Oklahoma - (Prospective) Class of 2010 part 01

[Amxcvbcv]

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[Non-TradTulsa]

If you'd rather, we could head back to our own discussion board and stop giving you all our helpful advice 😀

Oh, no-no-no-no - not that! I'm house-searching in OKC, trying to figure out what to do with my loans... don't leave us just as I slide into full-blown panic mode!!! This is all starting to become very real - the rubber is beginning to hit the road, ya know? You guys are now wise MS-II's and I feel like I need a beanie cap with a propeller! (With the stethoscope... very attractive).

 

[Amxcvbcv]

Oh, no-no-no-no - not that! I'm house-searching in OKC, trying to figure out what to do with my loans... don't leave us just as I slide into full-blown panic mode!!! This is all starting to become very real - the rubber is beginning to hit the road, ya know? You guys are now wise MS-II's and I feel like I need a beanie cap with a propeller! (With the stethoscope... very attractive).

Don't forget the white coat, to complete the ensemble.

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

You guys are now wise MS-II's

HAHA they think we're wise!!! I guess we ARE MS-II's... 😉

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

HAHA they think we're wise!!! I guess we ARE MS-II's... 😉

And you'll be an intern when I'm still a student, and a resident when I'm an intern, and a senior resident when I'm a junior resident. Might as well get things off on the right foot early with the appropriate deferential sucking-up, right?

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Okay, I was trying to think of something to post to bring some more future MSI spirit here, but I can't think of anything to say. Umm, is orientation a waste of time, or does it have some value? Are there any Aveda salons in Oklahoma City? Where's the ghetto (well, other than right around the school 🙂 )?

Don't feel compelled to answer if it's remotely inconvenient. I'm just being a postho. 😛

 

[oudoc08]

Okay, I was trying to think of something to post to bring some more future MSI spirit here, but I can't think of anything to say. Umm, is orientation a waste of time, or does it have some value? Are there any Aveda salons in Oklahoma City? Where's the ghetto (well, other than right around the school 🙂 )?

Don't feel compelled to answer if it's remotely inconvenient. I'm just being a postho. 😛

Orientation's actually a bit of fun. You get a nice charter bus trip to Tulsa to check out that campus, you get all those fun little items like ID cards, mailbox keys, Hippocrates passwords, mod assignments, and all those little tidbits that make you feel like you actually made it. Also, it's a bit ego boosting as you start hearing the "you should be proud; you worked your a$$ to get here, you're so smart, blah blah blah" stuff from docs and faculty, when just a few short months prior, you were an undergrad peon.

2. I don't know what Aveda is.
3. The ghetto is mainly around the school and just north of it. Downtown has really improved over the last 5 years or so. As a resident of OKC at the time the were talking about raising the sales tax to pay for downtown renovations, I was completely against it, figuring on yet another pie-in-the-sky project from the "tax your every dime" crowd, yet I now eat my words as Bricktown has really blossomed from the bum-infested dump I remember from my ambulance days here, to a prosperous warehouse-type district.

Other places in OKC to avoid, IMO, include much of the south side, as well as the areas around Broadway extension from OUHSC, north to around 122nd St. and definitely anywhere between I-235 and I-35 on the north side, unless you're a good shot, and don't mind sleeping in Kevlar.

 

[Amxcvbcv]

Orientation's actually a bit of fun. You get a nice charter bus trip to Tulsa to check out that campus, you get all those fun little items like ID cards, mailbox keys, Hippocrates passwords, mod assignments, and all those little tidbits that make you feel like you actually made it. Also, it's a bit ego boosting as you start hearing the "you should be proud; you worked your a$$ to get here, you're so smart, blah blah blah" stuff from docs and faculty, when just a few short months prior, you were an undergrad peon.

2. I don't know what Aveda is.
3. The ghetto is mainly around the school and just north of it. Downtown has really improved over the last 5 years or so. As a resident of OKC at the time the were talking about raising the sales tax to pay for downtown renovations, I was completely against it, figuring on yet another pie-in-the-sky project from the "tax your every dime" crowd, yet I now eat my words as Bricktown has really blossomed from the bum-infested dump I remember from my ambulance days here, to a prosperous warehouse-type district.

