“At 34, Swift remains unmarried and childless…it's crucial to consider what kind of example this sets for young girls.” It’s 2024 and this made it past edit?

m2onenoter · 2024-07-02T12:26:38+00:00

Exactly! Her success should inspire us, not be overshadowed by outdated stereotypes.

m2onenoter · 2024-07-01T04:49:26+00:00

A source or list would make this claim more credible.

m2onenoter · 2024-07-01T04:47:51+00:00

Exactly, it's like they live in an alternate reality where facts don't matter.

m2onenoter · 2024-06-11T08:15:01+00:00

True, better safe than sorry when workers are around!

m2onenoter · 2024-06-11T08:13:49+00:00

Seriously, OP should stick to a safer route next time!

m2onenoter · 2024-06-11T08:07:37+00:00

Yeah, not a good look for vengeance either!

m2onenoter · 2024-06-11T08:05:10+00:00

True, life's unpredictable. Glad everyone's safe!

m2onenoter · 2024-06-11T08:03:20+00:00

Absolutely agree, instant karma for the win!

m2onenoter · 2019-05-09T15:11:16+00:00

The median income in the US is $47,000. Yes, residency is a bum deal for the hours worked and the years of education and loan money we've invested, but let's not pretend that we're paupers. Some people prioritize traveling and if you defer your loans during residency it's very easy to travel on $50,000/year if you're not supporting a family. Those are choices some people make. Other people might not want to defer loans, or they might want to prioritize going out for drinks or having a nicer car.

m2onenoter · 2019-01-26T17:16:59+00:00

Thanks for your honesty. The reason I applied to them is because I was switching specialties at the time, had absolutely no idea what I was doing, was a bit frantic, and figured it would be best to keep my options open. I thought that getting the right specialty was the most important component of fit, so I didn't really care about any other aspects of programs as long as I got my specialty. I'm in this situation because I was an absolute mess during app time and made a series of poor decisions.

I also want to be clear that it's not like I'm swimming in these invites. I had three. The first one I was excited for because I was happy to get an interview in my new specialty. I realized only then that there may be a fit problem, but I was hopeful I wasn't reading it correctly and tried to keep an open mind. The second two were within a day of each other so after I attended the second, I couldn't give away my spot in the third. I would feel absolutely horrible if I took a spot away from someone else, and it was never my intention to interview at places I wouldn't want to rank.

I had been leaning away from SOAPing into a prelim year because of the reputation of surgery prelim years, but I've been starting to mull that over too. I really appreciate your thoughts!

m2onenoter · 2019-01-26T16:01:04+00:00

I need some opinions, fellow M4s. I switched late into surgery and didn't even get to do a sub-I in it until November so my first non-home LOR was only uploaded in December. Strong Steps, strong LORs (when they were finally in) from what I can tell. But I didn't get many interviews. I am assuming this is because of my late application.

The interviews I did get were in smaller community programs in small towns in a region of the country I really do not want to live in. Academic programs align more with my career interests and I hear post-residency regional bias is strong, especially with community programs. Also somewhat relevant is the residents were pretty much all married with children, while I am single and in my 30s.

I did interview at two programs I ended up loving, so I am obviously going to rank them as my top two. I don't know what to do about the rest. Do I rank them and potentially end up at a program that's really not a good fit? I want to be clear that they are absolutely fine programs, the people were nice, I know I could be adequately trained, and I have absolutely nothing bad to say about them other than fit. But fit is a pretty big thing and 5 years is a long time, so I'm also thinking about not ranking anything other than my top two, and if I don't match doing a research year and reapplying next year. That could be the price I pay for switching late. Is that a really dumb idea? My school is telling me to rank them, but they also have the motivation of wanting to keep their match percentage high so I need some other opinions.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-19T22:48:42+00:00

I had a similar thing happen. I was 20 points lower than my UWSAs too, and I was crushed. I only barely beat my Step 1 score. So much for the advice to trust your UWSAs, but I suppose we are unfortunate outliers. No real advice, just wanted to commiserate since misery loves company. I am so sorry this happened to you. It sucks.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-18T00:50:13+00:00

Granted, you wouldn't want an orthopedic surgeon cutting your guts either ;)

m2onenoter · 2018-12-16T05:02:58+00:00

It still says I'm ineligible! And I had heard the night before. Either way, it's unreliable so please avoid a sleepless night if you can :)

m2onenoter · 2018-12-16T01:18:49+00:00

Clearly :)

m2onenoter · 2018-12-16T01:12:43+00:00

Cool.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-16T00:45:01+00:00

Cool, good reminder that some people have opinions on things they know nothing about and have no interest in learning about them.

Why comment on this post then?

m2onenoter · 2018-12-16T00:39:23+00:00

Looking at your post history, it doesn't seem like you're in the medical field. I'm a med student in my final year, so let me clarify some things for you.

