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No, not coffee again.
Could we have deedeeris instead? Or coldstone.
Anything, but coffee.
jk.

Want to carpool, Rita? I dont think you want to ride in my truck with a broken bumper.
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Hey Ecdoesit,

I was accidently signed in as my friend's sdn account (BenzML320). If you, or anybody, has any 411 on the upcoming get-2-gether, send it to this account k? btw, I'd be willing to carpool with someone. I'm halfway from San Diego to L.A., in Huntington Beach. Thanks

Sean
 
Wow I'm so happy about May 22nd!! I really have no reason to bail out now! Right after finals, packing my bags and heading down there for 2 days. Rita, and anyone else who'll meet up, can't wait. I will bring my bf along b/c he's my driver.. hope no one minds :rolleyes: . Welcome to all who's new to the forum, can't wait to see you all. And, if there's anyone else not yet in here, we need to pull them in. Ok until May 22nd... Enjoy your days b4 d-school. :cool:
 
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Heh, wow. Everyone is meeting each other.

It shall be my time soon, I guess. =p

Amy: Where've you been the last few days? I got a few questions for ya...
 
Hey,

I finally got the big package of goodies from Sarah today. Looks like orientation is going to be from 10/13-10/17 and class starts on 10/20. $15k for first year instruments :eek: !!! OOOOUUUUCCCHHHH
 
That's a little high compared to other schools (~$11k), but it's expected...unfortunately.

Holy cow...we start 10/20? That's so much later than I though. I expected to start before the start of October! LOL.
 
Ooops, no more posting while i'm ....... I meant to say 9/20, as in Sept. 20th, so orientation is during the week of Sept 13-17th.
 
Damn, i thought it started on 4/20? man now i am really confused , wait hold on, the phone is ringing , it might be betty ford calling me back for me to go to see her for mothers day.
 
Happy Mother's Day, everyone.
Thank you so much for spending so much effort to raise me.
EC
 
hey guys,

it looks like i won't be able to make it after all on the 22nd...
hopefully, i'll be able to catch up with yall another time...

Sincerely, Sujain
 
Orientation is 17-23rd with the White Coat ceremony being on the 17th.
 
There is no way those guys in white coats are taking me back to that place NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=1443706#post1443706
is my solution for you, Sujain. I do believe my rent is a bit cheaper than u find elsewhere.
I found this soon-to-be 3 bedroom co-op in West LA.
It locates across the University Village Apartments (see your package).
It is very relaxing to have the pool view right outside my room.
And a recreational room and a small size basketball court.

On the 22nd, you guys should come by. Due to high demand, please let me know if you are interested through email or pm.

Cinco de Mayo is the date that I officially become a home-owner.
What a special day. It was crazy. Waking up at 5 to drive to LA by my mom's car. (cos my car was damaged). Then met with Ann and listened to her advice. And hopefully, I could help out working on the website.
Then went to homedepot and lowe's to search for home improvement stuff.
3pm is the escrow meeting. Cant believe it lasts for almost 2 hrs. Way too many signatures and no AC in their office! Then 5 pm to make measure on my new home. 6pm to meet with the board of directors. Well, by the time, we got done. I was too exhausted to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. And we drove back down to SD. What an interesting day.

I am going to get the key tomorrow and start remodeling (only if my neck can give me support).

Hey, Jeff and Stephlynn, I may have reacted weird lately bcos way too many meetings. And not enough time to get my things done. can you believe they will raise interest rate by 1% if I dont go up to LA on wednesday to sign paper? A surprise is a great reason why I have to conseal info from you guys =)
 
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Thanks so much for the info, Eric! I really appreciate it. I'm doing my best to get to go on the 22nd, so we'll see....

yeah, like i TOtally know, Jeff. It is SOOOO wrong to be wearing white after Labor Day... i mean, like, how faux pas!! Where are the fashion police when you need them?! Is that Paris Hilton monopolizing them again? :p

Hi to everyone!
Sincerely, Sujain
 
Hi, all,
First of all, good luck on everyone's midterms and finals. It must feel good to know that graduation is within our reach. Could we have a headcount how many people are going to the get-2-gether on May 22nd? Most likely, we are going to meet and chat and have brunch or something.

Then, some of us may go to see different apartments near UCLA. Of cos, you guys are welcome to come to my remodeling condo. If you would like to come to get an idea about housing, please look up apartments thru http://149.142.2.29/uclaoch/cfapps/srchpub.cfm (the ucla housing website) or other sources and contact them to see whether we could do that on the 22nd. Once again, this is an optional activity.

And of cos, let us know if there is any other activities that u want to do.
Thanks
EC
 
Steph and Nick: Congratulations on your graduation! :clap: It's time to bust out the champagne flutes and celebrate! :hardy:
 
Thanks Amy.... and you were close...but i cracked open some beers instead ;)
 
Congradulation, Nick, Stephlynn, and Karen. It is so exciting! This is your time, enjoy.
 
