Random non-MCAT and only peripherally related to the MCAT thread - Part 3

[Nikki2002]

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3rd time is a charm! 🙂 Welcome to the best thread on SDN: The Random Non-MCAT thread--PART 3!

This is a place to chill and talk about anything besides the MCAT. 😎



And remember......

 

[PBandJ]

gotta 😍 carlos mencia!

ok, so my soup is done but the rice is still hard! ugh!!!! i decided to try something different and use brown rice...and look what happened?!?

 

[Nikki2002]

nik, what major city in ohio are you closest too?

oxeye gawd stop it!

A--I'm near Akron--if you can call that a major city 😉

 

[PBandJ]

oxeye gawd stop it!

A--I'm near Akron--if you can call that a major city 😉

 

[Nikki2002]

gotta 😍 carlos mencia!

ok, so my soup is done but the rice is still hard! ugh!!!! i decided to try something different and use brown rice...and look what happened?!?

omg he is so hilarious! and the only soup i eat is out of cans....but kudos to you for making it

 

[PBandJ]

note: laughing about akron.

 

[Nikki2002]

note: laughing about akron.

girl one time i had to take a class in akron.....talk about morning drive bys

 

[Mr. Tee]

like around his ankles ....

Thank goodness for boxers 😛

 

[PBandJ]

omg he is so hilarious! and the only soup i eat is out of cans....but kudos to you for making it

thanks. it's actually not too bad...the rice is just not completely soft yet. but i think by the time my bf is home, it will be good (he's out at class tonight).

 

[PBandJ]

Thank goodness for boxers 😛

hahaha, thanks T for the reality check.

 

[oxeye]

Thank goodness for boxers 😛

See a guy like vin diesel should go commando. 😀

 

[PBandJ]

omg he is so hilarious! and the only soup i eat is out of cans....but kudos to you for making it

thanks. it's actually not too bad...the rice is just not completely soft yet. but i think by the time my bf is home, it will be good (he's out at class tonight).

 

[PBandJ]

i gotta figure out all this LOR stuff. i thought i had everything figured out, but it seems like so many MSTPs want their own recommendation letters (separate from the med school ones).

 

[oxeye]

i gotta figure out all this LOR stuff. i thought i had everything figured out, but it seems like so many MSTPs want their own recommendation letters (separate from the med school ones).

That's gotta be frustrating!

 

[R.P. McMurphy]

See a guy like vin diesel should go commando. 😀

too much estrogen in this thread!

 

[Mr. Tee]

i gotta figure out all this LOR stuff. i thought i had everything figured out, but it seems like so many MSTPs want their own recommendation letters (separate from the med school ones).

Really? What do you mean.

My friend from my school applied to MSTPs last year with just our pre-med commitee letter thingy (5 rec letters plus one commitee letter).

 

[PBandJ]

Really? What do you mean.

My friend from my school applied to MSTPs last year with just our pre-med commitee letter thingy (5 rec letters plus one commitee letter).

yeah, maybe i'm reading too much into what they say.

baylor, for example, says the following:

We require at least one additional reference letter dealing directly with your experience, abilities and potential as a researcher. If you have done laboratory research, the reference letter(s) should be from a research supervisor, preferably the most recent, or please explain why this is unavailable. If applicable, please provide letters of reference from your research supervisor for any work done at Baylor College of Medicine

now if those abilities are addresseed in my individual letters that went to my pre-med committee, then do I just ask my pre-med office to send those letters individually? i'm concerned b/c my office will NOT send individual letters unless you show them a specific statement in writing that says a school requires individual letters and not a committe letter.

 

[PBandJ]

That's gotta be frustrating!

i think it's just my OCD coming out. 😛

 

[DrBowtie]

too much estrogen in this thread!

Looks like it's you, me, A-man, T-man and danjo.

 

[Arsenic]

thank you brett! i've had enough of this VD! here's kristin kreuk.

 

[PBandJ]

Looks like it's you, me, A-man, T-man and danjo.

that's plenty of testosterone! i think the women just post-***** a little more. no offense, ladies. 🙂

 

[PBandJ]

she's hot!

 

[DrBowtie]

Thanks A-man...There was one barf smiley for each guy on this thread.

 

[TypeA]

too much estrogen in this thread!

Aren't you lucky?

 

[Arsenic]

A--I'm near Akron--if you can call that a major city 😉

at least i've heard of it

nikki is my akron amish friend 😀

 

[Anastasis]

thank you brett! i've had enough of this VD! here's kristin kreuk.

I do believe this means war. So I counter attack with my fav pic of him:

 

[Arsenic]

omg he is so hilarious! and the only soup i eat is out of cans....but kudos to you for making it

mencia is good, chappelle was GREAT.

 

[PBandJ]

mkay, that one is getting saved on my computer........SOOOOOO HOT!

(thanks VD)

 

[PBandJ]

mencia is good, chappelle was GREAT.

word.

 

[R.P. McMurphy]

thank you brett! i've had enough of this VD! here's kristin kreuk.

👍 👍

 

[Arsenic]

word.

the first of the episodes he taped before he left is being aired for the first time this sunday on comedy central s&m! charlie murphy and donnell rawlings are going to introduce each sketch the way chappelle use to do. 😀 😀 😀

FINALLY!

 

[Mr. Tee]

Who am I kidding. This is intentional 😀

 

[PBandJ]

the first of the episodes he taped before he left is being aired for the first time this sunday on comedy central s&m! charlie murphy and donnell rawlings are going to introduce each sketch the way chappelle use to do. 😀 😀 😀

FINALLY!

i know!! i just heard that. i'm so pumped! 😀

 

[Mr. Tee]

now if those abilities are addresseed in my individual letters that went to my pre-med committee, then do I just ask my pre-med office to send those letters individually? i'm concerned b/c my office will NOT send individual letters unless you show them a specific statement in writing that says a school requires individual letters and not a committe letter.

