Random Thoughts

[Highlander999]

Will the snow just f*** off please. I go to the doctor's (bloody dodgy liver ) and I come back looking like a snowman. I actually want to get home for Christmas and if this carries on, it's going to be a Christmas Day roast with the flatmate and gerbils.....

 

[Chewie]

Personally, I'd probably prefer it to be snowing over the extreme humidity, pouring rain and 30degree temperatures we're getting here.

 

[CG123]

Isn't yesterday and today the only rain we've had for the last few weeks?

But the humidity's been a bitch, last night I was lying in bed and couldn't get to sleep for a few hours, with rain and wind outside, but inside my room it was a furnace.

 

[Chewie]

Yea it's only been Tuesday and today that it's been raining and really humid but it really pisses me off. Especially because my work didn't have the aircon working on that Tuesday so I was wearing a shirt and long pants and it was boiling.

And last night I couldn't fall asleep either. And there was a mozzie flying around my room somewhere.

 

[Biggy]

Loved Swanny's interview on Warnie, top bloke.

 

[Manly]

Struggling without my laptop

 

[pcfan123]

PC member Shravi is in Texas right now at the Houston airport. Next time get your connecting flights through Austin dude and I'll meet you at the airport and we can grab a drink.

Hope you enjoy your brief stay in the Lone Star State

 

[Cricketman]

nice to have a safety school secured. You're missing out by not coming down to UT man, great undergrad environment.

Apply to Michigan? or Penn State?

Applied to Penn State. But..

ACCEPTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BYAAAAH.

 

[pcfan123]

wow congrats man, thats a decent school. Go Blue!

 

[Cricketman]

decent? It's a public ivy

 

[pcfan123]

haha ok fine, I just didn't want to admit you will be going to better public than I.

Michigan is one of the few publics rated higher than Texas. really happy for you man, it's a great school, you get a nice balance of academia and the whole college party life. Michigan has both, much like Texas.

 

[Cricketman]

Don't know if I am going yet though. I am still waiting on a few programs (there is one at State) which give you guaranteed admission into Med School. No MCAT, just maintain a certain GPA and take required classes.

that is tough to pass up...

 

[pcfan123]

Just want to share a story from my highschool about that, might help you out.

One of my closest friends, this Indian dude , he did exactly that at Texas Tech, it was a guaranteed admission into med school at Tech after undergrad, provided he maintained a 3.0 GPA.

However, he ended up beingi n a bad situation, he easily maintained that GPA and when it came time to med school ,he could have literally gone anywhere but was stuck in this program at Tech (something to do with credits you earn in undergrad)

Basically what I am trying to say is that if you are confident in your academic abilities and you seem like a typical intelligent upper middle class kid, so I'm sure you are, then don't get into the 7 year program. Odds are you will do well enough in undergrad to get into med school anyways.

Its a very tricky thing, and all this is discounting the possibility that you end up not wanting to do medicine while in undergrad (which is probably not likely, but still) .

Doing "Pre-Med" in undergrad can be any major, I'd rather be a "pre-med" bio-engineering major than just straight up Biology.

Im guessing your undergrad will be in Biology?

 

[Cricketman]

Depends. If I go to Mich through the traditional route I will probably not end up doing Bio. What if I don't get into Med School, what the hell am I going to do with a degree in Biology?! I was thinking about Bio Engineering but think about it - if Pre Med (Crazy hard) and Engineering (Crazy Hard) had a baby, it would be Biomedical Engineering.

I have applied to the Pre-Admissions program at the Ross School of Business in Michigan, which is the number 2 Business School in the country (after Wharton in UPenn). It's ridiculously hard to get into but I might have a shot, i'll find out in April. If I decide to go to Mich I am considering dropping Medicine completely and going Business - MBA - JD??? I have a lot of options open...

The Medical programs I have applied to are non-binding IE I can apply out to another Med School if I want to. I applied to the one in UPitt, which is probably by top choice (I already got into their undergraduate, their Med School is 12th in the nation) and a few other places. Idk, it just seems tempting to have the ability to semi-slack through college.

 

[pcfan123]

Hmm

two very different routes, if you get into Ross, then that can be a very easy life. McCombs school of Buisness here (UT) is the same and I have friends who graduated around 2006 and now they are making a shade under 150 (mostly in bonds trading)

Its a very different life than my friends who went into med school, most are still broke and doing residency in their late 20s/ early 30s..then again I have a cousin who is a 40 yr old pediatric surgeon and he is easily the richest man I know aside from this one English guy I met at cricket.