Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
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I got to go to see my attending's alpacas (and llama and sheep) today!

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Ok, so FP in Racine is quite cool. Today we got to practice splinting (with no guidance). We were kinda just set loose in the stock room. Therefore, we didn't know how much water to put on OrthoGlass, and my splint was soaking wet. 😀 Good thing I have an actual casting class in ortho.
 
Ashers said:
I got to go to see my attending's alpacas (and llama and sheep) today!

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I never did make it to Dr. Hulbert's shearing party. Racine FP was ok but driving down every day was murder. Skipping all those lecures was nice, but I didn't do as well on the final as I would have liked.
 
Splat, I need to tell you a fable involving a boy and a wolf.
 
No alpacas. Even though alpacas are kosher and wolves are most definetely not.
 
achybrachy said:
I never did make it to Dr. Hulbert's shearing party. Racine FP was ok but driving down every day was murder. Skipping all those lecures was nice, but I didn't do as well on the final as I would have liked.
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A shearing party? I'm so jealous. I miss handspinning.
 
Ashers said:
If you go to Racine for FP you get invited to the shearing party. 😀

More importantly, hand spinning? Like when you turn the wool into yarn?
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Yep. I gave away my wheel years ago. I don't even have a drop spindle anymore. 🙁
 
Ashers said:
Oh wow. I bet you could buy one on Ebay, and my attending might sell you fiber. 😉 She said she has way too much.

Could you spin straw into gold too?
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It is quite possible I COULD buy a functional wheel on Ebay. And then I would flunk out of med school. Spinning is very very very hypnotic. It's how we wasted time in the pioneer days before there was teh Internets.

Mmm...spinning.

I've never spun alpaca or llama. It's supposed to be VERY nice and I seem to recall it's quite expensive.
 
samenewme said:
It is quite possible I COULD buy a functional wheel on Ebay. And then I would flunk out of med school. Spinning is very very very hypnotic. It's how we wasted time in the pioneer days before there was teh Internets.
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I don't really remember the pre-Internet days....I've had it pretty much since around '97.
 
TheProwler said:
I don't really remember the pre-Internet days....I've had it pretty much since around '97.
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I remember having to use it in 8th grade (1994) to research stuff for my science class. I think my dad had Compuserve at the time, but I didn't know how to use anything more than Yahoo! for searches until right before my senior year in high school. That's when I finally figured out how to email. Then my work ethic quickly declined.
 
Ashers said:
If you go to Racine for FP you get invited to the shearing party. 😀

More importantly, hand spinning? Like when you turn the wool into yarn?
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Most people are not too thrilled to go to Racine because of the whole 45 min drive each way every day. I bet if you asked to go they would be thrilled to let you.
 
I had AOL when I was in 4th grade, I have very clear memories of it. That's why my name is "Xandie" on AOL... we were there at the beginning. I was in 4th grade in 1991. Yes, I'm young, blah blah blah.
 
achybrachy said:
Most people are not too thrilled to go to Racine because of the whole 45 min drive each way every day. I bet if you asked to go they would be thrilled to let you.
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Meh... the only time I don't like it is the drive back home when it can take an hour. I don't mind driving down, but then, I like driving.

I was hoping to get Racine. One of my 07er friends told me it was a good place to be.

At the AMA Residency Fair, the resident and attending there, kept pulling me over to tell students about the Racine M3 rotation. Funk got to hear my schpiel.
 
TheProwler said:
I don't really remember the pre-Internet days....I've had it pretty much since around '97.
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When I was in high school, the school had ONE TRS-80 for students to use. After a year they upgraded it to 4K. You typed in programs in Basic and loaded them from a cassette player. We did for some reason have a copy of the game, Dungeon, which took about ten minutes to load from the tape. The monitor was a black-and-white TV. Our teacher splurged on a printer for himself. It was handheld and used thermal paper 2 1/2 inches wide.

In college, I took a programming class and you mostly had to do your programs on punch cards. There were only a few terminals with functions like backspacing and inserting and deleting lines and I used to sign up to use them at midnight because that's the only time they were free. You'd turn in your cards at the desk or save it from the terminal and turn in a request at the desk to run your program, and then they'd give you your paper printout later on that green and white computer paper.

The class was based on FORTRAN.
 
samenewme said:
When I was in high school, the school had ONE TRS-80 for students to use. After a year they upgraded it to 4K. You typed in programs in Basic and loaded them from a cassette player. We did for some reason have a copy of the game, Dungeon, which took about ten minutes to load from the tape. The monitor was a black-and-white TV. Our teacher splurged on a printer for himself. It was handheld and used thermal paper 2 1/2 inches wide.

In college, I took a programming class and you mostly had to do your programs on punch cards. There were only a few terminals with functions like backspacing and inserting and deleting lines and I used to sign up to use them at midnight because that's the only time they were free. You'd turn in your cards at the desk or save it from the terminal and turn in a request at the desk to run your program, and then they'd give you your paper printout later on that green and white computer paper.

The class was based on FORTRAN.
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What kind of programs could you write with FORTRAN? This sounds fairly interesting. Why did you take the class? My grandpa (the one who died at age 89 last year) was very involved with computers in the early days (i.e., before ANY of us were born, lol). He was one of the few guys who started the project that led to the Saber System - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system) - and he was at MIT getting his degree in engineering back when Richard Feynman was a student there. Hmmm, I just wondered for the first time if I could have gotten a "legacy" admission there.
 
Gimlet said:
I had a problem kind of like that last year. $600 and a one new rear differential later, and I had no more sound. Mine only made a sound if I was coasting above 65 mph, though, and got worse as I went faster.