Other places in OKC to avoid, IMO, include much of the south side, as well as the areas around Broadway extension from OUHSC, north to around 122nd St. and definitely anywhere between I-235 and I-35 on the north side, unless you're a good shot, and don't mind sleeping in Kevlar.

They actually did away with the Tulsa excursion with our class, and some Tulsa faculty and MS3 and 4s actually come down and talked to us on Thursday. Apparently your class gave them a lot of negative feedback about the trip. 😛

 

[Antigunner]

Don't forget that you also get to experience the somewhat disturbing but supposedly helpful somehow anatomical donor luncheon! To be fair, I know some people from our class thought it was great, but my group's family didn't show up, so we just ate lunch and looked around at all the other people crying and laughing and telling stories and such.

P.S. exlaw, I know my wife has some Aveda stuff, but I don't know if she got it since we moved here or if it's left over from last year. She used to get it from her friend that ran a nice little all-natural salon place, but I don't know if she's found anywhere here that has it.

P.P.S. Is it gay that I know what Aveda is?

 

[DMBFan61]

Don't forget that you also get to experience the somewhat disturbing but supposedly helpful somehow anatomical donor luncheon! To be fair, I know some people from our class thought it was great, but my group's family didn't show up, so we just ate lunch and looked around at all the other people crying and laughing and telling stories and such.

P.S. exlaw, I know my wife has some Aveda stuff, but I don't know if she got it since we moved here or if it's left over from last year. She used to get it from her friend that ran a nice little all-natural salon place, but I don't know if she's found anywhere here that has it.

P.P.S. Is it gay that I know what Aveda is?

S.S. would be all over you for your Aveda knowledge!

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

Other places in OKC to avoid, IMO, include much of the south side, as well as the areas around Broadway extension from OUHSC, north to around 122nd St. and definitely anywhere between I-235 and I-35 on the north side, unless you're a good shot, and don't mind sleeping in Kevlar.

I'm about to sign a lease on a rather nice little modest house in a neighborhood called Musgrave-Pennington on NW 19th just west of Portland. Any comments? The feedback I'm getting from people up here who know the city tell me that I've picked about as safe a neighborhood as I'll find to be that close to school - I have decided to avoid the Broadway Extension commute at all costs since I tend to run late even on a good day. I nearly fell over when I looked at the Daily Oklahoman's crime statistics for that neighborhood but it felt very safe to me (albeit in daylight hours). I have a very mean-acting German Shepherd and am a pretty good shot, although as a medical student I would prefer to avoid the negative publicity that comes with the use of deadly force, justified or not.

As for salons, I'm getting used to the idea that I'm going to have to give-up my over-hyped, over-priced Tulsa salon (not Aveda, though) for a bowl and a pair of clippers on my new budget. I still haven't figured-out how I'm going to keep the gray covered - boot black, I suppose - although for me it's always kind of a race to see if a hair will turn white or just fall out <sigh>. I still think that student budgets were not created for older students who need maintenance to even look passable...

 

[want2beadoc]

Dog/shotgun is just about the best security system money can buy.

I just took the last final of my undergraduate career 🙂. This is the first time I've wanted a summer to pass quickly.

Another random question: Is there a text copy of the oath we take at the white coat ceremony somewhere?

 

[oudoc08]

They actually did away with the Tulsa excursion with our class, and some Tulsa faculty and MS3 and 4s actually come down and talked to us on Thursday. Apparently your class gave them a lot of negative feedback about the trip. 😛

Really? I liked it. They had a bunch of clinical skills stations set up for us over there. Knee injections, suture stuff, etc.
Also, we had a nice lunch, and the bus ride was a good chance to get to know some future students.

Maybe some people felt they were trying to sell the campus too hard?

Anyways, I guess I'm out of touch 🙂

 

[oudoc08]

P.P.S. Is it gay that I know what Aveda is?

Nope. You get a wife waiver. It's one of the nice things about being married.

