Qatar is a great city

[Gleevec]

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Often times, I have seen people take shots at Qatar while discussing the med school in Qatar, Cornell.

Something along the lines of,

"I think ______ is a great school but I don't know if I can put up with Qatar for 4 years. "

Now I will admit that Qatar doesn't have as much to offer as a city like NY, DC, SF, etc...

However I would strongly advise people to spend some time in Qatar before making any judgments about it. Qatar has some really great areas that are worth exploring. Besides the Qatar Harbor, Qatar has a wide variety of interesting neighborhoods such as Qatar Point, Qatar Hill, Qatarden, Qatarton, etc...

Above all things, DO NOT LET QATAR BE YOUR REASON FOR NOT COMING TO CORNELL!

Give it a chance, explore a little, and you will have a great time!

 

[flighterdoc]

Often times, I have seen people take shots at Qatar while discussing the med school in Qatar, Cornell.

Something along the lines of,

"I think ______ is a great school but I don't know if I can put up with Qatar for 4 years. "

Now I will admit that Qatar doesn't have as much to offer as a city like NY, DC, SF, etc...

However I would strongly advise people to spend some time in Qatar before making any judgments about it. Qatar has some really great areas that are worth exploring. Besides the Qatar Harbor, Qatar has a wide variety of interesting neighborhoods such as Qatar Point, Qatar Hill, Qatarden, Qatarton, etc...

Above all things, DO NOT LET QATAR BE YOUR REASON FOR NOT COMING TO CORNELL!

Give it a chance, explore a little, and you will have a great time!

I don't know if you'd have a great time, but I've been through most of the middle east and if I had to pick a place to spend 4 years (outside of Israel), it'd probably be Qatar. Not that that means much, but it's probably the least restrictive muslim country in the ME.

 

[NDESTRUKT]

However I would strongly advise people to spend some time in Qatar before making any judgments about it.

I agree with you in this statement - spending time in a place before judging it, but I think the difficulty lies in the fact that most people can't just dish out some dinero to visit Qatar for a week or two.

 

[Benjo]

Gleevec,
I get it (even if the previous two respondents don't).
The Baltimore post needed to be mocked--good work.

 

[greenie8]

Quatar is a country, not a city, sweetiepie.

 

[BananaSplit]

I think the city is Doha.

 

[medworm]

Above all things, DO NOT LET QATAR BE YOUR REASON FOR NOT COMING TO CORNELL!

Give it a chance, explore a little, and you will have a great time!

Excuse the ignorance. But what does Qatar have to do with Cornell? You mean Cornell in Ithaca, NY?

-Puzzled and too lazy to verify on the web.

 

[BananaSplit]

Excuse the ignorance. But what does Qatar have to do with Cornell? You mean Cornell in Ithaca, NY?

-Puzzled and too lazy to verify on the web.

Cornell runs a med school in Qatar, you graduate with a Cornell degree.

 

[patzan]

I'm also sick of people ragging on Tikrit. I want to start up an imports/exports business there, but everyone keeps saying it's a rough neighborhood. I don't think they should judge Tikrit unless they've been there.

 

[Wardens]

grenie8, way to be a hero. 👍 🙄

Can you post a link to the post article so we have a context?

 

[i61164]

I agree. If you've never been to a city, you can't possibly have any opinion on how cool (or safe) it is. 😉

 

[flighterdoc]

I agree. If you've never been to a city, you can't possibly have any opinion on how cool (or safe) it is. 😉

Well, the last time I was in Tikrit people were shooting at me, so I have a biased opinion.

 

[pbehzad]

I don't know if you'd have a great time, but I've been through most of the middle east and if I had to pick a place to spend 4 years (outside of Israel), it'd probably be Qatar. Not that that means much, but it's probably the least restrictive muslim country in the ME.

1st off the capital of Qatar is Doha. Having been to the Mideast 3 times, the best place is Dubai without a doubt. The most western city in the middle east. Qatar is less restrictive, but I'd put my money on Dubai any day of the week over Doha.

 

[EvoDevo]

Qatar (and Doha) is a flat UGLY horrid place. Bleck. I'd rather have a root canal every day for a week than spend a month there.

*shudders*

 

[flighterdoc]

1st off the capital of Qatar is Doha. Having been to the Mideast 3 times, the best place is Dubai without a doubt. The most western city in the middle east. Qatar is less restrictive, but I'd put my money on Dubai any day of the week over Doha.

Dubai is nice too, but as you say Qatar is less restrictive.

 

[TTSD]

The best years of my life were in the middle east.. living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for 5 years were the best!

 

[MoosePilot]

Qatar (and Doha) is a flat UGLY horrid place. Bleck. I'd rather have a root canal every day for a week than spend a month there.

*shudders*

Been there, done that. Spent a month there in a tent. Not too bad, but it was funny considering if the U.S. kept prisoners in those circumstances, one would sue for cruel and unusual punishment...