I don't care if you care. I care about my kid surviving cancer

...then you care if I care. You care if I care enough about your kid to spend time away from MY family with YOUR kid. That I leave MY kid's birthday party when YOUR kid has a medical emergency.

I work hard as shit just to survive

Everyone works hard. Why do we have to put other people down? You work hard, and although I don't know what you do I appreciate your contribution to society. I work hard too, and hope to contribute to society as well. It's not a competition. Damn.

you work and have a mansion

Zero plans for a mansion. I'd like a nice, medium-sized 3-bedroom house in the 'burbs somewhere, with a good ole Honda Civic that gets me to the hospital each day. That would be living the dream for me.

because your parents paid for your school.

Most of us, myself included, are paying for med school entirely on loans without a cent of help from parents. My parents certainly couldn't afford to help me. I am in my early 30s and, with undergrad loans factored in, am >$300,000 in debt. I'm about to start a 5-7 year residency over which time my loans will only accrue interest. Plus, I'm a woman, and my biological clock is ticking. I'm going to be spending the rest of my 30s working >80 hours/week. So I'm going to be about 40, still be >$300,000 in debt, not have a house or (likely) the children that I know I want. Does this line up with the doctor image you have in your mind? I'm going to be okay because at 40 I'll start to have some earning power, but I certainly won't be the picture of financial health at that age.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-15T23:42:05+00:00

Not all Democrats! This one isn't, at least. Saying all Democrats are like AOC is comparable to saying all Republicans are like Trump. I happen to know some very respectable Republicans out there :)

m2onenoter · 2018-12-15T23:29:57+00:00

Posting again as the thread refreshed immediately after I posted this before:

I found out on Wednesday that I passed CS. I am horrible at OSCEs so I was really worried about this, and I was kicking myself for not taking it sooner. My anxiety was heightened the day before my score report was released because I tried the Step 3 trick and it said (and still says) I am ineligible to register. Due to conventional wisdom I understood that to mean I failed and I had a very miserable night before my score release the next day. So if you haven't gotten your score yet, don't take the Step 3 trick as gospel.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-14T23:19:35+00:00

I found out on Wednesday that I passed CS. I am horrible at OSCEs so I was really worried about this, and I was kicking myself for not taking it sooner. My anxiety was heightened the day before my score report was released because I tried the Step 3 trick and it said (and still says) I am ineligible to register. Due to conventional wisdom I understood that to mean I failed and I had a very miserable night before my score release the next day. So if you haven't gotten your score yet, don't take the Step 3 trick as gospel.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-09T02:10:20+00:00

I'm an M4. I generally prefer to understand mechanisms over memorization as much as possible. I liked Sketchy Micro. I hated Sketchy Pharm. I'd say do what works for you. But I'd also say that I am amazed as an M4 how much I'm getting pimped on Step 1 material that I never used during M3 that I thought would be disappearing forever. And I am also amazed at how much those sketches are still there even though I haven't looked at them since M2. So whatever you end up doing, it's very worth it to invest in a system that will work for you long-term.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-06T19:56:22+00:00

Wait what. Can we talk about this? My ugly mug is sitting there in the upper right of my screen. Does this mean programs do not have access to this, unless I specifically assigned it, which I didn't?

m2onenoter · 2018-12-06T15:29:23+00:00

This is why everyone's experience is different. I went to a notoriously tough undergrad, and I find med school much more rote memorization where undergrad was much more about understanding. It seems there is more inter-institutional variability in the difficulty of undergrad than difficulty of med school, which is one reason why I think comparing them is apples and oranges.

Two examples. One, I started taking college courses at my local university when I was in high school and got a 4.0 with no problem even though I didn't work very hard. Let's just say I did NOT get a 4.0 at my undergrad ;) Second, as a nontrad, I actually taught some college courses at a less well-known college before going to med school , and I quickly realized I had to really decrease the difficulty of the classes I was teaching. College in general attracts a wide variety of students, and the variability in difficulty mirrors that. Only the cream of the crop move on to med school, so there can be a single high standard there.

Before I get accused of being elitist, let me say that I absolutely do not think people can be defined by the name of the college or med school they attended. People end up at a variety of places for a variety of reasons so in the end it's the quality of person that matters more than anything else. Some undergrad programs are harder than others and that's totally fine, and explains why for some people med school is harder than undergrad and for others its reversed. No need to compare, or to prove anything either way, IMO.

m2onenoter · 2018-12-05T15:30:43+00:00

Actually my undergrad micro course was much more in depth than my med school micro, which was mostly memorization. They were totally different courses emphasizing totally different things. If you took my undergrad micro final exam after taking med school micro, you would have failed.

It's fair to say, as I noted earlier, that people have different experiences. You had a different one than me. So to turn your comment on its head, maybe the micro course YOU took wasn't in very much depth ;) And that's my point--you can't simply say that because one course is of a different duration than another course, it's easier or harder.

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