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

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Arsenic said:
portability, portability, for the love of god choose portability.
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omg if i could go back i would choose one of those little tiny laptops--those are so awesome. it's fine having to carry the laptop--but when you have to add giant binder+ book+ everything else then it really sucks.
 
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So my stupid AirMiles account is frozen because when I tried to log on, they claimed I already had a PIN (I don't remember ever receiving one....and the website had the option of creating one, which means you have to make up your own anyway). So I tried 3 times, and they froze my account....****ers! I e-mailed them, and now I have to wait and see until they open it, so I can see how many AirMiles I have.


Oh, nevermind, this is a US forum....no one here has probably even heard of AirMiles.🙄 :hardy: I'm gonna go whine on the Canadian forum now.:laugh:
 
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And on my way to the gym I pretty much call myself crazy cuz it's 4:30 am! I got really into running, at first it was hard and couldn't even do a mile, but then I got myself up to 15 miles a day!
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My diet is the same every day. My macros are 51% protein/44% fat/5% carbs - it's a keto diet (GO KETO, LOL!). I have only 2 shakes a day and pretty much eat tilapia, eggs, tuna, and chicken.
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5% carbs? 15 miles running?


Can you say eating/exercise disorder? Jesus, I treated myself better when I had a diagnosed ED, and here this chick is being touted as a "success story." Who cares if you've lost 30 pounds if you are driving yourself into the grave.👎
 
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majik1213 said:
did you hear? The June 15th MCAT will remove verbal reasoning and replace it with a section on coloring in the lines and good handwriting. According to the authorities who administer the MCAT, the reason for this change is that doctor's need these crucial skills, which are an accurate indicator of their performance on the verbal reasoning section anyways.
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Oh how I WISH they'd replace PS instead 😀
 
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*waves to everyone*

There are too many people to mention but I wanted to pop in and say hi again. Getting settled and hope to be back on soon 🙂

I'm glad ana will try to stay on to just say hi. 10 mins a day is the ticket 😉

Bedtime
 
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Not dead.. or missing.. just had a feeling bad day. The stomach is better, only boiled chicken and rice for dinner.. so sad.🙁 Missed BBQ and had boiled chicken. Sigh.

In other news, my NOVA books arrived, so now all i'm missing is those EK's.. apparently the US/Canada border is retaining them, eh jochi? :laugh::laugh:
 
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gradu8in2003 said:
Not dead.. or missing.. just had a feeling bad day. The stomach is better, only boiled chicken and rice for dinner.. so sad.🙁 Missed BBQ and had boiled chicken. Sigh.

In other news, my NOVA books arrived, so now all i'm missing is those EK's.. apparently the US/Canada border is retaining them, eh jochi? :laugh::laugh:
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Sorry, I just realized I accidentally dropped my most treasured rock of crack cocaine in the package before I sealed it off....:scared: :scared: :scared: :laugh:
 
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Take the personality test here. See the personality type descriptions here.

Me:
Your type is: ENTJ
ENTJ - "Field Marshall". The basic driving force and need is to lead. Tend to seek a position of responsibility and enjoys being an executive. 1.8% of total population.
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Hmmm...maybe pursuing med-school might not be for me after all 😱 :laugh:
 
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Okay so this is my ruff drapht from the other peripheral mcat thread.
I am going to continue it. I found that writing in this format helps me get my ideas down, then I edit it and formate it to formal standard english.

This is super rough but some of you guys said just to start writing. It starts off a little silly at first but gets kind of better. The first paragraph has a long run on. Enjoy.

My first rough draft Personal Statement:

I want to be a doctor because it is a pimp job and I will be able to proovide my ho and kids with a roof over their head. Also since I am smart, this is a good field for me because I like being challendged, also I have volunteer experience and in that volunteeer experience I worked with a doctor in a remote region to provide eye car, i was amased by what we could do to improve the quility of the peoples lifes. a lot of people were blind but the doctor gave them surgeries to pull out cataracts and they could see again. it was cool. i realize my help was important but none of it would have been possible without the doctors skills. i want to go to med school to aquire these skills and make a difference for the positive in peoples lives.

