Thread: Total tuition cost without borrowing!

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Originally Posted by JensBlomqvist

Good to know you just got in, Kongakut...very soon, you'll be out again with these dazzling skills of perception you have working wonders for you.

For your information, I am not the Dan in this story - it's what we call an example. I have a total of three hundred dollars to my name as of last friday, to be honest. So I know you were looking for a free ride on my private jet and perhaps interested in exploring the possibility of what favours you could do to get a free membership into the 'Dan I amarich kid gym...sorry, I have no jet for you and I don't swing that way, if you get what I mean. Good luck though, its a pretty popular island from what I hear...

And its funny you should talk about my father, considering I am not even fortunate enough to have one, let alone one with money.

you do know konga is married, with kids....and a girl...so if you don't swing that way....

Originally Posted by Reilly

That makes me Ulnar!!

I was thinking femur.

cannibas

Originally Posted by rokshana

and your point is?? evidently you have amovitational syndrome (pimp question everyone-- what substance if used chronically leads to amotivational syndrome?)

Taking immunology with Dr.S?

She made my eyes red too

..i never inhaled..

Wow, this thread went all screwy. I like to liven up the language a bit here and there, beyond the typical forum lingo. A lot of people think that med school in the Caribbean is a breeze (tropical, of course). The two years you spend here are difficult (both the academic content and the local "culture"). The clinical years in the States will have you working 40-100 hours a week (depending on the rotation), plus studying in your free time. Residency is more of the same, until you're practicing medicine in your sleep and borderline envying the dead. As AngryBaby and others have said, you've got to love doing this to make it worthwhile. Sorry if you mistook "offensive" to mean some sort of superiority problem on my part. It's hard work, and it really boils my blood to have someone think you can pay your way through.

That said, my attitude may be the only difference between "Dan" and me. I was a smart guy (Mensa, 99th percentile on MCAT), but slacked in undergrad. That's why I didn't make it into a US school. But, I'm not at SGU because my dad wants me here, I'm here because I want to be here. It's a lot of hard work, and you need to be prepared for that. BTW, since you mentioned it, there are plenty of US medical students I wouldn't trust with a stapler, let alone a scalpel!

Sorry to have put you on the defensive, and I hope you found my estimate helpful. While I think you may have been a bit harsh on us, you are quite right in saying that med school can make you irritable and cranky.

Originally Posted by Reilly

That makes me Ulnar!!

nice, I'll be 5th proximal phalange. Or maybe the pisiform.

Anyway, how did I not recognize before now that Rokshana can be called Doc Rok? awesome

Originally Posted by AngryBaby

that's an easy one, Doc. The kids at Black Sand Beach know all about it.


we were off-topic from the get-go.

..and how do you know they know?

Originally Posted by AngryBaby

Anyway, how did I not recognize before now that Rokshana can be called Doc Rok? awesome

Brilliant...

Originally Posted by EhJJ

Wow, this thread went all screwy. I like to liven up the language a bit here and there, beyond the typical forum lingo. A lot of people think that med school in the Caribbean is a breeze (tropical, of course). The two years you spend here are difficult (both the academic content and the local "culture"). The clinical years in the States will have you working 40-100 hours a week (depending on the rotation), plus studying in your free time. Residency is more of the same, until you're practicing medicine in your sleep and borderline envying the dead. As AngryBaby and others have said, you've got to love doing this to make it worthwhile. Sorry if you mistook "offensive" to mean some sort of superiority problem on my part. It's hard work, and it really boils my blood to have someone think you can pay your way through.

That said, my attitude may be the only difference between "Dan" and me. I was a smart guy (Mensa, 99th percentile on MCAT), but slacked in undergrad. That's why I didn't make it into a US school. But, I'm not at SGU because my dad wants me here, I'm here because I want to be here. It's a lot of hard work, and you need to be prepared for that. BTW, since you mentioned it, there are plenty of US medical students I wouldn't trust with a stapler, let alone a scalpel!

Sorry to have put you on the defensive, and I hope you found my estimate helpful. While I think you may have been a bit harsh on us, you are quite right in saying that med school can make you irritable and cranky.

I nominate EhJJ for SGU's VMD diplomat.