1/9, and then go right back to STL on 1/10.

I hope you do get accepted to the MD/MPH program. I wish we could have interviewed at the same time, but I impulsively chose the earliest MD-only interview day.
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I'm so excited for you guys! I hope you love it!
 
womanofscience said:
BioEngMD said this over in the UMiami thread and it definitely helped me in preparing for the interview day! Best of luck to you 🙂

"Miami interviews a comparatively small percentage of applicants and they mentioned that your interviewer is one of the adcom members who scored your application, so they are clearly already very impressed with you if you're given an interview invite. The interview itself is very laid back and conversational, so nothing to stress over! Miami has an abundance of unique characteristics and opportunities and they are very good at stressing those and selling their program, so get ready for information overload (in a good way). Congratulations on your II and good luck!"
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I do vaguely remember him posting this. I'm always afraid of letting people down if they're already super impressed by my application; it's a lot of pressure to live up to their expectations. That being said, I will give this my absolute best shot because UMiami was one of my favorites when choosing which schools to apply to other than my state schools.
 
Yeah, it's really cliche to say, but I love Hemingway. I went on a huge Hemingway binge in college and might go back to some of them again. I'm hoping I can find a way to write for fun through med school.

Ace Khalifa said:
Haha I'm jealous your job lets you take a vacation period like that so easily. I was not allowed to have more than 4 days off in a row, so it's just fly in on 1/8, interview on 1/9, and then go right back to STL on 1/10.

I hope you do get accepted to the MD/MPH program. I wish we could have interviewed at the same time, but I impulsively chose the earliest MD-only interview day.
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Thanks mang!

Working for very little money (relatively speaking) at a hospital has its perks for benefits. I think I get about 3-4 paid weeks off a year (including all the big holidays). I have very few complaints though, the dept takes pretty good care of us all said and done.

The group has also expanded quite a bit and there are two CRC's in my office so taking time off is pretty easily done when planned in advance.

As with many places, our unused vacation days are paid out and I'm really hoping to get atleast a couple of weeks of that at the end to use the time on a summer trip. Or I'll take the time and go to India in the spring to visit my grandparents.
 
Ace Khalifa said:
I do vaguely remember him posting this. I'm always afraid of letting people down if they're already super impressed by my application; it's a lot of pressure to live up to their expectations. That being said, I will give this my absolute best shot because UMiami was one of my favorites when choosing which schools to apply to other than my state schools.
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Wishing you the best of luck! If you have any questions, I can try my best to help. Miami was also one of my favorites before and after the interview day.
 
ridethecliche said:
Also, has anyone successfully read Infinite Jest. I get so lost with that book that I've had to restart it way too many times. I swear I will finish it though. His writing is insanely good but it makes me feel like he's in my head at times and it freaks me out.
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Yup; I really enjoy DFW's absurd sense of humour. I've got a penchant for picking up books that take an eternity to read. However, after something like 2 months (totally neglecting half of my high school classes in the process oops) I finished it.

I don't know if they've ever been published as a compilation, but his essays on depression are incredibly moving.

For other extra-large book lovers, I recently wrapped up 1Q84. If you can get over Murakami's odd fixation about ears (srsly), it makes for a pretty surreal read.

Haven't read any Dumas or Dostoyevsky. 🙁 Pretty behind on my classics. Most of the lit classes I took in college focused upon the likes of Austen, Gaskell, and Bronte, so if you're into verbose Georgian-era fiction hit me up. All the suggestions you guys have posted are really inspiring me to get back on a reading kick for the new year. And a friendly reminder that you can get a whopping tons of classics for free off Project Gutenberg!

sunflower18 said:
I definitely plan to write through med school too! 🙂
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Omg please do. Are you planning to keep a journal/blog?
 
Ace Khalifa said:
Is multiple box-checking for 1 book allowed? If not, then that's gonna be a lot of books to read.
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haha I wasn't planning on reading all of those, but its a fun way to expand your book horizons and find different books for the different categories! I think anyone should be able to make up their own rules for themselves depending on time constraints, interest, etc, or even personalize the list by adding different categories 🙂
 
Question, so if I want to update schools where I have interviewed with my fall grades do I just send a new transcript to Amcas or is it something I do individually for each school? If it's individually, do you know if they need an official transcript or does a printout from my school's student portal work just fine? Or should I just call and ask each school individually what they expect?
 
