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Saturday night, oh, horrible Saturday night. I don't know what I ate but I did "uneat" all of it that night. Combined with some fever the next day and most of my plans for the weekend were shut down. 😡

Also, who makes a secondary with a huge pre-reqs grid which cannot be saved? Really?🙄
 
milski said:
Saturday night, oh, horrible Saturday night. I don't know what I ate but I did "uneat" all of it that night. Combined with some fever the next day and most of my plans for the weekend were shut down. 😡

Also, who makes a secondary with a huge pre-reqs grid which cannot be saved? Really?🙄
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I hate those!! 😛
 
I've been posting in this thread waaaaay to often. No major crisis, just a lot of annoying crap all at once.

Let's see, little pup strained her stitches, had some bleeding and is on antibiotics now. 🙁 Really hard to keep her inactive so it pretty much requires crating her other than potty breaks and food time. She's not happy about it and neither am I. It's a big crate so she can stand up and move around a bit, just not run or jump. So she cries and whines a lot and neither of us sleeps.


Then today I went downstairs to the laundry room and saw a puddle of water under the washer. Was thinking it better not be the newer washing machine. Couldn't figure out where it was from.

Took a nap, went down again and discovered I have not one, but two leaks. One in a pipe to the main water line, pinhole size tiny spray, but steady. Shutting off the water in the house didn't work, but I was able to divert it with some leftover tape stuff from a shower head and put a bucket under it.

The other leak is from the pipe behind the upstairs toilet. Was able to bucket that as well. So, I guess the good news is it doesn't look like the washing machine. Still probably be expensive though.

Getting hit with a lot of expensive crap right now, first tuition, then govt. shutdown so my tax extension is going to result in no refund til who knows when, then I really need new tires especially before it snows here, and a bunch of out of network medical crap, 300 for a tree limb removal that was damaged and hanging precariously after a storm, and the 1000 bux I owe the contractor for the deductible part of my repairs from my flood last January that we just finished fixing 😡

Not going to have any money left to pay for applications next June.

Lastly, I get to celebrate my birthday with a 3+ hour computer system outage/update at the hospital where I work followed by a final exam. 😛
 
This whole lack of unified graduate medical education thing makes this infinitely more challenging
 
wholeheartedly said:
Yes, I'd like to get accepted MD, not because I have anything against being a DO, but to avoid the headache of having to deal with the rules and logistics of this.
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Especially when you are offered the interview for a position that is once in a lifetime but are seriously considering whether to take it because it is AOA only and therefore potentially trashes you ever being able to do a MD fellowship unless everyone decides to play nice

Le sigh
 
Government shutdown is over....I have to work again...so no more pre-studying for med school 🙁 I wish I could quit now...I hate the soul sucking culture of corporate america
 
You feel crappy? You need to come to Chicago and pull a 60 hour week as an EMT here. Youll be saying things like, "Is throwin down with an uncoorporative 80 year old transvestite dwarf grounds for a raise?" LOL
 
wholeheartedly said:
Yes, I'd like to get accepted MD, not because I have anything against being a DO, but to avoid the headache of having to deal with the rules and logistics of this.
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Hey guys, as a nontrad med student (first kid on the way!) at an MD school, I'd like to offer my (unsolicited) view:

I never ended up applying DO and it took me an extra year and a lot of extra effort to eventually get into an MD program. Honestly, I wish I had just applied MD and DO the first time around and increased my odds of getting in somewhere. As I look forward and tally up all the years of training yet to come, I realize that my slight preference for MD was not even close to being worth a whole year of delay.

Just my 2 cents.
 
DCBFan said:
Hey guys, as a nontrad med student (first kid on the way!) at an MD school, I'd like to offer my (unsolicited) view:

I never ended up applying DO and it took me an extra year and a lot of extra effort to eventually get into an MD program. Honestly, I wish I had just applied MD and DO the first time around and increased my odds of getting in somewhere. As I look forward and tally up all the years of training yet to come, I realize that my slight preference for MD was not even close to being worth a whole year of delay.

Just my 2 cents.
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Oh I'll apply DO. Just the whole logistics with what mommy2three has to deal with regarding the rules for applying to residencies and the fellowships, that i think differ by state, and all that is a major headache I'd rather not deal with if possible so ill be rooting for MD, especially since I don't really understand all of the rules and i suspect I'll chose something requiring a fellowship and am hopefully bound for an academic medicine career.

But yeah, other than that I really have no preference for one over the other and quite frankly some of the best docs I've dealt with are DOs.
 
Had a pretty bad day at work yesterday....


Started off by getting rejected by a cute nurse that I've had a crush on for a while. I asked her to go get some ice-cream after work.

