"One Last Post About School" written by Mike on estrip.org

11/02/07 12:02 - 44ºF - ID#41940

One Last Post About School

Ok it probably won't be my last, but my last today, (probably?). Now that I tihnk I may not want to be a pharmacist it is really hard to care about this test today. Like organic chem will never matter in any other world. But what if tomrorow I decide I want to again and then I failed the test, then I am screwed. I have been studying pretty much all my free time tihs week (by studying i mean reading th ehcapters and doing the probelms that I have avoided doing since the last test) so really i am spedning a lot of time but not really getting a lot out of it. There is a very real reality that I may fail this test today and i kinda don't care right now, excpet i havce already put in so muhc time, ugh i wish i didn't find out i couldn't get in to pharmacy shcool until next week so i could care mor eabou this test

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Location: Kenmore, NY

10/31/07 11:31 - 63ºF - ID#41914

Maybe I'll Teach

So now if I decide I don't want to be a pharmacist I am thinking maybe I will be a teacher. I always wanted to do that but then got the idea of other things but really that was my first occupation that I loved. I had so many teachers that influenced me that I always wanted to be like. Maybe I will do that. Either social studies or elementary ed. I am gonna look into it now.

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10/31/07 12:26 - 46ºF - ID#41898

Pharmacy School

So I was told today that I cannot get in for next year. Because some of my prerequisites were 6 years ago instead of the five that they conveniently never told me about or made known of their website in the last year, I now have to wait another year. Not only that but I have to take either one full time or 2 part time semesters of like unneeded 300 and 400 level science courses. I think I am just not going to do it. I am not giving up yet. I am going to talk to another lady. I am gonna pull out all the punches on this one. If not I seriously am just applying somewhere else even if I still have tow ait a year, I just don't want UB to have any of money or gifted future in their hands. We'll see. I am not going down easy!

tiburon1724 writes at 10:58:09 11/05/07 - Comment #27531: Mike I did want to ask if the Prereqs from 6 yrs ago were from another degree you had or if they were earned at UB ie you were taking them part time and it took you that long to complete all the necessary classes?

tiburon1724 writes at 10:54:29 11/05/07 - Comment #27530: ok so it's 2007 not 2008 so it's been 4 yrs not 5 - bad math! What a crushing blow though :(

tiburon1724 writes at 03:12:55 11/03/07 - Comment #27450: my DARS report shows everything waived except 10 classes and it's been just over 5 yrs since I got my BS (May 03). They told me I had to complete all prereqs in five years but I will definitely ask for further clarification! thanks!

mike writes at 06:07:55 10/31/07 - Comment #27288: tiburon-make sure you check with someone about this 5 year thing because if you took any prereqs while you were in school that time it won't count.

tinypliny- i may try a persuasive letter. thanks for the suggestion.

james- they also say they don't recommend you taking the classes that are part of pharmacy school. and considering they decide if i get in or not I suppose I shouold not do things they don't recommend ugh, i hate them

james writes at 01:15:50 10/31/07 - Comment #27263: To pass the time between the two I would see what courses are required for your pharmacy degree and take what ever grad classes you can to get them out of the way.

Like, if you need to take Chem 788 and Bio 801 take them and those are two less classes you will need to take when in Pharm school.

tiburon1724 writes at 11:27:13 10/31/07 - Comment #27250: I just got accepted into UB as a transfer student (got my BS in 03) and plan on starting my PharmD prereqs in the Spring semester, taking one or two at a time while I still work full time because if I complete the prereqs and don't get in, I'm screwed if I've quit my job! If I get in, I'll quit my job of course so hopefully there will be no problems. The advisor they said would be contacting me has yet to do so...

tinypliny writes at 02:41:26 10/31/07 - Comment #27229: Wish we had someway to edit our comments...

One more piece of information and a million corrections to my last comment.

