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Has anyone heard anything new on the scholarship front? Are we getting close to that time at least?
Has anyone heard anything new on the scholarship front? Are we getting close to that time at least?
I think the price is more like 50 bucks...
The book they use is Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry 4th edition, which is a pretty great book. Used it in my undergrad biochem at UM. The third edition is better as it has a great summary of all of the key topics of the entire book at the end of the book, and there's not much of a difference in content.
What are you talking about, we spoke about this at the relay for life, I ALREADY GOT YOU ONE.HOLY COW. WOW, I swear to goodness that there was like a million of those books all going for .25C or .50c I am not joking. When you said 50 bucks I was like, "huh?" Went back to Amazon and saw them for 41 bucks and what not.
Wow, thanks wally for picking me up. If I see them on there again for that much I will make sure to say something.
******Found something. Here is a link to a few sites that have the second and third editions for super cheap? I mean how important and how much has biochem changed in 3 years? Give me a break. I would probably suggest picking up the thrid as you can still find it for 3-6 bucks.
http://www.google.com/products?q=Li...istry&show=dd&scoring=p&lnk=next&sa=N&start=0
****In general. I have not taken immunology or really microbiology would any of the med students suggest brushing up on that with these Lippincott's books? I feel like what the heck but I am sure the upperclasspeople will know best. What do you all think?
What are you talking about, we spoke about this at the relay for life, I ALREADY GOT YOU ONE.
No offense, but everybody needs the money... Nobody walks away from med school without debt unless someone foots the bill. Though, sometimes it seems like we have plenty of people in that position at UM . "Needing the money" means you can't get it from a lender. So if you're credit is screwed and you maxed out your stafford and your grad plus, then maybe you "need it" more than someone elseYou know axlaxl1
I had the same question too since I got a scholarship and I wasn't sure if I could ask for more. I'd appreciate it if you found something if could tell me, because I really do need the money.
No offense, but everybody needs the money... Nobody walks away from med school without debt unless someone foots the bill. Though, sometimes it seems like we have plenty of people in that position at UM . "Needing the money" means you can't get it from a lender. So if you're credit is screwed and you maxed out your stafford and your grad plus, then maybe you "need it" more than someone else
I understand what you are saying but I do think there is a difference from someone who has parental support and who does not. I agree that all of us will have loan debt at the end of this endevor, however, more of us will have parental support such as housing or food or money in situations that others simply won't be able to receive from their family.
You do make a great point though that some people have even come from grad programs that can already start the drain on loans from the graduate school perspective.
With that said, my parents aren't giving me a THING, dead and single/disabled parent. So, for me every single bit helps as I will be the only supporter of my educaton from every aspect as unfortunetly I will not have any parental support.
Still, I am very pleased with what I have been afforded already; sorry if I came across as greedy or something.
For the scholarship, did they need your financial aid information first or was this independent of it?
None takenNo offense, but everybody needs the money... Nobody walks away from med school without debt unless someone foots the bill. Though, sometimes it seems like we have plenty of people in that position at UM . "Needing the money" means you can't get it from a lender. So if you're credit is screwed and you maxed out your stafford and your grad plus, then maybe you "need it" more than someone else
six weeks at Miami. It's never been done for Boca---so no one can give you a definitive answer. However, since they follow the Miami schedule, I reasonably sure that it's six weeks, too.
I could help again?
I am still waiting on fin aid ... on vacation now and will decide sometime in may
Was in Dallas, then LA, now Seattle
Yea this thread has really died off lately.. Anyways, Zeke, since you're almost done with your first year, is there any advice you have for the incoming class?