Next thing that happened was that I dropped a flat of sodium citrate tubes on my supervisor...

Then on the floor I missed 5 sticks in a row...

Then on an easy stick I read the test too quickly a drew the blood into a Lt. Blue tube when it should have been lavender...So that patient will have to be called back to be stuck again...

Then at the end of the day my supervisor called me into her office and told me to stop flirting with the nurses....
 
MajorUnderDog said:
Had a pretty bad day at work yesterday....


Started off by getting rejected by a cute nurse that I've had a crush on for a while. I asked her to go get some ice-cream after work.

Next thing that happened was that I dropped a flat of sodium citrate tubes on my supervisor...

Then on the floor I missed 5 sticks in a row...

Then on an easy stick I read the test too quickly a drew the blood into a Lt. Blue tube when it should have been lavender...So that patient will have to be called back to be stuck again...

Then at the end of the day my supervisor called me into her office and told me to stop flirting with the nurses....
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You had the confidence to step up and ask; you did nothing wrong. Don't let immature people way you down. Her loss. Missed 5 sticks and used the wrong tube? It sounds like your concentration was off. Just my advice, it sounds like you need to clear your head a bit.
 
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beBrave said:
You had the confidence to step up and ask; you did nothing wrong. Don't let immature people way you down. Her loss. Missed 5 sticks and used the wrong tube? It sounds like your concentration was off. Just my advice, it sounds like you need to clear your head a bit.
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Agreed. I couldn't focus at all yesterday. Really my first bad day at work.

Just have classes today, so I'm already past it all. Have work tomorrow and Friday so I'll really need to get my focus back in line.
 
MajorUnderDog said:
Had a pretty bad day at work yesterday....


Started off by getting rejected by a cute nurse that I've had a crush on for a while. I asked her to go get some ice-cream after work.

Next thing that happened was that I dropped a flat of sodium citrate tubes on my supervisor...

Then on the floor I missed 5 sticks in a row...

Then on an easy stick I read the test too quickly a drew the blood into a Lt. Blue tube when it should have been lavender...So that patient will have to be called back to be stuck again...

Then at the end of the day my supervisor called me into her office and told me to stop flirting with the nurses....
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Solid advice. Listen to this.
 
wholeheartedly said:
Oh I'll apply DO. Just the whole logistics with what mommy2three has to deal with regarding the rules for applying to residencies and the fellowships, that i think differ by state, and all that is a major headache I'd rather not deal with if possible so ill be rooting for MD, especially since I don't really understand all of the rules and i suspect I'll chose something requiring a fellowship and am hopefully bound for an academic medicine career.

But yeah, other than that I really have no preference for one over the other and quite frankly some of the best docs I've dealt with are DOs.
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I would not trade my DO for an MD anyday

The only issue I am having is wanting to do a sports med fellowship which exist but not as many in the osteo world which means dually accredited or allopathic residency for me

Which means I am going to pass by a once in a lifetime opportunity because it is only AOA

In other news my stomach is not happy today because yesterday at residency interview lunch they bought in Jamaican barbecue chicken after I said I could not handle spicy food. So I peeled off skin and picked at meat but still feel really awful today. Three guesses as to what place will not be ranked by me ?
 
And to complete the trifecta of craptastic stuff -
I fell and tweaked my knee in the exact way I was told to not tweak it because I had so little acl left
Had a sports med guy look at it today and he agrees with me - I probably managed to shred the remainder of my acl 🙁
And I do not have time for reconstruction. 🙁
 
Working on feeling crappy. I halfway ate myself through a tub of something called "ghost chili salsa." It was crazy spicy when I started but all of a sudden it wasn't anymore... so I kept eating.

I suspect I'll feel it tomorrow.
 
mommy2three said:
And to complete the trifecta of craptastic stuff -
I fell and tweaked my knee in the exact way I was told to not tweak it because I had so little acl left
Had a sports med guy look at it today and he agrees with me - I probably managed to shred the remainder of my acl 🙁
And I do not have time for reconstruction. 🙁
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I suppose you get to do a lot of walking around on interview tours as well too 🙁
 
I had my last interview today and one of my interviewers was a surgeon and she came in 20min late because of a case. We rushed into her office and she asked me before I sat down why I didn't just want to be a teacher. I was caught off guard and flubbed around for 2min about why I didn't want to be a teacher. It wasn't until afterwards I realized she essentially asked me why medicine and all I did was say I didn't want to teach. Awesome way to end interview season...
 
