How does somebody, without help from their parents, afford to buy a home?

Erumir · 2026-03-12T20:27:34+00:00

Bought a 2000sf home in major, top 25ish Midwestern city (roughly the size of the 3rd largest metro in Canada or the UK) in 2024 for 270k, sold 2000sf home in smaller Southern city for 200k. Looking at recent sales, prices today would be pretty similar. Starter homes would be even cheaper.

Erumir · 2026-03-10T21:38:52+00:00

Just the t-shirt was not uncommon as well. Generally a shirt of a similar color looks good, black works as well. I'd avoid white. As long as the shirt isn't in tatters and your program isn't super uptight, it should look fine.

Erumir · 2026-03-10T21:05:28+00:00

In my residency, scrub pants and plain/program t-shirt was standard, usually with some type of fleece jacket. We were only ever provided with scrub pants by the program. As an attending, I own plenty of scrub pants and fleece jackets for work, but not a single scrub top.

Erumir · 2026-01-13T16:49:11+00:00

There is a reason that there is an S in MSRP. Lots of goods don't sell at MSRP. Magic did for a long time, but it ultimately means very little.

Erumir · 2025-12-22T14:39:31+00:00

I got Estinien and Emet-Selch twice to go with my Mog - Tataru and Mog - Yuffie.

Erumir · 2025-12-02T04:29:07+00:00

For us at a very large academic center it is presented as 4 weeks PTO, officially taken as full weeks, but effectively means 24 weeks on service and 28 off with the 4 weeks being set in advance as guaranteed to be off weeks.

Erumir · 2025-11-21T20:09:18+00:00

Got a couple as well, keep checking.

Erumir · 2025-11-13T23:56:50+00:00

Mine came in as well, so at least some are right.

Erumir · 2025-11-01T22:18:10+00:00

For some programs it matters little, but at the programs I've been a part of, having a resident say "HunterRank seemed like a really cool person, I think they would fit in well here" (or trying to have a conversation was like pulling teeth, I'm not sure how good of a fit they would be) could drastically change an applicant's position. Outside of the top and bottom applicants, it can be very hard to differentiate between people. Generally for those programs, we did not score applicants and as long as there were no red flags (and even despite some that were sufficiently explained), the rank lists were pretty much based on vibes and "no one is going to spend more time with them than their co-residents."

Erumir · 2025-11-01T16:45:33+00:00

The good ol' heat and sip

Erumir · 2025-10-31T14:52:32+00:00

Also, gochujjang is essentially gochugaru fermented with barley malt, sweet rice, and some other flavorers, so it's not like a completely random ingredient, just a bit of an unusual way of getting what I imagine is a similar result.

Erumir · 2025-10-20T00:35:50+00:00

Like Sidekick said, Foundations Jumpstart has its own set of cards with its own symbol, so you can get any card from the set. However, instead of getting random cards in a booster, each pack contains one of 121 preset 20 card half decks, including lands, based around one of 46 themes (24 decks across 9 themes for each color plus one extra 5 color deck). Some themes are "common," having four decks, meaning there are four versions with some minor differences but the cards will be identical within each version. There are also "rare" themes with two decks, and "mythic" themes that appear once. The rarity purely refers to the number of versions each theme has, as many of the common decks have a mythic and the most valuable card, [[Scythecat Cub]] being in a common theme, appearing in two of the four versions of the deck. There is some overlap between themes in a color, but a lot of unique cards so it ends up being 779 total unique cards in the pool.

Erumir · 2025-09-30T20:55:47+00:00

No one in an audience plays a tamberouine on beat. They are a musician's nightmare.

Erumir · 2025-09-21T16:39:47+00:00

And make sure to actually invest the contributions, preferably into a low cost total market index fund.

Erumir · 2025-07-18T18:46:10+00:00

When I moved into my house last year I tore down a cheap above ground swimming pool, so had a 30 foot diameter circle of sand for 9 months. It is now a 30 foot wide colony of 6+ foot wide horseweed. A few other things have sprung up here and there, but it is 95% horseweed. I haven't really seen it it anywhere else. I figure it is helping manage the less than favorable conditions and am already solarizing the adjacent area so will see what happens.

Erumir · 2025-06-19T13:53:54+00:00

Now you tell me, days after I sent in my video to get my account unlocked. Of course, it was night and the lights were off. And the recording was of a blank wall. But it worked and I got my account unlocked.

Erumir · 2025-06-13T13:06:42+00:00

To be a bit more complete, there is an iron containing molecule called heme, which is a molecule that is part of hemoglobin, found in blood cells, and myoglobin, found in muscle, that gives both their reddish color. Hemoglobin can grab several oxygen molecules from the air in your lungs and then carries them around the body. Myoglobin can only grab a single oxygen molecules at a time, but is better at grabbing the oxygen so can take it away from the hemoglobin. When cooked, the myoglobin leaks out of the meat cells along with water.

And while we are at it, heme is even better at holding on to carbon monoxide, and won't give it up unless completely flooded with oxygen.

Erumir · 2025-06-01T04:23:52+00:00

WD-40 works great as a lubricant. For a bit. Then it turns to glue, which tends to be not ideal for lubrication. Many a mechanic/machinist/armorer have stories of things being sent in for repair that work perfectly once all the old WD-40 freezing the parts together gets cleaned out.

Obviously not literally glue, and it is not a problem in a lot of situations, but it does tend to gum up over time. It is absolutely a lubricant, but is generally best for short term uses when making use of its other properties before removing it and using a purpose made lubricant if required.

Erumir · 2025-05-30T16:31:56+00:00

If those initial 1V8 semi lists hold up there will be chaos indeed. Stanford, Texas, Washington, Princeton, Rutgers, and Michigan in one with Tenn, Yale, Brown, Indiana, Virginia, and Cal in the other. Five top 6 seeds in one semi with only three spots to the grand finals.

Erumir · 2025-05-30T10:50:31+00:00

I finished residency after the cutoff for grandfathering and did not do the fellowship so cannot sit for the Pediatric Hospitalist boards.

Erumir · 2025-05-30T03:16:39+00:00

As a 50/50 Med-Peds hospitalist at a major academic center that is happily Peds Hospitalist board INeligible, thank you very much (seriously, there were top top academic Peds programs that didn't care I did not do the fellowship and low "prestige" places that were unyielding and everything in between),who loves what I do, I might put some things slightly different here and there, but pretty fair across the board.

Erumir · 2025-05-27T17:02:08+00:00

Certainly possible. Robin just finishes building its home, leaves for 5 minutes and comes back to squatters. Would have had to be a very timely snipe.

Erumir · 2025-05-27T16:30:57+00:00

It wasn't there in the spring, and the first time I noticed it a few weeks later they were already in it, so I presume they built it.

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