Spring Break Anyone?

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So me and my buddies just booked our room in Panama City Beach for spring break 2010. Just wanted to see what all the other "pre-meds" are doing. Hopefully not everyone is studying for the MCAT or shadowing all week.
 
Poliscidoc said:
So me and my buddies just booked our room in Panama City Beach for spring break 2010. Just wanted to see what all the other "pre-meds" are doing. Hopefully not everyone is studying for the MCAT or shadowing all week.
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Hey I've actually been looking for something to do. Is it cool if I room with ya'll? We can all bro out and I'll buy some Natty.
 
Whoa Whoa Hold on..

So it means you actually have real friends in your life? 🙄
 
On a more serious note, I'll likely end up in the Outer Banks in North Carolina. 😎
 
DocMcCoy said:
Ugh, I'm jealous of you young bucks. I'm getting too old for spring break and 19 year old drunk girls. Stay young as long as you can... AS LONG AS YOU CAN!
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Don't know for spring break yet...but I'm going to Disney World in May!!!
 
Poliscidoc said:
So me and my buddies just booked our room in Panama City Beach for spring break 2010. Just wanted to see what all the other "pre-meds" are doing. Hopefully not everyone is studying for the MCAT or shadowing all week.
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can i join u?
 
On a more serious note, I'll likely end up in the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
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dood, im from NC and think you should go to Topsail, das wussup
 
Anybody not from North Carolina, thats where I am from!

But on a serious note- PM if your serous about going to Panama City Beach March 13-20.
 
Poliscidoc said:
Anybody not from North Carolina, thats where I am from!

But on a serious note- PM if your serous about going to Panama City Beach March 13-20.
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By the way, how much are paying for it?
 
DocMcCoy said:
Ugh, I'm jealous of you young bucks. I'm getting too old for spring break and 19 year old drunk girls. Stay young as long as you can... AS LONG AS YOU CAN!
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No such thing.

I'm not sure where i'll be going yet, hopefully somewhere sweet. But i plan to be drunk all week, it's tradition.
 
What is this spring break you speak of?
 
Another NC kid here (Willmingtooon). Me and some friends rented out a room at this pretty decent all inclusive resort down in Cancun!! So excited. I've done Florida and the Bahamas freshman/sophomore year respectively. So I'll complete the SB trifecta. I may have worked my ass off last semester, but that equals an awesome tax refund 😛.
 
Panama is so high school/freshman year. Oasis Cancun all the way, #1 SB spot. can't effing wait.
 
makeshift123 said:
Panama is so high school/freshman year. Oasis Cancun all the way, #1 SB spot. can't effing wait.
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I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter if its PCB, Cancun, or Gary Indiana. When you get a mass influx of college kids its going to get freaking wild. I mean we always go to PCB just because its close and cheaper.

But who cares- start the countdown, start shotgunning Natty's in the shower before class to get ready for Spring Break '10
 
Poliscidoc said:
So me and my buddies just booked our room in Panama City Beach for spring break 2010. Just wanted to see what all the other "pre-meds" are doing. Hopefully not everyone is studying for the MCAT or shadowing all week.
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I'm going to D.R. on my fourth medical mission. We already have 150 patients lined up for surgery. Maybe it sounds lame, but I'm really excited that the mission coincides with my spring break for the first time in four years!
 
Going to some place in Arizona w/ a bunch of friends for SB. Place looks awesome.. huge club in the middle of the hotel, pool in the middle of the club, amazing beach/lake kinda thing going on. Just looks like a fun, drunken time
 
riverjib said:
I'm going to D.R. on my fourth medical mission. We already have 150 patients lined up for surgery. Maybe it sounds lame, but I'm really excited that the mission coincides with my spring break for the first time in four years!
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That sounds so cool, so what all do you get to do?? And how did you get into the medical mission trips?
 
Poliscidoc said:
So me and my buddies just booked our room in Panama City Beach for spring break 2010. Just wanted to see what all the other "pre-meds" are doing. Hopefully not everyone is studying for the MCAT or shadowing all week.
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I live in Tallahassee, which is about 3 hours away from Panama City Beach. It is a common hot-spot among the undergrads at FSU, as well as all the other universities in Florida. I haven't yet gone and experienced Spring Break there but many of my friends have. I've heard many crazy stories about the Panama City Beach spring break environment! You should have a blast!
 
Poliscidoc said:
So me and my buddies just booked our room in Panama City Beach for spring break 2010. Just wanted to see what all the other "pre-meds" are doing. Hopefully not everyone is studying for the MCAT or shadowing all week.
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Hah. Lucky. I'm going to be trying to set up shadowing with someone for spring break...Perhaps an orthopedist, since he's pretty much only half a mile away. =X
 
Going to California to visit my brother for the first half. Second half, sleeping.
 
Poliscidoc said:
That sounds so cool, so what all do you get to do?? And how did you get into the medical mission trips?
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Thanks! Relatively speaking, I've done nothing. I worked as a surgical technologist and a surgeon I befriended invited me along as his personal "scrub nurse" one year. He grew up in Ecuador, and the minute he became a *real* attending he started volunteering there. He recruited a friend of his from residency the next year, and they slowly got the ball rolling. Five years later, there were almost 30 of us involved, and that year, we performed over 100 surgeries (ENT, plastics, orthopedics, dentistry, GYN, and general surgery) at no cost to patients.

My first of three missions there convinced me to go back to school to become a physician. I've only been involved in recruiting and fundraising. This year, the mission coincides with my spring break, and I'm really excited to return as someone who is still just a scrub nurse, but will someday be able to either give anesthesia or perform life-changing surgeries. Either way, I'm excited to contribute my limited skills to the mission that helped me figure out what I really want to do with my life.
 
going to los cabos! i'm so excited to be able to go on a real spring break instead of studying!😀
 
For the first few days, I really do have to study for the MCAT 👎
For the last 5 day, cruise to mexico 👍
 
Friends are going to panama city, still debating if I'm going. Don't remember dates!
 
Actually taking two trips. One to Disney Land a week before sb for a national conference and then spending sb in Ft. Lauderdale.
 
my "spring break" will be spent at coachella 😎
 
The warm waters of the Caribean are calling my name...Dominican Republic is where i'll be going 🙂. Of course part of my vacation will be spent taking care of the villagers in a clinic...expecting a lot of Haitian refuges too!
 
Screw you guys with the money & time to do all these places lol

Shadowing/MCAT/parents coming in from out of state.
 
Danlee07 said:
Screw you guys with the money & time to do all these places lol

Shadowing/MCAT/parents coming in from out of state.
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Yep, I understand, but I've also been working and saving money since 8th grade, so I think I want to take some time before I have no time for 10 years. Yaddadamean?
 
brygguy1 said:
Yep, I understand, but I've also been working and saving money since 8th grade, so I think I want to take some time before I have no time for 10 years. Yaddadamean?
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yeah, but dude, that money is going down for pleasure. i guess it's good to relax but i'd rather just keep it esp for the application process etc
 
Haha. Might go to the AMSA National Convention in Anaheim and, of course, study for the MCAT. It'll be a much better spring break after an acceptance. 😉
 
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