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gypc, i just noticed your avatar is nu pogodi! i love it!! it's all i watched growing up. that and cheburashka, of course.
gypc, i just noticed your avatar is nu pogodi! i love it!! it's all i watched growing up. that and cheburashka, of course.
snovum godum to you too. ya lainy, ny pagadi is great. feeling nostalgic? you can catch most episodes on youtube. just discovered that recently. where are you from btw?
no way, i'm definitely gonna check it out! i'm from upstate NY, you?
gypc, i just noticed your avatar is nu pogodi! i love it!! it's all i watched growing up. that and cheburashka, of course.
My parents went on a nostalgia kick recently and bought a bunch of DVD's of ny pogadi and cheburashka which we have all been watching. I love it, good stuff.
Hey, my husband came to college from Russia four years ago and when I showed him your aviator he went totally nostalgic too. We found the you tube clips and while I didn't get much out of it he loved it haha.
too funny, im guessing they got it on brighton?
Of course they did. Where else would they get it? They also have stuffed animals of cheburashka and I seriously wanted to get one, but I realized I would have nowhere to keep it 🙁 Which way do you spell Nu Pagodi on youtube to see the clips? I'm not sure how you would spell it on an American keyboard.
is anyone currently in or planning on doing DO/MBA?
Of course they did. Where else would they get it? They also have stuffed animals of cheburashka and I seriously wanted to get one, but I realized I would have nowhere to keep it 🙁 Which way do you spell Nu Pagodi on youtube to see the clips? I'm not sure how you would spell it on an American keyboard.
my friend's boyfriend bought her that cheburashka for her birthday, and ever since i've really wanted one. they are so cute!!
looks like we have a nice russian crowd at nycom, i love it!
Speaking of Russian crowd, I just came back from a Russian restaurant for my sister's birthday. It was hilarious, especially because a lot of Americans came to the party and tey had no clue what was going on. The singers dressed up in these crazy costumes, sang English songs with a really bad accent (Mambo #5 with a Russian accent anyone?) and kept the Vodka flowing. I haven't gone to one of those in a while, it was such a trip. Maybe before the summer ends we should have a NYCOM get together at one of those Russian restaurants.
did you go to national by any chance?
Yea I did. Were you there too? It was fun though, I love seeing the looks on the American's faces.
I mean Fafsa
Trying to keep the thread alive!
Has anyone started to fill this out yet...any 2010ers have any advice? Unfortunately, I have 2 w-2s and 1 1099 this year and have yet to get any of them to file my taxes.
Is earlier better even if you are missing info?
Thanks
wow you're starting early! i am still waiting to hear back on a few schools, so i'm gonna start all that stuff once i'm 100% certain on where i'll go.
Hey, I'm a 2010 who was board and decided to scan the webboard and see if the 2011 board was up yet. Congratulations to everyone who got in.
Answering the question about classes starting...We had orientation on august 21 and classes started on august 22nd. They got us up to speed very quickly, almost too quickly it seemed. Take it serious from that first day of class. The worst thing you can do at NYCOM is fall behind. If you do a little bit of work every day you won't ever feel really bogged down except for maybe the weekend before a test. If you relax and fall a bit behind you'll feel bogged down and feel like you'll never catch up.
For the most part the school runs pretty smoothly with the exception of a few late powerpoints and a couple of not so excellent lecturers. Most of the faculty is very nice and available for help whether you need it. Also, streaming is the greatest thing ever (although the school is trying to somehow do away with it to an extent because more people are streaming than going to class.) Streaming allows you to (re)watch confusing lectures and pause, slow down or even speed up a few lecturers who talk like Ben Stein. If you've gotten into NYCOM, be proud of yourselves. As long as you work hard it means you'll become doctors. Enjoy the rest of this year though since it's really the last time you'll be free for a very long time.
thanks for the honest feedback. it's good to have an idea of what i'm getting myself into! by the way, are your summers free at all? do most people stay in NY and work, or can you at least take a month to relax/travel, etc?
Getting a place by yourself is not recommended if you're going to be living on loans. It's very expensive out here. In decent neighborhoods for a 1BR, you can prolly expect to pay around $850-1100; 2BR prolly about $1400-2k; 3 BR $1650 - 2700. These don't include utils. You should start looking early; I'd recommend around May. If you wait till August, only lousy apartments will be left. Places may be posted early; especially if they're rented by students, b/c they have probably informed the landlord in advance they are moving out. Use craig list; plus NYCOM will give you info on places.I was wondering if any of the 2010ers could tell me how much I can expect to pay for housing if i opted to live by myself? As for apartment searching, I was looking at the area just to see if i could get a feel of some of the prices and what not around the school but couldn't find too many places. Will more apartments open up closer to the beginning of the school year? And when do you suggest we start looking for housing? I'd appreciate for anything you guys could tell me. Thanks!
can any current students tell us of the changes we might be expecting (curriculum, rotations, etc.)? btw, did the new gym open up yet and if it did, how is it?
