Random non-MCAT and only peripherally related to the MCAT thread - Part 4

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Guys, I'm having major problems trying to work my schedule around one of my labs. Can I drop a class only to pick it back up in the spring or does that totally screw with my AMCAS? Because of friday interviews, I'm going to need to miss this lab TWICE that I know of. THat's not good for a lab. 🙁 I dunno what to do. I think I may withdraw from all these non-Texas schools because I really REALLY cannot afford to go. 🙁
 
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mshheaddoc said:
Fe - congrats on the jeff interview. I'm jealous. Great school (kinda snooty peeps though :meanie: ) 😉

Ok i'm out to go out in philly tonight with fellow SDNers 😀 Well 2 of them at least. :meanie: Have a good one kids
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Oh don't you worry, I will straighten them out if I get in :meanie:

Have fun in Philly!
 
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Anastasis said:
Guys, I'm having major problems trying to work my schedule around one of my labs. Can I drop a class only to pick it back up in the spring or does that totally screw with my AMCAS? Because of friday interviews, I'm going to need to miss this lab TWICE that I know of. THat's not good for a lab. 🙁 I dunno what to do. I think I may withdraw from all these non-Texas schools because I really REALLY cannot afford to go. 🙁
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Hmm, I don't think that it will mess up amcas too bad because I think you will be able to explain that. No?
 
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ironmanf14 said:
Hmm, I don't think that it will mess up amcas too bad because I think you will be able to explain that. No?
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yeah, but I think I'm going to solve it by asking them to move it later in the year... I'll ask my professor when the lab starts winding down (which is early at my school) and I'll schedule one of them after that. I think I'm going to withdraw from Northwestern, Emory, and Wash U presecondary and if I get interview invites to some of the other OOS schools I'll make up my mind as they come in. I just really dont' think I'm going to be able to afford this. My mich plane ticket is running me 580 bucks!! 😱
 
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Anastasis said:
yeah, but I think I'm going to solve it by asking them to move it later in the year... I'll ask my professor when the lab starts winding down (which is early at my school) and I'll schedule one of them after that. I think I'm going to withdraw from Northwestern, Emory, and Wash U presecondary and if I get interview invites to some of the other OOS schools I'll make up my mind as they come in. I just really dont' think I'm going to be able to afford this. My mich plane ticket is running me 580 bucks!! 😱
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I think that's a good idea. I think you are a sure thing in Tx 👍 😉
 
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Anastasis said:
I just really dont' think I'm going to be able to afford this. My mich plane ticket is running me 580 bucks!! 😱
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Yeah, but you'd get to meet me. Totally worth it. 😀

I would show you around and stuff. And you can see the HO-Pad. The HO-Pad is some nice stuff.
 
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beary said:
Yeah, but you'd get to meet me. Totally worth it. 😀

I would show you around and stuff. And you can see the HO-Pad. The HO-Pad is some nice stuff.
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😀 True, true.

Well I just found a plane ticket that fits my schedule and a price I like better (420)... unfortunately Mich's system is down for the weekend so I can't confirm a date and if I dont' have a confirmed date, ain't no way I'm buying a ticket!! :meanie:

Vandy: Family friends agreed to pick me up from the airport, shuttle me around and feed me, so basically I'm paying for a ticket and getting some excellent Indian food while I'm there.

Fe: Jefferson is right by you right? Just hoping you don't have to go through this. :barf:
 
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Anastasis said:
😀 True, true.

Fe: Jefferson is right by you right? Just hoping you don't have to go through this. :barf:
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Yep! Philly is only a 1 hour drive from my house, so I won't have to worry about that.

Your situation is tough because you have such a good chance at any school, so it would be really hard to say no to interviews (especially UMich). Not having money is such a pain in the ass!

BTW, is your dream school Baylor? (You don't have to answer that)
 
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Arsenic said:
hey people! just finished my 2 weeks of Obstetrics! i start 2 weeks of Gyn this monday and then 2 weeks of Gyn Oncology after that.

so what have i missed this week? any major randomite news?
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Wow they have a specific part for gyn oncology? That's really cool, I never knew that.
 
