MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

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Ashers said:
I heard Krippy's going to be course director for neuro next year. But she only has a year to turn the class around.

Oh yeah, and Lorek's gonna be path's course director. Like totally.
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why does she only have a year to turn it around? is she leaving?
 
I've actually listened to most of Lorek's lectures. If we could just train her to get rid of all the whatevers and etc.'s, then she'd probably be in the top 3 path lecturers. Hell, she probably is even with all the etc.'s. She's easy to listen too, and like Funk said, if it's a minute detail, she'll say so. Pretty straight-forward. I like it.
 
akpete said:
I've actually listened to most of Lorek's lectures. If we could just train her to get rid of all the whatevers and etc.'s, then she'd probably be in the top 3 path lecturers. Hell, she probably is even with all the etc.'s. She's easy to listen too, and like Funk said, if it's a minute detail, she'll say so. Pretty straight-forward. I like it.
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i agree. a tad goofy to listen to, but overall her lectures are all pretty easy to deal with. Plus she gets major bonus points from me for the cardiac enzyme lab lecture from last semester.
 
Valley girl accents lose major points with me. They annoy the crap out of me. I can like totally say that, um, because I'm like so from SoCal, and it annoys me even more that when I hear Lorek, I can hear me getting mine back. It's so easy for me to revert.
 
Ashers said:
Valley girl accents lose major points with me. They annoy the crap out of me. I can like totally say that, um, because I'm like so from SoCal, and it annoys me even more that when I hear Lorek, I can hear me getting mine back. It's so easy for me to revert.
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It's like you're a self-hating Southerner or something. I like.
 
Ashers said:
I have to try to not say "y'all" too (my dad says "y'all" and "howdy" all the time -- his parents were Southern). I've got a mixed up accent, but I learned how to talk in Orange County.
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My accent really only comes through in my vowels, especially the short A's and long O's. I find myself pulling the stereotypical Minnesotan crap when I say things like "baaaaaaaaaaaaag" and "Minnesoootaaaaa".

For the record, though, that movie "Fargo" had North Dakotan/Minnesotan accents all wrong. They were really speaking with a Canadian accent, which requires one to travel several hours north of Duluth to really start hearing. No one in Duluth pulls that "Oh ya, donchaknow?" crap.
 
My friends in England had a lot of fun making fun of my friend from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. But anytime any of them tried to do an American accent, it sounded Texan.
 
Ashers said:
My friends in England had a lot of fun making fun of my friend from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. But anytime any of them tried to do an American accent, it sounded Texan.
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Well they have problems of their own. Depending on the part of England you come from you can either sound like the most sophisticated, intelligent person around or a complete bloody fool who is only capable of post-football match riots and getting pissed.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Well they have problems of their own. Depending on the part of England you come from you can either sound like the most sophisticated, intelligent person around or a complete bloody fool who is only capable of post-football match riots and getting pissed.
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My good friends there have weird English accents. 2 of the guys -- their parents are from northern England, but they've grown up in Winchester, so they have a mostly southern English accent, with an occasional word they say like in the north (Bath = bath not Bah-th).

My other good friend is an Armenian transplant born in Iran who moved to Surrey when she was 5. When we were in groups in public talking, English people thought she was American and I was English. Her accent is just weird. It's like a middle Atlantic -- we thought maybe mermaid or something in the middle of the pond.
 
If I get around New Yorkers, it's all downhill. Ask me to say the words "call" or "law" sometime... despite having lived in the Midwest for 23 of my 24 years, I have a pretty rockin' (although sporadic) East Coast accent.
 
DoctorFunk said:
My accent really only comes through in my vowels, especially the short A's and long O's. I find myself pulling the stereotypical Minnesotan crap when I say things like "baaaaaaaaaaaaag" and "Minnesoootaaaaa".

For the record, though, that movie "Fargo" had North Dakotan/Minnesotan accents all wrong. They were really speaking with a Canadian accent, which requires one to travel several hours north of Duluth to really start hearing. No one in Duluth pulls that "Oh ya, donchaknow?" crap.
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They sounded an awful lot like Youpers to me.
 
I went to Nova Scotia in high school, and the only way I could explain their accent to everyone at home was "hillbilly with an English twist."

Somehow I've picked up the habit of using y'all and saying tin instead of ten, the latter of which happens more when I'm drinking. The y'all I can restrain pretty well. I'll form a sentence with y'all in my head, but manage to correct it before it comes outta my mouth.
 
akpete said:
I went to Nova Scotia in high school, and the only way I could explain their accent to everyone at home was "hillbilly with an English twist."

