UHS Class 2006 part 01

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I'm with Tammy...what does booyah mean?

Natureboy, I cried when I got the letter! Congratulations. See ya in August!

PCS, you're in my thoughts....hope you get your wish.

OUT!
 
This is just another example of why i think UHS is AWESOME. Thank you for your thoughts... and, I'm really happy for all of you who have gotten in already. I called the admissions office today and got some encouragement there... got into DMU today, so I'm thankful that I will be a doctor in the near future. I think I need to be patient and pro-active with UHS and I so look forward to meeting/working/chilling with all of you in the future.
 
oopz... so i don't jinx myself... lemme rewind and reword...

i so so look forward to having the opportunity to meet/work/chill with all of you in the near future! *smile*
 
PCS,
We're all pulling for you. Congrats on DMU. I've heard wonderful things about it as well, but I hope to see you in August at UHS. You'll have to get a nametag with PCS on it though...I feel like I know everyone here, but I'm not going to know a soul (except Chris who I sat with at the interview) when I walk into the room. I agree with whoever said we need nametags with our screen names on the first day of class! (Mine won't be difficult, of course! Boring screen name...)

Keep us posted!!!

- Tammy
 
Hey gang, how are you guys doing? It's been a while since I last checked in with ya's. I'm in the middle of finals right now. I have one tomorrow at 8am. Not too excited about it. I'm pretty unmotivated to study. I think that's the common thing that we're all going through right now. 🙄 Well, at least I should try some more tonite before I go to bed. All right, lates. Hope you guys are doing well...
 
I'm with Yeller......I have been so unmovitvated to study ever since I received my letter of acceptance. I think I will end up with C's in both my classes this semester.....and I don't even care!!!!! All I need is a C in Genetics and that is all.

To me, Boo-Yah means like "Hell Yeah" or "Kick Ass"; so the T-shirt is saying.....Kick ass, I'm in med school!!!!

Tammy, you should have had your screen name as Joker, since that is how you referred to yourself at the interview!!! 🙂

The days are getting closer now.....
I am glad this thread has been going the way it has! I feel like I know alot of you already.....I think we should were our screen names on tags.....great idea!

Well that's all for now...

Chris
 
Hey gang--
I have a question/thought and wanted to run it by you all.....
I was thinking that we need to organize and put on an osteopathic medical school conference. I attended the KU Med school pre-med conference twice, and I thought it was very beneficial. To me, ours would be even better. Number one, we could sell UHS to all those in the area of Kansas and Missouri, primarily. Number two, this would be our opportunity to educate pre-med hopefuls as well as people of the community, where ever we would host it. I know a lot of you on here and other posts, have stated that you have never heard of osteopathic medicine until later in college.

To me, it would be a great opportunity. Let me know about your thoughts, reactions, and whatever on it. If it is a bad idea, let me know and I will punt it out of my head.

Thanks!!

Chris
 
Dear UHSers,

Chris beat me to it, but basically he explained BOOYAH about as well as I could....
"Hell Yeah" and/or "Kick Ass" pretty much covers how I felt when I heard!!!

I second (or third) the remark about not being motivated to study, but the real problem lies in writing this thesis!! Best of luck to the rest of you... 🙄

~Hillary
😛
 
I am ordering my Boo-Yah Shirt tomorrow as well as the $150,000 coffee mug.....I am a caffeine-a-holic and coffee is my friend!! We have stayed up all nights, many a night together my coffee and me......
 
sup everyone.....i got into UHS last week and was so excited ...that i didn't get to say hi to everyone...well, i'm sure i interviewed with some of you....give me a hollar back...and let me know your plans about apartment and stuff...are all of you staying in the apartment across the street?...well talk to you later ....my name is Vinh by the way...
"When life gets you down, grab life by the neck and choke the living daylights out of it."
Since everyone had a quote, i just thought i might as well put mine in....heheh 😀
 
Hi Chris, Tammy, Hillary, Vinh, pcs, Yeller, and everyone else!

This is like one of those games where you have to remember everyone's names! (hey I rhymed).

I agree that we put our screen names on the nametags. What fun!