I haven't been around here in a while, but congrats on the all the recent acceptances! You guys are all doing amazing!

On a second note, I think I might have met @FriendlyFH during her interview day here. 😉
 
nemo123 said:
I haven't been around here in a while, but congrats on the all the recent acceptances! You guys are all doing amazing!
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@nemo123, to borrow a word that I learned from texting with someone who's a generation younger than me:

Udabst

(Hope I am using it correctly 🙄)

nemo123 said:
On a second note, I think I might have met @FriendlyFH during her interview day here. 😉
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If you attended the lunch on 10/8 then we must have met. I am now trying really hard to remember the students with whom i talked. Our tour guide was two great dudes so they couldn't be you. Was there any specific clues which helped you you know who I was? 😏
 
hellanutella said:
Yup; I really enjoy DFW's absurd sense of humour. I've got a penchant for picking up books that take an eternity to read. However, after something like 2 months (totally neglecting half of my high school classes in the process oops) I finished it.

I don't know if they've ever been published as a compilation, but his essays on depression are incredibly moving.

For other extra-large book lovers, I recently wrapped up 1Q84. If you can get over Murakami's odd fixation about ears (srsly), it makes for a pretty surreal read.

Haven't read any Dumas or Dostoyevsky. 🙁 Pretty behind on my classics. Most of the lit classes I took in college focused upon the likes of Austen, Gaskell, and Bronte, so if you're into verbose Georgian-era fiction hit me up. All the suggestions you guys have posted are really inspiring me to get back on a reading kick for the new year. And a friendly reminder that you can get a whopping tons of classics for free off Project Gutenberg!



Omg please do. Are you planning to keep a journal/blog?
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I love Jane Austen. I've actually been waiting for Elizabeth Bennet to materialize for quite some time 😀
I've been meaning to read Bronte. I often glance at Jane Eyre when I'm at Barnes & Noble and I think to myself, "Why haven't I read that yet." Apparently, she wasn't a fan of Ms. Austen:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/10/09/why-the-brontes-hated-jane-austen.html

Edit: I should also finally read Pride and Prejudice Zombies :laugh:
 
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FriendlyFH said:
@nemo123, to borrow a word that I learned from texting with someone who's a generation younger than me:

Udabst

(Hope I am using it correctly 🙄)



If you attended the lunch on 10/8 then we must have met. I am now trying really hard to remember the students with whom i talked. Our tour guide was two great dudes so they couldn't be you. Was there any specific clues which helped you you know who I was? 😏
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Oh I guess not then... I thought someone else was you because she graduated from Columbia and then asked about the sushi buffets/sushi places around campus (based off the Cornell thread). So I knew she was on SDN.
 
breakintheroof said:
I think it's great that so many people are offering to share information and take time to collate it. I am not sure if or how this all will work, but hopefully we can get something useful out there!

I tried to think up a few simple guidelines for how this all might work. Feel free to agree/disagree/ignore:
  • Grassroots effort. This would be a lot for one person to be in charge of.
  • Curated by those applying. If you are ready to share something for a school, post a link to what you're working on in the school-specific thread.
  • Fully anonymized. Only share a document from a de-identified Google account.
  • No proprietary data. Nothing from MSAR or US News.
  • Factual. That is, should refrain when possible from things that are variable or subjective, like "interviews are chill."
  • Final product. At the end of the cycle, someone can post a final document in the appropriate 2015-2016 thread.
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Just wanted to bump this back up because there's a movement afoot in some of the school-specific threads lately. Independent of this discussion, @Pedsmdplease and @DrPhilster have posted awesome spreadsheets in the Dartmouth and Jefferson threads, respectively!

These two plus @differentiating in the Stanford thread . . . couldn't be more clear now that here on this thread we've been describing a trend that's already happening rather than attempting to start one. Awesome!
 
breakintheroof said:
Just wanted to bump this back up because there's a movement afoot in some of the school-specific threads lately. Independent of this discussion, @Pedsmdplease and @DrPhilster have posted awesome spreadsheets in the Dartmouth and Jefferson threads, respectively!

These two plus @differentiating in the Stanford thread . . . couldn't be more clear now that here on this thread we've been describing a trend that's already happening rather than attempting to start one. Awesome!
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Scwwwweeeeetttt.

