Random non-pathology and only peripherally related to pathology thread

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AndyMilonakis said:
Dude, you're gonna let me pwn you in a thread YOU created?

I have to admit that I am a formidable adversary though. My recent acquisition of a laptop with wireless internet has approximately doubled my powers.

I'm off to lab...cyas!
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Yeah, I can't compete with that! Maybe they will let me post during signout and I can catch up.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Noooooooooooooo.....you mean I gotta wait until well after Match Day to see if there is any more significance to those numbers??? 👎
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I will have defended my thesis by then!! :clap:

But then I have to go right back to clinical rotations 👎
 
beary said:
I will have defended my thesis by then!! :clap:

But then I have to go right back to clinical rotations 👎
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So that means you will be defending sometime in April.

When do you have to go back to the wards? Do you have to resume medical school right after you defend?

I defended around the same time as you did but I didn't have to start M3 year until July. Having April to June off was just awesome! Hopefully you'll have the luxury of getting a well deserved rest. 👍

Yes clinical rotations suck but M3 year is only a year. I'm sure you'll get through it unscathed. But you can post all your frustrations on the Official Anti-Clinical Medicine thread. That thread hasn't been too bumpin' and we need more stories :laugh:.
 
I'm laughing at the fact that an honorary Path member and self-proclaimed "pharmacy supernerd" is impressively only 50 posts away from me and miles ahead of the remaining posters, on this one thread in the path forum!

Imagine if we sampled the other threads.

To all the lurkers and guests - see what happens when you don't post? 😉
 
bananaface said:
Are you also trying to get the highest number of girls pregnant?
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(backs out of room quietly)
 
yaah said:
I take care of my kids!
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You're supposed to take care of your kids you low expectation-having muthaf*cka!

(you were quoting Chris Rock right yaah?)
 
AndyMilonakis said:
So that means you will be defending sometime in April.

When do you have to go back to the wards? Do you have to resume medical school right after you defend?

I defended around the same time as you did but I didn't have to start M3 year until July. Having April to June off was just awesome! Hopefully you'll have the luxury of getting a well deserved rest. 👍

Yes clinical rotations suck but M3 year is only a year. I'm sure you'll get through it unscathed. But you can post all your frustrations on the Official Anti-Clinical Medicine thread. That thread hasn't been too bumpin' and we need more stories :laugh:.
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I have a whopping one week off between my defense and when I start back at med school. I am sure it will not even really end up being a week off because of final deposit of the thesis, etc. I am BIGTIME dreading clinical rotations and am sure I will have innumerable stories/whines to add all the time.
 
beary said:
I have a whopping one week off between my defense and when I start back at med school. I am sure it will not even really end up being a week off because of final deposit of the thesis, etc. I am BIGTIME dreading clinical rotations and am sure I will have innumerable stories/whines to add all the time.
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That's weird. Do all med students start M3 year at this time? Or will you be overlapping with the students who are almost done with M3 year? If the latter is the case, I think that's just wrong. 👎
 
AndyMilonakis said:
That's weird. Do all med students start M3 year at this time? Or will you be overlapping with the students who are almost done with M3 year? If the latter is the case, I think that's just wrong. 👎
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The "normal" med students start in late June just like everywhere else. So I will be overlapping with the students who are almost done with their M3 year. I totally agree that it is wrong. 👎

We have kind of a different setup here and most MSTP students do what I am doing. We do internal medicine at the end of M2 (the summer before starting grad school). Then go into grad school, and then everybody rushes to finish up in April because we have one year of required clinical rotations left (we don't have to do 4th year electives or family medicine). So I will graduate next May. Then I get to be a pathologist!!! 🙂
 
bananaface said:
This person on my AIM is asking for life/career advice. Crap! I am so freaking uncomfortable right now. I have the feeling that they will do whatever I say. I keep trying to leave my comments open ended. AughhhH!!!!!!
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Lots of open ended questions. How do you feel about this? What do you want to do? Tell me about your goals. etc.
 
beary said:
We have kind of a different setup here and most MSTP students do what I am doing. We do internal medicine at the end of M2 (the summer before starting grad school). Then go into grad school, and then everybody rushes to finish up in April because we have one year of required clinical rotations left (we don't have to do 4th year electives or family medicine). So I will graduate next May. Then I get to be a pathologist!!! 🙂
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That is interesting. I think doing internal medicine upfront prior to the graduate phase is a smart thing. It's good that you got that bear of a rotation out of the way. Your curriculum is much more efficient than our traditional curriculum it seems. The way your program does it...all the fellows save a year 👍.

So if you'll be graduating next May, that means you have to apply to ERAS this summer with only a few grades from clinical rotations under your belt?
 
yaah said:
Lots of open ended questions. How do you feel about this? What do you want to do? Tell me about your goals. etc.
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That is much nicer than what I would do. I would just say I had to go, and then go watch TV or come to this forum or something. :laugh:
 
yaah said:
Ugh. Can't believe it's sunday after 8pm already. Weekends need to be more than 2 days long!
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Heh...I just got back from lab...and then I have to go back at midnight. 👎

I agree, weekends need to be 3 days instead of 2.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Heh...I just got back from lab...and then I have to go back at midnight. 👎

I agree, weekends need to be 3 days instead of 2.
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Hmmm...I will be in sleepyland by that point!

