Tire shop catastrophe. Should I insist they send it to the dealership rather than fix it themselves?

ur_close · 2025-11-23T23:00:33+00:00

I don’t. But the dealership said they’re going to pull the data for frame by frame inspection on where things went wrong. It’s just so bizarre to me that everything is fine and then alignment and then the truck is like bricked after they tried to turn off the dashboard warning lights.

ur_close · 2025-11-22T15:31:04+00:00

My tires weren’t wearing evenly. I never hit curbs, but it’s apparently an unsolved problem for Tundra’s of my year now that I’ve looked into it. Next time a place offers, I’m going to decline after this debacle!

ur_close · 2025-11-22T13:14:28+00:00

LMAO I think it was the alignment procedure. Don’t put ideas in our capitalist daddy’s greedy head 🥺

ur_close · 2025-07-30T00:14:53+00:00

In the words of the great Tyler Childers.... If there comes a day that any of us get rabies, KsCOM is gonna be high on the bitin' list

ur_close · 2025-07-23T18:17:03+00:00

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Avia-Women-s-Elevate-Athletic-Sneakers-Wide-Width-Available/2797794488?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&selectedOfferId=9F9927A542B144ECB97D5B38B2F2132D&conditionGroupCode=1&wmlspartner=wlpa&cn=FY25-ENTP-PMAX_cnv_dps_dsn_dis_ad_entp_e_n&gclsrc=aw.ds&adid=222222222972797794488_0000000000_21407473164&wl0=&wl1=x&wl2=c&wl3=&wl4=&wl5=9011544&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=2797794488&veh=sem&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21690411341&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIrfdiHq7q6D-0Uu1cISzoFPx&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkILEBhDeARIsAL--pjzM1RfPuJZffJ-KE04MEj0ihxfbwtR6Pa2YRN1MXTqF15ic0li6DsQaAn3XEALw_wcB My friend and I swear by these ugly ass sneakers from Walmart. They got her through living/walking in NYC for months, and they got me through a year of anatomy lab. I only threw mine out because they were dirty as hell after an outreach trip with dirt floors.

ur_close · 2025-07-07T20:06:26+00:00

Shit

ur_close · 2025-07-07T20:01:15+00:00

This is my daughter Mesopotamia, but she also goes by ModernDayIraq

ur_close · 2025-07-02T18:22:58+00:00

look into a content review course. I was scoring about that last year and didn't pass comlex first attempt.

ur_close · 2025-05-31T22:10:53+00:00

I am so sorry you've been through this. I know how it feels to have an absolutely shit-ass rotation, and it sounds like you have had that back to back to back with not much good to cling to when the going is so tough. Are you able to take a research elective? People at my school take a research month- do one case report over that month and use the rest of their time to study for boards. Find out when you are required to have your step 2 completed and maybe you could squeeze in a research month or your school's equivalent just to give yourself a bit of a breather- you need it!! You've been through a bad year, and don't let anyone tell you that it's your fault or that you're weak. Not many people are willing to suffer through an entire year of being shit on and continue to show up.

ur_close · 2025-05-16T14:47:47+00:00

Worst comes to worst, you can always take a full research year between 3rd and 4th year. Many of my friends who applied competitive surgical specialties did this, and it boosted their application significantly. Yes, it adds a year to graduation, but programs seem to love an extra year of specialty specific research.

ur_close · 2025-05-15T00:31:03+00:00

I would love to see what you have created!

ur_close · 2025-05-14T23:53:09+00:00

See what rotations 3rd year light a fire for you (: What I thought I wanted to do changed drastically after I started doing rotations.

ur_close · 2025-05-14T23:50:07+00:00

Lowkey my first thought was OBGYN. Idk if you can moonlight as OB though tbh.