Another shameless plug for any interested to throw some data up here!
 
nemo123 said:
Oh I guess not then... I thought someone else was you because she graduated from Columbia and then asked about the sushi buffets/sushi places around campus (based off the Cornell thread). So I knew she was on SDN.
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A lack of good sushi buffet places around Columbia campus probably produced the the common interest. 🙂 Meet me on Second look! 🙂 I'll let you know how to identify me. @hellanutella, @onceawolverine or @Cyberdyne 101 can testify, it's super easy to find me.
 
breakintheroof said:
Just wanted to bump this back up because there's a movement afoot in some of the school-specific threads lately. Independent of this discussion, @Pedsmdplease and @DrPhilster have posted awesome spreadsheets in the Dartmouth and Jefferson threads, respectively!

These two plus @differentiating in the Stanford thread . . . couldn't be more clear now that here on this thread we've been describing a trend that's already happening rather than attempting to start one. Awesome!
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Haha thanks for the shout out! Sometimes (and especially for premeds like us) it's good to see the data right in front of you so I fully support this movement!
 
Ok well, here goes nothing - I made a spreadsheet a long time ago that I found to be helpful (below) but I think there is extremely useful scattered about SDN that could be consolidated and added. A lot of the numbers can be found using the MSAR, but since some people don't have access I thought I'd put it out there. For example, I found the %OOS applicants with interviews to be really key for me, as I only applied where the percentage was >10% and I got into two public schools as an OOS applicant with so-so numbers.

I think the most helpful data to be collected and filled in is the following:
Screened vs. automatic secondaries
Traditional vs. MMI interviews
Open vs. closed file interviews
Pre-clincal grading
Ranked vs. unranked waitlist
Ranked vs. unranked preclincal years
Silent vs. non silent rejections

Anyone want to volunteer to fill in for a category? Feel free to add to the spreadsheet!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16zuf0J7dBU8fStSEhtpllL3_cIjZER0C017cTLw6690/edit?usp=sharing
 
Pedsmdplease said:
Ok well, here goes nothing - I made a spreadsheet a long time ago that I found to be helpful (below) but I think there is extremely useful scattered about SDN that could be consolidated and added. A lot of the numbers can be found using the MSAR, but since some people don't have access I thought I'd put it out there. For example, I found the %OOS applicants with interviews to be really key for me, as I only applied where the percentage was >10% and I got into two public schools as an OOS applicant with so-so numbers.

I think the most helpful data to be collected and filled in is the following:
Screened vs. automatic secondaries
Traditional vs. MMI interviews
Open vs. closed file interviews
Pre-clincal grading
Ranked vs. unranked waitlist
Ranked vs. unranked preclincal years
Silent vs. non silent rejections

Anyone want to volunteer to fill in for a category? Feel free to add to the spreadsheet!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16zuf0J7dBU8fStSEhtpllL3_cIjZER0C017cTLw6690/edit?usp=sharing
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Hey @Pedsmdplease -- what a fantastic contribution! Thank you for doing all of that work and being willing to share it!

The unfortunate thing is, any MSAR (or US News Grad Compass) data cannot be shared, as it is copyrighted. SDN has had issues with this in the past. We'd love to provide it to everyone, but the limited data is the reason that in the discussions here a few days ago we were focusing on information that is generated by SDN members themselves.
 
breakintheroof said:
Hey @Pedsmdplease -- what a fantastic contribution! Thank you for doing all of that work and being willing to share it!

The unfortunate thing is, any MSAR (or US News Grad Compass) data cannot be shared, as it is copyrighted. SDN has had issues with this in the past. We'd love to provide it to everyone, but the limited data is the reason that in the discussions here a few days ago we were focusing on information that is generated by SDN members themselves.
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Hi @breakintheroof - so actually the numbers on here are from publicly available sources, not the MSAR 🙂 In any case, I'll remove the MCAT/GPA portions and hopefully people can contribute to the categories I listed above if they'd like
 
Pedsmdplease said:
Hi @breakintheroof - so actually the numbers on here are from publicly available sources, not the MSAR 🙂 In any case, I'll remove the MCAT/GPA portions and hopefully people can contribute to the categories I listed above if they'd like
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Pardon the misunderstanding! Good to hear they're not from the MSAR--I don't see how you would need to remove the numbers unless you want to then.
 
Haha, I'll be 26 by matriculation. It's so hilarious to think that I won't be the youngest person in my class. I was always the youngest till college when a few international students displaced me.

Gonna feel good mang.
 
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