Well, I did it. This Mac girl finally jumped on the iPad bandwagon and I am blogging from it right now. My new black, sleek, user friendly iPad is my new best friend (sorry A!). This little rectangle that is only a pound or two is replacing 3 of my 4 MASSIVE science textbooks, you know the ones that weight five hundred pounds that you must lift with your legs or you'll throw your back out? Instead of those ungodly books I just download them into this great little box, and stuff it into my purse before walking out the door. And just like hardcopy books I can still highlight and annotate right in the text. Plus I can search the text for specific words, phrases, or annotations!
Better yet, with the apps available I can use this as my notebook. I can take notes that sync up the recordings of my professors,lectures so that when I click on a section of my notes I have the option of playing the portion of the lecture that was recorded while I was taking that particular section of notes. How cool and amazingly useful is that?!
So why is this blog worthy you ask (aside from the fact that it fulfills my new-thing-for-the-week requirement)? Well as it turns out, there might be a slight hitch in my giddyup... I may be returning this great little device (14 day return policy) if I cannot permanently download my textbooks. It appears that some distributors only let you RENT the textbooks for a given amount of time. Which is completely useless to someone who will be studying for the MCAT and need to refer back to old textbooks and notes. I will be calling one of the main distributors tomorrow when they are open to see what's up with that fishy business and will keep you posted.
iPad freak signing off :)
Update: Apparently the iPad does not like to format in Blogger (i.e. this was one large block of sentences) so I had to come back in on the Mac and revise it a bit. So there are limitations. But overall still very happy. Here's hoping rent-a-book is just an option for poor college students and not a requirement for e-textbooks...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Paging Fake Dr., Paging Fake Dr., We Need 3cc Of Sanity...STAT!
Ok, you are probably wondering, "RP, you've always been nuts, why are you suddenly looking for sanity now?" And I have to admit, that is a darn good question...one I should ask the team of therapists it will take to put me back together after my next decision.
I, RP, have made the most gut wrenching, terror inducing decision man (or woman) has ever known. Am I starting a family? Marrying my favorite baristo-boy from Starbucks (Hi Joe!) and running away to Columbia to start my own coffee business? Perhaps taking a page out of Blast from the Past and building my very own fallout shelter in my parents basement and locking myself in there for the next 30 years? Nope, well, the last one was close enough, but no, it's scarier. I have decided to aim for med school. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I desire to work with that gelatinous goo filled, puss oozing, fecal matter storing organism we fondly call the human body. Yummy. Nothing says pee-on med student like a 56 hour day filled with rectal exams and foot fungus.
So why am I doing this? Obviously it isn't for the glory, something I never really understood- why are physicians glorified? If the above paragraph didn't get the message across, they have a pretty icky job when you get down to it. Rewarding but icky. Anyway, I digress. I am doing it because it feels right, because I believe in bettering the lives of others in a purposeful way, because I know the value of having a physician that treats you like a complete human being instead of a set of symptoms. I want to work in rural communities that have limited access to good health care. Heaven help me, I probably wont be making enough once I am practicing to actually pay off my massive student loan debts...why can't I be interested in becoming a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills? Ah well. Wish me luck! :-)
Edit: I thought I should clarify, since some of my dear readers (yes, one of the two) believed my decision to go to med school was influenced by my experience of being denied state funded health care (see post below). I am not sure what the connection is there (I can't really treat myself as a physician...) but I thought I would clarify that I actually began this journey 2 years ago in 2009, but got scared away by the MASSIVE student loans needed to complete med school.
I, RP, have made the most gut wrenching, terror inducing decision man (or woman) has ever known. Am I starting a family? Marrying my favorite baristo-boy from Starbucks (Hi Joe!) and running away to Columbia to start my own coffee business? Perhaps taking a page out of Blast from the Past and building my very own fallout shelter in my parents basement and locking myself in there for the next 30 years? Nope, well, the last one was close enough, but no, it's scarier. I have decided to aim for med school. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I desire to work with that gelatinous goo filled, puss oozing, fecal matter storing organism we fondly call the human body. Yummy. Nothing says pee-on med student like a 56 hour day filled with rectal exams and foot fungus.
So why am I doing this? Obviously it isn't for the glory, something I never really understood- why are physicians glorified? If the above paragraph didn't get the message across, they have a pretty icky job when you get down to it. Rewarding but icky. Anyway, I digress. I am doing it because it feels right, because I believe in bettering the lives of others in a purposeful way, because I know the value of having a physician that treats you like a complete human being instead of a set of symptoms. I want to work in rural communities that have limited access to good health care. Heaven help me, I probably wont be making enough once I am practicing to actually pay off my massive student loan debts...why can't I be interested in becoming a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills? Ah well. Wish me luck! :-)
Edit: I thought I should clarify, since some of my dear readers (yes, one of the two) believed my decision to go to med school was influenced by my experience of being denied state funded health care (see post below). I am not sure what the connection is there (I can't really treat myself as a physician...) but I thought I would clarify that I actually began this journey 2 years ago in 2009, but got scared away by the MASSIVE student loans needed to complete med school.
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