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TheQuietWilds posted:I just got a provisional offer from Drexel College of Medicine for their linkage from the Penn Post-bac. I need a 75th percentile MCAT score to finalize the linkage. Everything on one exam, no pressure or anything. Ended up drinking with a bunch of chicks that had just received their acceptance letters for JHU, the amount of  PA vs MD bullshit was awesome because it made the free blood money bomb-drop so much more satisfying. Seriously, holy loving poo poo the amount of money for that program made me almost do a spit take.
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FOURTH WAVE LESBRO posted:Ended up drinking with a bunch of chicks that had just received their acceptance letters for JHU, the amount of I love the blood-money bomb. The TA that runs my micro lab asked me some joke-question last week in front of everybody that relied on "we're all in debt up to our eyeballs" for the punchline, and I was like "oh I don't know how much this program costs, the VA pays for it and gives me $2000/m for living expenses and buys my books." The hatred emanating from the entire room was palpable.
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Disability and Boston BAH is a beautiful thing. I save a stupid amount though, so I still live frugally. Not like, college frugally, but grown up frugally.
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Casimir Radon posted:
Eh, this semester has just been working on finishing my capstone. Not too bad, just doing bits at a time.
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One month to go til I get my computer integrated machining cert, and I peace the gently caress out of this town. God willing I will get the position I'm eyeing, and if not, I'll find something else. There are no butts to stare at in the machine shop. 
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Admiral Bosch posted:One month to go til I get my computer integrated machining cert, and I peace the gently caress out of this town. God willing I will get the position I'm eyeing, and if not, I'll find something else. Just machine some and embrace the new normal of the future
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Just machine some and embrace the new normal of the future I need a physical model to take measurements from.
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Build a robot? Spoke with Vocrehab today and we are kind of in limbo trying to decide if he should take my case and then try to transfer it to SD or for me to wait until I move, as he can't transfer until I am there physically in SD, for me to start fresh with the VocRehab guys. Either or, waiting games suck. Still waiting on my ratings for disability.
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What do ya'll use for dental insurance
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That VA program.
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Zeris posted:What do ya'll use for dental insurance My employer's dental insurance.
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psydude posted:My employer's dental insurance. Are you a student
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Zeris posted:Are you a student Yes.
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Real talk, dental insurance as an unemployed full-time student over 26 is rough. Have you tried a bunch of whiskey and a rock?
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Zeris posted:What do ya'll use for dental insurance The dental school at my college does free basic dental work for veteran students, apparently it's not all that rare of a practice
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psydude posted:Real talk, dental insurance as an unemployed full-time student over 26 is rough. Have you tried a bunch of whiskey and a rock?  I don't have anything wrong with me, but I'd rather pay a couple bucks a month than a thousand bucks the next time something does go wrong. But I have no idea what a baseline policy even costs. I am assuming it's not too bad but who knows? I'm 31 and never had to pay for insurance in my life, go army.
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Three years without health insurance was spooky. I can sympathize.
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I got an email from DoS: they passed my internship application over to the US embassy in Kazakhstan, and they thought it would be a good fit. After exchanging a few emails with the section head, we agreed to Skype this morning and talk about the position. The overall impression I got was that while I might not be doing the most exciting work, it's real-world and (hopefully) meaningful. The guy made sure to impress upon me the fact that they treat their interns pretty much like an FSO, so their housing is great, their responsibilities are reasonably big, and expectations are fairly high. Honestly, that's pretty appealing. Anyway, I told the guy I was interested, and he said that he would run it by the boss and probably have a conditional offer by the end of the week. An hour after we finished talking, I got an email back saying, "Immediate yes from the section head. Consider this an offer for the fall." So that's cool 
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Always happy to see a soldier get the better end of the deal as opposed to Uncle Same for a change
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I wanted to work for an embassy, mainly Albania but I can't cause I have family there.
