MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

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Agent Splat said:
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Yay for eosinophils and the immune cell army attacking those naughty donut worms!
 
samenewme said:
I took my mock anatomy exam.
I screwed the pooch.
Now it wants a cigarette.
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I usually want a sandwich after sex. Well, that and my money back.
 
Agent Splat said:
the imaginary test audience in my head tells me to kill everyone.
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Hey, if the imaginary test audience in your head kills off the imaginary test audience in my head, maybe I can stop telling bad jokes.
 
so there's an SDNer sleeping on my couch right now. We knew each other from undergrad, and she mentioned SDN, and I said I post here, and that she should know who I was. She was like, nooo, I don't know anybody. I told her to guess, and she goes.....TheProwler? 😳 I'm as invisible as mud.
 
samenewme said:
Hey, if the imaginary test audience in your head kills off the imaginary test audience in my head, maybe I can stop telling bad jokes.
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I don't think he meant that you would make a good path professor because you tell bad jokes. He meant you would make a good path professor because I had no idea what the frick you were talking about, which pretty much describes most of my time listening to pathology professors.
 
Never let it be said that MCW students can't rise to an occasion.
 
Andy15430 said:
I don't think he meant that you would make a good path professor because you tell bad jokes. He meant you would make a good path professor because I had no idea what the frick you were talking about, which pretty much describes most of my time listening to pathology professors.
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I think I understood that point (hey, which maybe means I'll pass path!), but if you have to explain your jokes, they're bad.
 
Does anyone else think it's a really bad idea to have interviews today? I can just imagine how freaked out the interviewees will be when they see the horrifying "WTF" looks on the faces of all the M1s and M2s studying for finals right now.

Not only that, but this is the time of year when almost any med student, if asked, would tell a pre-med to save themselves now. "Get out while you still can!!!"

Although I guess it's better than having them sit down with us immediately after our Micro/Biochem final or something. I'd be liable to verbally slap them in the face simply for wishing medical school on themselves.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Although I guess it's better than having them sit down with us immediately after our Micro/Biochem final or something. I'd be liable to verbally slap them in the face simply for wishing medical school on themselves.
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I still don't understand how you honored biochem.
 
Well, at least it was Dunn lecturing in Path today and not the crazy lady from yesterday with the crazy Russian/Czechoslovakian accent (one very similar that my siblings and I use to talk to each other to drive our parents nuts). Dunn is awesome. I saw like 1 applicant in lecture.
 
Agent Splat said:
and enrollment plummets for fall 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Egads! What will all of our student organizations do for money?!

Oh, I know. They'll just ask me to tack on another hundy to my school loans. 😡
 
What books do I need for the second term?
 
indo said:
What books do I need for the second term?
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I read Guyton twice through for the first 2.5 blocks (through kindey) and the lung -- Cowley will also take test questions from material he didn't cover in class but he expects you to know because it's in Guyton (and he worked with Guyton). The neuro book was absolutely useless (Nadeau). Wheater's was helpful, especially since I didn't go to the lab sessions for CTB, also used it for some of neuro lab on the computers.
 
So Guton's for physiology and Wheater's for CTB? cool. Thanks!

I'm hoping I can find them cheaper online or maybe used.
 
indo said:
So Guton's for physiology and Wheater's for CTB? cool. Thanks!

I'm hoping I can find them cheaper online or maybe used.
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I also like Physiology Secrets a lot...most people never talked about it, but I found it helpful on several occasions...especially in unravelling the mystery that is the female menstrual cycle.

Also, do yourself a favor and go to Scott's review session when you're going over EKGs if he will be the phys tutor...I had no clue what I was doing with that axis shifting crap until he went through it. Thanks to him I nailed every EKG question on the exam: _____________________________ = dead

I also bought wheater...not overly useful now, but it was very convenient to have throughout CTB. I'm keeping mine because the pictures are pretty.
 
I've also heard BRS Phys is helpful. Of course this was told to my by someone at the very end of last year, who of course found out about it too late (while he was studying for the boards). So maybe you might want to look into that too. BRS Path is definitely good for path.
 
Ashers said:
I've also heard BRS Phys is helpful. Of course this was told to my by someone at the very end of last year, who of course found out about it too late (while he was studying for the boards). So maybe you might want to look into that too. BRS Path is definitely good for path.
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I liked BRS for phys...it was a good overview before you get into the nitty gritty. But, I wouldn't rely on it entirely because it's lacking in details. like details that the guy that did the GI stuff will ask even though it's not even in his notes or in Guyton. That guy ruined my chances at an awesome grade...i didn't get any kidney questions wrong, but I got tons of his wrong. rawr.

goljan rapid review for path is also good

love those quick facts on the margins. not sure if you'll want to shell out 20-30 bucks for BRS and 35 for goljan though. I say check them both out and decide which you liek better. goljan has color photos!!! both are in an outline format though, so if you like "reading" with "flow" neither will be good

but nobody cares about pathology right now, so why bother?
 
My suggestions for 2nd semester M1 books:

Phys: BRS Phys is great, and you'll need it for boards next year. Buy it.
Guyton is alright, but overly detailed. You'll only need those details for Cowley's lectures. I was able to get away with a copy one edition old and it had very few changes from the current edition. I read Guyton for much of the course and it was very time consuming, but I wish I hadn't after I found out about...
Costanzo's Physiology textbook! This is the same woman that wrote BRS Phys but this is her longer text. Great explanations without the needless diversions into research techniques that Guyton is prone to. I thought the diagrams were far superior to Guyton as well. Not only that, but it takes about a quarter of the time to read up on the material, which saves you more time for deciphering their course notes and coops. I had to order this one online, but it saved me a ton of time for the last couple blocks. I 😍 it.