Somehow I've picked up the habit of using y'all and saying tin instead of ten, the latter of which happens more when I'm drinking. The y'all I can restrain pretty well. I'll form a sentence with y'all in my head, but manage to correct it before it comes outta my mouth.
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What wrong with yall?? I always say yall and thought it was normal english
 
Do you think heaven and hell have an exchange program?

When Jesus was a carpenter was his CCB number #1?
 
You guys make me laugh.
 
samenewme said:
They sounded an awful lot like Youpers to me.
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I was gonna say...the people I know from Crivitz, WI (30 min from the UP border) sound a lot more like the people from Fargo than any Minnesooootan I've ever met. I had a roommate in college who was from far western Minnesota -- many of his high school classmates went to college at NDSU in Fargo -- and none of them talked like the people in Fargo as much as the people I know from northeastern Wisconsin.

I'm definitely guilty of throwing an "eh?" in at the end of a question now and again.
 
Gimlet said:
I was gonna say...the people I know from Crivitz, WI (30 min from the UP border) sound a lot more like the people from Fargo than any Minnesooootan I've ever met. I had a roommate in college who was from far western Minnesota -- many of his high school classmates went to college at NDSU in Fargo -- and none of them talked like the people in Fargo as much as the people I know from northeastern Wisconsin.

I'm definitely guilty of throwing an "eh?" in at the end of a question now and again.
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ahaha, I've been to Crivitz. Youpers have the best accents.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_RRwmt50Q[/YOUTUBE]
 
Agent Splat said:
i thought he was from India. weird.
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Dude....im not that kinda Indian. Im the kinda of Indian that beats on a drum, runs around a fire with a hat made of feathers. Geez, some people can be sooo politically incorrect :meanie:
 
pratik7 said:
Dude....im not that kinda Indian. Im the kinda of Indian that beats on a drum, runs around a fire with a hat made of feathers. Geez, some people can be sooo politically incorrect :meanie:
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No, you are the customer service hotline type of Indian. Show 'em your southern accent!
 
Gimlet said:
I was gonna say...the people I know from Crivitz, WI (30 min from the UP border) sound a lot more like the people from Fargo than any Minnesooootan I've ever met. I had a roommate in college who was from far western Minnesota -- many of his high school classmates went to college at NDSU in Fargo -- and none of them talked like the people in Fargo as much as the people I know from northeastern Wisconsin.

I'm definitely guilty of throwing an "eh?" in at the end of a question now and again.
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Completely agree. I don't know of anyone in my area of WI that talks like that. Or in MN. Never spent much time in the Crivitz area - though I do know where that is. I should ask my cousin that goes to Michigan Tech about the accents. 🙂

But we do say "pop" instead of soda.
 
pratik7 said:
Dude....im not that kinda Indian. Im the kinda of Indian that beats on a drum, runs around a fire with a hat made of feathers. Geez, some people can be sooo politically incorrect :meanie:
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Feathers, not dots.

When I'm at home, if I mention someone at school that's Indian, I always have to specifiy "Dots, not feathers."
 
akpete said:
Feathers, not dots.

When I'm at home, if I mention someone at school that's Indian, I always have to specifiy "Dots, not feathers."
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You can also specify with hand motions

dots = point to forehead
feathers = hand on forehead facing out with all fingers up

One of my friends showed me. I was stunned when he first did that.
 
Ashers said:
You can also specify with hand motions

dots = point to forehead
feathers = hand on forehead facing out with all fingers up

One of my friends showed me. I was stunned when he first did that.
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Actually, I've done that before, but with the feathers sticking up from the back of my head.

I think it was in a movie/tv show once too, but I can't recall which one.

I'm so culturally sensitive. Good thing they had those lectures last year.
 
akpete said:
Actually, I've done that before, but with the feathers sticking up from the back of my head.

I think it was in a movie/tv show once too, but I can't recall which one.

I'm so culturally sensitive. Good thing they had those lectures last year.
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My friend must've been mimicking a chief and not a brave.

They should give a lecture about reverse discrimination. 😉 Been there -- punched in the face in high school for being white. good times.
 
TheProwler said:
ahaha, I've been to Crivitz. Youpers have the best accents.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_RRwmt50Q[/YOUTUBE]
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Oh man, I'm totally guilty of saying a lot of those things...especially "criminy" and "you betcha." We should ask Splat's fiance about this...I'll betcha she has some youperisms.
 
akpete said:
Actually, I've done that before, but with the feathers sticking up from the back of my head.