Chris your idea sounds wonderful about the conference. Educating the community as well as pre-meds is very key.

OK, so when DO we get that FA letter?! I'm calling the school today to ask question about the computer upgrades. Do we need zip drives because we will be obtaining info that's already on a zip or because we will be obtaining so much info that we need to save it on a zip? In that case, maybe a CD burner would do as well?

So many questions.
😕 M.
 
Mary-
To answer a few of your questions.....
I got a new computer back in January and I got a CD burner with mine. A first year at UHS told me they let you check out CD-ROMs from the library on about any subject you want. So it would definitely be beneficial to have one, so that you could own a lot of programs. Although, if you would not want a CD burner of your own, I could burn disks for anyone that doesn't have one. No problem.
As for the zip drive, I would get one, simply because I bet we will have a lot of info to obtain. I would only get a 100MB; that will be plenty.
I actually got my zip drive off of ebay (where I seem to get a lot of things! 🙂 )You can find a zip drive on ebay for around 25-30 bucks, whereas they are much more expensive in a store

Anyway, that is my two cents worth!

Chris
 
I'm so excited to see our numbers increasing! I'm going to start one other UHS thread so that I can keep track of every one...a roll call. Look for it in the Osteopathic Forum.

I think the idea of a premed conference and/or one for the community is a great idea! I'd love to be a part of that. I also went to KUMed's conference once in Emporia. It was very helpful. I definitely want part of my job as a DO student and future DO to be familiarizing the community and health profession on osteopathic medicine.

Anyway, glad to see our forum growing as big as the rest of them. Way to go!
 
Hey gang,

I think we would definitely need the help & blessing of the admissions office to do the conference, but I think it is a great idea. I have a lot of experience with recruiting and speaking to high school students (as I do the marketing for a college), so I would love to help with this. (This may not be recruiting high school students, but rather college students, but I think the same principles would apply.)

Guess what?! I JUST FINISHED MY BIOCHEMISTRY FINAL!!!!
 
I hit the wrong button...I'm back again.

Congrats Vinh! Can't wait to see you in August.

About the computer, earlier in the thread, one of the second year students said the computer was not a requirement because there are so many computer labs around campus. However, the letter was pretty specific that it was a requirement. Who knows! I'm sure it would be beneficial to have a computer with all the bells and whistles at home so you don't have to live at the campus.

If anyone gets an update on the FA letters, please post the info here. I think we're all curious when we will know how much moo-la we'll get for the first year.

As far as apartments, I'm going to KC on Monday & Tuesday of next week to look at apartments & schools for my son. We won't live near campus, but hopefully within 10-25 miles. I've heard that Park Hill & Blue Valley are good districts, so I'm going to try to find a place within one of those USDs.

Good luck everyone on your finals. The semester is almost over!!! :clap:
 
Hello everyone--
I am glad you are all into the conference idea. I just think it would be great to put on one, maybe two conferences a year, to recruit and educate students on osteopathic medicine. We will have to get together once school starts, if we have time, and figure out a game plan.
Tammy has the right idea about getting the admissions office involved. They will be one of our biggest helpers!

Anyway, post more later!

Chris
 
I just wanted to check in and say Hi again to everyone.. 🙂

I have to agree with all those finding motivation to study hard to come by...I'm sooooo far behind in my genetics course now that it's starting to get a little less funny than it used to be. :wink:

My final's next month, so hopefully I'll make it through. I never thought I'd be just aiming for a C in anything in my life, though! Learning anything more than that just seems like far too much to think about right now!

One quick question--does anyone know if we can get the money for our computer included in NEXT year's financial aid budget instead? I'm buying one for this year, but I won't have it in time to submit the receipt to be included for this year. 😕

~~Danielle~~
 
Danielle,

My understanding is that you can submit the receipt when you get it. You don't necessarily have to submit it before you receive your financial aid.

The current students made it sound like you can approach the financial aid office at any time you are in a money crunch. They made it sound like the problem was "not taking too much money" rather than "not getting enough money."