Neuro: Save your money and don't buy that text, even after they threaten you that there will be questions straight out of the text on the test. They ended up putting two questions from the text on each exam and most people were able to get them right without reading. They usually gave the answer away in the question stem. By the way, BRS Neuro is a waste of time. Don't even bother.

CTB: No text necessary. Buy yourself a Wheater's (I used an older edition) and you'll be rawkin' it.
 
DoctorFunk said:
My suggestions for 2nd semester M1 books:

Phys: BRS Phys is great, and you'll need it for boards next year. Buy it.
Guyton is alright, but overly detailed. You'll only need those details for Cowley's lectures. I was able to get away with a copy one edition old and it had very few changes from the current edition. I read Guyton for much of the course and it was very time consuming, but I wish I hadn't after I found out about...
Costanzo's Physiology textbook! This is the same woman that wrote BRS Phys but this is her longer text. Great explanations without the needless diversions into research techniques that Guyton is prone to. I thought the diagrams were far superior to Guyton as well. Not only that, but it takes about a quarter of the time to read up on the material, which saves you more time for deciphering their course notes and coops. I had to order this one online, but it saved me a ton of time for the last couple blocks. I 😍 it.

Neuro: Save your money and don't buy that text, even after they threaten you that there will be questions straight out of the text on the test. They ended up putting two questions from the text on each exam and most people were able to get them right without reading. They usually gave the answer away in the question stem. By the way, BRS Neuro is a waste of time. Don't even bother.

CTB: No text necessary. Buy yourself a Wheater's (I used an older edition) and you'll be rawkin' it.
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yu0 guyz are teh awes0me 😍
 
I interviewed applicants today! Good times, people, good times.

I love being a third year...
 
Xandie said:
I interviewed applicants today! Good times, people, good times.

I love being a third year...
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Sorry I couldn't talk more in Student Affairs. I was busy freaking out about my Step 1 Scheduling Permit. I didn't get one in the mail, and didn't realize that they wouldn't send me an e-mail when the permit came available online (it's all screwy with the switchover from paper to electronic). Everything's straightened out, though. The doom-day is Saturday, June 9th!

I thought they only let 4th years interview applicants. What gives, and how the heck do you have time to interview during your 3rd year? Were you a hardass interviewer? I think I would have liked interviewing with Xandie. 😍
 
Why's that, Andy, because I'm a crazy person? Or just because I'm little and incredibly not intimidating...

We get to interview too. Fun times!
 
TheProwler said:
you and Funk are standing pretty close. You're gazing into his eyes right now!
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In Ashers' defense, they are two quite spectacular eyes. A nice mix of hazel, aquamarine, and TMNT green.
 
DoctorFunk said:
In Ashers' defense, they are two quite spectacular eyes. A nice mix of hazel, aquamarine, and TMNT green.
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Isn't there some fetal infection or abnormality that causes two differently colored eyes? Not that you have two differently colored ones, but you would be cooler if you did.
 
Agent Splat said:
Isn't there some fetal infection or abnormality that causes two differently colored eyes? Not that you have two differently colored ones, but you would be cooler if you did.
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If only. First cytomegalovirus and now this...I miss out on all the cool congenital infections. 🙁
 
It's not caused by an infection, but it's called heterochromia iridium.

And I'm CMV-... the blood bank loves me. That, and I'm O-. I'm a popular girl with them.
 
just FYI...cowely isnt teaching much next semester. Liard is takin over most of his lectures.
 
pratik7 said:
just FYI...cowely isnt teaching much next semester. Liard is takin over most of his lectures.
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i woulda loved to have Liard teach us...at least, i think so. never really talked to the guy. but he was able to give a lot of smarta$$ talk back to a certain girl in our class, which impressed me and made me laugh inside.
 
Agent Splat said:
i woulda loved to have Liard teach us...at least, i think so. never really talked to the guy. but he was able to give a lot of smarta$$ talk back to a certain girl in our class, which impressed me and made me laugh inside.
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I talked to him during lab. He was so nice, and he loves to teach. I ended up really like Cowley's final exam questions though -- so much nicer than Greene's.
 
Agent Splat said:
i woulda loved to have Liard teach us...at least, i think so. never really talked to the guy. but he was able to give a lot of smarta$$ talk back to a certain girl in our class, which impressed me and made me laugh inside.
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I think I know what girl you're talking about... I had a little run in with her. She's scary.
 
Ashers said:
Well, there was discussing where he should take his wife on Maui, and how I will torment people from Maui over Christmas break, and of course, the wonders of Google Earth.
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Don't feel like you need to dignify him with an answer. He's just trying to stir up stories for the MCW tabloid he's working on.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Don't feel like you need to dignify him with an answer. He's just trying to stir up stories for the MCW tabloid he's working on.
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I don't need stories. I took some salacious photos, so all I have to do is make up stories.
 
never-nudes? what?
 
Ashers said:
I bet there's a high percentage of never-nudes.
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I guess we just have to take into account Prowler's idea that even pictures of people wearing multiple layers of clothing and heavy winter coats in public can be "salacious."
 
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