"Empire" is on HBO right now.
👍 "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?" "Control, control, you must learn control!" My ambition in life is to speak entirely in Yodisms. I think that a wookie must have less fine motor control relative to a primate.
SL seemed like a dirty city, or maybe just a different kind of dirty than I am used to. I don't think that I would want to live there, although we did have a lot of fun. Do they have good residencies there or just a good ballteam?
It has that rep--the dirty alternative to Chicago, like how some view LA as the anti-SF or SD. I doubt that I'd want to make a home there (MO is too conservative for me), but the baseball makes it as good an excuse as any. I have very few pleasures in life--Subway sandwiches, Mountain Dew products, movies, loud music, exercise, warm hugs from lovely ladies, watching the Cardinals in person. I can't tolerate traveling distances even for vacation, so it's been some time since I've been.
Residencies? Well since I can't seem to get my **** together and realize that I need to study like my classmates or at least listen to the lectures or read the notegroups, my prospects for step 1 are not looking great right now. I'm probably going to have to settle for clinical path. It should be an easy match given my previous career and the fact that it's not very competative. Plus the quality of training isn't very important. Wash's path residents are mostly mudphuds, so that leaves me with SLU.
But it seems like from other posts, you might have liked the systems-based better, or am I reading you wrong?
Hindsight is 20/20.
😀 There were red flags in my home state that were worrisome (like being a first-year guinea pig for a brand new PBL-ridden curriculum), but the positives here were that I could keep my job and a handful of useful contacts. I knew that anatomy would be both low yield for step 1 and boring as hell, so I wanted to take it with biochem which was a strength for me and get it out of the way quickly. I was also already familiar with Hippocrates because I used all of the M2 micro material to study for my certification exam at work.
The reason that I seem to prefer systems-based is because I like the layout of First Aid. It's really a tough call since finding someone who has done both is a tall order.
I am a big believer that a good student will learn the same amount regardless of the school that they go to. I applied very, very narrowly this cycle due to my aforemention MCAT timing. I probably could have waited and applied to more "prestigious" schools for 2008 admission (not that I would have been accepted or anything), but in the end, I think that I will be the same doctor whether I go to OU or Baylor.
True. True. To me, I loved Baylor because of the curriculum and tuition, especially after our dean gave them such an endorsement at our interview day. I don't really think that their students have any sort of inherent advantage, but I liked the pricetag.
In the past season, I only applied to 4, and 2 were just used to gauge my odds outside the region in case I wanted to try again for 2011.
Never mind -- the videotaping is worth 10% of our grade. I'm sort of confused as to what the purpose of it is, though, and what exactly we have to do. I feel like we don't get a lot of clear information in PCM about the course, which I guess is problem with the whole small group leader thing.
Is it the interview taping (early March) or is the PE (late April) being taped too?
I guess that means I'm one of those dumb people who's better at memorizing and worse at conceptualizing. 🙂