 

[oudoc08]

I'm about to sign a lease on a rather nice little modest house in a neighborhood called Musgrave-Pennington on NW 19th just west of Portland. Any comments? The feedback I'm getting from people up here who know the city tell me that I've picked about as safe a neighborhood as I'll find to be that close to school - I have decided to avoid the Broadway Extension commute at all costs since I tend to run late even on a good day. I nearly fell over when I looked at the Daily Oklahoman's crime statistics for that neighborhood but it felt very safe to me (albeit in daylight hours). I have a very mean-acting German Shepherd and am a pretty good shot, although as a medical student I would prefer to avoid the negative publicity that comes with the use of deadly force, justified or not.

As for salons, I'm getting used to the idea that I'm going to have to give-up my over-hyped, over-priced Tulsa salon (not Aveda, though) for a bowl and a pair of clippers on my new budget. I still haven't figured-out how I'm going to keep the gray covered - boot black, I suppose - although for me it's always kind of a race to see if a hair will turn white or just fall out <sigh>. I still think that student budgets were not created for older students who need maintenance to even look passable...

I think you're fine over there. There's a few apt. complexes over a little west of that area (around McArthur, I think) that probably drive up the crime stats. And I think the publicity of justified, deadly force has semi-decent potential if you get SWAT-style "two center mass and one between the eyes." Then it turns into a quiet respect for your skills.

Shave that head. 😀

 

[oudoc08]

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[Antigunner]

S.S. would be all over you for your Aveda knowledge!

Kind of like he was all over you when we were setting up the big group picture on Tuesday?

 

[Doctor Bagel]

As for salons, I'm getting used to the idea that I'm going to have to give-up my over-hyped, over-priced Tulsa salon (not Aveda, though) for a bowl and a pair of clippers on my new budget. I still haven't figured-out how I'm going to keep the gray covered - boot black, I suppose - although for me it's always kind of a race to see if a hair will turn white or just fall out <sigh>. I still think that student budgets were not created for older students who need maintenance to even look passable...

Lol, being poor is going to suck. Not like I'm exactly wealthy now, but I'm dreading going back to having to worry about every cent I spend. Aveda salons are nice, though, because they give you a shoulder, hand and scalp massage when you get your hair cut, and their products smell so nice. I think you can count it as r&r (which all med students need, right?).

Antigunner, maybe you're just metrosexual. 😛

 

[huranch]

I guess I need to start looking for salons and a home as well...my family just called to let me know I got a pretty red envelope in the mail today 😍

My fingers + toes are crossed for everyone still waiting - I hope you hear soon.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I guess I need to start looking for salons and a home as well...my family just called to let me know I got a pretty red envelope in the mail today 😍

My fingers + toes are crossed for everyone still waiting - I hope you hear soon.

Yay!! A big congratulations to you!

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

I guess I need to start looking for salons and a home as well...my family just called to let me know I got a pretty red envelope in the mail today 😍

My fingers + toes are crossed for everyone still waiting - I hope you hear soon.

Congratulations, huranch! You'll be a great addition to our class. I'm looking forward to meeting you in person.

(Fingers are still crossed for Jwax, JohnnyOU, and the rest of our friends on the waitlist!)

 

[huranch]

Congratulations, huranch! QUOTE]


Thanks - I can't wait to meet all of you too!

 

[Jwax]

And you'll be an intern when I'm still a student, and a resident when I'm an intern, and a senior resident when I'm a junior resident. Might as well get things off on the right foot early with the appropriate deferential sucking-up, right?

Nice.

 

[Jwax]

I guess I need to start looking for salons and a home as well...my family just called to let me know I got a pretty red envelope in the mail today 😍

My fingers + toes are crossed for everyone still waiting - I hope you hear soon.

Much congrats!

Question to the recent additions to the MS-I class (those removed from the waitlist): are you in-state or oos? Gracias.

Question to anyone: would it be acceptable to call up the admissions office and ask how many people have been taken off of the in-state waitlist?

Thanks for the support non-trad. It is appreciated.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Much congrats!



Question to anyone: would it be acceptable to call up the admissions office and ask how many people have been taken off of the in-state waitlist?