my journey to medicine developed slowly. i was never the kind of person who said they wanted to be a doctor since they were 4 years old. I was a pretty smart kid in elementary school but I slowly morphed into a ******* from 6th grade and on until I finished high school. by my senior year of high school i was a complete foolio. I didn't even apply to any colleges and barely graduated high school. my parents told me to go to community college so i could continue to live under their roof. so i was like ok, i don't want to live on the streets, so i signed up for summmer classes at the community college right after i graduated high school. I had to take a english and math placement test and placed in a course under college level english and math. so i took these prerequisite courses that summer and I actually did okay. The englihs class was P/NP and i passed and the trigonometry class I got a B in. I was pretty happy and sort of started beleiving in myself. I continued my first year and did pretty okay at school and started to realize that if I just put some effort into school i could do well. blah blah blah more **** blah blah blah.

i think my biggest turning point was when a guy at my JC told me I couldn't get an A in the first quarter of college bio. he thought he was the **** and said that he got a B in it and there was no way I could get an A in it even if I started studying ahead of time. This really drove my over the edge and I worked my butt off and just pulled off an A in that course. This really built up my confidence and I knew that I could do anything I put effort into. Just a little over a year before that I was a 2.0 student in highschool now in my JC i got to be a 3.5 student.

I applied to the UC's and got into every UC including UC berkeley because I wrote a kick ass personal statement like this one. I got into UCB and freaked out.

to be continued......
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Anyways i did good at cal and knew i was capable of everything. the question morphed from, am i even capable of anything?... to... since I am capable, what career should I choose? naturally being being interested in biology i started potentially thing of careers in health. also i have always been known be helpful to peepz cuz i'm a pimp like that. i mean ****, i worked as a math tutor for a coupel of years and i liked seeing that i could help these kids do good in school. some of them like me, felt they could not excel in schoolwork like math, but the look on there face after helping them understand it was priceless. it really struck a cord in my heart seein this **** homie. also other experiences such as helping out in a place where they take care of the physically/and/or/mentally disabled people really let me understand how i can impact peoples lives.

despite these experiences, i still found that i could help others out in many other health care fields besides medicine, but the final push that pushed me over the edge to pursue medicine was the experience i had volunteering with an opthal in a remote region to provide eye care. the experience not only let me help out, but also allowed me to observe a doctor working with patients and see the interaction between the two.

to be continued....
 
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Foghorn said:
Take the personality test here. See the personality type descriptions here.

Me: Hmmm...maybe pursuing med-school might not be for me after all 😱 :laugh:
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I'm an ISTJ....I think it's right on.:hardy:


ISTJs are quiet and reserved individuals who are interested in security and peaceful living. They have a strongly-felt internal sense of duty, which lends them a serious air and the motivation to follow through on tasks.
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The ISTJ will work for long periods of time and put tremendous amounts of energy into doing any task which they see as important to fulfilling a goal. However, they will resist putting energy into things which don't make sense to them, or for which they can't see a practical application. They prefer to work alone, but work well in teams when the situation demands it.
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So true...I'd study for the MCAT for 6 hours daily for 4.5 months, but I haven't been able to finish cleaning my stupid house for like 4 days straight.:laugh:

The ISTJ is not naturally in tune with their own feelings and the feelings of others. They may have difficulty picking up on emotional needs immediately, as they are presented. Being perfectionists themselves, they have a tendency to take other people's efforts for granted, like they take their own efforts for granted. They need to remember to pat people on the back once in a while.
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True... I expect a lot from myself, and same from others. Others tend to dislike it.:meanie: :laugh:

Under stress, ISTJs may fall into "catastrophe mode", where they see nothing but all of the possibilities of what could go wrong. They will berate themselves for things which they should have done differently, or duties which they failed to perform. They will lose their ability to see things calmly and reasonably, and will depress themselves with their visions of doom.
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OMG, spot on!!!!! "Catastrophe mode," I need to remember that. 😆😆😆
 
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Foghorn said:
Take the personality test here. See the personality type descriptions here.

Me: Hmmm...maybe pursuing med-school might not be for me after all 😱 :laugh:
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Here's me:
INFP said:
INFPs are highly intuitive about people. They rely heavily on their intuitions to guide them, and use their discoveries to constantly search for value in life. They are on a continuous mission to find the truth and meaning underlying things. Every encounter and every piece of knowledge gained gets sifted through the INFP's value system, and is evaluated to see if it has any potential to help the INFP define or refine their own path in life. The goal at the end of the path is always the same - the INFP is driven to help people and make the world a better place.
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Describes my hippie nature I think.
 