I'm graduating in 2 weeks so I'll give you the perspective from looking back on all of it. Enjoy your time off before med school, relax, have fun. I know you've all heard that before but its so damn true. Don't worry about anatomy, biochem, whatever. Everything you need to know you will learn in med school and you will do great and match very well come 4th year in whatever you want and wherever you want if you just work hard. Med school is nothing you can't handle, the material is not any harder than anything you've done in undergrad. SERIOUSLY. The only thing that makes it different is the pace at which they unload information on you but you will adapt and after a few months its second nature. At Miami everything you need to know for just about every module is thrown up in powerpoint files the first 2 years and uploaded to the meded site daily. There are gonna be times you feel overwhelmed from all the information you feel "you must know!". Just realize that you can't learn it all as a first or second year or else you are going to make yourself sick, just try your best and try to understand the concepts you are learning instead of just memorizing every slide of every powerpoint file. There are also gonna be times where it feels like you're just doing another 2 years of undergrad with all the lectures and all the studying. As a first and second year enjoy your time at preceptor and academic societies training sessions, go to health fairs, participate in the student clinic... these clinical activities are the only things you have at school to actually remind you that all the basic sciences you are doing the first 2 years are there for you to actually help patients with and not just for exams and grades. Then you hit 3rd year and it's awesome. Yes, its harder, the days can be 12 hours long or longer compared to the 3-6 hour days you had as a 1st and 2nd year but actually being on the wards and seeing on a daily basis how everything you learned comes together is great. Patients at Jackson will look to you when they have questions and will see you as their doctor. One day you'll realize that you've gone from someone nervous about taking a simple history to someone that is suturing a laceration or performing a paracentesis or reading an EKG and calling the cath lab about an MI in the ER.... and you won't even know when it happened but you made that transition from 1st and 2nd year to clinician. Just enjoy the ride and remember why you went to med school in the first place which is very easy to forget at times, it's gonna get rough along the way but if you've made it to med school you can totally handle it. Don't doubt yourself.
So, I can't say what Arsenic said, because I'm not a 4th year yet and I haven't been on the wards...Yea this thread has really died off lately.. Anyways, Zeke, since you're almost done with your first year, is there any advice you have for the incoming class?
Wow, I'm totally going to save that paragraph somewhere and refer to it in the future, when I feel like crapola. I wish I had something else to post here, but I really don't know what else to say. This thread has been a bit quiet lately...I'm graduating in 2 weeks so I'll give you the perspective from looking back on all of it. Enjoy your time off before med school, relax, have fun. I know you've all heard that before but its so damn true. Don't worry about anatomy, biochem, whatever. Everything you need to know you will learn in med school and you will do great and match very well come 4th year in whatever you want and wherever you want if you just work hard. Med school is nothing you can't handle, the material is not any harder than anything you've done in undergrad. SERIOUSLY. The only thing that makes it different is the pace at which they unload information on you but you will adapt and after a few months its second nature. At Miami everything you need to know for just about every module is thrown up in powerpoint files the first 2 years and uploaded to the meded site daily. There are gonna be times you feel overwhelmed from all the information you feel "you must know!". Just realize that you can't learn it all as a first or second year or else you are going to make yourself sick, just try your best and try to understand the concepts you are learning instead of just memorizing every slide of every powerpoint file. There are also gonna be times where it feels like you're just doing another 2 years of undergrad with all the lectures and all the studying. As a first and second year enjoy your time at preceptor and academic societies training sessions, go to health fairs, participate in the student clinic... these clinical activities are the only things you have at school to actually remind you that all the basic sciences you are doing the first 2 years are there for you to actually help patients with and not just for exams and grades. Then you hit 3rd year and it's awesome. Yes, its harder, the days can be 12 hours long or longer compared to the 3-6 hour days you had as a 1st and 2nd year but actually being on the wards and seeing on a daily basis how everything you learned comes together is great. Patients at Jackson will look to you when they have questions and will see you as their doctor. One day you'll realize that you've gone from someone nervous about taking a simple history to someone that is suturing a laceration or performing a paracentesis or reading an EKG and calling the cath lab about an MI in the ER.... and you won't even know when it happened but you made that transition from 1st and 2nd year to clinician. Just enjoy the ride and remember why you went to med school in the first place which is very easy to forget at times, it's gonna get rough along the way but if you've made it to med school you can totally handle it. Don't doubt yourself.