I believe this is the lady you would write to:
Cindy F. Konovitz
Assistant Dean (Admissions and Student Services)

Also, I think it might be a good idea to have your letter proof-read by no less that five people to catch errors, language and tone faux pas.

Now for the corrections:
persuasive letter*s*
grades not graded
Also,
catch up with the advances...
each of the subject*s*...

I admit I have correction OCD. Sorry about that!

tinypliny writes at 02:27:42 10/31/07 - Comment #27228: That is just ridiculous! I am sure there are plenty of schools which charge less and are more reasonable!

I dug this up, but perhaps you know about it already: :::link:::

But first, I think you should write directly to the director of grad admissions (pharmacy) and make a persuasive case as to why you are capable of entering pharmacy school and why the "requirements" should be reconsidered for you.

Personal and persuasive letter often make a good impact. Include your syllabus (And compare it with the present) and graded in the letter if they add to your argument. Also add the various efforts you have made in the past few years to make up with the advances in the syllabus, if any, for each of the subject required.

paul writes at 01:19:56 10/31/07 - Comment #27227: Ya, they are just money hungry. It's not like 300 level chemistry has changed so radically in the last 5 years that you would not be able to understand it anymore.

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10/29/07 12:34 - 38ºF - ID#41854

Party Pics At Last

Ok, so this is the first time I have had a digital camera at an (e:strip) party. I do not take quite the extensive amount of pictures as others and as you will see I mostly take pictures of a)myself b) people with me c) random pics of the floor (ok i won't post those) I serioulsy have pics of very few people but here's what I got kiddos.

P.S. Does anyone know why I always end up scrapped up , cut up and bruised the day after an (e:strip) party. I think it had something to do with a certain zebra!I hope everyone had fun, enjoy! I was going to do some captions and what not but I am tired so here they are...

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10/29/07 12:23 - 38ºF - ID#41853

Finally Some Party Pics

Ok, so this is the first time I have had a digital camera at an (e:strip) party. I do not take quite the extensive amount of pictures as others and as you will see I mostly take pictures of a)myself b) people with me c) random pics of the floor (ok i won't post those) I serioulsy have pics of very few people but here's what I got kiddos.

P.S. Does anyone know why I always end up scrapped up , cut up and bruised the day after an (e:strip) party. I think it had something to do with a certain zebra!I hope everyone had fun, enjoy!

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Location: Kenmore, NY

10/29/07 12:22 - 38ºF - ID#41852

Finally Some Party Pics

Ok, so this is the first time I have had a digital camera at an (e:strip) party. I do not take quite the extensive amount of pictures as others and as you will see I mostly take pictures of a)myself b) people with me c) random pics of the floor (ok i won't post those) I serioulsy have pics of very few people but here's what I got kiddos.

P.S. Does anyone know why I always end up scrapped up , cut up and bruised the day after an (e:strip) party. I think it had something to do with a certain zebra!I hope everyone had fun, enjoy!

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Location: Kenmore, NY

10/27/07 04:26 - 55ºF - ID#41839

Most Wanted Unicorn

Has anyone seen this unicorn? He is on the lam evading police as we speak....he has been spotted around the elmwood area causing havoc and looking sexy!!!! Any info would be greatly appreciated...

what a badass unicorn!

Has he no respect!?!

Even rebels have to wait for the bus sometimes!

He is so angry with corporate america he is taking back the streets!

He caused quite a scene outside Hardcore with others taking pictures and a mascot offer!

