Congrats to you for being done with step 1!!So when do you guys start?
tulsa peeps start July 5th, can't wait!
LOL! That's a great story, Freeze. Actually, I spent some time in that Lumberjack bar that's on 101 in downtown Brookings (minding my manners, lemme tell ya) and lots of other places in Brookings. What's amazing is that a lot of Okies who migrated to California during the dust bowl (and I'm in that group - my dad was oilfield trash who migrated all over Creek and Osage counties as a tiny kid in the 1920s - now all my family is in L.A.) wound up going up the coast when they weren't welcome in California. I don't know how many times I was asked "do you know so-and-so in Muskogee or wherever...". There are TONS of people with Oklahoma roots on the Oregon South Coast. Maybe that's why it often feels familiar, except for the incredible scenery!! (If you were raised in a double-wide, don't tell 'em, 'cause they'll think you're snobbish.)
All the liberals in Oregon seem to live in the Portland area and maybe in Eugene. Since the vast majority of the Oregon population is concentrated around Portland, Oregon looks really liberal when you look at election results.
She does work too hard. And I have to go see her - she'll probably laugh at me. When I went to Dallas over Memorial Day, my sister was going to be gone, too, so Ms. Jesse went to the most posh vet in OKC. Your mom's clinic is exactly what a good vet clinic should be like - good equipment, sparkly clean, but not elaborate and expensively over-decorated. Anyhoo... I knew the hospital where your mom practices has very limited boarding space so I took her to the "resort". Jess got all her vaccinations caught-up - at 4x what your mom would have charged me - and the only thing I asked them to do was to make sure her toenails were cut. They told me not to worry, that was "standard."
tulsa peeps start July 5th, can't wait!
But, I am leaving for Vegas tomorrow, so that should be lots of fun. I'll have a few days to clean my house when I come back, and BAM-- right in the thick of third year, never to see the light of day for about 12 months. But 4th year's supposed to be fun, right?
Congrats on getting Step I done!!! I'm looking forward to your wise advice about 3rd year - you've kept me out of trouble more than once...OKC has orientation on July 6 and officially starts on July 9th. I'm slightly less enthusiastic than Siam, but that was probably my fault for starting with Internal Med & Surgery... seemed like a great idea at the time, now I'm pissing my pants
OKC has orientation on July 6 and officially starts on July 9th. I'm slightly less enthusiastic than Siam, but that was probably my fault for starting with Internal Med & Surgery... seemed like a great idea at the time, now I'm pissing my pants
Wow, that's soon! I hope you all are living up your last few days of real freedom. You're going to have to keep us posted about how you like the Tulsa rotations because it seems like all the other people are going to be in OKC.
Hey, 2011ers and prospective 2012'ers. The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has been the most active thread in the Allopathic Class section for the last two years running - 2009 started and 2010 kept up the tradition in fine fashion. Now, it's regularly going to page 2 and Doc Bagel had to bump it to keep it from disappearing.
What's with you guys???
Considering how little gossip I know about anything, I'd be a horrible source anyway. It would be interesting to see how much I had forgotten if I did go back.
I was implying that I might be in the bottom 1/2 of the class...
You won't unless you make that choice, and that's a perfectly OK choice to make, especially with newborn twins and a wife.
because it ain't gonna mask anything. It's like painting something before you sand it...
Well, what I wanna know is, who's bankrolling these kids' lifestyles? I keep reading on Facebook about how they're slaving away at their research assignments for the summer (just 3 or 4 weeks, apparently) in New York or Boston - and then they're so tired they have to spend the rest of July backpacking across Europe - or Brazil.But on one hand, it's a blessing in disguise; I don't have to worry about the summer suck-up **** people pretend like they are interested in to bolster their "CV"
Uh-oh. I forgot that there was one person who might nail me. It's green envy not hate, glp. My apologies. I wanna be in Rio, too! Yes, I am getting paid far more than I probably deserve (I prefer to view it as my last revenge for ten years of being underappreciated), but it's beginning to sink in with me that this is our last summer, and I'm spending it behind a desk!! At least I've got some time this week - I'm taking off Mon/Tue to get some paperwork and housecleaning done here in the city - Wed's the 4th - but then it's back to the 40/week slog until August 1 <sigh>.
If I can work it out somehow I'm dying with my law school loans. They're at a ridiculously low interest rate, so they're exactly at the bottom of any financial priority list. I can't believe I was actually a big enough idiot at one time to pay ahead on them. Debt's bad and all, but d@mn when the interest rate is less than what I can get in my checking account, I think I can always beat those interest odds.