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I'm awake dammit! And ready for breakfast 😉

A-man, I think you meant TPS reports for your office space reference :meanie:

This weekend was fun! Much more social than academic I'm afraid! Went to 3 presentations on Friday then skipped the rest of the conference and went shopping with my evil cohorts :meanie:
 
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Ummm I think we need to make our posts a little more random. I enjoy y'alls lives and all, but I really don't need to know every detail. Do any of you have blogs? I'd love to read them and link them on my blog.
 
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Oh craaaaaaapp!!! I'm such a *****!!!! I was cleaning yesterday and for whatever reason decided that I should flush nasty food from the fridge down the toilet instead of walking 10 feet to the dumpster. Now my toilet is clogged and I CAN'T unclog it! I don't know what happened! I plunged it for like 10 mins straight yesterday, then let it sit there overnight, then plunged for another 15 mins today, and nothing's happening! GAAAH!!!!! :scared:

Can I use Draino or something for a toilet bowl? I don't know what else to do! I don't wanna pay $200 to a plumber.:scared: Any suggestions? I guess the pipe is clogged somewhere really deep, because nothing at all is coming up.👎
 
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megboo said:
Ummm I think we need to make our posts a little more random. I enjoy y'alls lives and all, but I really don't need to know every detail. Do any of you have blogs? I'd love to read them and link them on my blog.
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I don't have the attention span for a blog...
 
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jochi1543 said:
Oh craaaaaaapp!!! I'm such a *****!!!! I was cleaning yesterday and for whatever reason decided that I should flush nasty food from the fridge down the toilet instead of walking 10 feet to the dumpster. Now my toilet is clogged and I CAN'T unclog it! I don't know what happened! I plunged it for like 10 mins straight yesterday, then let it sit there overnight, then plunged for another 15 mins today, and nothing's happening! GAAAH!!!!! :scared:

Can I use Draino or something for a toilet bowl? I don't know what else to do! I don't wanna pay $200 to a plumber.:scared: Any suggestions? I guess the pipe is clogged somewhere really deep, because nothing at all is coming up.👎
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what kind of food was it? Usually if it's soft food it should flush but if you flushed a steak or something then that could be bad.
 
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DocFunk said:
what kind of food was it? Usually if it's soft food it should flush but if you flushed a steak or something then that could be bad.
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LOL @ steak.:laugh::laugh::laugh:


It was a pretty thick soup, vegs and chicken.




DUMB, DUMB, DUMB!!!!!👎 LOLLLL. Would Draino help dissolve it somewhat or is it just for sinks? I remember at my old place our sink was backed up really badly and Draino and endless plunging over the course of a week didn't work, and then my landlord brought some crazy potion that cleared it in 5 mins....but of course I don't remember what it was!👎
 
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I guess I have to head to Home Depot for an auger now....this is step 2, let's just hope that I don't need to get to step 3, which is "remove the toilet," because I don't have the tools.:laugh:



Ahhhh, this is so pathetic.👎 😆
 
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jochi1543 said:
High-fructose!?😱 *has flashback to when she weighed 218 lbs*
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Yeah, that's one component, apparently:

http://www.karosyrup.com/nutrition.asp

Not exactly a healthful condiment. I'm sure the introduction of HFCS has contributed to the weight issues that our society seems to have.

But I guess it makes eggs shrink; probably has something to do with osmolarity. :laugh:
 
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spicedmanna said:
Yeah, that's one component, apparently:

http://www.karosyrup.com/nutrition.asp

Not exactly a healthful condiment. I'm sure the introduction of HFCS has contributed to the weight issues that our society seems to have.
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But hey, it's FAT-FREE, must be good for you, right!!??:laugh:🙄 I love it when I come to the grocery store and they got all these candies with "FAT-FREE" written in giant letters on the wrapper.:laugh:

I also like all those "Healthy choice!" type of products, where you look at the ingredients and sugar is like the first one of the list and there's 5 grams of saturated fat per 10-gram serving.:laugh:
 
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