Please If You See This Unicorn: REPORT IT ASAP

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10/25/07 12:09 - 51ºF - ID#41795

What to be? What to be?- Halloween editi

So seriously me and (e:jill) have no idea what to be for halloween this year. We don't always go as things together like one year it was Captain Planet and the girl from the Royal Tennenbaums but we def plan it and find the stuff we need together. Sometimes we do coordinated like last years Starlight Express. But seriuosly we have been talking about it and thinking aobu tit nonstop and have come up with nothing! (e:mk) occassionally gets involved in the action too. We only have a few requirements, mainly that is glittery and if possible involves short shorts or underwear, is that too much to ask? Todya is our last chnace to day to find something though really we always come up with it wihthin like 3 hours of the first haloween party and it is usually pretty fab. Lets take a look back at the last few years for inspiration:

sexy starlight express with cigarette haha 2006

the starlight express chain is about to take off 2006

captain planet- sure he saves the planet but who doesn't love a fur coat with your super hero outfit? 2004

Looks like someone is about to take crime and pollution down to 0. 2004

I couldn't find a better picture of my fraggle costume. I know somehwere there is a picture of me as a fraggle hunched over the toilet from way too much drinking but I can't find it... 2005

wind up doll and cymbal playing monkey. That was very last minute. I actually worked til like 8 pm that night and had to put most of it together right before the party. I had to buy a huge stuffed monkey we had at work and cut off its head for a mask. It was very sad and traumatizing. My mom restuffed and sewed it though and I gave it to charity but ti was so sad to see it sitting there dead. 2003

You know what they say. Nothing is classier than a drunken monkey. 2003

Thank you to many different people whose journals I took these pictures from...now off to Amvets

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10/23/07 07:58 - 49ºF - ID#41767

Update PCATs and Holly Hunter

So I took my PCAT's and I think I royally screwed up the Math and Chemistry sections. Chemistry has always been my lowest strength but math is usually my best, like I almost got perfect like on all the practice tests and on the SAT's I did really good on math. But I got stuck on some stupid calculus problems at the beginning of the test and all of a sudden they were like " 5 minutes left" and I still had like 15 questions to go. They were all questions I could have answered if i had the time and, i just kinda had to guess on them, but hopeefully i got most of them right! It takes 6 weeks to find out your score. Considering it is mostly scantron with two two page essays that seems ridiculously long! I just want to know so I can know if I have to take them in january. I don't think I can sit through them again! It was 5 hours of pure long and uncomfortable torutre. LIke even the seats were super uncomfortable and in those 5 hours we only got 1 ten minute break! ugh!

Maybe it is time to think of a backup career. Like professional slot machine player?

And now on to Holly Hunter. Someone just posted on my youtube video about how stupid my video is and that Holly will never see it and they can't believe they bothered turning their head to watch it? Um who is the dumb one in this situation? What kind of greatness was he expecting from a sideways turned close up of my face called I love Holly Hunter .I love that people get so angry about things like that! Hilar!

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10/19/07 09:46 - 62ºF - ID#41718

10.5 hours til my future is calling

Ugh, tomorrow morning I take my PCATs which are like the pharmacy school SAT type things. OMG I AM GONNA DO SO BAD! I have done some practice ones and get like oh 50% or less on the bio and chemistyr sections. Luckily on like the math and verbal and reading I do pretty good though the verbal is very touchy. Some practice i did really good some really bad. Math and reading I am shooting for like perfect or very close to perfect to hopefully cancel out the badness of the other sections. It seriusly could go etiher way, they could ask stuff I know, or stuff I don't (which is a far larger % of stuff). We'll see. I hate standardized tests. I am a pretty good test taker in general so I have that going for me but I seroiously know very little bio or chem considering I took the classes the stuff is based on appproximately 7 years ago with the exception of one semester of organic chem i am taking now. Like some of the stuff is from later organic chem which we haven't even done yet! Ugyh! I guess I oculd always just hope to win big at the casino if tihs whole pharmacy school thing doesn't play out!

I was thinking, hwo do these people from other countries pass the verbal part in any sort. Like i seriusly have a pretty good vocabulary and there are so many where I don't know what any of the choices mean. These people who english is not their first language, I can't imagine they can really do any of ti!?! it must be so difficutl! I guess no more difficult than chemistry is for me! Haha. !

Ok off to sleep early to get ready !