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Deathy McDeath posted:I got an email from DoS: they passed my internship application over to the US embassy in Kazakhstan, and they thought it would be a good fit. After exchanging a few emails with the section head, we agreed to Skype this morning and talk about the position. The overall impression I got was that while I might not be doing the most exciting work, it's real-world and (hopefully) meaningful. The guy made sure to impress upon me the fact that they treat their interns pretty much like an FSO, so their housing is great, their responsibilities are reasonably big, and expectations are fairly high. Honestly, that's pretty appealing. Kazakhstan is a really good place to work. I was there for a few years in the oilfield and it's just a nice chill place with mostly chill people. It's a Muslim country but everybody drinks and some of the women are just stunning. If you get chance get onto the Steppes in winter. -20 with nothing but flat sand and camels with Golden Eagles flying about in clear blue skies, utterly breath taking. Also keep to the speed limit, the traffic police are super keen and the customs at the airport make up their own rules for what you can bring in and "fine" you accordingly.
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Dude that's awesome Deathy! Really nice pay off for your efforts in school.
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I'm friends with a dentist, very nice lady with two of her own offices, I get free dental work because when people skip out on their bill I do her legwork and find them so she can collect either through an agency or adjudication. I've also done some cabling and simple IT stuff for her a few times as well. All in all it's a pretty sweet deal
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deathy are you becoming jack ryan
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It's just State homie. It's like the polar opposite of being a super spy who later becomes the president.
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big things have small beginnings
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Intern for State would be a good cover.
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holocaust bloopers posted:deathy are you becoming jack ryan If he is then I get dibs on being the morally-gray private eye he hides out with in an early book where he's on the run from a shadow agency out to kill him for his knowledge of the Jenkin's file and then later provides him with the crucial dirt on his political rival who's heavily entrenched with the DoD and DoJ in a later book
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I know there's one or two GIP posters who are getting or got a GIS certificate through an online program. I'm looking into it myself and I've got a couple of questions, 1)My employer in their wisdom won't help pay for it, though if it were a graduate degree in history or an MLS, they would. Oh well. It's only 8-10k but would you say it's worth paying out of pocket for? Or am I going to find that unless I'm already in an industry that relies on GIS, I'm wasting my money? Seems like a marketable skill and I live in DC so I figure my odds of making it worth my while are better here. 2)How demanding is it? Like if I'm meh with math, am I going to hate it? I currently work with basic statistical data in excel daily, so I'm not completely math illiterate. The only experience I have with GIS was seeing it used when I interned with FEMA ages ago. I understand what it is and what it's used for, but have no knowledge of how to actually use it. So, how hard is it to get into?
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Booblord Zagats posted:I get free dental work because when people skip out on their bill I do her legwork and find them 
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CONGRATS DEATHY can I post that embarrassing thing of you now? just kidding, it doesn't exist it does exist Cheers to Deathy and his future mongol wife. it does exist and I'm not sharing it ever
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It's far easier/less sinister than it sounds. Worst case one was a guy who skipped out on a bill using a false name and I found out he was on probation. Just called his PO for a theft of services complaint and he went back to lock up
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Handsome Ralph posted:I know there's one or two GIP posters who are getting or got a GIS certificate through an online program. I'm looking into it myself and I've got a couple of questions, If you can handle Excel you can handle GIS stats. You'll probably end up using Excel a bunch anyway.
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I use excel and photoshop about as much as I use ArcGIS
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isnt khazakstan the place with the weird cult of personality dictatorship?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:isnt khazakstan the place with the weird cult of personality dictatorship? You're thinking of Turkmenistan.
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Deathy McDeath posted:You're thinking of Turkmenistan. And they say people learn nothing watching Archer
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Get a giant Mastiff and name him Kazak when you go there.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:isnt khazakstan the place with the weird cult of personality dictatorship? Nah, one of my exes had a dad in the FBI who worked at the embassy in Kazakhstan, and apparently Nazarbayev was quite a tool. But I guess that's par for the course in that region. Deathy, start working on your Borat impression. Nazarbayev shenanigans: wikipedia posted:In May 2007, the Parliament of Kazakhstan approved a constitutional amendment which would allow Nazarbayev to seek re-election as many times as he wishes. This amendment applies specifically and only to Nazarbayev, since it states that the first president will have no limits on how many times he can run for office, but subsequent presidents will be held to a five-year term.[37] Nothing else exciting about the dude. He's a pretty boring dictator, doesn't really kill or torture enough to meet quotas, kowtows to local Islamic power holders like Iran and licks Russia's butthole obviously. Probably got a good deal for reducing his nuclear arsenal to zero. 
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