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Guero said:
Totally random, but as I listened to a song similar in beat to the Harlem Shake and saw someone mention pornography in another thread, I suddenly wondered if someone's already made a XXX Harlem shake? :laugh: Oh how fast things spread (get your mind out of the gutter, no pun intended).
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How is that a pun?
 
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NickNaylor said:
Despite my love for coffee there's no way I would pay $20/lb for it. That's cray cray.
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It is expensive... but doing pour overs & using 20g/cup I get ~11cups. If I was to buy coffee downstairs it would be 11X1.50=16.50 (and not nearly as good). My SO just began to experiment with roasting coffee though... Coffee will be cheaper soon 🙂
 
NickNaylor said:
Compared to what? Lol. I'm hardly cultured enough to consider myself a coffee expert, but I'm pretty happy with my $11/lb Trader Joes or Archer Farms (Target brand).

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Those brands were familiar when I was in Texas.
 
dp. Sorry, sorry, sorry, I really friggin' hate Comcast. They are the worst.
 
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Do not attend Medical School for International Health!
Even thought the numbers show that MSIH may be as good as some state schools and its mission is very noble, the character of a medical school is manifested by how the faculty treats its students. If you speak to any current or past students, they can tell you exactly how they treat their students. Many students are reluctant to talk because any criticism is usually met very harshly with threats of failures and expulsion. In addition, the very policies of the school are not followed by the administrators.
Last November, Israel was involved in a war in which even more bombs fell on Beer-Sheba than normally. There were students who left Israel in order to get away from the bombs and upon return they were threatened with failing their courses. Another student wished to present a poster at a convention and she was threatened a failure of her course if she attended. Any other school would be thrilled for their students to represent them at a convention. Another student was threatened with failure for attending his mother's funeral during the school year. A student was also threatened with expulsion because another student slandered her on the post-course survey. The administrators had multiple meetings despite the fact that their own policies were not followed. In addition, if you are worried about where your money goes, the MISH tuition money recently paid for a new administrative office and study hall exclusively for the use of MSIH. However, MSIH students are completely precluded for studying there and the Israeli students are welcomed to enter. Also, the clocks in the exam rooms don't work half the time and the test proctors talk and answer their cellphones during the tests.
Any US medical school would not debase their students and aim for their failure. The administrators at MSIH do not want their students to succeed because they constantly threaten failure and if there is any true fault the administrators do not give any leeway. In medical school, the purpose is to study hard but MSIH administrators penalize you for studying and being at the top of your class and your classmates will ostracize you if you do study as much as an American medical student. The reason that the students of MSIH do not get any school policy fixed is that the administrators will fail the students if any criticism is brought up.
In summation, MSIH is a horrible school and the international medicine aspect can be learned much better at almost any other school. Only attend MSIH if you enjoy living in the Israeli desert with bombs falling on your head on a regular basis and if you want to be able to slander your own classmates in order to get them expelled. But they can also do this to you. Columbia University may not be aware of the administration's treatment of students but they should be much more mindful of the bedfellows they are involved with. Columbia is as much to blame as MSIH because they are helping to promote MSIH and I believe that no school should be promoting the denigration and ostracization of medical students. This is undue psychological pressure in addition to being in Israel away from your family and having bombs fall on you. I do not wish any of this hardship to befall other potential medical students because a good doctor is determined by how hard you can study and work and not on how much slander and psychological abuse a student can take.
 
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rachelkj said:
After a year of OChem, does anyone else watch this show & think "Dude, your synthesis sucks." ?
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Yeah, but it was the HF that made me stop watching. a) no you don't have that in your high school b) USE A BASE YOU IDIOT!!

And yes, after 2.5 years of orgo classes, including synthetic, I guess the other was also annoying...

Sent via phone, please excuse typos and formatting errors!
 
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