Well if speaking of cracking bottles to celebrate everybody's graduation, then i have been celebrating for the last two months .......hiccup. Exucse me .... errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
I'm SO happy for you guys!!! :D
 
hi, everywun.

i kinda just wanted to throw this out there... i know it is prolly short notice now. :rolleyes:

Memorial Day is May 31.

Anybody wanna have a leeeetle shin-dig? If so, who would be available?

September's getting closer and closer... don't know whether to be excited or freaked!
 
Well I'm back and had a pleasant trip down So Cal this weekend. Thanks so much to Eric, Rita, & Sean for showing me around. I really like the area and am so glad I chose UCLA! Can't wait til school starts. Take care everyone. :D
 
Hah, guess my trip down will have to be postponed for a while. I picked up a graveyard shift at a research company, on top of being a DA by day, so the only time I'll be able to come down at weekends. I'm such a geek. DA by day, chemist by night.
:(
 
Nick dear. That's a whole lot to be taking on this summer! Take it easy and relax...come visit us!
 
...you can come visit me! ;)

That, or you can pay part of my tution so that I don't have to work so hard to come up with some money so that I can register for classes. :(
 
u wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure out what "DA" stood for.
 
ouch, Nick, I feel stress from you.
I cant promise, but I will try my best to get up to NoCal this summer.
 
hello, everyone:

Just want to say hi and see what everyone is up to do this summer =)

Big big congrats to steph and nick undergrad is behind you!

good luck to amy and jeff, just couple more weeks!


:love:
 
Just wondering...

Any non-science major got into UCLA here? or Anyone w/o research experience?
 
Hey, Dentalist...

all i can do is answer for myself: i was a science major with pretty minimal experience in research. i was afraid UCLA would totally pass me over because of my weakness in the research department. Don't know if that helps or not...

Sincerely, Sujain
 
Hey Bruins,

Did anybody receive their financial aid package yet? I followed that link about the cost for next year (look about 3 posts up), and there's a $12k fee for "professional" school....uhhhhhh :eek: (schratching head). Man, it looks like we have a pay $20g's plus $15k for the "dental kit", so there's $35k in mandatory 1st year debt? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I'm gonna be a trashman instead, sorry guys, guess a spot at UCLA is opening up hahaha...
 
Congrats everyone! Would any of y'all mind posting your stats and undergrad school? Or is everyone already up to date on the other stats threads?

Thanks,
Marshall
 
Hi everybody,
I really hate to bring this up while ppl are still at sch, but please keep this in mind. It is not going to be as cheap as before to go to any dental school (assuming the quality stays the same). Yet, it doesnt mean that it is a 100% that we have to suffer for such high debt. Correct me if i m wrong. The sch system is basically revenue to cover cost. At UC, we have the great CA government to back up us for years. Unfortunately, in recent years we have very very harsh financial crisis. One thing that we have to make sure is that the tuition hike is not a long term effect. The second thing is to create new revenue to minimize the effect from the cut from the govt.

Since tuition hike is most likely to happen, we could use our leisure time, especially be4 sch starts, to brain storm ideas about fundraising. We got accepted to UCLA for a reason. Not only do we have the grades, but it seems to me that we experienced some kinda hardship and have different life experiences. This is where we could help. We have 3 months before school starts. Could we please bring storm ideas about fundraising or other ways to aid the quality of our education?

One of the ways that i could think of is to ask our alumni for help (short term). It still doesnt make much sense to me that the idea about tuition hike: if we will be able to pay the loans back, we shall be able to take whatever hike for our education. What i dont understand is how come we are not raising taxes for those who have money now? I m not here to argue about different economic policy, but i m suggesting if somehow we could ask donations(tax deductable) from our alumni to aid our sch. Could we do a favor to make the alumni or our future collegues happy to make such donation?

Also, we may need to organize a fundraising/stop tuition hike group to find allies from different CA profession schools to argue our case with the governor.

Any addition/correction? Please feel free to share.

Eric
 
Does anyone have any dental related AIM buddy icon I can have?
 
wow, anyways.... so how is everybody doing? I hope those who are graduating this weekend or next have either destroyed their finals or are going to do so!! I am done on thursday and then i have a date with Mr daniels. Its hard to believe its almost done but not quite yet for me as I have one more class to go so i will be completely free at the end of July. phew its about time.
 
hi, dentalist,
i have an bioengineering degree. some people may not consider it science. i m sure there are many non-science major people got in every year. what matters is what you could bring to the program.

hi, marshall, i posted my stats at that thread. i m sure applying stats is probably more relevant than what i have now.

welcome, miravyn, sorry, i dont have dental related aim stuff. may i know if u r coming to ucla too?

hi, jeff, nice to hear from u. man, the walk was probably the most satisfying thing i have done last year. r u staying in sd for the summer? let me know if u want to check out the free clinic.