I think it would be totally acceptable to call and ask that question. 🙂 Good luck!

 

[huranch]

Much congrats!

Question to the recent additions to the MS-I class (those removed from the waitlist): are you in-state or oos? Gracias.

Question to anyone: would it be acceptable to call up the admissions office and ask how many people have been taken off of the in-state waitlist?

Thanks for the support non-trad. It is appreciated.

I'm from the in-state list. 🙂

 

[oudoc08]

I'm from the in-state list. 🙂

CONGRATULATIONS!

You can officially consider yourself luckier than Chris from American Idol.

My wife is heartbroken. But at least Katharine's still on there. She's hot.

Sorry! Back to you! It's great to hear that the waitlist is moving for you guys.

Good luck Johnny and Jwax, and others...

 

[Reddink]

I think that since there is so much early movement on the waitlist, it is a good sign that they are going to take a lot more people off of it. Good luck to everybody still waiting.

Also, I asked earlier about some nearby apartments and somebody mentioned both the Aberdeen and Deep Deuce. I have put my name on a waitling list for both of them and I was just hoping somebody could compare those two complexes for me, mainly security wise. Also, where is the closest grocery store to those places? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

Also, where is the closest grocery store to those places?

I shouldn't answer because I'm not in the City yet - but, assuming I land on the NW side as close to school as practical/safe, I've already staked-out the WalMart Neighborhood Market at NW 23rd and Penn as my new grocery store. I know, I know - WalMart deserves some legitimate criticism, but - given my new budget - I'm off to WallyWorld. The Neighborhood Markets are clean, well-organized, quick, and dirt cheap. (the Neighborhood Market by my house in Tulsa has great produce, high-quality packaged meats, and friendly employees - it's been hard to find anything to complain about). I'm sure it's the best deal on Ramen Noodles in town (didn't they include coupons for Ramen Noodles with our financial aid letters?).

 

[DMBFan61]

Kind of like he was all over you when we were setting up the big group picture on Tuesday?

i cant be accountable for his desires

 

[oudoc08]

Happy 50th page!

By the way, has anybody noticed that this OU thread has by far the most views (apx. 24,000), and the 2nd most posts (apx. 1250) out of ANY other MD school thread on SDN!

We're beat in posts only by the University of Maryland, and it's only like 1350 to 1250. Most other schools only have a couple hundred posts if that.

On an interesting Harvard has only 1/6th the amount of posts, but is only a few thousand views behind us.

I guess nobody wants to talk at Harvard, but everybody else wants to see what they're saying.

We're #1 (and #2)!!!

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Happy 50th page!

By the way, has anybody noticed that this OU thread has by far the most views (apx. 24,000), and the 2nd most posts (apx. 1250) out of ANY other MD school thread on SDN!

We're beat in posts only by the University of Maryland, and it's only like 1350 to 1250. Most other schools only have a couple hundred posts if that.

On an interesting Harvard has only 1/6th the amount of posts, but is only a few thousand views behind us.

I guess nobody wants to talk at Harvard, but everybody else wants to see what they're saying.

We're #1 (and #2)!!!

'cause we rock!!! 😎 😛

 

[RachelD]

I guess I need to start looking for salons and a home as well...my family just called to let me know I got a pretty red envelope in the mail today 😍

My fingers + toes are crossed for everyone still waiting - I hope you hear soon.

Congratulations huranch!! 👍 See you in August!

Jwax, I'm also an Oklahoma resident, hope you hear something soon.

 

[Mr. Freeze]

I shouldn't answer because I'm not in the City yet - but, assuming I land on the NW side as close to school as practical/safe, I've already staked-out the WalMart Neighborhood Market at NW 23rd and Penn as my new grocery store. I know, I know - WalMart deserves some legitimate criticism, but - given my new budget - I'm off to WallyWorld. The Neighborhood Markets are clean, well-organized, quick, and dirt cheap. (the Neighborhood Market by my house in Tulsa has great produce, high-quality packaged meats, and friendly employees - it's been hard to find anything to complain about). I'm sure it's the best deal on Ramen Noodles in town (didn't they include coupons for Ramen Noodles with our financial aid letters?).