In terms of other changes...
They are apparently going to drop the retest policy. This is going to be a dramatic change if it goes through for a number of reasons.
Right now if you fail a test you can take a retest one week later. If you fail that you must make up the thread over the summer.
Now, the idea of not being able to retake a test drops a big comfort zone but hopefully you don't fail any tests and if you work hard enough you really should be able to do enough to pass. There are 3 big possible problems though with the possible new system.
1. If for some reason you are very sick or just can't make it to the test...does that mean you'll have to retake the thread over the summer? That's just not very fair if that's the case.
2. They may be starting to test more frequently (like every monday or every other monday). This means that maybe they'll average all of the tests together for a thread to see if you passed. The one big problem with that is actually a bigger problem for 2nd year students because it will give you less leeway to study for the boards.
3. Currently, if you fail a practical examination you have to retake the practical exam. They're not sure what they would do with the supposed new policy regarding this but it would be extremely disappointing in my opinion to do well on the written exam and then fail an OMM practical because you misdiagnosed a dysfunction in someone. Some of the OMM practicals are unfair as is because some students have more obvious dysfunctions to diagnose than others so a lot of it depends on who you have to diagnose. If you are very good with your OMM stuff it shouldn't be a problem but you can know it well and still misdiagnose someone.
Anyway, we're still not sure exactly what the school is going to be doing with the new retesting policy. I expect the curriculum though is going to be much the same in the sense that it's going to be systems based. I really like the systems based thread so far except for the fact that we've had very little histology at the present time.
We started off with fundamentals (this thread should be somewhat revised). Then we did musculoskeletal (in my opinion it was an excellently run thread). Now we're in the middle of nervous system and behavior which includes psychiatry lectures. This is split into 3 parts and when we're done with the 3rd part in March we do Immunology/hematology. Then we finish off the year with integumentary system.
Hope that helps.
You guys started with fundamentals of what? What did you study when you first started ( I mean first semester)?
2. They may be starting to test more frequently (like every monday or every other monday). This means that maybe they'll average all of the tests together for a thread to see if you passed. The one big problem with that is actually a bigger problem for 2nd year students because it will give you less leeway to study for the boards.
BOGUS! I feel like tests always come soon anyway. Taking an exam every 2 weeks will leave us no time to study for boards, and we'll constantly be stressed. BOO. When waiting until the summer to retake a course, you will have to re-learn everything again, as oppossed to a week later when the information is still fresh in your mind.In terms of other changes...
They are apparently going to drop the retest policy. This is going to be a dramatic change if it goes through for a number of reasons.
Right now if you fail a test you can take a retest one week later. If you fail that you must make up the thread over the summer.
Now, the idea of not being able to retake a test drops a big comfort zone but hopefully you don't fail any tests and if you work hard enough you really should be able to do enough to pass. There are 3 big possible problems though with the possible new system.
1. If for some reason you are very sick or just can't make it to the test...does that mean you'll have to retake the thread over the summer? That's just not very fair if that's the case.
2. They may be starting to test more frequently (like every monday or every other monday). This means that maybe they'll average all of the tests together for a thread to see if you passed. The one big problem with that is actually a bigger problem for 2nd year students because it will give you less leeway to study for the boards.
3. Currently, if you fail a practical examination you have to retake the practical exam. They're not sure what they would do with the supposed new policy regarding this but it would be extremely disappointing in my opinion to do well on the written exam and then fail an OMM practical because you misdiagnosed a dysfunction in someone. Some of the OMM practicals are unfair as is because some students have more obvious dysfunctions to diagnose than others so a lot of it depends on who you have to diagnose. If you are very good with your OMM stuff it shouldn't be a problem but you can know it well and still misdiagnose someone.
Anyway, we're still not sure exactly what the school is going to be doing with the new retesting policy. I expect the curriculum though is going to be much the same in the sense that it's going to be systems based. I really like the systems based thread so far except for the fact that we've had very little histology at the present time.
We started off with fundamentals (this thread should be somewhat revised). Then we did musculoskeletal (in my opinion it was an excellently run thread). Now we're in the middle of nervous system and behavior which includes psychiatry lectures. This is split into 3 parts and when we're done with the 3rd part in March we do Immunology/hematology. Then we finish off the year with integumentary system.
Hope that helps.
Amen to that! What is wrong with teaching for the boards, considering our board scores weigh heavily in determining what residency we can acquire? AZCOM teaches for the boards and I think they have something like a 95% first time step 1 pass rate. It is so annoying that they have to say that disclaimer everytime before they talk about boards, "The Dean doesn't want me to talk about boards, but...[insert boards info here]."I'm not a fan of frequent exams/quizzes. I like Plasticman's idea. I don't know why they think that eliminating retakes and increasing the frequency of exams will make us better students.
If there are concerns about board scores then how about making exams more board relevant and allowing professors to say the "B" word during their letures. lol!