Hey guys, If you’re a 4th year medical student, your ERAS application should be in. After every medical student tried to submit their application minute 1 day 1, ERAS crashed… again… like it does every year. Don’t worry, I’m not judging you guys, I did the same thing back in 2007. Relevant Ok, so now what? You’re a 4th year. Apps are in. You feverishly check your “ERAS” inbox every 10 seconds. Ivory Tower University sent […]
Whatever Wednesdays
It’s Whatever Wednesdays and as per usual, this will be kind of a random post about writing style. My writing style is kind of unique and weird. I tend to write as if I am having a conversation with someone. The other day I was trying to think about why I write like I do and I made a quick list in my phone. While this may be boring for some, it offers me the […]
Writing Style
This is copied from my recent Quora answer. I am 25 and applying to a pre med program in the Caribbean, I’ve never taken any medical college courses before, should I take a couple at a local CC? First things first. I am a graduate from a Caribbean Medical School, so I am somewhat qualified to answer this question. That link which will take you to my blog post on the subject as a primer […]
Caribbean Medical Schools Part Two
It’s Whatever Wednesdays again. So let’s talk a bit about where I live: Hawaii. Hawaii probably isn’t the first place on your list of places to live. However, I think it’s on most people’s places to vacation or honeymoon to… for good reason. Let’s explore. So first some background. Like I discussed in my About page, I’m a radiologist currently living in Hawaii. I came out back in April 2014 and have been out here […]
Living in Hawaii
It’s Whatever Wednesdays and this will be a short post (for real this time!) to illustrate a simple concept. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. (TANSTAAFL) When I was a kid, I knew very little about the world or money. All I knew was that my dad and mom worked very, very hard. We had moved to California when I was three and my dad was a young professor at California State University at […]
Free Lunch
My last few posts were about the current Pokémon Go phenomenon, and I made a few predictions. We’ll see how it pans out in future Whatever Wednesdays posts. In the more recent news, Verizon is set to acquire Yahoo for $4.83 billion. This seems like a lot of money, however, it used to be worth $125 billion. Forbes CNN I wanted to talk about this a little just because I think it is interesting since Yahoo […]