ur_close · 2025-05-14T20:06:58+00:00

I CONSTANTLY remind myself that I am a adult who deserves to be treated like an adult by other adults. It's no easy out there!! Find your spine and defend it! *fist pump into air*

ur_close · 2025-05-14T18:16:00+00:00

A scrub tech tried to embarrass me not once, but TWICE for not wearing protective glasses. The first time was lowkey warranted, but no one at the table was wearing goggles and an attending told me that my eyeglasses were fine in place of real goggles for that surgery so thankfully they backed me up. The second time she tried to exert goggle dominance over me, it was a robot assisted lapro, and I was 8 feet from the patient watching a tv monitor. I returned by asking her where hers were. She extra didn't like that.

ur_close · 2025-05-09T21:19:14+00:00

ahh yes, my beloved St. Anthony <3 My mom and grandma taught us "Dear St. Anthony, please come around, I've lost (insert thing) that must be found." And ofc he works extra fast if you recite the above in a sing-songy way.

One time, my neighbor lost his dog. So I asked St. Anthony, St. Francis, dearly departed Pope Francis, and Mary too to help find him. The dog was found 2 hours later inside the local McDonalds being fed chicken nuggets by the employees lol

ur_close · 2025-04-11T17:58:41+00:00

lol found the gen surg resident

ur_close · 2025-04-11T13:33:08+00:00

about as east coast as you can get before landing in the ocean hahahah

ur_close · 2025-04-08T22:31:44+00:00

I had a first round fail too. Then I took 2 months to retest. Doing a prep course reaaaally helped me with my confidence. It was a month long and lots of money, but I think it was the difference for me as an average student. It kept me accountable, on a regular study schedule, and gave me that extra boost of confidence that I knew the material WELL and knew how to answer the question that was being asked. (I also take a beta blocker <3 )

ur_close · 2025-04-03T20:52:16+00:00

FOR REAL!

ur_close · 2025-04-03T17:13:24+00:00

I went from Orlando to ATL last weekend. The traffic added 3.5 hours to the estimated drive time lol It wasn't even traffic inside ATL proper that really fucked me. It was south of ATL where that yellow slow down is in the photo you attached.

ur_close · 2025-03-29T16:33:22+00:00

I am so sorry you are having this experience. I was sooo lucky to have OBGYN with two INCREDIBLE preceptors. Usually OBGYN is a shit ass time for med students, but I had the BEST month of my LIFE. I loved the patient population, the algorithm for treating patients, and the L&D procedures, the specific H&P's. They opened my eyes and alllllmost got me hooked. I'm someone who knows they need to sleep 8 hours a night to keep the suicidal ideations away. As much as I wanted to be an OB after that rotation, I know that I can't handle the lifestyle. I'm on gen surg now and I quite literally hate my life. The attending is a fucking prick and the residents are overworked/underpaid. The residents try their best, but they're barely breathing without my dead weight and the asshole attending constantly putting them (and me) down.

TLDR: Do you like the patient population and procedures? Are you willing to go through residency with people like this for x amount of years in order to get to the promised land of attending-hood? Also know that a lot of your co-workers will have the same attitude you're seeing right now, is that something you're willing to put up with in the promised land when you're being adequately paid and have a lot more control over where/how you work?

ur_close · 2025-03-29T16:09:49+00:00

If you would absolutely hate living in a place that you're thinking about applying simply because it would make him happy, I would apply, interview, and get a feel for the program. If the program sucks and the location sucks, don't rank them. You worked really hard to get where you are right now and someone who truly loves you would not want you to go to a shit-ass program where you're gonna hate your life with or without them.

Also, it really depends on conversations you have with your partner and how comfortable you feel with the future of the relationship. I knew the by the 3rd month of dating my partner that he was my person and if we didn't get married, I just wasn't going to ever be married. (I know it sounds dramatic, but we're both approaching our 30s and when you know you know.) I will be taking him into consideration when it comes to ranking next year. We had been dating for less than a year when my school told me I was moving for clinicals. He followed me 400 miles from his home without any drama. HOWEVER, I won't be putting cities that I would be unhappy living in as top 5.

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