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Ana: Consider keeping Northwestern...Chicago's awesome and you could reunite with your long-lost sister (Molly).

Ironman14 (Fe): Why is your nickname Fe? Either way, congrats on Jefferson. I hope you don't pretend to be on fire during your interview. :laugh:

Dr. D.: My contrapositive bro, congrats on your 1,000th accolade of post-whoring.

Adios for now fellow randomites,
-Dr. P.

P.S.: Sorry about the cat mush and yay Arsenic for finishing another rotation. (OB I think...I'm not up to speed).
 
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Dr. Pepper said:
Ironman14 (Fe): Why is your nickname Fe? Either way, congrats on Jefferson. I hope you don't pretend to be on fire during your interview. :laugh:
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Fe as in the periodic table 🙂 Oh man, I can't remember who crafted that.....I wanna say Beary but it might have been Type A? :laugh:
 
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beary said:
1 patient/hour on rounds??!! :scared:

I don't think my attending has any idea what I do all day either, or any idea HOW MUCH I have to do.

Memorable quote of the day, from my attending, to beary:
"Your dissections totally suck." *cries*

So not only am I miserable, apparently I suck at it too, even though I am doing my best. 🙁
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working this in reverse order:

you do not suck, you are LEARNING. as if s/he came out of the womb doing excellent dissections. gimme a break.

we did these long rounds today b/c one child's parent is completely in denial of the daughter's illness and the other's recognizes the illness and wants our attending to look into her crystal ball to get the outcome of treatment. it takes a while to lay down the professional smack-down for each of them. usually we can get in/out of a kid's room in 15 min or less.
 
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Thanks folks. I just got home - tried to do more stuff so that I could have Sunday off.

I should have totally thick skin after med school and grad school! I am sensitive about my work I guess. Especially when I am positively working my butt off and absolutely doing my best. I just get yelled at all day every day and it is wearing me out.

At least tomorrow, I will be the only person there (so nobody to yell at me. 😀 ) I should start yelling back, but don't have the personality for that. I just sulk. And then Sunday I shouldn't have to go into that hellhole at all. 👍
 
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beary said:
Thanks folks. I just got home - tried to do more stuff so that I could have Sunday off.

I should have totally thick skin after med school and grad school! I am sensitive about my work I guess. Especially when I am positively working my butt off and absolutely doing my best. I just get yelled at all day every day and it is wearing me out.

At least tomorrow, I will be the only person there (so nobody to yell at me. 😀 ) I should start yelling back, but don't have the personality for that. I just sulk. And then Sunday I shouldn't have to go into that hellhole at all. 👍
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🙁 really sorry to hear about this. Things will get better though, just keep yur head high!
 
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beary said:
Thanks folks. I just got home - tried to do more stuff so that I could have Sunday off.

I should have totally thick skin after med school and grad school! I am sensitive about my work I guess. Especially when I am positively working my butt off and absolutely doing my best. I just get yelled at all day every day and it is wearing me out.

At least tomorrow, I will be the only person there (so nobody to yell at me. 😀 ) I should start yelling back, but don't have the personality for that. I just sulk. And then Sunday I shouldn't have to go into that hellhole at all. 👍
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Agree 100% with jlw. (((hugs))) and sorry that you have to put up with the nonsense.
 
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beary said:
Thanks folks. I just got home - tried to do more stuff so that I could have Sunday off.

I should have totally thick skin after med school and grad school! I am sensitive about my work I guess. Especially when I am positively working my butt off and absolutely doing my best. I just get yelled at all day every day and it is wearing me out.

At least tomorrow, I will be the only person there (so nobody to yell at me. 😀 ) I should start yelling back, but don't have the personality for that. I just sulk. And then Sunday I shouldn't have to go into that hellhole at all. 👍
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Why do you get yelled at??? Is it by attendings or is it by higher up residents or both??? Sorry to hear. I've heard residency is hell.
 