QuantumJ said:
I had my last interview today and one of my interviewers was a surgeon and she came in 20min late because of a case. We rushed into her office and she asked me before I sat down why I didn't just want to be a teacher. I was caught off guard and flubbed around for 2min about why I didn't want to be a teacher. It wasn't until afterwards I realized she essentially asked me why medicine and all I did was say I didn't want to teach. Awesome way to end interview season...
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ah, sorry. understandable -- you were already nervous, then thrown, and she set you up to answer defensively. she's not the only interviewer though, right? were you more at ease with others? it's not the only piece of the puzzle.
 
I got the lowest grade i've seen since returning to school. Actually, it's the lowest I've ever gotten on a piece of work I handed in on time.

Often, my guesses at what a paper's worth are on the money, or close to it -- this time, just blindsided.

I read it again and agree with about 50% of his comments. The other half make me think he's simply not read what I've written. I gather he dislikes my writing style, which is fine -- take marks off for that -- but I did make at least some of the points he's suggesting I haven't. (Is my writing really that convoluted? I know it could be sharper, but I'm not painting with mud.)

Have an appointment with him; not sure how to approach it. I've never grubbed for grades before, but I genuinely don't think the mark is justified. Will ask for advice on the next thing -- I need to get almost perfect on my final paper to scrape past a B grade. GPA is probably already sunk.

This is a retake (can only do those once at my school), so I can't drop it. Nightmare.
 
I am a 29yo, hospital-based speech therapist (MA CCC-SLP), who is now working on the pre-reqs for med school. I have made it through bio 1, gen chem 1, and gen chem 2 - and they were actually pretty easy. But now I'm in O Chem and am currently sitting at a C.

I have spent >40 hours in the past week studying for our last exam and I pulled a D (still have a C in the class). My study methods are clearly NOT ineffective. Any advice?? I am a very visual learner and have been re-writing notes and making stacks of notecards.

Our 70+ yo O Chem professor is notoriously difficult. I know this is said for most O Chem professors, but he is special. He's the kind of person who takes off HALF of your points if you don't put a colon at the end of "chain propagating steps" - even if the mechanism is correct. He also refused to reschedule a woman's exam when her son was literally dying of cancer - fortunately, the president of the university stepped in and helped her.

I really think I can beat this class if I learn how to study well.
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:scared:
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As a visual learner, you may get a lot out of the organic chemistry videos on kahnacademy. I found them really helpful for stereochemistry......R/S configurations, boat/chair conformations, etc.
 
zelda840 said:
as a visual learner, you may get a lot out of the organic chemistry videos on kahnacademy. I found them really helpful for stereochemistry......r/s configurations, boat/chair conformations, etc.
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+1,000
 
sockit said:
ah, sorry. understandable -- you were already nervous, then thrown, and she set you up to answer defensively. she's not the only interviewer though, right? were you more at ease with others? it's not the only piece of the puzzle.
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I actually wasn't nervous at all. I thought maybe she just saw I did some sub teacher and thought I had originally wanted to be a teacher when it's really just a nice gap year job. The rest of the interview was great actually so who knows. My other interview went ok. It was hard to tell it was one of those ask a question, listen to me with a poker face, and then nod when I'm done and move on. Oh well 🙄
 
Meredith2010;14566752 said:
I am a 29yo, hospital-based speech therapist (MA CCC-SLP), who is now working on the pre-reqs for med school. I have made it through bio 1, gen chem 1, and gen chem 2 - and they were actually pretty easy. But now I'm in O Chem and am currently sitting at a C.

I have spent >40 hours in the past week studying for our last exam and I pulled a D (still have a C in the class). My study methods are clearly NOT ineffective. Any advice?? I am a very visual learner and have been re-writing notes and making stacks of notecards.

Our 70+ yo O Chem professor is notoriously difficult. I know this is said for most O Chem professors, but he is special. He's the kind of person who takes off HALF of your points if you don't put a colon at the end of "chain propagating steps" - even if the mechanism is correct. He also refused to reschedule a woman's exam when her son was literally dying of cancer - fortunately, the president of the university stepped in and helped her.

I really think I can beat this class if I learn how to study well.
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Hmm... Everyone is different so take this for what it's worth but I bolded one of the biggest faux pas that I think may be holding you back.

The class average at my school for O-Chem I & II were both at C and I managed to get an A- and A+ respectively and the number of note cards I made totaled zero for both classes and I'd say I was studying at most 8 hours a week. What you have to understand is that these classes contain materials that aren't learned and studied so much as practiced. Think of it as problem solving as opposed knowledge regurgitation where correct intuition >> knowledge (learn these concepts well and I assure you you will destroy biochem when the time comes).

All of that aside, the best way to develop proper intuition is to try and solve problem on your own and doing everything in your power to solve them without assistance from notes. There's a good chance you won't be able to at first but keep going and eventually you will. Also, I'd argue one of the most important things is nail.down.your.fundamentals.period. Make sure you really appreciate what is happening during reaction mechanisms, how electrons flow and the rest will follow. After a while you start can actually learn other things like how to use these reactions to synthesize actually medications and even amino acids (writing out syntheses for these was actually something I did for practice).

