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08-10-18, 05:04 PM
#4701
smelling the roses
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08-10-18, 05:31 PM
#4702
Has a magic bike
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Took on an undergrad with autism spectrum disorder this summer. I almost returned her after a few meltdowns, but she turned out to be freaking brilliant and fun to have around. We had some interesting conversations about what life, learning to act normal, and maintaining all day, was like for her, i.e., not easy.
We gave her a project using structured equation modeling to make sense of a bunch of functional brain imaging data and she simply killed it. This p.m. she gave about the best undergrad talk I ever heard, in front of at least 100 people, as cool as a cucumber and hitting questions out of the park. I guess talks don't make you nervous when you simply don't deal in the concept of what other people are thinking. Big learning experience for me.
We gave her a project using structured equation modeling to make sense of a bunch of functional brain imaging data and she simply killed it. This p.m. she gave about the best undergrad talk I ever heard, in front of at least 100 people, as cool as a cucumber and hitting questions out of the park. I guess talks don't make you nervous when you simply don't deal in the concept of what other people are thinking. Big learning experience for me.
The field I work in is very competitive and getting into advanced training programs is vet neurology is a long shot, only about 25% of people who want positions actually get them. Program directors tend to choose these cookie cutter types- smart, personable, non-complaining/hard working, sunny. In short: “easy” people. I get it, I want easy too. But sometimes more difficult people have a lot to contribute to the field. Everyone is entitled to their personality IMO. I’ve been arguing lately that we mentors need to open our minds as to what a “good” candidate is.
One of my former interns had me pulling my hair out, has an anxiety disorder and that made things difficult in the clinic sometimes. But we got her placed into a PhD residency, that was 20 years of relationships knowing who’d get her then making the case that they should take her on.
Two years later, I’m sitting at our national meeting when she presents some of her PhD work, she identified the specific defect in genetic disease in dogs. “GM2 Gangliosidosis in Shiba Inu Dogs with an In‐Frame Deletion in HEXB”. Also cool as a cucumber, because she 100% knew her stuff. I’m positive standing up and speaking in front of almost everyone in her field was hugely anxiety provoking for her, but you couldn’t tell one iota. Wow, I almost popped three buttons in 15 min research abstract.
08-10-18, 06:19 PM
#4703
Senior Member
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A 6 or 7-year old boy at Ikea is crying his ass off because he bumped his chin. It's funny to see his parents babying him while addressing him by his name, which is Courage.
08-10-18, 06:33 PM
#4704
smelling the roses
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Are you there for furniture of food?
08-10-18, 06:58 PM
#4705
Senior Member
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08-10-18, 07:16 PM
#4706
smelling the roses
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I hope she doesn't cramp your style.
08-10-18, 07:40 PM
#4707
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#mentoringdoneright
The field I work in is very competitive and getting into advanced training programs is vet neurology is a long shot, only about 25% of people who want positions actually get them. Program directors tend to choose these cookie cutter types- smart, personable, non-complaining/hard working, sunny. In short: “easy” people. I get it, I want easy too. But sometimes more difficult people have a lot to contribute to the field. Everyone is entitled to their personality IMO. I’ve been arguing lately that we mentors need to open our minds as to what a “good” candidate is.
One of my former interns had me pulling my hair out, has an anxiety disorder and that made things difficult in the clinic sometimes. But we got her placed into a PhD residency, that was 20 years of relationships knowing who’d get her then making the case that they should take her on.
Two years later, I’m sitting at our national meeting when she presents some of her PhD work, she identified the specific defect in genetic disease in dogs. “GM2 Gangliosidosis in Shiba Inu Dogs with an In‐Frame Deletion in HEXB”. Also cool as a cucumber, because she 100% knew her stuff. I’m positive standing up and speaking in front of almost everyone in her field was hugely anxiety provoking for her, but you couldn’t tell one iota. Wow, I almost popped three buttons in 15 min research abstract.
08-10-18, 08:04 PM
#4708
VFL For Life
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08-10-18, 08:07 PM
#4709
VFL For Life
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08-10-18, 08:18 PM
#4710
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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08-10-18, 08:22 PM
#4711
VFL For Life
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In college I drank a lot of beer my first three years and worked around food (in the cafeteria) during three of my four years and during the summer before my senior year at a deli-cheesesteak place. I was a stock room boy during my last two years in college. Always on my feet lifting and carrying heavy things. The union employees loved me as I was a Philly native and not some spoiled Penn student from somewhere else, so they would often make me special stuff.
Anyway...My feet started to hurt. Went to see a doctor thinking I had stress fracture. After examining me it basically went like this:
Dr.: You know why your feet hurt?
Me: No. Why?
Dr.: Because you're fat. You need to lose weight.
That last line is a direct quote. One of the best pieces of medical advice I ever got.
Dr.: You know why your feet hurt?
Me: No. Why?
Dr.: Because you're fat. You need to lose weight.
That last line is a direct quote. One of the best pieces of medical advice I ever got.
Anyway, my feet have been getting tired lately, but I don't think it's because I'm too fat. My feet are too fat: they have inflammation.
08-10-18, 08:34 PM
#4712
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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The pushers are in frame @ Skykomish!
08-10-18, 08:42 PM
#4714
VFL For Life
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Dumpster diving?
08-10-18, 08:47 PM
#4715
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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08-10-18, 08:50 PM
#4716
VFL For Life
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08-10-18, 08:57 PM
#4718
Mostly Harmless
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08-10-18, 08:58 PM
#4719
Farmer tan
Have you noticed that nobody ever "cruises at 19 mph" ?
It's as if 19 mph doesn't even exist.
It's as if 19 mph doesn't even exist.
08-10-18, 09:00 PM
#4720
Mostly Harmless
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08-10-18, 09:04 PM
#4722
smelling the roses
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08-10-18, 09:05 PM
#4723
Mostly Harmless
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08-10-18, 09:10 PM
#4724
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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