Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

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Does Acme make opthalmoscopes? I really feel like spending 500 dollars for next week's cer nonsense...I really, really do.
 
indo said:
Does Acme make opthalmoscopes? I really feel like spending 500 dollars for next week's cer nonsense...I really, really do.
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There are a few Acme-like sets on E-Bay and if no one in my group has a set (I forgot to ask today) I will probably pony up less than $100 so we can nominally have the required equipment so we can say we brought it to the exam.
 
I believe that I should get extra credit in life and some sort of handicap on exams secondary to this:
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That's a real picture, from a real street, in the neighborhood I grew up in for a school in my school district. They're repainting it today. But honestly, shouldn't that be worth a 20 point bump on exams? I think so.
I'm sure I've posted this before, but this is along those same lines:
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That is from my sister's wedding.
 
Also, since I have clearly appropriated this thread for my own uses...

I got my first interview today. Hoo-frickin-rah!
 
Xandie said:
I'm sure I've posted this before, but this is along those same lines:
pwt.jpg

That is from my sister's wedding.
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That should say "Park. Ya hear?"
 
Ashers said:
YAY! Where?

And I totally think they should leave the street paint as "shcool." Is the area filled with people who have lisps?
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York Hospital in York, PA.

And no special lisp proclivity that I remember, no. 🙂
 
Yay Xandie! Cuteness always triumphs.


Also: I discovered that there is apparently a White Castle in Kenosha. Who's with me?
 
Agent Splat said:
Yay Xandie! Cuteness always triumphs.


Also: I discovered that there is apparently a White Castle in Kenosha. Who's with me?
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You mean, like go to Kenosha ON PURPOSE just to eat one of those little square cardboard oniony miniburgery thingies?
 
Agent Splat said:
Yay Xandie! Cuteness always triumphs.


Also: I discovered that there is apparently a White Castle in Kenosha. Who's with me?
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Ya know, I've never actually been to a White Castle. Apparently my great grandpa loved White Castle. I guess everytime he went to Minneapolis to see my great aunt and uncle they took him for a sack of 10.


Congrats Xandie!!!


BTW, I haven't posted because I'm adjusting to surgery life. Nothing like getting up at 4am at the latest. I do like how I got to go home at 3:30 yesterday and 10:30am today though. Weekends are awesome.
 
akpete said:
BTW, I haven't posted because I'm adjusting to surgery life. Nothing like getting up at 4am at the latest. I do like how I got to go home at 3:30 yesterday and 10:30am today though. Weekends are awesome.
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Wow, that's even worse than OB/gyn. I get up at 4am routinely, but that's also the earliest.
 
Xandie said:
York Hospital in York, PA.

And no special lisp proclivity that I remember, no. 🙂
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the lecturer giving our immunopath lectures can lisp any word in the dictionary. I didn't go to them, but I heard some of it online.
 
Agent Splat said:
Yay Xandie! Cuteness always triumphs.


Also: I discovered that there is apparently a White Castle in Kenosha. Who's with me?
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I stopped in there once and their sliders are the worst burgers I've ever had.
 
So for the last 2 days during the Local on the 8s, the Weather Channel is playing funk as the background myoozak.

It'd be awesome if they started playing an instrumental version of Jungle Boogie (like my high school marching band played -- the trumpet part rawked).
 
Agent Splat said:
Yay Xandie! Cuteness always triumphs.


Also: I discovered that there is apparently a White Castle in Kenosha. Who's with me?
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samenewme said:
You mean, like go to Kenosha ON PURPOSE just to eat one of those little square cardboard oniony miniburgery thingies?
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I go to Kenosha on purpose every day, and have been known to frequent the White Castle here.
 
donnyfire said:
I go to Kenosha on purpose every day, and have been known to frequent the White Castle here.
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Hasn't Xandie called it Kenowhere before?

I've never actually stopped in Kenosha ever before. And I'm pretty sure that there was a White Castle in Orange, CA in the early 80s. I don't remember liking their burgers, but I don't like many burgers except for In-N-Out and Wendy's.

Oh, and totally off topic... how do we choose family medicine locations? That is, if we choose them. I've heard Racine in the place to be for it.
 
You can email Karen Yeek if you have a preference, or she'll assign you by what's closest to your house (i.e. Don should have been somewhere down south, per his living arrangements).

And, for the question that's on everyone's mind: April, is David on surgery with you? I have heard mixed reports about whether he's repeating surgery. Inquiring minds want to know.
 
donnyfire said:
I go to Kenosha on purpose every day, and have been known to frequent the White Castle here.
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Well, maybe they're better now. In the 70's, White Castles had some pretty nasty burgers.
 
Xandie said:
You can email Karen Yeek if you have a preference, or she'll assign you by what's closest to your house (i.e. Don should have been somewhere down south, per his living arrangements).

And, for the question that's on everyone's mind: April, is David on surgery with you? I have heard mixed reports about whether he's repeating surgery. Inquiring minds want to know.
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I was in Racine for Family. It was pretty sweet.

Also, I've heard that David will not be graduating with our class, but with the c/o 2009.

Can anyone clarify?
 
samenewme said:
Well, maybe they're better now. In the 70's, White Castles had some pretty nasty burgers.
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Don't think that I eat them because they are good burgers. They're the sort of thing you get at about 3am when you're not thinking clearly, and as a result, I've developed a taste for them.
 
Not thinking clearly, aka high as a kite per Harold and Kumar.
 
donnyfire said:
Don't think that I eat them because they are good burgers. They're the sort of thing you get at about 3am when you're not thinking clearly, and as a result, I've developed a taste for them.
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Ooooohhh... that kinda food.

In Germany I went for brats with curry mustard. In England it was greasy fried chicken or dodgy Chinese noodles.
 
