Tag: grad school life

early thanksgiving

When I mentioned to my aunt that it’d be kinda cool to have an early Thanksgiving of sorts over the weekend while I was in southern California (yay for another med school interview!), it blew just a bit out of proportion. I’d been thinking something along the lines of a small family gathering, but I …

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“it just melts into the cracks!”

“I was a chemical engineering major and I studied this in pchem! Ice cream has a low packing density would increase the packing density by filling up the spaces, so if you have a stomach full of sushi, you can still fill it with another stomach of ice cream.”

-Mike

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nicknames

I think it’s mildly amusing how we’ve all gained a billion different nicknames in our program. Aaron = Boris because his middle name starts with a “B” (which actually stands for Benjamin, but apparently this does not matter) and he’s Russian. Sneha = “Snebs” because one of our professors accidentally called her “Sneba” on the …

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bench press qualifier

There’s a bench press competition this Friday, but I can’t participate in it because I will be flying across the country to attend my hopefully-last interview for med school. (This is my tied-for-first-choice med school, although if I’m to be honest, I’m leaning toward the one I’ve already been accepted to. Its only real downside …

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Wit (2001)

Yesterday, in the class that I’m auditing (I have a pretty amazing attendance rate for classes I’m not actually a part of; I even turn in assignments that I technically don’t have to do! :O ), we watched the 2001 film, Wit. I’m usually not one to go around strongly recommending movies, …

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