I guess we'll find out for ourselves soon. I hope this is truly the problem because my budget doesn't seem like it will fit within UHS' published budget. (I need 12 roommates in a 2 bedroom apartment...any takers? ha! ha!)

We have a storm coming and my son is nervous, so I have to get home now. Talk to y'all soon!

Tammy
 
Hi everyone, its been a while since I've had 5 minutes to post a message! Our class seems to have grown. Is everyone still procrastinating finding housing? Things just keep coming up that are keeping me from buying a plane ticket and getting to KC!
 
Dear Dr.Chris,
Thanks for the info. I called the IT dept at UHS yesterday. Zip drives/disks are required; something about the prof's can update the disks and give them back to us vs. a CD burner which they can't update (is it because they might not have a burner, that ZIP is the universal system there?). I'm not crystal clear on all of this, but I'll take their word for it. However, I would like to get a burner anyway, so maybe I'll have both. Any current UHS students who could clarify all of this for me I would appreciate it!
Fortunately I already have an Iomega slot on my laptop. I asked about the Office 2000 upgrade. It's required because documents that the prof's give us will be on 2000 or XP and if we have an old verson one might not be able to retrieve all the info if you're running an older version.

So that's all I know, which isn't much. 🙄

Have a great day!
M. 🙂
 
The zip drives are worthless. If you want to copy all the lectures so that you can bring them home and print them out then i guess you would need one. But the rest of us just print out what ever we need and call it good. I just told IT that i had an external one and they said ok. You dont need to buy one. Get a burner instead.

Are any of you proficient in html, coding, or web design? Do you want to be involved in creating the web page for your class. If you do get in touch with me personally at [email protected] and we will get you off on the right foot. Youll have all summer to make it look good.

check ours out at <a href="http://www.uhs2005.com" target="_blank">www.uhs2005.com</a> watch for updates daily
 
Dr. chris and all wanting to put on a conference:

Actually UHS does have a conference set up on the same day/week (i'm not sure which) as Primary Care Day. They had a seminar, video, and a tour of the facilities. They had also set up the OMM lab for clubs, activities, etc. to get a feel for some of the things you will do as a first/second year student. It was really nice and we received a lot of good information.

A second conference might be a good idea though, b/c most of the information we received would be for students at UHS.

Just thought you might like to know UHS is doing something, we just might like to do more.
Karen.
 
Karen--
Thanks for the info on the conference. Is the one UHS puts on, on campus? I was thinking of going somewhere neutral, like Wichita or somewhere like that, to talk to all levels of college students.
Thanks again for the info......
August is almost here!!

Chris
 
chris...HAHAHA, one of those quotes are from "Real Genius"...Here's another one...Kent:"I was Hot and I was Hungry"

Anyway, to you youngsters...I am graduating, if anyone wants the books "Isserson's Guide to Getting a Residency " and "A DO's guide to getting an MD residency: DO's eat their young"

Send me a private message.
 
Glad you liked my quote. Real Genius is a hilarious movie (for those of you who have never seen it, it is an early 80s Val Kilmer movie....go rent it today!)

Anyway, I am getting ready to hit the hay. Last day of classes tomorrow.....actually today......in like 8 hours.......it is an hour drive to school.....I am going to be tired.

Hope my little ones don't wake up tonight!!

See ya

Chris <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
 
Hi UHS 2005,
Thanks for your advice. When you print out "what you need", how do you get the info if you don't use a zip? Forgive my ignorance....
Thanks!
M. 😕
 
Hey gang--
We are up to 8 pages!! Super!!

I just popped on here to see what was up. I am suppposed to be in class right now, but I haven't gone to my first class in two weeks!! I am very bad.

I have one more Genetics Lecture today and I am done! So excited. The final is on Monday, then an Intro to Archaeology final on Thursday, then done, done, done!!!

Talk to you all later!

Chris
 
The UHS Conference was held at the school. It was nice to see the school and area, b/c of how bad I had heard the area was.
I think a neutral place would also be nice, maybe even some undergraduate school fairs - I know KCOM was at ours. Just another idea.
Karen.
 