I don't recall seeing David at our surgery orientation last week. Let me check the schedule ...

Nope, he's not listed.

We're rounding at 5:30 am. And I have to pre-round. Which means I need to wake up at like 3:30am. Crap.
 
Hmm. First person to post a David sighting gets a cookie.
 
How did the first micro exam go last year? 🙂
 
indo said:
How did the first micro exam go last year? 🙂
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easy. was my best one, but I also had an undergrad immunology class and studied my butt off for that one compared to the others.
 
Xandie said:
Hmm. First person to post a David sighting gets a cookie.
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Word on the street (from another 4th year) has it he'll be rejoining the 3rd year medicine rotation in January. That's all second or thirdhand info, though. I heard he once tried to bend down and tie his attending's shoe for him on rounds.

donnyfire said:
I go to Kenosha on purpose every day, and have been known to frequent the White Castle here.
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Kenosha is awesome because they have a sweet Woodman's. Their liquor section is like a giant candy store for adults...except with booze.
 
Gimlet said:
Kenosha is awesome because they have a sweet Woodman's. Their liquor section is like a giant candy store for adults...except with booze.
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Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.



I've been to that Woodman's, but it was in the late 90s, and it was the day after I first kissed a girl. :laugh: 😍
 
indo said:
How did the first micro exam go last year? 🙂
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Easy. However, I took a grad level immuno class, did my honors thesis on immuno stuff, and I didn't really study too much for the micro test -- aside from teaching immuno to one of my friends. I spent most of my time studying for path (which is why I started above average before they tampered with the scores).
 
TheProwler said:
Any word from someone who hadn't taken immuno before?
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I hadn't taken it before. I High Passed the first test (and the class). I had read the whole immuno book for the test, but didn't do a ton of preparing beyond that. Prolly coulda honored it if I had done a little more interactive studying.
 
TheProwler said:
Any word from someone who hadn't taken immuno before?
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Never took immuno before.

Read the recommended text (which I liked, btw), went to lecture, and read the coops.

Did just fine on the test with that prep.
 
I'm going to take this first exam as seriously as I can. How about the first path exam? It's been about inflammation, tissue repair, immunopathology, etc etc etc etc etc. You get the idea etc. Our course director loves the word etc etc.
 
TheProwler said:
I'm going to take this first exam as seriously as I can. How about the first path exam? It's been about inflammation, tissue repair, immunopathology, etc etc etc etc etc. You get the idea etc. Our course director loves the word etc etc.
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Like, totally, whatever. Toxic megacolon, eww gross! (Oh wait, that's block 5).

Um yeah. So the first path exam. I started with an 86 -- average 64 (high score 88). After grade tampering, I ended with a 91, average 93. Guess who wasn't happy to change in relation to the average.

That whole exam was a fiasco.

Wanna know about the first psych test too? That was the only psych test that I did better than average.
 
Gimlet said:
Word on the street (from another 4th year) has it he'll be rejoining the 3rd year medicine rotation in January. That's all second or thirdhand info, though. I heard he once tried to bend down and tie his attending's shoe for him on rounds.
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Odd. I know he began the medicine rotation with us in July, but come to think of it, I didn't see him at the shelf at all. But I really wasn't paying attention either. He never showed up for lecture, except once, and he sat in the corner and slept thru the whole thing. I know he was supposed to have been outpatient medicine in July and at St Lukes in August.
 
TheProwler said:
Our first team-based learning session in pathology was a huge success!
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Seriously? A success meaning you didn't want to stab yourself in the eye with a rusty spork?

I took my laptop to those and went on SDN. Unless I had to look up stuff, and I felt crappy because my ovary exploded. (We had one the day before my surgery. I really wanted Becker to shut up because I felt so bad.)
 
TheProwler said:
Our first team-based learning session in pathology was a huge success!
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Well, the first syllable applies.

Did you guys have the little individual and group quizzes in addition to the clinical scenarios and the little letter cards to hold up with the answer your group chose?

Did anyone besides me fail to interpretation the assignment to "read chapter 2" as "memorize every stinkin' detail in chapter 2?"
 
samenewme said:
Well, the first syllable applies.

Did you guys have the little individual and group quizzes in addition to the clinical scenarios and the little letter cards to hold up with the answer your group chose?

Did anyone besides me fail to interpretation the assignment to "read chapter 2" as "memorize every stinkin' detail in chapter 2?"
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See, I misread their guideline of "Read chapters 2 and 6" and thought it said "Read chapter 2." I still can't see the 6, but it must be there.
 
I got my first interview offer today!

Loyola University in Chicago.
 
samenewme said:
Well, the first syllable applies.

Did you guys have the little individual and group quizzes in addition to the clinical scenarios and the little letter cards to hold up with the answer your group chose?

Did anyone besides me fail to interpretation the assignment to "read chapter 2" as "memorize every stinkin' detail in chapter 2?"
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huh. that sounds like it sucks big time. they would ask us stuff about specimens in lab, but it was like a mild pimping session, no quiz or anything.

class of 2009, i think we got outta path just in time.
 
akpete said:
huh. that sounds like it sucks big time. they would ask us stuff about specimens in lab, but it was like a mild pimping session, no quiz or anything.

class of 2009, i think we got outta path just in time.
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Lucky. We had to interpret clinical pictures of conditions and pathologies that were not shown in the text or lecture, and hear about cases and choose from clinical procedures or tests that we had not heard of. But it's okay, because the whole TBL experience is only 15% of our grade, so it was explained to us that there's no need for us to be worried at all about missing 4/5 of the quiz questions. I guess we're all so smart that we won't need those points, as demonstrated by our losing them.

I don't think I'm smart enough to follow the logic.
 
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