Too bad you can't just do 5 days worth of work in four, because I think I might be willing to do that to get the fifth day off. But hospitals don't work that way. 😳
 
AndyMilonakis said:
So if you'll be graduating next May, that means you have to apply to ERAS this summer with only a few grades from clinical rotations under your belt?
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Yes! And even more worrisome to me, is taking Step 2 before finishing all core rotations! I am doing a surg path elective (which hopefully I will do well in), and already did medicine, and I think peds and surgery is all I will have done before dean's letters go out. But I agree that it is an efficient way to do things and I am grateful to not have to spend even more time in the clinics.
 
beary said:
Yes! And even more worrisome to me, is taking Step 2 before finishing all core rotations! I am doing a surg path elective (which hopefully I will do well in), and already did medicine, and I think peds and surgery is all I will have done before dean's letters go out. But I agree that it is an efficient way to do things and I am grateful to not have to spend even more time in the clinics.
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Step 2 sucks. But you know what? you can take it late (i.e., when it don't count no more). P=MD.
 
beary said:
Yes! And even more worrisome to me, is taking Step 2 before finishing all core rotations! I am doing a surg path elective (which hopefully I will do well in), and already did medicine, and I think peds and surgery is all I will have done before dean's letters go out. But I agree that it is an efficient way to do things and I am grateful to not have to spend even more time in the clinics.
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Key to doing well in surg path rotations as a med student is to stay awake, act interested, read about things you see, and ask some questions but not so many that you slow down the flow of activity.
 
yaah said:
Key to doing well in surg path rotations as a med student is to stay awake, act interested, read about things you see, and ask some questions but not so many that you slow down the flow of activity.
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Nah...I think staying awake and doing a presentation at the end of the rotation here was key. I did read too but that was for fun and not as a way of trying to get a good grade or anything.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Nah...I think staying awake and doing a presentation at the end of the rotation here was key. I did read too but that was for fun and not as a way of trying to get a good grade or anything.
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Yeah but see, to get a good grade you just need to show interest. And by reading and learning things it shows interest. Even if they don't see you doing it, they can tell by the way you act, the questions you ask, etc.

But yes for a lot of rotations the presentation will get you a good grade. Doesn't even necessarily have to be a good one!
 
yaah said:
Yeah but see, to get a good grade you just need to show interest. And by reading and learning things it shows interest. Even if they don't see you doing it, they can tell by the way you act, the questions you ask, etc.

But yes for a lot of rotations the presentation will get you a good grade. Doesn't even necessarily have to be a good one!
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i was half serious with that last post. i agree with ya man. 👍
 
yaah said:
Did you see I have passed 7500 posts? :scared:
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Congrats yaah!!! :clap:

Why does this make you shudder?

At the pace I have been posting over the last 24 hours, I may catch up with you soon. 😀
 
beary said:
At the pace I have been posting over the last 24 hours, I may catch up with you soon. 😀
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yes with 0.49 posts per day, you will surely catch up to yaah...in ONE HUNDRED BILLION YEARS! :laugh:
 
AndyMilonakis said:
yes with 0.49 posts per day, you will surely catch up to yaah...in ONE HUNDRED BILLION YEARS! :laugh:
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Beary's post rate is impressively increasing, however. 👍

It makes me shudder because that is a freaking lot of posts and I wonder how much other stuff I could have accomplished instead of posting them.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
yes with 0.49 posts per day, you will surely catch up to yaah...in ONE HUNDRED BILLION YEARS! :laugh:
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Yes, but that average is highly skewed by the fact that I used to post about once a month. The race with yaah is on. 🙂
 
yaah said:
Beary's post rate is impressively increasing, however. 👍

It makes me shudder because that is a freaking lot of posts and I wonder how much other stuff I could have accomplished instead of posting them.
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you could've had phone conversations with two chicks at the same time.
 
beary said:
Yes, but that average is highly skewed by the fact that I used to post about once a month. The race with yaah is on. 🙂
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oh it's on!

Beary: "Bring it!"
Yaah: "It's already been brought'n."

3...


2...


1....


FIGHT!
 
bananaface said:
Or, three. 😉
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That's only on AIM. 😉


Beary you need to post simultaneously in the lounge as well. Until then you have no hope. Although, I am busier at work this month so I won't be posting as much (except today, lol).
 
yaah said:
That's only on AIM. 😉


Beary you need to post simultaneously in the lounge as well. Until then you have no hope. Although, I am busier at work this month so I won't be posting as much (except today, lol).
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I am somewhat of an SDN newbie, so pardon my ignorance:
what is the lounge?? 😕
I keep seeing references to this but have not figured it out.
 
yaah said:
Beary you need to post simultaneously in the lounge as well. Until then you have no hope. Although, I am busier at work this month so I won't be posting as much (except today, lol).
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you're such a bad influence yaah. she needs to finish her thesis damnit! :laugh:
 
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