Trivial Thread... driving manual stick shift car a manual dexterity??

[seunglim87]

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so I've been driving my baby 99 Mazda Miata manual stick shift for 5 years.
Do you guys think being able to drive stick shift car is a manual dexterity?
Do you guys think the adcom will think i am cool?

 

[txaggie03]

You're guaranteed an interview.

 

[Kahr]

so I've been driving my baby 99 Mazda Miata manual stick shift for 5 years.
Do you guys think being able to drive stick shift car is a manual dexterity? Sure 🙂 Especially if you've got nothing else, but either way as long as you don't say the below or anything else silly I doubt it'd hurt.

Do you guys think the adcom will think i am cool? NO

🙄

 

[jeffity]

They might be more impressed if it's some crazy foreign edition with the driver's seat on the right side. Make sure to apply to schools within driving range so you can take them for a spin and a couple of burnouts in the parking lot.

 

[Desi Don]

so I've been driving my baby 99 Mazda Miata manual stick shift for 5 years.
Do you guys think being able to drive stick shift car is a manual dexterity?
Do you guys think the adcom will think i am cool?

😕

 

[Kahr]

They might be more impressed if it's some crazy foreign edition with the driver's seat on the right side. Make sure to apply to schools within driving range so you can take them for a spin and a couple of burnouts in the parking lot.

So since I lived in Japan for a number of years, that counts right? 😉

 

[Kobebucsfan]

😕

dude take off that quote, i agree its stupid q but someone on predent said u cant use I so i asked for clarification

 

[Maygyver]

Put your self in admission committees shoes. Read a sentence saying you will be a super dentist with awesome hand skills because you drive a stick. Come to a conclusion on the level of silliness.

 

[seunglim87]

Put your self in admission committees shoes. Read a sentence saying you will be a super dentist with awesome hand skills because you drive a stick. Come to a conclusion on the level of silliness.

Dentists use a pedal to control the power of drills, don't they? there are some serious feet action going on down there when you drive a stick. i thought it might be relevant. I decided not to put it anyways. I was just trying to be funny to keep my sanity in this midst of craziness of aadsas process.
haha. and Maygyver i see that you decided to go to columbia. Congratulation. it is my dream school. When i see a black guy walking down the hall in a pink suit, i will hollar

 

[freshmantrouble]

this thread gave me a good laugh, just what i needed while writing these apps.

 

[BombayBDS]

I tie my own shoe-laces, does that count too?

 

[seunglim87]

I tie my own shoe-laces, does that count too?

yes, if you have the world record for the fastest time, or even US record might work. Or maybe if you invent a way to do it with one hand. That would be neat😛

 

[Pennywisdom]

Can you top someone who drives a manual and also knows how to drive a car with opposite steering wheel? The guy has manual dexterity and great PAT skills. Oh snap!

 

[freshmantrouble]

I have other things to write about but could I put video games for manual dex?

 

[Maygyver]

Dentists use a pedal to control the power of drills, don't they? there are some serious feet action going on down there when you drive a stick. i thought it might be relevant. I decided not to put it anyways. I was just trying to be funny to keep my sanity in this midst of craziness of aadsas process.
haha. and Maygyver i see that you decided to go to columbia. Congratulation. it is my dream school. When i see a black guy walking down the hall in a pink suit, i will hollar

Ha thanks. You can only mark it as manual dexterity if you work the pedals with your hands, and drive at the same time.😎

 

[iVTECdailyy]

haha I actually thought about this as I drive a 6 speed but quickly realized that I was thinking way to into this application. If you think about it, people in every country besides America know how to drive stick. It may be special here, but everywhere else its a common characteristic.

I think knowing how to ride a bike is different on the other hand. In that case, you do use all four limbs (feet on brake / shifter, hands on clutch, brake and throttle). I thought of including this as I ride bike myself, but figured it would be better to bring up in an interview rather than a personal statement.

anyway, good luck with the apps. just my 2 cents. I'm drunk right now anyway

 

[dds or bust]

I have other things to write about but could I put video games for manual dex?