 

[EvoDevo]

Been there, done that. Spent a month there in a tent. Not too bad, but it was funny considering if the U.S. kept prisoners in those circumstances, one would sue for cruel and unusual punishment...

If I ever have to eat a "meal" which consists of the *whole* lamb chopped up with a band saw (no lie!! 😱 ) covered in bad pita bread and coffee ever again, please just shoot me.

I hear what you're saying.

Semper Fi!

 

[flighterdoc]

Been there, done that. Spent a month there in a tent. Not too bad, but it was funny considering if the U.S. kept prisoners in those circumstances, one would sue for cruel and unusual punishment...

I'll trade your month in Qatar for my six at KKMC. That sucked.

 

[Gleevec]

Actually, I was parody posting this thread:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=126038&highlight=Baltimore

 

[patzan]

Actually, I was parody posting this thread:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=126038&highlight=Baltimore

Which we are all glad has finally died.

 

[NDESTRUKT]

hey moosepilot, do you fly the C-17? I'm an engineer that works on the C-17 propulsion design at Boeing...what a small world.

 

[flighterdoc]

hey moosepilot, do you fly the C-17? I'm an engineer that works on the C-17 propulsion design at Boeing...what a small world.

It sure is. I was a design engineer on the C17 cockpit at the inventor of that fine aircraft, Douglas Aircraft Company. I'm the guy responsible for putting a stick up front 🙂

 

[MoosePilot]

hey moosepilot, do you fly the C-17? I'm an engineer that works on the C-17 propulsion design at Boeing...what a small world.

Yeah, I sure do. Are you here in Washington State or down in Longbeach?

 

[MoosePilot]

It sure is. I was a design engineer on the C17 cockpit at the inventor of that fine aircraft, Douglas Aircraft Company. I'm the guy responsible for putting a stick up front 🙂

Well thank you. After a FAIP tour I didn't know what I was going to do with a yoke, but with fly-by-wire and a stick, I often forget I'm in front of that behemoth. I tell my wife it's more like flying the cockpit and only when you do the walk around do you realize how darn big it is. I probably couldn't fly it if I had to think about the mass behind the crew rest area...

 

[flighterdoc]

Well thank you. After a FAIP tour I didn't know what I was going to do with a yoke, but with fly-by-wire and a stick, I often forget I'm in front of that behemoth. I tell my wife it's more like flying the cockpit and only when you do the walk around do you realize how darn big it is. I probably couldn't fly it if I had to think about the mass behind the crew rest area...

LOL. It still scares me when I see one of those beasts take off. A LOT bigger than the Herc. Not as much fun, though...

 

[willthatsall]

Often times, I have seen people take shots at Qatar while discussing the med school in Qatar, Cornell.

Something along the lines of,

"I think ______ is a great school but I don't know if I can put up with Qatar for 4 years. "

Now I will admit that Qatar doesn't have as much to offer as a city like NY, DC, SF, etc...

However I would strongly advise people to spend some time in Qatar before making any judgments about it. Qatar has some really great areas that are worth exploring. Besides the Qatar Harbor, Qatar has a wide variety of interesting neighborhoods such as Qatar Point, Qatar Hill, Qatarden, Qatarton, etc...

Above all things, DO NOT LET QATAR BE YOUR REASON FOR NOT COMING TO CORNELL!

Give it a chance, explore a little, and you will have a great time!

This is funny. In the Baltimore thread I said, "Baltimore is a great city....For me to poop on!" And you said I stole your line. Well, I actually thought about making this same thread using Kabul and not Qatar. So I guess this time you stole my line. 👍

 

[Newquagmire]

dude gleevec, you're a jerk. i like that.

cairo's a pretty happening place too if you don't mind emphysema

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

I love Qatar. There's so much to do, and its really safe around the med school.

 

[Gleevec]

This is funny. In the Baltimore thread I said, "Baltimore is a great city....For me to poop on!" And you said I stole your line. Well, I actually thought about making this same thread using Kabul and not Qatar. So I guess this time you stole my line. 👍

LOL, you wanna know the funny thing? I was about to pick Kabul (or Abu Dhabi)

 

[Gleevec]

dude gleevec, you're a jerk. i like that.

cairo's a pretty happening place too if you don't mind emphysema

lol, Im not too big a jerk, Im just too sarcastic for my own good (and it comes out so much worse online since you don't get to hear my tone)

 

[NDESTRUKT]

It sure is. I was a design engineer on the C17 cockpit at the inventor of that fine aircraft, Douglas Aircraft Company. I'm the guy responsible for putting a stick up front 🙂

WHOA...wait a second...YOU'RE the person that put the stick there?! People talk about you by reference sometimes...wow that is very much a small world. Interesting...yeah Douglas became McDonnell Douglas and now it's Boeing.

Moosepilot, I'm working in Long Beach and I almost went to McChord for a field engineer tour of duty of 2 months but I gave that up since I'm going to med school in August. A coworker of mine was there a few months back for field services...