Recent content by ColeMine

While this rings true, I do hope you're joking.

I think that the Old MD Girl Blog is one of the best. Especially if your a non-traditional student who needs to get some perspective on the fact that you're not alone. It's written by a student that kicked off her MD/PhD training at 29. Since then she's gotten married and had a kid. Just...

Nova is probably the school which matches best to the word "paradise" but some people like something a little more rugged. I'm not a fan of hot weather either, so it would get old fast.

This is true. Interestingly enough, we discussed this recently in a philosophy of ethics class I was in. They reframed this exact idea with this thought experiment: Alex is a sick and twisted individual. He kidnaps both Suzzie and John and takes them to his sadistic medical laboratory. John...

I actually agree with this statement. If Alex rapes Suzzie who then becomes pregnant, is it okay to kill John down the street? Of course it isn't. It's never alright to kill another person unless an innocent life is at stake. The fact that the person happens to be living inside the womb of...

Someone's been reading Michael Pollen's "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Good book by the way. As to becoming a dietician, I'd like to do the same thing but I see two problems with it. First of all is the fact that the dieticians are beholden to the ridiculous "scientific" recommendations being...

I'd just put the service and the date in and out. I wouldn't bother putting down the type of discharge. Your discharge status isn't public knowledge as you're DD214 is private info. It's not like they send it to credit bureaus and tack it on to your criminal record. I'd provide as little...

It's important to get a physical but more important to get full-batter blood work done. This includes hormones. I heard a story about a guy who was loving life and then he lost interest in just about anything and ended up parked on the couch regardless of being in good health. Not the...

This is very good advice to keep in mind. Work hard and live low for a year or two and pay off all your school loan debt and then cut your hours and enjoy life if lifestyle is a priority. It seems to me that the theme surrounding this career path is that you need to plan on being married to...

Find out what your school's policy is if you take the class again. At mine, they take the highest and lowest and average them together. That don't remove the old one from the transcript, but it does give a bit more hope where GPA is concerned if you can bring it up by taking the class again if...

That video is freakin hilarious. I never saw the zombie thing commin....where do you guys find this stuff?

If a school was going to be overly nit-picky when reading this....what would they be like when grading your work? Would you really want to go there?

Cafeteria food is pretty much all junk. The only thing that is the exception to this is usually a salad bar and even there, the dressing is primarily comprised of vegetable oil (the kind the promotes inflammation). It's imperative to establish good eating habits now. Do you think that things...

You really need to focus on what you're passionate about. Remember, regardless of the required education/training investment required, you'll be working in your chosen field for the rest of your life. They say that many of us will live to be older than 100 years old, so that's a long time to...

This is very much true. It's probably safe to assume that most med students are not parents yet and thus don't know the in's and out's of being one. Women who choose to feed their children in the most natural way possible have additional hurdles that should be accommodate for. I can't see how...