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Nikki2002 said:
*^%&)*&%^$#%$

that's what beary needs to say to all the haters
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:laugh: I don't talk a whole lot, especially at work - 1) since I'm trying to get work done, and 2) they would all just yell at me anyway so I try to stay low. So it would be awesome if I just busted out with something like that. 😀
 
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beary said:
:laugh: I don't talk a whole lot, especially at work - 1) since I'm trying to get work done, and 2) they would all just yell at me anyway so I try to stay low. So it would be awesome if I just busted out with something like that. 😀
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Do they yell at everyone???
 
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beary said:
:laugh: I don't talk a whole lot, especially at work - 1) since I'm trying to get work done, and 2) they would all just yell at me anyway so I try to stay low. So it would be awesome if I just busted out with something like that. 😀
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aww beary i'm sorry about what the attending said. some people just have no patience to teach, we've talked about that before. you're going to get very good, very fast this year. intern year overall just sucks.
 
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gujuDoc said:
Why do you get yelled at??? Is it by attendings or is it by higher up residents or both??? Sorry to hear. I've heard residency is hell.
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Mostly attendings. I think senior residents tend to feel sorry for the interns (I know I sure will. 😉 ) Oh, and support staff, histotechs, lab directors, etc. Basically I function as a human punching bag. ANYTHING that goes wrong anywhere on surg path, even if I had nothing to do with it, ends up in my lap and I have to fix it.

I think there are a few things that cause interns to get yelled at so much. It is never clear if you should ask for help or not. If I have a specimen I have no idea what to do with, do I ask my attending what to do, or just muddle through? You are supposed to be all independent and not "bother" people, but then, if you screw it up, you're in trouble. Also, path has a lot of "art" (actually, probably any part of medicine does). There is no definite right way to gross in a complicated specimen. So one person will show you one way, you'll do that next time, and the person you're working for that time will flip out about it because they do it a different way. There is nothing you can do about this stuff.

I swear, I don't know when people turn into aliens. When I was in med school, we always thought so many of the residents were mean and unreasonable. Now it seems like so many of the attendings are mean and unreasonable. I, of course, will always treat folks with respect and be reasonable at all times. :laugh:
 
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Arsenic said:
aww beary i'm sorry about what the attending said. some people just have no patience to teach, we've talked about that before. you're going to get very good, very fast this year. intern year overall just sucks.
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Thanks. I am learning a lot.
 
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beary said:
Mostly attendings. I think senior residents tend to feel sorry for the interns (I know I sure will. 😉 ) Oh, and support staff, histotechs, lab directors, etc. Basically I function as a human punching bag. ANYTHING that goes wrong anywhere on surg path, even if I had nothing to do with it, ends up in my lap and I have to fix it.

I think there are a few things that cause interns to get yelled at so much. It is never clear if you should ask for help or not. If I have a specimen I have no idea what to do with, do I ask my attending what to do, or just muddle through? You are supposed to be all independent and not "bother" people, but then, if you screw it up, you're in trouble. Also, path has a lot of "art" (actually, probably any part of medicine does). There is no definite right way to gross in a complicated specimen. So one person will show you one way, you'll do that next time, and the person you're working for that time will flip out about it because they do it a different way. There is nothing you can do about this stuff.

I swear, I don't know when people turn into aliens. When I was in med school, we always thought so many of the residents were mean and unreasonable. Now it seems like so many of the attendings are mean and unreasonable. I, of course, will always treat folks with respect and be reasonable at all times. :laugh:
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i *SO* agree with you on all this. i was nodding my head throughout this entire post. :laugh:

the only thing i'd add here beary is that even as an M3 I've noticed that a lot of the residents AND attendings are freakish aliens. either freaky smart or have a freaky lack of patience and social skills. as one of my attendings put it to the residents this week at morning meeting, "I am not here to be your friend, I am here to be your teacher."

I'm very surprised though by OB, after my first day or two on L&D that totally sucked, nearly every resident I've ran into has been a sweetheart. i keep expecting them to yell at me for not being able to find a post OP report or something in the computer and instead they just say its OK whenever I cant do something and then just do it and show me. i just got lucky though i think and rotated through here when the people in charge are good friends with eachother and there is no drama between the residents.
 
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