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twick121 said:
places to mountain bike...can't you just use any street in milwaukee? with the amount of potholes pretty much makes it like mountain biking. all i know is that my road bike does NOT like the roads here
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It's not too bad if you watch where you're going in most areas around MCW. That being said, I feel like a big weenie because I haven't done any winter biking since the first week of class. I just haven't wanted to face the snow and cold.
 
haha, it is kinda bad because you can't build any speed and just go w/o having to worrying about hitting a pot-hole and breaking a spoke and damaging the bike i spent way too much on

but i did hear that there actually are some good road bike trails in pewaukee...i'll have to try those
 
twick121 said:
haha, it is kinda bad because you can't build any speed and just go w/o having to worrying about hitting a pot-hole and breaking a spoke and damaging the bike i spent way too much on

but i did hear that there actually are some good road bike trails in pewaukee...i'll have to try those
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Oh, you have a REAL bike. I have an old, junky hybrid, so I have a lot less to lose in the pothole wars. Plus I'm not very coordinated, so I don't like to go all that fast.
 
LOL, I was thinking about getting a road bike since there aren't quite as many mountains out there as I'm used to, but now that you put it like that maybe I should wait to see what I'm in for!
 
I have a road bike and a mountain bike. Right now my road bike is being ignored while sitting in my living room attached to my bike trainer, so I could, theoretically keep biking during the winter. I was doing about 30-40miles every couple of days in the summer and a total of about 120-160/week. I haven't been bored enough to ride my bike and watch tv at the same time recently. Now if I get a chance to watch tv, I want to lay on my couch.

My mountain bike is being ignored sitting in my garage.
 
It looks like I am going to have to take another course this summer to satisifty a prerequistite. Any suggestions for a good school to do this in Milwaukee?
 
MATC would be the cheapest, if they have the class you need, which is not that likely. UWM is probably the next best, especially if you're a Wisconsin resident.
 
Cedar said:
It looks like I am going to have to take another course this summer to satisifty a prerequistite. Any suggestions for a good school to do this in Milwaukee?
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What course? The bio department tends to go fishin' for the summer at UWM. On the other hand, MATC does offer quite a few of the basic prereqs.
 
have you talked to mike about that english class? because I was missing a writing class, and I just called him up and he found a class I had taken that was "close enough." so if you haven't called him, i would do that tomorrow
 
Xandie said:
I loved my VAIO too, until Buddha (my large cat) decided to use it as a launching pad and flipped it off the table. A sony does not fair well with being smashed on the ground.
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Oh no. Poor VAIO. I dropped mine once, but since it's huge, it didn't receive any damage.

TheProwler said:
Um, my Windows desktop has Photoshop as well....

Unless you do a fair amount of video editing, I don't see a good reason to spend more money on a Mac, other than the fact that they look pretty (which they do). My computer really only crashes if I'm doing some very intensive operations (usually Call of Duty 4 😀)
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I know. I have photoshop on mine, too...along with dreamweaver...but it seems to freeze my computer a lot... then, maybe it's because my computer is senile.

No, I don't video edit...but I would love to one day. I really like graphic arts & website making.

I also wanted to install a computer game in the past, but my computer couldn't handle it. I wonder what game it was? Maybe Grand Theft Auto???
 
My Vaio died spontaneously and was diagnosed as unsalvageable by Best Buy people, so I went with a MacBook which has done nothing but make me happy. It's nice to get away from Windows.

At least I should be able to take out the Vaio's hard drive and slap it into an enclosure so I can get a portable external drive out of the loss.

Mythbusters is on all freaking day. This is awesome.
 
Agent Splat said:
Aleast I should be able to take out the Vaio's hard drive and slap it into an enclosure so I can get a portable external drive out of the loss.
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That's what I did with my bf's laptop. An extra 120G is nice when you only have 30G in your laptop.
 
My vaio hard drive is around here somewhere, in an external case. Good times.
 
ecca58 said:
I also wanted to install a computer game in the past, but my computer couldn't handle it. I wonder what game it was? Maybe Grand Theft Auto???
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I don't think GTA was ever released for the PC, but I could be wrong. You will want a fairly new computer for any newer computer games, and that's the other realm that PCs are good for - upgrading. I had to get a new video card for mine in order to play CoD4.
 
I've played WoW on my Mac laptop... you just have to be creative with free space.
 
Xandie said:
I've played WoW on my Mac laptop... you just have to be creative with free space.
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Man, if I start playing WoW, I will definitely fail out of med school. 😀
 
I played until this summer... quit because my friends quit, not because of school. Lord knows fourth year would NOT be the time to worry about studying all of the sudden.

It's one of the cheapest forms of entertainment there is, I give it that. Addicting too, but hey, worse things have happened.
 
Ashers said:
I thought I'd fail out of med school once I got a Wii. However, I haven't even had time to think about playing it for about a month.
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I could play it for you.
 
Ashers said:
I thought I'd fail out of med school once I got a Wii. However, I haven't even had time to think about playing it for about a month.
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Relative to the class averages, I did better once I started playing CoD4 than I did before.
 
Ooooh, I love playing Mario Party on the Wii. Boo is the best character!!! Zelda was also very fun, though it felt extremely long as a game.

Anyway, I'm going to get off subject. So, on SDN a couple days ago, I read about people talking about how great this one book was: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande. I've actually never read it (or heard of it) so I went out to a nearby Borders and bought it. It's only been a day of reading, but I'm already half way done. It's a good read. So, I was wondering if there were any leisure readings that you guys could recommend? It doesn't necessarily have to be medicine-related. It's just that I wanted to start reading again since I've been neglecting literature for a while.
 
