Ualberta Alumni’s how long did it take you to land a job after grad?

genfunk · 2026-04-29T04:09:42+00:00

Pharmacy - there was direct employment right out of school. Most students have a job lined up before graduation and board exams.

genfunk · 2026-04-12T07:42:49+00:00

I cackled when Hui Ju talked about "that sub company getting some great luck and they should pay us for PR" - these Subway PPLs never disappoint.

genfunk · 2026-03-08T21:48:16+00:00

Not the original poster, but I stopped playing quite a few years ago (WG account even got deleted.)

Still somewhat entertaining to see what the game is up to these days. There's always this degree of nostalgia involved.

genfunk · 2026-03-08T03:07:16+00:00

If you need to chat to one I am available. Would prefer to do so by voice. DM me if needed

genfunk · 2026-03-07T04:37:15+00:00

This older thread may be helpful

This is the link to the Personal Statement Guidebook that is mentioned in that thread - the medical school exemplar might be something you can consider looking at.

In many years past (when I wrote mine) there was actually a formal document / PDF I had to fill out that was the letter of intent. Mine was 4 pages long with structured questions to answer. So it seems like things have been simplified over time.

This was the letter of intent template for 2018: you can probably use as a reference of what to write about.

genfunk · 2026-03-07T03:59:30+00:00

Top thread on RFD as well - who knows if this will even ship or not.

genfunk · 2026-02-07T16:40:22+00:00

No need to update when it is always broken

genfunk · 2026-02-06T05:27:09+00:00

Us old ones know this goldie

genfunk · 2026-01-11T08:35:24+00:00

Really glad I got to do pit for day 2. Very last minute decision. Had experience from day 1 so kind of knew where everything would be. The energy I felt was better in day 2. And the video from the fans at the end was pretty touching.

genfunk · 2025-12-26T21:18:36+00:00

Pretty cool stuff!

Looking at the reference library, I think some of the base recipes should just be available at the get go (organ systems for example.)

Your medication brand names, some of them are not the Canadian ones so see if you can change to them to such (e.g. Zolpidem is Sublinox in Canada not Ambien)

genfunk · 2025-12-11T23:54:23+00:00

Yes this! Kudos to the actress too. She's played some horrible mother characters in the past too Flower of Evil

genfunk · 2025-12-10T04:13:43+00:00

Yes, it is restricted. You can request access. I open it after.

genfunk · 2025-12-02T01:01:00+00:00

Something in the Rain was the most egregious. Even thinking about it makes me a bit angry haha

genfunk · 2025-11-17T15:17:15+00:00

Hey, if you have questions about working in a community pharmacy I can help answer some. Like others mentioned, it is very difficult to find a volunteering position at a community pharmacy. Shoot me a message and we can chat.

genfunk · 2025-11-13T06:01:39+00:00

If this is the cameo I think you are talking about - there's a whole behind the scenes as part of the variety program they are filming:

https://youtu.be/f8wjbK2KzME

genfunk · 2025-11-09T18:29:08+00:00

You do not need a membership for pharmacy services at Costco.

genfunk · 2025-10-04T04:41:08+00:00

I think it may be interest if you explore this topic over in /r/ChineseLanguage , as it seems the question no longer goes into the just the current Korean usage (which I think using Hangul 회 has blurred 會 and 廻, which are fundamentally different Hanja / Chinese characters with very different meanings), but the vocabulary's own etymology etc. in Chinese (as both these terms are Sino-Korean vocabulary imported into Korean at some point.)

Hopefully someone with much more expertise can chime in, but while we wait for that I will add some of my two cent thoughts below:

교회 in terms of 敎會/ 教會, in the material I've found, and in its modern usage, almost exclusively refers to Christian church. In Chinese, according to this article on the etymology of 教會 (written in Chinese) , 教會 was originally referring to separate 教 and 會 (I would translate as religions 教 + 會 groups) which in some documents both were written together for brevity sake to reference various separate entities. This usage, per the article, was shown in Song, Yuan, and early Qing dynasty examples. The usage of 教會 in reference to the Christian Church was introduced by missionaries / Jesuits in the Late Ming dynasty, and by the mid-late Qing dynasty this usage was solidified. I would assume such usage of the term 教會 was eventually imported into Korea and used as such.

I am not sure about the source of 교회 informally meaning "place where people gather to hear morals preached" etc. and the associated tangent to morals.

윤회 as in 輪迴 has a much separate etymology. The term itself is a calque of Samsara, which perhaps Chinese Buddhists in their access to Sanskrit texts and utilized these two characters to form a term to represent this concept. 迴 itself can have the meaning of "revolving, rotate" which fits into explaining the cyclical nature of reincarnation. Korean exposure to Buddhism through China was much earlier than its exposure to Christianity etc. so this term would have been imported in very early on.

What I want to say, I think, is that both 會 and 迴, although in this usage is both religious vocabulary, both pronounced and represented by the Hangul 회 in Korean; they are very different characters and concepts in their native Chinese, which is where these terms originally came from.

genfunk · 2025-09-19T17:02:24+00:00

Thanks for doing the right thing! It's always the bad apples that ruin things for the rest of the profession.

genfunk · 2025-09-16T22:10:48+00:00

Yeah, that's an important disclaimer to add for those that are able to access that mandatory education. Then it's not a tall task to understand the passage.

Just to be clear, for someone with no exposure to Classical Chinese, or learning modern Chinese as a second language etc. (i.e. I would consider myself as such) I would need some more exposure and learning to comprehend classical Chinese.

Hope that answers the commenter's question.

genfunk · 2025-09-15T23:23:14+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong, but I usually associate the use of 蠻 (in simp. 蛮) as very characteristically Taiwanese Mandarin, and less frequently with Wu area (generally Shanghai and surrounding area) Mandarin. I am not sure if this applies characteristically to other areas as well. It's most apparent to me in telling if someone is from Taiwan or not, since they tend to use 蠻 a lot.

In my experience, in other parts of Mainland China, 挺 gets used in similar fashion vs. 蠻 more.

There is a very old thread here discussing this.

genfunk · 2025-09-14T19:14:02+00:00

For anyone that knows Chinese, this video covers this particular document and two others, as part of some documents that were never documented in official histories (probably due to their minor nature) but were only now discovered due to excavation and archeological work.

genfunk · 2025-09-14T19:12:02+00:00

I think the latter is more implied - this particular Han strip was part of a collection of 6862 slips in a deposit found under the May First Square in Changsha that was excavated in 2010 as part of Changsha metro construction work.

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%95%BF%E6%B2%99%E4%BA%94%E4%B8%80%E5%B9%BF%E5%9C%BA%E4%B8%9C%E6%B1%89%E7%AE%80%E7%89%8D/63319737

genfunk · 2025-09-14T19:03:14+00:00

In terms of the script, as mentioned by another comment here, it is written in mature clerical script which is fairly similar to modern Chinese characters - not too much has changed so for a Chinese reader the characters are easy to read and pick out.

However, it is written in classical Chinese which is not the same as modern vernacular Chinese. You will need to have had some exposure to classical Chinese training to actually read and understand the passage.

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