That's a good question! Can anyone answer that?

 

[notin]

I have other things to write about but could I put video games for manual dex?

sure you could, but i wouldn't.

 

[rockclock]

coordination =/= dexterity

 

[dds or bust]

coordination =/= dexterity

sure you could, but i wouldn't.

Thank you guys!


K, so far I have, "working on 5,000 piece puzzles." I cannot think of anything else to put. I do not sew, knit, play the piano... Any ideas? 😕 Well, I mean do you mind sharing what you guys put?

 

[dentalWorks]

so I've been driving my baby 99 Mazda Miata manual stick shift for 5 years.
Do you guys think being able to drive stick shift car is a manual dexterity?
Do you guys think the adcom will think i am cool?

you have to be kidding.... right

 

[dentalWorks]

Dentists use a pedal to control the power of drills, don't they? there are some serious feet action going on down there when you drive a stick. i thought it might be relevant. I decided not to put it anyways. I was just trying to be funny to keep my sanity in this midst of craziness of aadsas process.
haha. and Maygyver i see that you decided to go to columbia. Congratulation. it is my dream school. When i see a black guy walking down the hall in a pink suit, i will hollar

thats.....not.....the.....real......Maygyver!!

or.... is it

 

[notin]

Thank you guys!


K, so far I have, "working on 5,000 piece puzzles." I cannot think of anything else to put. I do not sew, knit, play the piano... Any ideas? 😕 Well, I mean do you mind sharing what you guys put?

creativity is good, i feel like most people have no manual dexterity experience and so fudge this answer. and you can maybe get away with putting it. but working on a puzzle isn't dexterity. you could have stub hands and just stub-mash the pieces into place and do fine.

i played the viola, and did boy scouts and fish (knot tying), and target shot rifles a good amount. then i included baseball and tennis which really don't belong.

 

[dentalWorks]

creativity is good, i feel like most people have no manual dexterity experience and so fudge this answer. and you can maybe get away with putting it. but working on a puzzle isn't dexterity. you could have stub hands and just stub-mash the pieces into place and do fine.

i played the viola, and did boy scouts and fish (knot tying), and target shot rifles a good amount. then i included baseball and tennis which really don't belong.

same here... 100-400 yards. I was gonna go today, but too windy.
Also piston shooting.

I wouldn't call these "dexterity" but they are hand-eye coordination.

 

[armorshell]

Thank you guys!


K, so far I have, "working on 5,000 piece puzzles." I cannot think of anything else to put. I do not sew, knit, play the piano... Any ideas? 😕 Well, I mean do you mind sharing what you guys put?

If you don't have anything, don't write anything. It'll look better to be honest than writing down something that's an incredible stretch.

Honestly, putting a puzzle together doesn't seem to really have anything to do with the kind of manual dexterity the application is asking for. Spatial reasoning? Sure, but not manual dexterity.

Here is a list of things that require manual dexterity:

Tying flies
Sewing
Knitting
Macramé
Crochet
Painting
Sculpting
Carving
Jewelry making
Calligraphy
Playing most musical instruments
Video Games*
Tattooing
Model Building

*This is proven by research in the surgical AND dental literature. That being said, I wouldn't include it on your app. Mostly because the older generation (People who will be interviewing you) still associate this kind of activity with laziness, and some experiences with video gaming is almost universal in our culture at this point, making it not very interesting.

 

[Kahr]

If you don't have anything, don't write anything. It'll look better to be honest than writing down something that's an incredible stretch.

Honestly, putting a puzzle together doesn't seem to really have anything to do with the kind of manual dexterity the application is asking for. Spatial reasoning? Sure, but not manual dexterity.

Here is a list of things that require manual dexterity:

Tying flies
Sewing
Knitting
Macramé
Crochet
Painting
Sculpting
Carving
Jewelry making
Calligraphy
Playing most musical instruments
Video Games*
Tattooing
Model Building

*This is proven by research in the surgical AND dental literature. That being said, I wouldn't include it on your app. Mostly because the older generation (People who will be interviewing you) still associate this kind of activity with laziness, and some experiences with video gaming is almost universal in our culture at this point, making it not very interesting.

