Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Mr_Pleasington on December 19, 2003, 03:40:10 AM
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Well, another one down folks. By all reports I just finished the toughest semester of optometry school. It's all downhill from here. Especially next year, which is just externships.
I managed to do a lot better than I thought I would this semester. I'm especially proud of an A I got in Clinic, something that is hard to get and that means the doctors are particularly pleased with my skill with patients.
And next year is going to rule. Starting in May my externships take me to Kansas City for 3 months at one of the best disease rotations in the country. Then I got to Brisbane, Australia for 4 months to do a contact lens rotation, and then back up here that spring for graduation. It's going to rock.
For now, I'm just chilling. I'm going on a cruise starting this weekend and will be in the middle of the Caribbean for Christmas. I can't wait.
Then I come back ready for the new year.
Yeah!
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Hey! Brisbane is where I'll be moving in about a months time. I assure you that it will indeed rock. Brisbane rules.
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Well, Jam, you and I are going to have to meet. And waste time. Or something.
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Yeah, sounds fun. Tell me when you end up here, and I'll let you in on the city's best places to waste time. I think I know a number of them already, which speaks great lengths for the potential time-wasting of the place.
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Cool- yet one more doctor in the world to be dimayed at how bad my vision is.
I've just got one tough semester left, and then one class to take at some point during the summer. This winter semester isn't going to be a lot of fun though - 18 credits, 6 classes, and 5 of them English.
But I'm so close I can taste it!
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18 credits in winter semester? That's crazy. . .
Good luck though
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I feel your pain, fuzzy.
The last two semesters I've carried 22 credit hours.
This coming one will be 23.
And yet, it's supposed to be easier. We'll see.
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My cousin is going for 21 credits next semester.
And good for you Mr. P on whatever it is you did.
And Fuzzy, I think my vision can out-bad your vision.
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I've got another year...or so, left on my masters. I find myself more ambivalent than I probably should be.
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I'll be done with my Masters in April (Huzzah!) Next semester will be crazy, though, because I have to write my thesis (except for the first chapter--that's already written and only needs revision), and take two grad classes, one with a teacher I *really* don't like.
At least I'll have dance classes to keep me sane. :)
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I'll start off politely. So Brenna, how are those dance classes going? Well I hope.
Nextly, why is it your taking dance? For dramatical purposes, or mayhaps just because?
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Now why would you want to be impolite to Brenna? She takes dance classes because she is a good dancer and enjoys dancing.
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What Fuzzy said. :)
I take dance classes because they are a blast. I do folk dance and ballroom dancing, and compete in ballroom dancing.
I'm pretty good at it, and it relaxes me. It's also a very nice workout. :)
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You are all sick and wrong. More than 15 credits in a semester is insanity. No wonder you all think Nicole Kidman is pretty.
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This is the first time I've ever tried 18 credits. I HAVE to graduate. We literally cannot afford to live here for much longer.
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If you can't afford Provo, where in the world can you afford? Provo's got one of the lowest standards of living in the nation, above only Idaho, Missouri, and Arkansas. I would love to live in Provo again, pay the rent I used to pay there -- 1/3 of what I now pay.
Of course, I feel your pain--lower rent, but lower wages, too.
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Not just lower wages, fewer jobs. Unless you like working for minimum wage, which most people don't (and minimum wage doesn't pay bills very well)., Provo's job market isn't the best at the moment...
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I think you're missing a fundamental factor: Once she graduates, she can get a full time career started. which is hard to do as an undergrad.
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Yeah- two paychecks instead of one. And we can move to wherever offers J.T. a good fulltime job for doing something he LIKES instead of him working two jobs he hates and being miserable all the time.
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I was really just bemoaning my outrageous rent prices in relation to Provo. From what I've heard, though, the job market in Provo is worse than it ever it was when I was there, and that's pretty bad. Why can't we have both? Low rent, good paying jobs. Is that too much to ask? :-/
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I'm leaving just in time, too. BYU just started a new policy - all BYU approved housing has to be within a 2 mile radius of the campus. Estimates are that this will drive housing costs right back up.
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How in the world do they think that's possible? Are they still trying to do that SCAMP thing or something? Provo doesn't need high rises.
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I believe the official reason is that places further away from campus are harder to moniter and to make sure that the "spiritual environment" is healthy and perfect and crap.
Of course I'm sure this has nothing at all to do with the Off-Campus Housing office, and their own desires. And nothing at all to do with the fact that all people who make up the Off-Campus Housing department are LANDLORDS IN PROVO. Nope. That doesn't scream "conflict of interest" at all.
*mutters obscenities under her breath*
Oh, and yes, they are still trying to do the SCAMP thing. And it still keeps getting "set back."
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/me snickers as he considers the state of the "spiritual enviroment" at his house
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Provo real estate needs to stuff it. In fact, nearly ever business I had the displeasure of working for or purchasing from or taking service from while I lived in Provo absolutely sucked. Mormons seem to run terrible businesses, on the whole.
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So glad I skipped out on BYU
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Some parts of BYU are great. But it needs to stop billing itself and its employees as perfect.
The price is right, and I've been VERY impressed with the education I've received.
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The price is right, and I've been VERY impressed with the education I've received.
I find that no university is even cheaper, and i am impressed with not having to do education anymore :D
But, can you compare your education to that provided by another university? Realistically?
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Realistically? BYU is a great education. Academically speaking it's barely below the level of schools like UVA and Chapel Hill: the "not quite Ivy League but almost" schools. Yeah, a BYU education is better than probably 75% or more of the universities out there.
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and considering the cost for LDS church members to go there. It's what 1,800 with health insurnace?
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it only costs a few hundred more for non-members, if I remember right. (which serves to keep the football budget down, what with it's scholarships).
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Yeah, Sprig, that;s about what I'm paying per semester.
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actualy SE I think it's 3k a semester for non mebers now.
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eh... still beat out of state for the U or even in state for UVA