Crest Foods people,,,2 in MWC and one in Edmond somewhere. I work with cheap cheap bastards that pay their houses off in 5 years that drive from Payne County in their diesels once a month to Crest...so it has to be one of the cheaper grocery places.

Dog/shotgun is just about the best security system money can buy.

Preach it...I'm not waiting an hour for Brinks to call me and say someone broke into my house. I gave momma the official "Push this, Point there, Squeeze and Repeat" (TM) class complete with unannounced practical assessments. We live in a nice area (at least for 2 more weeks), and she still sleeps with a switchblade, her cell phone, and a half pound of lead in the pump. I turn all the lights on when I come home late...

There is an OU PA student doing her clinicals up here and she said she lived north of the school between 23rd and 36th. She said she never had a problem. I would tend to believe that is the exception rather than the rule...

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Okay, so it's official -- I'm going to OU. Those slackers at OHSU finally got around to telling me they don't want me. I'm glad it's over, and I'm happy to be going to OU, so it's all good. DH probably won't be so happy, though.

 

[RachelD]

Okay, so it's official -- I'm going to OU. Those slackers at OHSU finally got around to telling me they don't want me. I'm glad it's over, and I'm happy to be going to OU, so it's all good. DH probably won't be so happy, though.

Yea!! Great for us and too bad for them. I know OHSU would have been easier for you (tuition, moving etc). But, I believe things happen for a reason. Something great must be instore for you here in Oklahoma.
Can't wait to meet you! 🙂

 

[want2beadoc]

she still sleeps with a switchblade, her cell phone, and a half pound of lead in the pump.

*imagines a Kill Bill-esque scene* 🙂

Yeah, I have a feeling crime isn't so bad as long as precautions are taken to prevent it (lock the doors, don't run around with a $300 watch at night, get a dog, etc.). I just got a little too much Okie in me to give up my gun.

 

[akaz]

I am going to cornell. I am just looking for other native students. I haven't been able to find any. I thought I would try here. If you are out there, hey. I think there aren't any ibesides me going to NYC.

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

Okay, so it's official -- I'm going to OU. Those slackers at OHSU finally got around to telling me they don't want me. I'm glad it's over, and I'm happy to be going to OU, so it's all good. DH probably won't be so happy, though.

Well, exlawgrrl, I want to dance on the desk because you're going to be joining us - but I suppose a solemn, somber look would be more appropriate. Actually, those fools at OHSU don't know what they missed. Okay, now let the dancing begin!! We'll be nice to your other half and make him feel welcome.

As far as self-defense goes, I'm going to stick with something that fits into a nightstand drawer. Shotguns are great for people with limited experience or poor aim - but, honestly, you'd have to get new carpet, new drapes, re-paint the wall, probably have to fix a shattered window - what a mess for one lousy intruder. Plus, my German Shepherd would be firmly clamped to the intruder's backside, and I don't want to "pepper" my best friend!!

(If anyone from the Harvard thread is reading our posts, they've probably just concluded that the South is as strange as they thought it was... )

 

[akaz]

Or Cornell...just kidding. I am from the sticks. When I moved to Boston for grad school, I was the on in culture shock. It took some major getting used to. I learned to tough it out with the New Yorkers and got my ass kicked many times.

Well, exlawgrrl, I want to dance on the desk because you're going to be joining us - but I suppose a solemn, somber look would be more appropriate. Actually, those fools at OHSU don't know what they missed. Okay, now let the dancing begin!! We'll be nice to your other half and make him feel welcome.

As far as self-defense goes, I'm going to stick with something that fits into a nightstand drawer. Shotguns are great for people with little experience or poor aim - but, honestly, you'd have to get new carpet, new drapes, re-paint the wall, probably have to fix a shattered window - what a mess for one lousy intruder. Plus, my German Shepherd will be firmly clamped to the intruder's backside, and I don't want to "pepper" my best friend!!

