= )
I got in today with a 30 grand scholarship!
Interviewed at UCSF today, but i am far too tired to post dat.
k bye.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Dental School at UCLA Rocked by Controversy
On Tuesday, officials at the UCLA School of Dentistry acknowledged that the American Dental Association is investigating UCLA students for cheating on a licensing exam, while the campus newspaper published an investigation into preferential admissions to a prestigious residency program at the dental school, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Licensing Exam
At least a dozen UCLA students are under investigation by the ADA for allegedly cheating on an exam that is required to practice dentistry. The students are believed to have shared compact discs with improperly obtained questions from ADA's National Board Dental Examinations, according to dental school officials speaking anonymously to the Times.
Students at USC, Loma Linda University and New York University also are under investigation.
Admissions
The Daily Bruin on Tuesday published an investigation alleging that relatives of large donors to the dental school were given preferential treatment to its orthodontics residency program. There are only six spaces in the program each year.
The investigation and an independent audit earlier this year have incited changes in dental school admissions policies, according to UCLA officials (Sahagun, Los Angeles Times, 11/14).
Monday, November 19, 2007
party like a rockstar...
I haven't done so much partying since like freshman year when I would drink on wed. night and go to biolab hungover. =)
but now i see why i didnt do it for a while
its funny how the most random issues come up. and the most random people i end up talking to.
this week seeems promising, only class on m and tues. plus dinner and fun on mon! yay!
too bad i gots 2 tests after t-givs break.
I want a new camera - cannon sd 850is = )
but now i see why i didnt do it for a while
its funny how the most random issues come up. and the most random people i end up talking to.
this week seeems promising, only class on m and tues. plus dinner and fun on mon! yay!
too bad i gots 2 tests after t-givs break.
I want a new camera - cannon sd 850is = )
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I had an epiphany today. (like in the dubliners! ahhh!)
I gotta enjoy the last weeks I have here bec. i know i'll miss it. even if the majority of the time is spent studying
i just ate carrot that tasted like dirt
OOOOH THIS IS AN SOS
Next time i see you im giving you a hi FIVE cuz hugs are overrated fyi
HA HA
I like how i got a Pepero box that said: PENIS!!! CUMMING!
woot for another potential all-nighter x_____X
I gotta enjoy the last weeks I have here bec. i know i'll miss it. even if the majority of the time is spent studying
i just ate carrot that tasted like dirt
OOOOH THIS IS AN SOS
Next time i see you im giving you a hi FIVE cuz hugs are overrated fyi
HA HA
I like how i got a Pepero box that said: PENIS!!! CUMMING!
woot for another potential all-nighter x_____X
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Evo = Satan
I hate my evo book. It has things liek THIS:
"The allele frequency describes a random walk, analogous to a New Year's Eve reveler staggering along a very long train platform with a railroad track on either side: if he is so drunk that he doesn't compensate steps toward one side with steps toward the other, he will eventually fall off the edge of the platform onto one of the two tracks, if the platform is long enough."
riiiiiiiiiight.
WTF
"The allele frequency describes a random walk, analogous to a New Year's Eve reveler staggering along a very long train platform with a railroad track on either side: if he is so drunk that he doesn't compensate steps toward one side with steps toward the other, he will eventually fall off the edge of the platform onto one of the two tracks, if the platform is long enough."
riiiiiiiiiight.
WTF
Pacific Interview
It was pretty much what I expected. VERY LONG DAY. The last segment was SO PAINFUL bec some man just sat there for an hour making us ask him questions. We had no questions. awkwardddddd.
Pros:
I liked the clinic and the sim lab... they are big lol
I like the fact that since they DONT have those specialties you get to DO the interesting cases and they aren't shipped off to the specialty clinics
People are very friendly and i think for hte most part... get along with each other ; )
The location is cool = )
I'd already know a lot my classmates!
Facilities are pretty new
clinical skills highly stressed
Cons:
3 year schedule seems really hard. unecessarily hard.
My interviewer was really boring... like no enthusiasm at all. comapred to penn man who was so excited about his school
"elevators"
Living expenses is hella
hellza expensive and financial aid talk was redic
Bascially no flexibility in the program
we'll see...
Pros:
I liked the clinic and the sim lab... they are big lol
I like the fact that since they DONT have those specialties you get to DO the interesting cases and they aren't shipped off to the specialty clinics
People are very friendly and i think for hte most part... get along with each other ; )
The location is cool = )
I'd already know a lot my classmates!