Back to this thread for good
I'm graduating in 2 weeks so I'll give you the perspective from looking back on all of it. Enjoy your time off before med school, relax, have fun. I know you've all heard that before but its so damn true. Don't worry about anatomy, biochem, whatever. Everything you need to know you will learn in med school and you will do great and match very well come 4th year in whatever you want and wherever you want if you just work hard. Med school is nothing you can't handle, the material is not any harder than anything you've done in undergrad. SERIOUSLY. The only thing that makes it different is the pace at which they unload information on you but you will adapt and after a few months its second nature. At Miami everything you need to know for just about every module is thrown up in powerpoint files the first 2 years and uploaded to the meded site daily. There are gonna be times you feel overwhelmed from all the information you feel "you must know!". Just realize that you can't learn it all as a first or second year or else you are going to make yourself sick, just try your best and try to understand the concepts you are learning instead of just memorizing every slide of every powerpoint file. There are also gonna be times where it feels like you're just doing another 2 years of undergrad with all the lectures and all the studying. As a first and second year enjoy your time at preceptor and academic societies training sessions, go to health fairs, participate in the student clinic... these clinical activities are the only things you have at school to actually remind you that all the basic sciences you are doing the first 2 years are there for you to actually help patients with and not just for exams and grades. Then you hit 3rd year and it's awesome. Yes, its harder, the days can be 12 hours long or longer compared to the 3-6 hour days you had as a 1st and 2nd year but actually being on the wards and seeing on a daily basis how everything you learned comes together is great. Patients at Jackson will look to you when they have questions and will see you as their doctor. One day you'll realize that you've gone from someone nervous about taking a simple history to someone that is suturing a laceration or performing a paracentesis or reading an EKG and calling the cath lab about an MI in the ER.... and you won't even know when it happened but you made that transition from 1st and 2nd year to clinician. Just enjoy the ride and remember why you went to med school in the first place which is very easy to forget at times, it's gonna get rough along the way but if you've made it to med school you can totally handle it. Don't doubt yourself.
Congrats...if you don't mind may I ask what helped you decide.
Well, withdrew from Boca ... so goodbye unless I hear from the Miami at Miami waitlist ... good luck to you all!
Sorry, this seems a bit tactical but did you consider calling Miami and saying you wouldn't want to go to Boca and you only want Miami? Just wondering because perhaps that might have looked favorable upon that. From what I understand if a person really wants UM main they can get it. I am sure it is not 100 percent but there has been cases.
I personally feel I'll be happy in Boca. Just as well it could have been UM.
Sorry, this seems a bit tactical but did you consider calling Miami and saying you wouldn't want to go to Boca and you only want Miami? Just wondering because perhaps that might have looked favorable upon that. From what I understand if a person really wants UM main they can get it. I am sure it is not 100 percent but there has been cases.
I personally feel I'll be happy in Boca. Just as well it could have been UM.
Unfortunately, this isn't true. It was true, because the admissions used to be all done through Miami. It used to be that you did one interview and the programs/curriculum were the exact same. At this point curriculum's are so different that it's almost as though the committees are looking for different things. For example, everyone knew I wanted Miami last year more than anything, but I was accepted to Boca december 7th and waitlisted at Miami till July 25th. I was told I had no chance. I wrote LOIs and called regularly. Just a heads up, so you don't tell people the wrong thing. It's not as simple as it was. Not just a campus transfer.
Unfortunately, this isn't true. It was true, because the admissions used to be all done through Miami. It used to be that you did one interview and the programs/curriculum were the exact same. At this point curriculum's are so different that it's almost as though the committees are looking for different things. For example, everyone knew I wanted Miami last year more than anything, but I was accepted to Boca december 7th and waitlisted at Miami till July 25th. I was told I had no chance. I wrote LOIs and called regularly. Just a heads up, so you don't tell people the wrong thing. It's not as simple as it was. Not just a campus transfer.
"this was 2 years ago"Here's an n=1, take it FWIW. [This was 2 yrs ago, and I'm not sure if this is when you speak of the admissions being done all at Miami or not] Buddy of mine (OOS) was asked at his UM interview if he'd consider Boca. He said he would. He got waitlisted at Boca, then about a month later, accepted at Boca. But he knew he really wanted to be at the other campus so he went to talk to Dr. Hinkley -- a few days later he was accepted at the main campus. Coincidence or not, you decide.
Again, n=1 -- obviously every situation is different. Don't know if this helps (inspires?) anyone....just another data point.