According to Iserson's "The entire computer program for the Match takes about six minutes to run."
WTF is the NRMP doing while we wait with baited breath?
WTF is the NRMP doing while we wait with baited breath?
WTF is the NRMP doing right now?
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Waiting for the checks to clear.
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it's "bated" by the way.
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Yeah, I thought it was "baited" too, like I took the bait and am waiting for more. Can you elaborate on this spelling?
they laugh at us for 2-3 weeks while we wait for a stupid computer program to run the match.
they are laughing, just like the USMLE laughs at us when we have to wait 4 weeks to get our score for a computer exam even though we pay 600-1000 dollars for it w/o including airfare and hotel stay for teh CS.
they are laughing, just like the USMLE laughs at us when we have to wait 4 weeks to get our score for a computer exam even though we pay 600-1000 dollars for it w/o including airfare and hotel stay for teh CS.
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..."bated breath":
Idiomatic: slow down, hold your horses, ease up there partner, don't be in such a hurry, stand over there and be quiet, because we're only going to go as fast as we're going to go because we have this, that, and the other thing to do before we get to you...
Idiomatic: slow down, hold your horses, ease up there partner, don't be in such a hurry, stand over there and be quiet, because we're only going to go as fast as we're going to go because we have this, that, and the other thing to do before we get to you...
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oh please god let me have matched oh please god let me have matched oh please god let me have matched oh please god let me have matched oh please god let me have matched oh please god let me have matched oh please god let me have matched
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This was answered in the ERAS forum-- they re-run the algorithm several times (I always thought the standard was 3 final runs with no discrepancies), which takes 90 minutes each. Then they go about the troublesome business of printing up all those forms, stuffing them into letters, compiling unmatched program lists, etc.
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90 minutes...geez....time to buy a new computer
The trusty 286 runs just fine - why waste money?
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Who are you kidding?
They bought the "Bat-computer" from the old series - it spits out the match list on those punch-cards that look like old answer-keys from scantron exams.
(I might be dating myself here . . .)
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Note the bell bottom jeans and the bob. It's only a matter of time before her professor walks in with his porn stache and afro (but he's white, of course) and offers her a ride home in his El Camino.
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I know, seriously. I think my iPhone is faster.