I think it was in a movie/tv show once too, but I can't recall which one.

I'm so culturally sensitive. Good thing they had those lectures last year.
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Hey, maybe you can be the lecturer at tomorrow's Saturday Clinic lunch meeting!
 
Ashers said:
My friend must've been mimicking a chief and not a brave.

They should give a lecture about reverse discrimination. 😉 Been there -- punched in the face in high school for being white. good times.
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Nice.

Anyway, kids, I'm off to read myself to sleep. I've now wasted ~2.5 hours on the internet, doing absolutely nothing. The only other accomplishment I've had since 8pm is giving my dog a bath. The internet is the devil. Somehow my short attention span just sucks it all in.

Good night.
 
Is there such a thing as an IGF-I secreting tumor?
 
pratik7 said:
PEGVISOMENT STAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Isn't IGF-I inhibitory to GH release? Excess IGF would cause decreased GH levels but IGF-I is what actually triggers growth in the tissues, right?
 
indo said:
Isn't IGF-I inhibitory to GH release? Excess IGF would cause decreased GH levels but IGF-I is what actually triggers growth in the tissues, right?
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This sounds right. IGF-1 is synthesized in the liver though, so unlike all of those endocrine gland tumors that like to secrete hormones I don't think there's a specific IGF-1 secreting tumor, just your standard fare pituitary and hypothalamic adenomas and malignancies.
 
On that note, Dr Raff is an excellent lecturer.

edit: I just noticed that he is our instructor for all but 1 or 2 lectures this block! I have a feeling the scores will be higher on this one.
 
indo said:
On that note, Dr Raff is an excellent lecturer.

edit: I just noticed that he is our instructor for all but 1 or 2 lectures this block! I have a feeling the scores will be higher on this one.
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Not only is he a great lecturer, but you'll find that the vast majority of his questions are not only well-written, but also clinically important. Translation: I promise you scores will be higher on your next exam. 😉
 
DoctorFunk said:
Not only is he a great lecturer, but you'll find that the vast majority of his questions are not only well-written, but also clinically important. Translation: I promise you scores will be higher on your next exam. 😉
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Their next exam is the final.

I wish Raff lectured for us in endocrine path and pharm, and just about every other subject. I bet he could make antibiotics comprehensible.
 
Ashers said:
Their next exam is the final.

I wish Raff lectured for us in endocrine path and pharm, and just about every other subject. I bet he could make antibiotics comprehensible.
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Oh. The final.

True story: I actually improved my final grade in the class when I took the final. That didn't change the fact that I had a mini-nervous breakdown in the midst of submitting the exam and was convinced that I had gotten a 50% at best. I even had nightmares that night about the exam until I was able to check my actual score in the morning.

Sad thing is (and I think Splat and Ashers can attest to this) that I'm usually cool as a cucumber when it comes to school. Thanks, phys dept!
 
Ha. I had a nightmare about my blood pressure several nights ago. It was one of those dreams that I have trouble deciding if it was real or not so I woke up concerned about my dietary habits.


I used to get anxious and jittery during the pregame anatomy lab stand-around-and-debate-the-existance-of-a-rest-stop sessions.
 
indo said:
Ha. I had a nightmare about my blood pressure several nights ago. It was one of those dreams that I have trouble deciding if it was real or not so I woke up concerned about my dietary habits.


I used to get anxious and jittery during the pregame anatomy lab stand-around-and-debate-the-existance-of-a-rest-stop sessions.
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There were stand-around-and-debate-the-existance-of-a-rest-stop sessions? Why? They're not there for kindness; they're there because we have more med student behinds than tags. I'd rather the faculty not scrape the bottom of the barrel to add more questions, thank you. Or were people debating which way the rest station sign faced, or whether if a med student passes out at a rest station, it makes a sound?
 
samenewme said:
There were stand-around-and-debate-the-existance-of-a-rest-stop sessions? Why? They're not there for kindness; they're there because we have more med student behinds than tags. I'd rather the faculty not scrape the bottom of the barrel to add more questions, thank you. Or were people debating which way the rest station sign faced, or whether if a med student passes out at a rest station, it makes a sound?
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Yeah, all of that, on both sides of the lab. So, we're all in there trying not to forget stuff while Bolender is taking a survey on whether or not we want a rest stop. It isn't that big of a deal in the long run but I found it mildly irritating.
 
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