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Check out community college transfer programs. I know NOVA/NVCC (Northern Virginia Community College) had a great program with George Mason and some other local Universities that guarantee a successful transfer if you maintain a B or higher in all of your classes. The important thing to remember is that there is no notation on your degree saying that half of it was done at a community college, if you transfer to a better school for the last two years (sure it's still expensive, but about half as expensive as doing the whole thing at a normal university) the degree is FROM THAT SCHOOL. Just do some research first and follow the previous advice on verifying transfer credits and the like.

Also, California has great weather, but the living costs in the South are cheap. See if you can't find someone halfway experienced in the field and learn from them, be it a B12er or a professor you get in contact with via e-mail. It's always good to have a mentor and a friend wherever you plan on going.

Oh, about that sexual harassment thing - people in community college aren't necessarily worse than people in a big-name university. But they are less-likely to take things seriously from my experience. Try not to get caught up with the wrong people. It's easy to go from learning the area to trying to get your pants off a ceiling fan in a house of a friend of a friend of a - okay I have no fucking clue where I am.

Or the spectacular failures every time they launch something new.

"Wait, you mean the servers were supposed to be able to hold more people on launch day than at the end of the ten-year projection?"

Can... can you imagine the horror?

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I'm in the last year of finishing my psychology major, and Scriver's arguments are actually backed by science. Beating has been correlative to lower IQs, worse mental health outcomes, and (when extrapolating to more serious physical abuse) a huge variety of problems. Explanations and non-violent punishment in an assertive parenting style is, for most cases, the most effective parenting style in producing successful, well-adjusted children.

In addition to this fear of physical harm can cause elevated cortisol levels which can actually damage brain structures and cause problems such as depression in adolescent and adult life. Sure, this is in extreme cases once again, but I know I was always terrified of my father just when he threatened to hit me. I have no clue how stressed I would have been if he had ever actually laid a hand on me.

I really don't want to start breaking out articles since I'm postponing looking some up for research papers, but I'm sure there's enough drive on both sides of the argument to get some nice evidence going.

Many fakes though.

Today I had to attend a HIV+person. Somehow I managed to miss that bit until I was done. I then spent a hour trying to remember if I had followed the necessary precautions, and washing my hands semicompulsively bc I simply did not remember

Don't worry, by the time you see any effects medicine will have advanced far enough to have it only take 5 years off your life expectancy

Because people are willing to buy them. It's quite sickening really, because it was a very small village twenty years ago, with no utilities and living off of farming mostly (wine, tobacco, sheep, etc.). After the alleged visitations it started to grow, and not in a natural, planned way a small village should grow, this is more like violent development where buildings are being build without any thought about the consequences, and these are mostly apartments for rent, hell, I'm not sure if there's a sewage connection in most of the houses or are they still dumping it into the local river and septic tanks (which seem to be connected to a network of natural caves, which in turn are connected with most sources of water in the area).

Worst of all I don't think this will stop anytime soon, reaching an abrupt end in the future where the whole thing will collapse on itself leaving a large number of people with no real source of income and a rather ruined countryside.

It's times like these when I want to disappear to a foreign country and go turtle-hunter hunting. The damn things have been virtually unchanged for millions of years and now they're going extinct due to assholes. But shit, I can't even work up the drive to write a blog about it... though a save-the-turtles blog would be pretty neat.

Not that the rest of the ecosystem being ruined isn't rage-inducing as well but... y'know... turtles.

Returned a plum today to a pretty girl that dropped it. Topped my list of "Strangest things I have ever been asked to get for someone" and "times I have felt most obliged to start a conversation but still didn't."

Still has me chuckling though. I mean how often do PLUMS fall out of people's pockets?

3+ hours of waiting? I feel for ya, though I hope you don't let him get away with that. Every partner I have ever had would have delivered significant testicular trauma if I pulled something like that.

In related news forgiveness is incredibly healthy both to the health of your relationship and your own emotional health. Sometimes scientifically supported facts aren't all that satisfying when applied to real life. In fact, they rarely involve testicular trauma at all.

Quote from: ChairmanPoo on September 07, 2012, 09:57:13 am

A guy I attended to the other day died last night :-(

Granted, it was not wholly unexpected. He had a subarachnoid hemorrague. A big one too. Still... it was shocking. Granted, we suspected SAH the minute he entered my box and started to describe us what had happened. Then while on the way back from the CT he entered a comma (glascow 4). Still, I hoped we had caught it in time. But it was not to be. I'm kind of disappointed.

Stuff like this? That's why I don't work in medicine. As much as I enjoy hitting people, I take everything too personally to keep going if someone died in my care (or even as a result of me hitting them.)

Even normal sparring can cause problems with an aneurysm and kill someone. Sorry about your patient Poo, it must be terrible to know that there is even a tiny amount of hope and then losing them. I don't suppose you have any advice to aspiring physicians to make it easier on the psyche?