Facilities are pretty new
clinical skills highly stressed
Cons:
3 year schedule seems really hard. unecessarily hard.
My interviewer was really boring... like no enthusiasm at all. comapred to penn man who was so excited about his school
"elevators"
Living expenses is hella
hellza expensive and financial aid talk was redic
Bascially no flexibility in the program
we'll see...
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Interview at Upenn
WELL I just got back yesterday from Philadelphia. I had my interview on Friday and I thought it was a pretty good experience.
I got there on Thursday and just like explored a little... got used to SEPTA .. saw liberty bell...got a phillycheesesteak sandwhich ;)
Um and then i just spent the rest of the night stressing about my interview because it was my first one and I was very nervous.
So too bad that morning I set like 3 alarms on my phone and one on the alarm clock in my room. I wake up to the one in my room because my PHONE was SET BACK an HOUR so if I had relied on that i would probably been late! Stupid verizon set it to liek CENTRAL TIME in the middle of the night. I do NOT understand. Unacceptable.
SO anyways, I was still in a really big hurry because I had to check out of my hotel as well and make them hold my bags. So i took the subway to school and arrived on time blahbalbhlabhlabh
Had a presentation on the school , plus financial aid talk
Then got a tour of the school by a student
Then Had a small meeting with the admissions woman
Had lunch with some students
Had "free time" to explore the campus
Then finally I had my interview in the LAST SLOT
I'm really tired right now,so I"ll just briefly say my impressions
I really liked the school. I wasn't expecting much to be honest because I for some reason thought that upenn was all hyped up just because it was an ivy and had a good name.But it acutally impressed me. It has all its own staff so you don't have to liek SHARE with the med school and so your classes are all taught by dental professionals ... blah so you classes are more catered to dentistry. Their view on dentistry is really neat and something I REALLY like. They view dentistry as having far reaching effects in someone's health. hence their name Penn School of Dental Medicine. Just the fact that they've been around for 125 years says A LOT and that they've worked to like rejuvenate their curriculum as well. I like how there are so many clinics (3 general, 1 endo, 1 ortho, 1 perio, 1 pedo, 1 emergency/oral surgery). Of those, 2 of them are new, 1 is remodeling right now, and the main clinic will be done in 2 years. I think this lets their patients receive a broader sense of care ... and also gives the studnets a chance to learn more. The clinics themselves were pretty routine.. not too fancy but not like run down or anything. In general though I just get the feeling that they may not be as technologicall yadvanced as say pacific.
As far as the 1st and 2nd year stuff... we saw the dent-sim lab. Its actually a really cool program. Its basically this mannequin that you have with teeth but you also have a computer monitor that digitalizes the teeth you are drilling on in the mannequin. So if you do somethign wrong, like sit wrong, hold something wrong, it makes you stop. and as my interviewer man said ... gives you a "golden standard" that you can live up to ... you can measure things up to the micrometer and it sa VERY FAIR grading system because its not up to the whim of a professor. its a computer program. But basically all the stuff for 1st year sand 2nd year is in the BASEMENT and its kind creepy .. but whatever. The lecture halls are pretty normal ... student lab work areas are a little run down and not as nice as at pacific.
In general the students we talked to were like pretty happy where they were. My studnet tour guide was acutally from santa clara univ. but moved to new york. He said there is a great sense of competitiveness but to a point. I'm a little ambivalent about phillybut the campus itself is pretty cool. and its nice that the dnetal school is so connected to the rest of the graduate programs and undergrad campus .. so you can use all those facilities like the gym and whatnot.
The program itself seemed decent. When you start clinical, they split you up into teams with designated staff for each group so you get used to working with them. In addition you get to serve the same patients. What i thought was really cool about thier curriculum was the hospital externship... which is a required 4 week thing at a hospital either locally, or pretty much wherever. Everyone says they love it a lot.
I think about 30 studnets decide to specialize from each class (out of 115 ish), 40 ish go into private practice, 40 go int o general dentistry residency , and the rest go into army/air force or whatever. I think thats a really high percentage of specialize students... = ) but of course its split between all of the specialities. But still .. one year 9 people went into oral surgery!
My interview person was an Alum that also taught at the school part time. He owned his own practice in pennsylvania.. he was really nice and easy going. The interview was Really laid back... He asked me like 3 questions and then the rest of the time (liek 20 minutes) was me asking him questions. And basically my questions were answered with him saying how wonderful penn is. hahaha But he showed me that it IS importnat that the school has a strong alumni relationship. It is the alumni who are helping the dental school raise funds to build the new clinic...