That sucks. My premed office sends all of the individual rec letters (we require 5 faculty letters) by default, plus the committee letter.

 

[oxeye]

The female body really is a work of art.

 

[Arsenic]

Who am I kidding. This is intentional 😀

that girl is pure eye candy... damn 😍

 

[Arsenic]

The female body really is a work of art.

i was born with an appreciation

 

[PBandJ]

That sucks. My premed office sends all of the individual rec letters (we require 5 faculty letters) by default, plus the committee letter.

Yeah, I'm not sure why my university has that policy...it's probably more work for them, so that's why they don't want to do it. I will talk to them though and print out things like what I read on Baylor's site, and hopefully they will comply.

If not, I'll call Nikki and tell her to get her amish badass ninja bike over and do some damage.

 

[R.P. McMurphy]

wow i'm watching this special on hot dogs...a very funny story about Nathan's hot dogs...

When Nathan's first opened, they made the mistake of calling them hot dogs and making them half price compared to the competition on coney island. People responded by not buying them, thinking they were using questionable meat (like dogs)

his solution.....he borrowed a bunch of white coats and stethoscopes and made a few friends wear them outside while eating hot dogs....if a doctor is eating it, it must be ok

it worked! now that is clever

 

[R.P. McMurphy]

The female body really is a work of art.

This is perhaps the single most truthful post I have ever seen on SDN

 

[Mr. Tee]

Yeah, I'm not sure why my university has that policy...it's probably more work for them, so that's why they don't want to do it. I will talk to them though and print out things like what I read on Baylor's site, and hopefully they will comply.

If not, I'll call Nikki and tell her to get her amish badass ninja bike over and do some damage.

Well, we do have to pay $3 per LOR packet to the secretary for her standing by the zerox machine and pressing the copy button, heh.

 

[Arsenic]

wow i'm watching this special on hot dogs...a very funny story about Nathan's hot dogs...

When Nathan's first opened, they made the mistake of calling them hot dogs and making them half price compared to the competition on coney island. People responded by not buying them, thinking they were using questionable meat (like dogs)

his solution.....he borrowed a bunch of white coats and stethoscopes and made a few friends wear them outside while eating hot dogs....if a doctor is eating it, it must be ok

it worked! now that is clever

i had heard that before but the version i heard was that there was a local hospital nearby and nathans would offer them free hot dogs on the condition that they had to have their white coats on. pretty clever though i agree.

i think this is the exact same reason the mcdonalds at my medical center gives a 20% discount to hospital employees with ID.

 

[TypeA]

I think I saw that show a while back....yum, hot dogs.

 

[Arsenic]

wow i'm watching this special on hot dogs...a very funny story about Nathan's hot dogs...

When Nathan's first opened, they made the mistake of calling them hot dogs and making them half price compared to the competition on coney island. People responded by not buying them, thinking they were using questionable meat (like dogs)

his solution.....he borrowed a bunch of white coats and stethoscopes and made a few friends wear them outside while eating hot dogs....if a doctor is eating it, it must be ok

it worked! now that is clever

haha, history channel. just found it.

 

[PBandJ]

Well, we do have to pay $3 per LOR packet to the secretary for her standing by the zerox machine and pressing the copy button, heh.

doh, that sucks. we don't have to pay anything, so we take what we get, i guess.

 

[PBandJ]

i think this is the exact same reason the mcdonalds at my medical center gives a 20% discount to hospital employees with ID.

😱

 

[Arsenic]

😱

i'm not kidding s&m. when i was studying for the USMLE i was listening to Goljan audio for pathology (hes a brilliant step 1 pathology teacher) and goljan said he put those mcdonalds meats under the microscope and could identify liver, spleen, etc... "definitely not all beef"

not too surprising i guess, those mcdonalds burgers definitely dont taste like the burgers you grill yourself with ground beef from the market.

 

[R.P. McMurphy]

i had heard that before but the version i heard was that there was a local hospital nearby and nathans would offer them free hot dogs on the condition that they had to have their white coats on. pretty clever though i agree.

i think this is the exact same reason the mcdonalds at my medical center gives a 20% discount to hospital employees with ID.

haha, people still use this trick I guess.

what people don't realize is that not all doctors live the healthiest lifestyles. My friends dad is one of the most respectable cardiologists in our area and he eats cheesesteaks like you wouldn't believe!

I also could not believe how many doctors I saw taking smoking when I worked at Upenn last summer...

 

[PBandJ]

i think this is the exact same reason the mcdonalds at my medical center gives a 20% discount to hospital employees with ID.

😱

 

[Arsenic]

haha, people still use this trick I guess.

what people don't realize is that not all doctors live the healthiest lifestyles. My friends dad is one of the most respectable cardiologists in our area and he eats cheesesteaks like you wouldn't believe!

I also could not believe how many doctors I saw taking smoking when I worked at Upenn last summer...

definitely. this mcdonalds is on the ground floor of one of the parking garages and is really really close to the hospital. i have seen patients standing in line there wearing hospital gowns and holding onto their IV poles. i SWEAR.

 

[PBandJ]

i'm not kidding s&m. when i was studying for the USMLE i was listening to Goljan audio for pathology (hes a brilliant step 1 pathology teacher) and goljan said he put those mcdonalds meats under the microscope and could identify liver, spleen, etc... "definitely not all beef"

not too surprising i guess, those mcdonalds burgers definitely dont taste like the burgers you grill yourself with ground beef from the market.

yeah, i'd believe it. i remember when there was such a huge thing with their chicken nuggets and after a while they came out saying "100% white meat chicken"....who knows what they were before that! 😱