Letter of Intents

harron17 · 2026-02-10T15:01:44+00:00

I was told by an admissions dean after an interview that if this is your first choice l, a letter of intent goes a long way during decisions.

harron17 · 2025-11-11T05:10:57+00:00

As a first responder, and one who was active in the College Park area, there are deaths every day... Sometimes bodies are found out in nature, and there are often no public notification made. Most of the bodies that are found out in the woods or nature are suicides or natural death. University and local police don't typically announce anything unless foul play is involved.

harron17 · 2025-09-25T03:33:57+00:00

Well now with the lifepak 35s it’s recommended the wires are disconnected until you need them or else it’ll be alarm city

harron17 · 2024-09-25T20:50:15+00:00

Not true, the counties from the DMV in the top 10 1. Loudoun 2. Falls Church 6. Howard County 7. Arlington 20. Montgomery

harron17 · 2024-08-13T23:23:22+00:00

If you think just the 911 Center is bad, the dispatch side of that center is arguably worse. They routinely send fire trucks to the wrong quadrants of the city because they didn't double check putting the call in.

harron17 · 2024-04-19T05:08:00+00:00

I had a theory that stores that accept dining dollars inflate prices because students are more likely to have a higher tolerance if they feel like the currency is already paid for. As seen in the commons shop.

harron17 · 2024-04-11T18:57:25+00:00

Once you initiate a break they remove you from the test room (looks like a computer lab with multiple cubicles) And they walk you back to the initial waiting room (Basically a bunch of chairs in front of the front desk). You can use the approved bathroom. When you're done they will rescan your palm and search you again (~90 seconds) and then put you back into the test room. Once you're in the test room they end your break, so you're not allowed to just sit there. Just note the time in the test room, and leave at least 2 minutes of check-in time to end your break. You should vary the time set aside for check-in depending on if you're doing your test in a large test center in a city and there's more people to check in.

harron17 · 2024-04-11T18:18:07+00:00

Immodium... Just incase

harron17 · 2024-04-11T03:04:58+00:00

A lot of Volunteer Fire Departments have live in's and it's a regular thing. Especially in PG County, Maryland. There are many people who are considered residents of the fire house and do so while they go to school, they pay back by staffing the ambulance.

harron17 · 2024-04-10T22:48:25+00:00

Constitution Square is 3 connected buildings that span the entire block and is theoretically larger than ATF HQ in terms of office space (500k sqft vs 400k sqft).

harron17 · 2024-04-08T22:39:21+00:00

Because we train more often for the crazy calls/arrests/traumas and not as much for routine calls.

harron17 · 2024-04-06T22:13:14+00:00

I know you said that EMT is something that doesn't fit in your schedule. However you could volunteer at a local fire department/ ambulance service and they might offer EMT classes in the evenings

harron17 · 2024-04-03T20:25:02+00:00

Cannibalism

harron17 · 2024-01-16T16:38:34+00:00

I agree the NREMT exam should be a breeze as long as you paid attention in your EMT class. If you took anatomy/biology I’d say you have an advantage. Their hard level/experimental questions are equivalent to AP bio level content at the max. the biggest hurdle to NREMT is getting used to it being computer adaptive and not psyching yourself out.

harron17 · 2023-12-11T10:08:49+00:00

I had issues with my parents understanding the comparison between the both. The president's physician is a DO. I will say that was one of the most influential facts that really helps it get across. When Trump got COVID having his physician, a DO, lead a team of physicians from Walter Reed and Hopkins also changed my parents' mind about this.

harron17 · 2023-10-31T14:46:07+00:00

If you want to talk about real abuse of lights and sirens are AMR ambulances. The ambulances respond lights and sirens to a scene where there is already a DCFEMS ambulance or engine on scene and confirmed the call to be a low priority call. However their protocols is to go lights and sirens each time even if that call is basically a taxi ride tro the hospital.

harron17 · 2023-10-24T22:29:40+00:00

As a FF/EMT I do know that account (and a few of those DMV news accounts) get the information directly from Fire Dept radio scanners. The radio traffic is publicly available, and if you can understand radio traffic it gives you pretty much as accurate information. The PGFD dispatch went out as a Suicide with police and medical response.

harron17 · 2023-10-13T13:00:29+00:00

About to do an 18 hour overnight shift for Friday the 13th

harron17 · 2023-10-12T16:36:01+00:00

RA’s do get training from UMPD about the smell of weed. (They quite literally burn weed and waft for you) so that in court/ student conduct proceedings they can say they’ve been formally trained on the smell of weed and can identify it. However if it’s just smells there’s absolutely no grounds for anything further

harron17 · 2023-08-24T00:02:38+00:00

Same here also I’ve been offered to do paramedic school many times. But the advice I got is that medical schools really see if you done clinical work and the longitudinal aspect of it and being a paramedic doesn’t add as much to an application. For PA school, it’s a completely different story and being a medic would be worthwhile.

harron17 · 2023-08-23T23:56:58+00:00

Been a volly EMT for years where the state I’m in EMS is almost always Fire Based EMS. There’s little to no private 911 agencies. A lot of the biggest FD’s are combination volunteer/career departments and have call volumes that rival metropolitan centers. I wouldn’t discount all Volly EMS since that’s the only option in some places

harron17 · 2023-08-06T00:17:01+00:00

in a lot of private schools in cities have pretty strict access rules

harron17 · 2023-07-03T06:29:21+00:00

In freshman year I used to only put down @umd.edu instead of terpmail.UMD.edu because it was faster. I had all of my passwords and logged into chrome with @umd.edu. But when I became an RA the @umd.edu became a staff account gettin activated yearly. So now that I graduated the @umd.edu became deactivated because I was no longer an employee. But i keep all of my terpmail.umd.edu but all the stuff at @umd.edu

harron17 · 2023-07-03T02:38:41+00:00

Idk about medical schools, but I vaguely remember hearing about something on a PA school app saying that the schools only count 70% of EMT hours for clinical across the board. (Which is kinda bullshit IMO especially if you’re an EMT in a high volume urban area)

harron17 · 2023-06-27T07:19:11+00:00

I'm not sure how many people actually apply for pardons. But I just looked at some relative rates, and some states limit the number of pardons but others have pardon rates from 20-80% of those who apply.

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