LOL, "rear differential" sounds like something a gastroenterologist would do.
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So it turned out to be the front wheel bearings - both of them. $500 later, for the wheel bearings, the sound is gone. And another $550 for the timing belt and water pump that should've been replaced a while ago. And another $150 for the engine mount, and another $50 for some drive belts. Throw in some tax, and $1,357 later, I REALLY hope my car doesn't need any more repairs. Spark plugs are gonna have to wait a bit...
 
TheProwler said:
So it turned out to be the front wheel bearings - both of them. $500 later, for the wheel bearings, the sound is gone. And another $550 for the timing belt and water pump that should've been replaced a while ago. And another $150 for the engine mount, and another $50 for some drive belts. Throw in some tax, and $1,357 later, I REALLY hope my car doesn't need any more repairs. Spark plugs are gonna have to wait a bit...
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Bummer, Prowler. We just had to buy new tires for my wife's care, so I feel for you.

Ashers, do I need to bother requesting Racine for FP? Mike W. said that he was just automatically assigned there because he lives down south in Oak Creek, but I don't want to miss out on it if a bunch of northerners on my track request the location.
 
We had Prodigy back in the day for internet service...I guess my Dad was bucking the whole AOL trend. Before we had access to things like actual webpages, I was really into the message boards hosted on Prodigy (especiallly the Star Trek-dedicated one since I was a huge Trekkie back in middle school), which were basically like the precursors of today's internet forums like SDN. I guess I was programmed to be an SDN addict all along.

My very first memory of using the internet in a more webpage-based format like we do now is of going to Playboy's website in 7th or 8th grade. I got there by typing the address in the "run" command box in Windows, and didn't realize it saved all the addresses. My dad saw it later and gave me a stern talking-to.
 
Gimlet said:
My very first memory of using the internet in a more webpage-based format like we do now is of going to Playboy's website in 7th or 8th grade. I got there by typing the address in the "run" command box in Windows, and didn't realize it saved all the addresses. My dad saw it later and gave me a stern talking-to.
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did it take 12 minutes to load an image?
 
Gimlet said:
Bummer, Prowler. We just had to buy new tires for my wife's care, so I feel for you.

Ashers, do I need to bother requesting Racine for FP? Mike W. said that he was just automatically assigned there because he lives down south in Oak Creek, but I don't want to miss out on it if a bunch of northerners on my track request the location.
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Mike and I have both just been assuming that you'll get it. If you want to make sure, you can email Karren Yeek.

It's also been a reasonable assumption that everyone from the Reserve goes. There's another person going next month.

Edit: So if our assumptions are correct, you'll be in Racine with Lisa. Have fun with that.
 
Gimlet (and anyone else who might be interested in going to Racine for FP)

I talked to Karren Yeek today, she said if you want to go to Racine, she prefers to get requests. She said email or call her to let her know. So, I'd do that if I were you. =)
 
I don't think we had internet in school until I was in high school.

My family didn't have a computer at home until I was in 10th grade (1997). We were poor I guess.

Though I do have fond memories of typing in one font on my grandma's Tandy from the early 80s.
 
I'm voluntarily staying overnight on call at the VA. I'm so freaking bored. Except that I have a wonderful SMS here to keep me busy. We're turning this place into a monkey house.
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Ashers said:
Is that so you don't have to leave then come back?
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that's a good chunk of it. plus I've always loved overnight call type situations. makes me feel like I'm camping. the best stuff always happens at night.
 
Agent Splat said:
I'm voluntarily staying overnight on call at the VA. I'm so freaking bored. Except that I have a wonderful SMS here to keep me busy. We're turning this place into a monkey house.
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Sounds to me like someone wants an excuse not to study for the shelf all day Sunday. Boo hiss.
 
TheProwler said:
how much of your grade comes from the shelf? and how hard is the shelf compared to a path exam or something of that sort?
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it's as hard or harder than a path exam plus you don't have any time to study for it.
 
Speaking of that wonderful SMS, tell Derrick I said hi. Although I think I'll see him tomorrow, so nevermind.
 
Agent Splat said:
it's as hard or harder than a path exam plus you don't have any time to study for it.
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Yeah, but after the first couple shelf exams, they get easier. Not the material, but you just get used to them. Plus, you sort of learn what lab values are normal, and what aren't, which makes it easier to get through the question.
 
Ashers said:
That's not a bad score actually.

My psych shelf grade was lower than my M1 psych grade, and I honored it. They have decent curves.
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Ouch. With your powers in psychiatry, would you say this guy has gender issues? or just "ahead of the fashion curve"?

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TheProwler said:
Ouch. With your powers in psychiatry, would you say this guy has gender issues? or just "ahead of the fashion curve"?

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What do you mean, "Ahead"? He looks like David Bowie in Labyrinth.
 
Ashers said:
Ahh... it was the equivalent of a year ago today, then, that I came up my "Bacteria? Don't exist." tag. All because of my frustration with micro.
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I'm actually not frustrated with micro. That exam went pretty well...
 
TheProwler said:
Ouch. With your powers in psychiatry, would you say this guy has gender issues? or just "ahead of the fashion curve"?

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Anime has taken a huge step towards photorealism in recent years, hasn't it?
 
I had the most random compliment ever today, a patient told me I'm "gifted" at doing paps.

Another patient told me I was "super" with her bouncy child. I liked that one more than the gifted at paps.

I'm kinda sad to be done with family, now I have to start waking up early again. Blarg.
 
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