But anyways ... It was a lot of fun.. i wish we could have met more students and it might have been cool to also have a studnet interview.. but they are all busy.
So i'll see how it compares to my other interviews!
Got so much work now!!! day light savings time <3!
I got there on Thursday and just like explored a little... got used to SEPTA .. saw liberty bell...got a phillycheesesteak sandwhich ;)
Um and then i just spent the rest of the night stressing about my interview because it was my first one and I was very nervous.
So too bad that morning I set like 3 alarms on my phone and one on the alarm clock in my room. I wake up to the one in my room because my PHONE was SET BACK an HOUR so if I had relied on that i would probably been late! Stupid verizon set it to liek CENTRAL TIME in the middle of the night. I do NOT understand. Unacceptable.
SO anyways, I was still in a really big hurry because I had to check out of my hotel as well and make them hold my bags. So i took the subway to school and arrived on time blahbalbhlabhlabh
Had a presentation on the school , plus financial aid talk
Then got a tour of the school by a student
Then Had a small meeting with the admissions woman
Had lunch with some students
Had "free time" to explore the campus
Then finally I had my interview in the LAST SLOT
I'm really tired right now,so I"ll just briefly say my impressions
I really liked the school. I wasn't expecting much to be honest because I for some reason thought that upenn was all hyped up just because it was an ivy and had a good name.But it acutally impressed me. It has all its own staff so you don't have to liek SHARE with the med school and so your classes are all taught by dental professionals ... blah so you classes are more catered to dentistry. Their view on dentistry is really neat and something I REALLY like. They view dentistry as having far reaching effects in someone's health. hence their name Penn School of Dental Medicine. Just the fact that they've been around for 125 years says A LOT and that they've worked to like rejuvenate their curriculum as well. I like how there are so many clinics (3 general, 1 endo, 1 ortho, 1 perio, 1 pedo, 1 emergency/oral surgery). Of those, 2 of them are new, 1 is remodeling right now, and the main clinic will be done in 2 years. I think this lets their patients receive a broader sense of care ... and also gives the studnets a chance to learn more. The clinics themselves were pretty routine.. not too fancy but not like run down or anything. In general though I just get the feeling that they may not be as technologicall yadvanced as say pacific.
As far as the 1st and 2nd year stuff... we saw the dent-sim lab. Its actually a really cool program. Its basically this mannequin that you have with teeth but you also have a computer monitor that digitalizes the teeth you are drilling on in the mannequin. So if you do somethign wrong, like sit wrong, hold something wrong, it makes you stop. and as my interviewer man said ... gives you a "golden standard" that you can live up to ... you can measure things up to the micrometer and it sa VERY FAIR grading system because its not up to the whim of a professor. its a computer program. But basically all the stuff for 1st year sand 2nd year is in the BASEMENT and its kind creepy .. but whatever. The lecture halls are pretty normal ... student lab work areas are a little run down and not as nice as at pacific.
In general the students we talked to were like pretty happy where they were. My studnet tour guide was acutally from santa clara univ. but moved to new york. He said there is a great sense of competitiveness but to a point. I'm a little ambivalent about phillybut the campus itself is pretty cool. and its nice that the dnetal school is so connected to the rest of the graduate programs and undergrad campus .. so you can use all those facilities like the gym and whatnot.
The program itself seemed decent. When you start clinical, they split you up into teams with designated staff for each group so you get used to working with them. In addition you get to serve the same patients. What i thought was really cool about thier curriculum was the hospital externship... which is a required 4 week thing at a hospital either locally, or pretty much wherever. Everyone says they love it a lot.
I think about 30 studnets decide to specialize from each class (out of 115 ish), 40 ish go into private practice, 40 go int o general dentistry residency , and the rest go into army/air force or whatever. I think thats a really high percentage of specialize students... = ) but of course its split between all of the specialities. But still .. one year 9 people went into oral surgery!
My interview person was an Alum that also taught at the school part time. He owned his own practice in pennsylvania.. he was really nice and easy going. The interview was Really laid back... He asked me like 3 questions and then the rest of the time (liek 20 minutes) was me asking him questions. And basically my questions were answered with him saying how wonderful penn is. hahaha But he showed me that it IS importnat that the school has a strong alumni relationship. It is the alumni who are helping the dental school raise funds to build the new clinic...
But anyways ... It was a lot of fun.. i wish we could have met more students and it might have been cool to also have a studnet interview.. but they are all busy.
So i'll see how it compares to my other interviews!
Got so much work now!!! day light savings time <3!
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