Just a little aside, O-Chem was definitely my favorite pre-req and go figure I'd do pretty bloody mediocre in all of the other ones lol. I think the biggest difference between O-Chem and many of the other pre-reqs is that it is very top down, meaning you have to start problems knowing where you want to end and figuring out how to get there is the hard part (this is what you're learning to do) and unfortunately raw memorization is fairly worthless for that.

Good luck 👍
 
No

More

Interviews


I am so ready to be done but the other half does not want me to risk going unmatched so I am interviewing to keep him happy

But I am ready to be done

Le sigh
 
Feeling really down that the interview I had at my top-choice-still-in-the-running-for school seemed to go horribly.
 
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Thanks NED; I should hear within a few weeks. Trying not to feel too bummed precisely because I'm lucky enough to have a couple of acceptances, but it still hurts when you feel like you lost out on your favorite. We'll see what happens!

NuttyEngDude said:
You never know but sorry to hear it Elewynne, when will they let you know? Try not to be too bummed, you have a couple of acceptances already 🙂
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Absolutely majorly bummed

Opportunity of a lifetime interview turned out to be a major disappointment
 
I'm on the "I feel crappy" thread tonight after using Ciprodex for a minor outer ear infection in one ear. Ever since I used it, I haven't been able to hear very well out of that ear. When I talk, it sounds like my voice is coming from the side. So annoying. I looked up this problem on the internet and patients keep complaining about hearing losses associated with Ciprodex. But somehow, webmd and other medical sources claim that Ciprodex isn't ototoxic. Who knows what's going on. I hope my hearing comes back.
 
Gauss44 said:
I'm on the "I feel crappy" thread tonight after using Ciprodex for a minor outer ear infection in one ear. Ever since I used it, I haven't been able to hear very well out of that ear. When I talk, it sounds like my voice is coming from the side. So annoying. I looked up this problem on the internet and patients keep complaining about hearing losses associated with Ciprodex. But somehow, webmd and other medical sources claim that Ciprodex isn't ototoxic. Who knows what's going on. I hope my hearing comes back.
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Ear wax softened by the drops and plugging your ear? It happens to me every few years and is really annoying. Pretty easy to fix up in a quick visit.
 
milski said:
Ear wax softened by the drops and plugging your ear? It happens to me every few years and is really annoying. Pretty easy to fix up in a quick visit.
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I hope so. I think I'll value my hearing more once this is over.
 
NuttyEngDude said:
this is either a story of you messing up or them being so bad that it was a blessing in disguise....
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considering this was not my first go on the interview merry go round i am voting for blessing in disguise

still bummed though 🙁
 
Got a text message on my phone this afternoon from the University safety folks to "shelter in place" because a possibly armed man was seen in one of the buildings. I was at home in my other city in bed, but it still freaks me out. Crap like this wasn't hardly on my radar when I was a traditional student. Turns out some dumb**** tried to steal a woman's laptop at gunpoint. Sheesh....
 
I just had a horrendous interview at one of my top schools. I completely bombed an ethical question that I should've known the answer to. Normally I don't believe that one bad answer will tank a whole application but it's a little different when that question concerns medical ethics.

It was essentially my acceptance to lose and I'm pretty sure I lost it. The director of admissions even said that if you interview before January and do a decent job during the interview then you're probably going to get in.

Time to find a new top school.
 
Meredith2010 said:
I am a 29yo, hospital-based speech therapist (MA CCC-SLP), who is now working on the pre-reqs for med school. I have made it through bio 1, gen chem 1, and gen chem 2 - and they were actually pretty easy. But now I'm in O Chem and am currently sitting at a C.

I have spent >40 hours in the past week studying for our last exam and I pulled a D (still have a C in the class). My study methods are clearly NOT ineffective. Any advice?? I am a very visual learner and have been re-writing notes and making stacks of notecards.

Our 70+ yo O Chem professor is notoriously difficult. I know this is said for most O Chem professors, but he is special. He's the kind of person who takes off HALF of your points if you don't put a colon at the end of "chain propagating steps" - even if the mechanism is correct. He also refused to reschedule a woman's exam when her son was literally dying of cancer - fortunately, the president of the university stepped in and helped her.

I really think I can beat this class if I learn how to study well.
:scared:
:scared:
:scared:
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late reply

but aceorganicchem.com may help!
 
6 interviews, 3 waitlists so far. Kinda feeling crappy I don't have an acceptance at this point.
 
Crap show here lately

To the point where I am seriously considering a LOA for the rest of the year
 
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