(If anyone from the Harvard thread is reading our posts, they've probably concluded that the South is just as strange as they thought it was... )

 

[Non-TradTulsa]

Or Cornell...just kidding. I am from the sticks. When I moved to Boston for grad school, I was the on in culture shock. It took some major getting used to. I learned to tough it out with the New Yorkers and got my ass kicked many times.

Glad to have you visit, akaz. Oklahoma City is a nice place, but it probably has one or two sections that bear a striking resemblance to Hell's Kitchen. It's a concern for me because I have lived at the far outer end of Tulsa's Ken-and-Barbieland suburbs for so many years that I know nothing about urban living, although I try to appear to be not totally naive.

You would certainly be in good company here as a Native American. Like many (if not most) people that I know who are native to Oklahoma, I have a significant fraction of Native American blood - mine's Cherokee. But, again like many people I know, I'm not a tribal citizen. My people decided they'd had enough of the Trail of Tears in central Missouri and didn't make it to Oklahoma until long after the rolls had closed.

New York is very exciting but I can only take it in small doses. Boston, however, is a great city - I love the people and the feel of the city.

 

[oudoc08]

(If anyone from the Harvard thread is reading our posts, they've probably just concluded that the South is as strange as they thought it was... )

GET OFF MAH LAND!

 

[Jwax]

We should start talking about how much we love tornadic activity and severe thunderstorms, that'll get them Harvard kids .

Thanks for the responses guys. Glad to know that it is the 67? people on the in-state list that is moving, not the 13 on the o.o.s. list.

Either way, next fall I get to take cadavar (sp?) lab, whether it is in med school or OU.

Either way this whole thing turns out, I receive a B.A. tomorrow!!! 😀

I got my last round of hepatitis immunizations today. Ouch!!!!

 

[want2beadoc]

We should start talking about how much we love tornadic activity and severe thunderstorms, that'll get them Harvard kids.

I think we did a few pages back. We like our tornadoes, guns... what other things disturb northeasterners? 🙂

If I don't have my 3rd hep. B shot by the start of the first year they will still let me in, right? Should I call about this? I would hate to be put off a year.

 

[oudoc08]

what other things disturb northeasterners? 🙂

conservative values, republicans, the fact that indians don't really live in teepees here, being waved at by a stranger while driving and not giving the finger in return, being able to walk down the street at night without being mugged, the "red" vote, fried okra, poke salat, republicans, blackeyed peas on New Years, relatively low taxes, the fact that we can buy an 8,000 square foot mansion for what they give for a 1 bdrm walkup in lower manhattan, not having to put up with the Kennedy's, not having to worry as much about being blown up by Osama, cornbread and milk, shorts in December, Carrie Underwood, chiggers, "fixin'" as a verb, no subways, cow tipping, >1:1 ratio trucks to cars, 1/2 the gas tax that they're paying, validity given to the pro-life opinion, the right to keep most of what you make, chitlins (yuck), politeness as a rule, republicans, college football teams that don't suck, republicans, the fact that we don't have to worry about a cataclysmic tidal wave wiping us out, sweet tea, "ya'll", intolerance to illegal immigration, bacon grease, republicans, glass packs, Dukes of Hazzard, country music, "cow" dogs, our definition of "gun control" which basically means to hold it with both hands, republicans...

 

[Mr. Freeze]

conservative values, republicans, the fact that indians don't really live in teepees here, being waved at by a stranger while driving and not giving the finger in return, being able to walk down the street at night without being mugged, the "red" vote, fried okra, poke salat, republicans, blackeyed peas on New Years, relatively low taxes, the fact that we can buy an 8,000 square foot mansion for what they give for a 1 bdrm walkup in lower manhattan, not having to put up with the Kennedy's, not having to worry as much about being blown up by Osama, cornbread and milk, shorts in December, Carrie Underwood, chiggers, "fixin'" as a verb, no subways, cow tipping, >1:1 ratio trucks to cars, 1/2 the gas tax that they're paying, validity given to the pro-life opinion, the right to keep most of what you make, chitlins (yuck), politeness as a rule, republicans, college football teams that don't suck, republicans, the fact that we don't have to worry about a cataclysmic tidal wave wiping us out, sweet tea, "ya'll", intolerance to illegal immigration, bacon grease, republicans, glass packs, Dukes of Hazzard, country music, "cow" dogs, our definition of "gun control" which basically means to hold it with both hands, republicans...

