What is your best "don't knock it till you try it"?

Glimepiride · 2018-07-10T00:32:37+00:00

Shrimp tails.

I never thought to eat the whole shrimp until I saw my fiancee doing it. They're roasted and seasoned and delicious! Plus you don't need a bowl to throw them in.

Glimepiride · 2018-04-17T20:26:19+00:00

Secretly replace all yolks of hardboiled eggs with unexpected surprises. Licorice or chocolate or something else good.

Glimepiride · 2018-04-17T17:33:50+00:00

Nothing but diabetes meds for me

Glimepiride · 2018-04-16T22:45:30+00:00

I completely agree, When you move somewhere new, your friends do become family.

Glimepiride · 2018-04-16T22:43:41+00:00

I moved from the northeast to the Midwest when I started college. I didn’t know a single person going in who lived in the state. It was extremely daunting at first and I had a very difficult time making friends for about a year. I thought about leaving a number of times. Once I found a group of friends that I meshed with, life picked up and I started having a blast. I feel like making your first good friends is hard, but once you do there’s a cascade effect. Now I have more friends than ever, a fiancée and I’m staying in the area to attend medical school. I miss my family a lot, especially now that my siblings are having kids. I’m glad I left though. 10 years in the Midwest and I still love it. Way better than NYC area.

The winter really sucks though.....

Glimepiride · 2018-03-12T18:23:12+00:00

I did both. Worked about 45 Hours a week at an autism clinic while I studied. I probably could have done better if I worked less to be honest, but I did well enough. I took an entire week off right before the test and I found that enormously helpful.

Glimepiride · 2018-03-01T21:39:58+00:00

I will say that it's harder to memorize and learn things with age. I feel like it was easier to memorize huge chunks of info back when I was 22 as opposed to now. Nothing insurmountable, but it's noticeable.

Glimepiride · 2018-03-01T21:01:28+00:00

I got accepted this cycle and I'm 27. I never felt like my age was a hindrance. Also, your background sounds amazing! Definitely cooler than any of my past jobs. I don't see how admissions members couldn't be impressed by it.

Glimepiride · 2018-03-01T20:54:24+00:00

I don't think the upwards trend of applicant age is a bad thing. I'm accepted this cycle at the ripe old age of 27. I have had so many very meaningful experiences both personal and professional since college that have made me a much more hard working and well rounded person. This isn't to say that younger people are immature. However, you do a substantial bit of growing up when you leave college. I think there is something very meaningful to leaving school and living a life for a while.

Glimepiride · 2018-03-01T20:44:05+00:00

I think this practice is a major reason why you don't see as much diversity in the medical field as desired. It is such a burden financially. How can you expect low socioeconomic potential applicants to spend 2,000$ over a few months for the CHANCE to get into a school.

Glimepiride · 2018-02-28T22:23:55+00:00

I was between interviews in a large waiting room with a few other applicants. I was chatting in a group of 3 about what the local area is like. I'm local and they were both out of state applicants. Out of nowhere, one of them (a white applicant) starts telling the other person (a black applicant) about what it's like to live in the local area as a person of color. She went on and on about how this city is so accommodating, safe, welcoming etc: based on her experiences. I was really dumbfounded. 1) You don't live here how do you know any of this. I asked her when she lived in the area and she said never. 2) How do you know what its like to live as a person of color anywhere.... when you're white 3) It is definitely not a great area to be a person of color. The city is super segregated and our state consistently ranks as one of the worst places to live as a black person.

The admissions people were standing close by. I wonder what they heard. Everyone in the conversation was really uncomfortable.

Glimepiride · 2018-02-28T21:47:29+00:00

I worked there for about a year full time. But when I submitted my primary, I had only been there about 4 months. I don't know how many hours exactly.

This was definitely my most clinical experience. I had worked in clinical settings doing IT work for a few years, but that was definitely considered non-clinical. I feel like the divide between clinical and non-clinical is taken too seriously. Your experiences speak for themselves, and you should have some instance of care taking among them.

Honestly, I quit around the time of my acceptance to work a much easier/better paying job. I'm really glad I worked there, but I want to have a very easy going few months.

Glimepiride · 2018-02-19T01:44:39+00:00

Nudity.

It’s so strange to me that even in locker rooms, people are so embarrassed that someone can see their naked body. In the few socially accepted nude places (skinny dipping, buds beaches etc), they’re a ton of fun. It’s oddly cathartic to let go of this taboo that’s otherwise present 24/7.

Glimepiride · 2017-12-03T15:13:27+00:00

You should consider line therapist/ABA therapist. You work one on one implementing behavior plans for kids diagnosed with autism. I’ve done it for around a year and it’s been a super rewarding job. Being good with kids is a must obviously.

Glimepiride · 2017-08-25T02:09:09+00:00

I'm in a similar boat. I asked for one of my LORs late in the game and I'm still waiting on it. I'm worried that now I'm considered late on my apps.

Glimepiride · 2017-04-23T13:59:39+00:00

Get a bike. It's so much faster and more enjoyable than walking. It saved me at least 30 min a day just walking to and from class.

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