He wrote another book, called Better. That's good as well--my Dad stole it and won't give it back.

Also, read for fun. I enjoy The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I like anything by George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Willa Cather, etc. (Yes, you just asked someone with a BA in English about reading. Watch out.) Also Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein, The Road by Cormac McCarthy... I could go on all day.
 
Xandie said:
He wrote another book, called Better. That's good as well--my Dad stole it and won't give it back.

Also, read for fun. I enjoy The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I like anything by George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Willa Cather, etc. (Yes, you just asked someone with a BA in English about reading. Watch out.) Also Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein, The Road by Cormac McCarthy... I could go on all day.
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Is The Lovely Bones about a murder mystery from the victim's point of view? Or am I thinking of a different book?
 
ecca58 said:
Ooooh, I love playing Mario Party on the Wii. Boo is the best character!!! Zelda was also very fun, though it felt extremely long as a game.

Anyway, I'm going to get off subject. So, on SDN a couple days ago, I read about people talking about how great this one book was: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande. I've actually never read it (or heard of it) so I went out to a nearby Borders and bought it. It's only been a day of reading, but I'm already half way done. It's a good read. So, I was wondering if there were any leisure readings that you guys could recommend? It doesn't necessarily have to be medicine-related. It's just that I wanted to start reading again since I've been neglecting literature for a while.
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I just finished Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance in the airports on the interview trail. Not exactly what I'd call a leisure reading though.
 
Oh, and before anyone jumps on me, I was taught only to underline book titles when writing them out in longhand and italicize them when typing. Maybe our English major can correct me.
 
ecca58 said:
Is The Lovely Bones about a murder mystery from the victim's point of view? Or am I thinking of a different book?
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Yes!! I loved that book. Very different. Peter Jackson (LOTR) is directing a film version of it 🙂... ok I know that makes me sound like a huge book/movie dork.... which I am. hehehe

I'd also recommend Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl and a medicine-related book called Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grimm. If you haven't read His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman ("kid's" series) it's a nice long read! In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick is a really cool book about a real event back in the day when they used to hunt sperm whales off the Nantucket coast.

Any body have suggestions of a good book for when you are traveling?! I'm going to Europe in 2 weeks!!! And am looking for a good long read for the plane/trains.....
 
yeasterbunny said:
Oh, and before anyone jumps on me, I was taught only to underline book titles when writing them out in longhand and italicize them when typing. Maybe our English major can correct me.
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I actually concur with you, and any further underlining of book titles on this thread or any other will ensure my wrath.
 
Agent Splat said:
I actually concur with you, and any further underlining of book titles on this thread or any other will ensure my wrath.
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Perhaps you meant to say, "incur."

This is so much more fun than studying angina drugs! Not that I'm complaining. I love studying. And drugs. And med school. And snow. And flu.
 
Yes, Matt, you are correct. I was hand-coding my stuff and I'm also lazy. And I'm not scared of Marc's wrath.

It's not a murder mystery per se, since you know who did it from the very beginning. It's more looking at the aftermath on the family and such.
 
samenewme said:
Perhaps you meant to say, "incur."

This is so much more fun than studying angina drugs! Not that I'm complaining. I love studying. And drugs. And med school. And snow. And flu.
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no. i meant ensure. i felt it was more threatening in that it made consequences most certain.
 
Agent Splat said:
no. i meant ensure. i felt it was more threatening in that it made consequences most certain.
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I was messing with you. "Ensure" is definitely more threatening. My father won't touch the stuff.
 
samenewme said:
Perhaps you meant to say, "incur."

This is so much more fun than studying angina drugs! Not that I'm complaining. I love studying. And drugs. And med school. And snow. And flu.
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Nothing can beat the exciting examination of a man's genitals! I've got the male exam at 6:30. Seriously, 6:30? I usually volunteer at 6pm on Tuesdays, and I'd rather be there....
 
TheProwler said:
Nothing can beat the exciting examination of a man's genitals! I've got the male exam at 6:30. Seriously, 6:30? I usually volunteer at 6pm on Tuesdays, and I'd rather be there....
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They're having the patients come in at 6:30 in the morning so you can fondle his... oh wait, pm. Never mind.
 
I just got accepted today, which was a big surprise since I received a third interview. I am so ready to start school here!!!!🙂 I hope to see all of you at MCW in the Fall.
 
sunkid23 said:
I just got accepted today, which was a big surprise since I received a third interview. I am so ready to start school here!!!!🙂 I hope to see all of you at MCW in the Fall.
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See... they say at the interview that the 3rd one isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Congrats. As for seeing the M4s... I've only met 1 of the M1s this year that posts on here very seldomly.
 
I've met none of the M1s and only two M2s... but I'm mysterious.
 
samenewme said:
I was messing with you. "Ensure" is definitely more threatening. My father won't touch the stuff.
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I think I had lunch with you during my interview a month ago. Could that be?
 
Ooh, book talk, my favorite!! 🙂
I'm currently in the middle of a book called On Intelligence about a new theory of how the neocortex works and how we could make computers that "think."
And as for travel books I find a good Michener will keep you busy even through the very longest of long flights (but I'd stick to the one's named after a place since some of the others kind of suck).
 
When in the year does the snow start clearing and the cold weather start to diminish in Milwaukee?
 
ecca58 said:
Ooooh, I love playing Mario Party on the Wii. Boo is the best character!!! Zelda was also very fun, though it felt extremely long as a game. .
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i <3 mario party 🙂

but ever since i got guitar hero mario party has gotten no love from me

and apparently im the only nerd reading fantasy novels here? raymond feist anyone? 😀
 
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