I love this place...this says it all.

Okay, so it's official -- I'm going to OU.

 

[Amxcvbcv]

I think we did a few pages back. We like our tornadoes, guns... what other things disturb northeasterners? 🙂

If I don't have my 3rd hep. B shot by the start of the first year they will still let me in, right? Should I call about this? I would hate to be put off a year.

I went I don't know how many years between my second and third hepatitis shots. I got the third one last summer, and had a titer done a few weeks later, and my immunity was off the chart. 😛

 

[want2beadoc]

I like your list, oudoc08.

 

[oudoc08]

I like your list, oudoc08.

Thanks. Though I can't believe I forgot about:

anybody named "Bub", drunk tanks, towns that even they can't pronunciate with an Ivy league degree, the fact that fat guys in suits named Guido and Paulie, sorry I mean "Pwohlee" (say it out loud) are virtually nonexistent, section lines, grits, judges that don't pander to child molesters, bluegrass, neck bones, the confederate flag, the notion of "If your ass comes in my house uninvited, you and I'll probably be in the paper tomorrow", "My Other Car's a Monster Truck" and similar bumper adornments", Urban Cowboy, The Dixie Chicks (no wait, nevermind), a president who doesn't own a house in Nantucket, refried anything, "ain't", justifiable homicide, Piggly Wiggly, "Whoop Ass", domestic beer, "skiing" that involves a boat, Skoal, spankings of the child discipline type, fun, Varsity Blues, "the dummy at the NBME who OBVIOUSLY must be overlooking something. I mean those people can't even read and write much less go to medical school and pass boards.", large genitalia, tornados and their as of yet unexplained attraction to fat women in curlers and a too short moo-moo, tractors that costs more than their Saab, Nascar ANYTHING, polite restaurant hosts, "howdy", republicans, bermuda grass, "closed minded" people different than themselves (???), "onced or twiced a week", schools without lacrosse teams, cowboy hats, schools without metal detectors, bread with less than 7 grains, banjos, farmers with bluetooth headsets, no "BIG DIG", heterosexual cowboy movies...

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Orientation's actually a bit of fun. You get a nice charter bus trip to Tulsa to check out that campus, you get all those fun little items like ID cards, mailbox keys, Hippocrates passwords, mod assignments, and all those little tidbits that make you feel like you actually made it. Also, it's a bit ego boosting as you start hearing the "you should be proud; you worked your a$$ to get here, you're so smart, blah blah blah" stuff from docs and faculty, when just a few short months prior, you were an undergrad peon.

2. I don't know what Aveda is.
3. The ghetto is mainly around the school and just north of it. Downtown has really improved over the last 5 years or so. As a resident of OKC at the time the were talking about raising the sales tax to pay for downtown renovations, I was completely against it, figuring on yet another pie-in-the-sky project from the "tax your every dime" crowd, yet I now eat my words as Bricktown has really blossomed from the bum-infested dump I remember from my ambulance days here, to a prosperous warehouse-type district.

Other places in OKC to avoid, IMO, include much of the south side, as well as the areas around Broadway extension from OUHSC, north to around 122nd St. and definitely anywhere between I-235 and I-35 on the north side, unless you're a good shot, and don't mind sleeping in Kevlar.

Okay, I'm looking at the map that OU so kindly provided me and think I'm getting a good idea of areas to avoid. Sort of unrelated, but Midwest City is okay? For some reason, I always thought it was scary.

I'm going to OKC in early June and will have to find a place to live then. It seems like a lot of the big apartment complexes are in the NW (like 122nd & May). Would that be a hellish commute? I guess I should look at Moore, too, since dh might be taking classes at OU.

I'm also going to see if I can find anything in the Paseo or Heritage Hills area -- those both sound neat. All I can say again, though, is that renting in OKC appears to be dirt cheap.