Okay, in all seriousness now; would you include origami in that list?

 

[Stacker]

cup staking

 

[letsdoitbama]

This whole manual dexterity question seems like kind of a joke, but would being able to type so-and-so words a minute be worthwhile to put down? Doesn't seem too much different than playing the piano to me.

 

[dds or bust]

If you don't have anything, don't write anything. It'll look better to be honest than writing down something that's an incredible stretch.

Honestly, putting a puzzle together doesn't seem to really have anything to do with the kind of manual dexterity the application is asking for. Spatial reasoning? Sure, but not manual dexterity.

Here is a list of things that require manual dexterity:

Tying flies
Sewing
Knitting
Macramé
Crochet
Painting
Sculpting
Carving
Jewelry making
Calligraphy
Playing most musical instruments
Video Games*
Tattooing
Model Building

*This is proven by research in the surgical AND dental literature. That being said, I wouldn't include it on your app. Mostly because the older generation (People who will be interviewing you) still associate this kind of activity with laziness, and some experiences with video gaming is almost universal in our culture at this point, making it not very interesting.

Thank you armorshell! K, so I think I get the picture. I will be leaving that box completely blank. I have played sports most of my life and taken a few ballroom dancing classes. Aside from a ceramics class I took in high school, no manual dexterity here. But I am not one of those pudgy finger people. I enjoy cooking, which requires a lot of chopping and cutting, but then again one can argue that that is more hand-eye coordination (don't want to chop off fingers).

 

[rockclock]

If you don't have anything, don't write anything. It'll look better to be honest than writing down something that's an incredible stretch.

Honestly, putting a puzzle together doesn't seem to really have anything to do with the kind of manual dexterity the application is asking for. Spatial reasoning? Sure, but not manual dexterity.

Here is a list of things that require manual dexterity:

Tying flies
Sewing
Knitting
Macramé
Crochet
Painting
Sculpting
Carving
Jewelry making
Calligraphy
Playing most musical instruments
Video Games*
Tattooing
Model Building

*This is proven by research in the surgical AND dental literature. That being said, I wouldn't include it on your app. Mostly because the older generation (People who will be interviewing you) still associate this kind of activity with laziness, and some experiences with video gaming is almost universal in our culture at this point, making it not very interesting.

if you guys are looking for some kind of rule of thumb: notice that all these require (very) fine motor skills...in almost all of them you could replace an instrument with a counterpart in dentistry and see the resemblance

 

[dentalWorks]

if you guys are looking for some kind of rule of thumb: notice that all these require (very) fine motor skills...in almost all of them you could replace an instrument with a counterpart in dentistry and see the resemblance

yep... basically, if you can produce things with ur hands, chances are, its considered dexterity.

 

[seunglim87]

oh yeah.. i am asian and ive used chopsticks my whole life i must be good with hands.

Here is a funny episode.
i shadowed a black dentist. we went to go eat korean food.
he never used chopsticks before
i taught him the proper way of using chopsticks which is pretty hard to do even for asians if theyve been using chopsticks their whole life in unorthodox way
he used them in perfection on his first try
i was impressed

 

[KallenWheeler]

Haha. Yeah I wouldn't say anything about video games.
I read something once where a nervous applicant was interviewed and they asked him if he had any leadership background or experience. He promptly answered that he was a clan leader in Halo on xbox live. The interviewers laughed and then realized it wasn't a joke. Little to say I don't think he got accepted to that school.

 

[Rxotic]

👍Kudos to mastering the art of the 5 speed. I wonder if racing my crotch rockets would be viewed favorably... I really could use the application stimulation

 

[Rxotic]

LOL Unless they were Gears of War fans. Talk about game over. No offense to the applicant

Haha. Yeah I wouldn't say anything about video games.
I read something once where a nervous applicant was interviewed and they asked him if he had any leadership background or experience. He promptly answered that he was a clan leader in Halo on xbox live. The interviewers laughed and then realized it wasn't a joke. Little to say I don't think he got accepted to that school.