otherwise, everyone, have fun and be proud at the graduation
 
ecdoesit said:
hi, dentalist,
i have an bioengineering degree. some people may not consider it science. i m sure there are many non-science major people got in every year. what matters is what you could bring to the program.

hi, marshall, i posted my stats at that thread. i m sure applying stats is probably more relevant than what i have now.

welcome, miravyn, sorry, i dont have dental related aim stuff. may i know if u r coming to ucla too?

hi, jeff, nice to hear from u. man, the walk was probably the most satisfying thing i have done last year. r u staying in sd for the summer? let me know if u want to check out the free clinic.

otherwise, everyone, have fun and be proud at the graduation
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I'm actually a 2nd year undergrad student at UCLA now. My number one dental school choice is UCLA...I hope I make it in.
 
hi Miravyn,

you probably already know about this, but just in case, i highly recommend taking part in UCLA's dental clinic volunteer program. i really enjoyed it! :)

take care,
Sincerely, Sujain
 
Ode to Sujain's new place (a la Little Shop of Horrors) :p

a matchbox of my own,
a fence of real chain link.
a grill out on the patio,
disposal in the sink!
there's plastic on the furniture
to keep it neat and clean,
in the pine-sol scented air,
somewhere that's green!

:love: :love: :love:
 
cheers, Jeff! heehee! :p

i've never met the good mr. daniels... but his rep never fails to precede him! CONGRATS!!! :D :horns:
 
Hello everybody
I hate to intrude in this discussion but I figured you guys would be the best people to ask.
I?m trying to make a decision on where to attend and I was wondering if there are any extra-curricular activities at UCLA that allow dental students to meet people from other disciplines. I know UCSF have clubs that are open to all the different health professions and I was just wondering if UCLA had something like that too. I looked on their website and I couldn?t find anything and I forgot to ask them in my interview. If someone could give me a link or let me know, I?d appreciate it. Thanks.
 
You are always welcome here.
Congrad on your acceptances to both sch

I m new to ucla, so i m not sure if there is any EC that ties everybody together. However, I m sure u know all the health professional schools are next to each other. We all have lunch togther. I wouldnt expect it will be too tough to meet other people. I m sure there are clubs, but with the budget cut, i donno how much of that will be affected at both schools. Think about it. UCLA has more disciplines than ucsf. There is law, business, engineering, arts, social science, science... They are all concentrated in 1 place, as the research portion of ucsf is moving to mission bay. Both sch are great choice. There is no right/wrong decision. I had the same problem deciding. You could do a search and find more info. Or pm me(but of cos i have certain biases, hehe) I hope this helps and hope that we will see you next year.
EC
 
Since UCLA has undergrad, you will have more options of being involved in students groups. Check out this website

ucla studentgroup

See if you can find any group of your interest. Good luck.

Oh yeah, many grad/professional students get involved in studentgroups with undergrad students.

EightDaysAWeek said:
Hello everybody
I hate to intrude in this discussion but I figured you guys would be the best people to ask.
I?m trying to make a decision on where to attend and I was wondering if there are any extra-curricular activities at UCLA that allow dental students to meet people from other disciplines. I know UCSF have clubs that are open to all the different health professions and I was just wondering if UCLA had something like that too. I looked on their website and I couldn?t find anything and I forgot to ask them in my interview. If someone could give me a link or let me know, I?d appreciate it. Thanks.
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8daysaweek,

I'm pretty sure I came across some pictures while on the UCLA Dental website where people were attending a public health get2gether or something, so I'm thinking we'll mingle with the med students. As far as Law and Business though, nah, don't think so. They're located on the North side of campus, and we're on the South. The dental and med schools are literally connected to each other though. on a side note: dentalist, is that a pic of you? if so, nice pic :)
 
For everyone wondering when we'll be getting our FAN letter, I wrote Frank Doucette a letter and he replied saying he has a box of our paperwork he hasn't had the chance to even look at. He's currently focusing on continuing dental student's financial aid right now, and should start sorting out our stuff next month. So I guess we're not gonna find out how much moola we get until late July/early August? :eek:
 
Thanks for the update callmehere.. I still need to work on my teeth collection and all that. Hope everyone is enjoying their last summer b4 D school! :D
 
Wanted to go here and get outa NY area for a while, but I unfortunately just recieved my rejection from UCLA :( .

________________________________
NYU College of Dentistry 2008
 
Hi Dentin068,

i am sorry to hear it. for what it's worth, i hear that students really like it at NYUCD, but the UCLA dental alumni i have come into contact with don't have many nice things to say of their own experiences in d-school. to be honest, i'm proud to be a Bruin, but i can't help but feel a little worried about how i'll survive the next 4-5 years. :( once you start at NYUCD, i think you'll cheer up considerably! :luck:

Best wishes to you,
and Congratulations on your acceptance to NYUCD!
GO CLASS OF 2008!!!
Sincerely, Sujain
 
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