Karen--
Yeah that was my idea, being at a undergrad school. The first year I went to KUs, it was at Emporia State University. The second year it was at Kansas State University.
The turnout was great at both conferences, as well as informative about the school, med school and so forth!

I just think more people would go osteopathic if they knew what the heck it was!

So that is my idea; like I said, if it won't work, we will do what we can!!!

Chris
 
To bypass the zip requirement tell them you already have an external zip drive. Just simply write on the printout "have external zip drive from previous computer" or something to that effect
 
Hey guys,

As far as computers...you do not need one. I know that it is a school requirement, but that is just a paperwork game so you can get more financial aid if you WANT a computer. You really can get by without one, especially if you study at school. Now don't get me wrong, having a computer is great. I get a lot of info from the net and using CD's as study aids. Having a friend with a burner is a great thing too, my roomie is a techno geek. I have a cable hookup at home, and I do not have a zip drive. The only reason you need a zip is if you want to download a whole presentation of the system at school, and then carry it to your home computer. I solve the problem by just reviewing powerpoint lectures at school, using the networked computers.

That's my $.02, give me a holler if this doesn't make sense or you want more info.

Matt
 
Hello everyone--
Hope all you mothers had a great Mother's Day!!!

I just thought I would post again, to get our thread back to the top. I am supposed to be studying for my Genetics final, which is to happen in about an hour, but I thought I would jump on here instead!! I am horrible I know

I just hope I get out of this "not wanting to study" mode before August. But I am sure that I will, since I will be learning about things that I really want to know (finally.....after 7 long years....!)

anyway, back to the books.....talk to you all later!!!

Chris
 
Hey--
I finished my genetics final.......!!! Hooray!!!!
I have a question....am I the only one who framed my letter of acceptance.....am I the only freak? Or did any of do this as well?
Just curious!!

Chris
 
Hi everyone!

Has anyone looked at River Oaks apartments? I saw them today and really liked them. They are past Gladstone...about 12-14 miles from the campus. They are next to a golf course, in a good school district, have a fitness room and pool. The 2 BD/2 Bath runs $545.

Let me know if anyone else is planning on moving there. I would like to live close to others.

- Tammy
 
One more thing about River Oaks...

The special this month is $100 deposit, plus first and last month's rent is free with a 13-month lease.

See ya'!
 
tammy,
hey, that area river oaks....how is it?..does it have a one room apartment? does the area look nicer than Century towers....?...can you send me all the info you've found or know about?thanks...i'm a future classmate...but, not sure...about living in century towers...
[email protected]
thanks
always,
vinh 😀
 
Hi Vinh,

I found the complex on forrent.com. The info on the computer says that the 1 BD is 800 sf and is $495, however the 2 BD was less than what the computer says, so perhaps the 1 BD is also. Their 800 number is 1-800-396-2076 if you want to call them.

They also allow pets (big dogs), which was important to me.

In addition to the pool & fitness room, they are also putting in a computer lab with a couple of computers. I have my own, but it could be important to someone. It also has a sand volleyball court, which could be fun for a pick-up game sometime.

(Can you tell I'm trying to talk someone into moving there? I don't want to be off by myself somewhere! 😛 )

If you want to be close to school, CT would be the best place, but if that isn't critical for you, then this is a nice place for low rent.

Take care!
Tammy
 
Hey all of you 2006ers!

I haven't posted on SDN in ages it seems (due to the lack of free time while in school), but I thought I'd congratulate you all on your acceptances! I've just got 2 patient interviews, 1 physical exam, 1 Introduction to Clinical Medicine quiz, 1 Cumulative Year-End exam, and the USMLE Shelf exam and I'm done with my first year at UHS!!! It was a great year (it went by so incredibly fast) and it is completely unbelievable how much I learned, as you will too. One piece of advice for the incoming class- Take The Summer OFF!!!!! Do NOT be studying much this summer because you will have plenty of time for that beginning in August. Enjoy time with your family and friends. The only bit of studying that I would recommend is if you haven't had any histology, you may want to look over some. Dr. McWhorter, one of UHS' fantastic histologist and anatomist, will get you clued in REAL QUICK. He does a great job in getting you used to med school (I'm assuming that he will be the director of your Foundations of Medicine course). By the way, I thought Foundations was the hardest section this past year, mostly because you are totally not used to the amount of material you will be covering so quickly. But, DO NOT worry, you will learn how to manage the material, it just takes some time, that's all. Anyways, remember what I said to enjoy your summer and I look forward to meeting you all at your Orientation Week towards the end of the summer!

-Nathan Box, MS1.999
 
tammy,
thanks for the help...i might end up at CT anyways because it's close and it would save the 15 min....so i can sleep...heheheh....i'll let you know if i decide to go to your place....well if you get any further info....let me know..thanks
always,
vinh 😀
 
Hey everyone--
How is it going? Just posting to keep the thread going strong! I am going to KC to look at apartments the first week of June. I am so pumped!!!

Later gators!

Chris :clap: :clap:
 
Hey guys! Looks like the UHS related threads are the top three in this forum :clap: :clap: :clap: Yeah, but seriously, hope that you guys are doing well. Finished finals a couple of days ago and am at my parents place for the summer and we don't have internet connection 🙁 so it's been kind of tough to keep in touch. Question: What do you guys have planned for the summer?

Yellow
 
Yeller--
I plan on working full time, spending time with my family, finishing up my respiratory therapy class (which I should have over a year ago!!), and also design a web page for the UHS Class of 2006!!
Plus workout, read some good books, and get prepped for school! So I will probably be fairly busy.
I have my last final at 200 today, which I haven't even began to study for, so I better get busy!

Later

Chris
 
Old Yeller,

I'll be writing my thesis, taking my Physiology final TOMORROW & finishing up my Master's (which includes taking Gross Anatomy until August 6th--AHHH!). I really wish I could take some time off, but OH WELL. Good luck to all the rest of you finishing up your programs & relaxing or working all summer, I'll be thinking of you!

DrChris33,

Good luck on your final & good to hear you are already starting the 2006 web page, WOOHOO!

~Hillary

P.S.--I can't wait to wear my Booyah t-shirt!
 
I'm going to work until the last minute because I need the $$$. We're also remodeling our house while trying to sell it. (Anyone want a vacation home in Southeast Kansas? ha! ha!)

I know the CT people have talked about getting together before school starts for a barbeque, but would others be interested in meeting? We could perhaps get together the weekend before school and go out for drinks or something. Keep it in mind!

Have a great summer, everyone!

Chris, good luck on your last final!
 
Hey gang--
Finished with my last final!! Did I study?? About five minutes! Did I pass? Do I care?? Probably got a C and I don't care; it feels great!
Yeah Hillary I too will wear my Boo-Yah T-shirt.
I think Tammy has a good idea about meeting up as well. I think we should have a few good social mixers to get to know everyone, even though we know each other some what on SDN.

Well I will continue to post and check our page throughout the summer. I am taking an internet course over the summer entitled Creating Web Pages; so I can make a kick ass web page for our class. If anyone has any ideas about the content or something that you would like to see posted, email me or post on here!!

Have a great summer!

Hillary, sucks to be you with all your stuff, but you will benefit in the long run I am sure!!

Chris
 
Chris,
I am the webmaster for the school where I work. If I can help you design the page, let me know. It may be difficult since you live on one end of Kansas and I on the other, but I'll do what I can.

Go have a cold one and enjoy your night...finals are over!!!

- Tammy
 
Hi everyone! 🙂
Can you believe we've only got 3 months left before school starts??
Congrats to everyone who's finished their exams and graduating this semester! :clap: My genetics final isn't until the second week of June. 😛

As for the rest of the summer, I'm going to try to make as much $$ as possible before I make the long trip down to KC. The Canadian dollar is worth pretty close to nothing right now, so the exchange on it should be hilarious! 🙄

~~Danielle~~
 
I HAVE DECIDED

to end my job on July 3.

Thank you and good night. 😛
 
My contract ends July 1st! 🙂 No more fleas :clap: :clap: :clap: ! Sorry, just felt that I had to share.

Flea girl
 
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