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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / March 2005Ohio State College of Dentistry
hey'all I got into the Ohio State university dental school... any tips for a first year dental student? cheers to u all Bill > hey'all > I got into the Ohio State university dental school... > any tips for a first year dental student? > cheers to u all > Bill What can I say but good luck? Oh, Kevin P. got a full-time job with the post office during his first year of dental school. I guess that means he can go dental and postal at the same time. He survived in the job a couple of weeks. Moral: don't try to hold down a full-time job during dental school. Kevin wound up OK anyway. Best, Steve  SignatureMark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 do you think holdin a part-time job would be a good idea or should I just depend on the loans? thanks Bill >> hey'all >> I got into the Ohio State university dental school... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Best, > Steve I immersed myself in dental school to learn everything I possibly could. Afterall, I was going to spend the rest of my life doing this. I did not have time for any outside jobs. I worked term breaks and the one summer we had off. I had classmates who worked part-time, but there were VERY few of those, and they were totally burnt out in short time. I don't know how it is now, but we had 8 hours a day five days a week of classes, 2-3 hours each day of lab work (after school), plus 4-6 hours a day of studying. Midterms and final exams would easily last for 2-3 weeks of takes 2-3 tests a day and the amount of time spent studying would go up during those times. Signature~+--~+--~+--~+--~+-- Stephen Mancuso, D.D.S. Troy, Michigan, USA .................................................... This posting is intended for informational or conversational purposes only. Always seek the opinion of a licensed dental professional before acting on the advice or opinion expressed here. Only a dentist who has examined you in person can diagnose your problems and make decisions which will affect your health. ...................... > do you think holdin a part-time job would be a good idea or should I just > depend on the loans? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> Best, >> Steve > do you think holdin a part-time job would be a good idea or should I > just depend on the loans? > thanks > Bill Different strokes for different folks. I know that I wouldn't have been able to handle a job with any kind of real hours, but then I never was too good at time management. Then again, when I was in school tuition was a lot less--doubtless even less than what you'll pay at a state school. I don't know that any part-time job you'll get will be lucrative enough to compensate you for the time you could otherwise use in your studies. Of course everyone's situation is different, but there weren't too many people who were able to pull it off on a regular basis. I did have a friend who was a musician who would do the occasional club date, and others who were given room and board at the VA hospital in exchange for going on hospital blood rounds every morning and evening. But overall, we had enough to handle just keeping up with school work. Steve SignatureMark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 thanks Dr. Steve and Mark...this does really help.. I appreciate it again Bill >> do you think holdin a part-time job would be a good idea or should I >> just depend on the loans? [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Steve You young folks have it easy. We had to walk 10 miles uphill in freezing rain going to school and 15 miles uphill against tropical storm winds coming back... Not really. Hope everything works out well for you. The first two years are the most difficult, but don't give up. Jorge Bonilla, DMD >You young folks have it easy. We had to walk 10 miles uphill in >freezing rain going to school and 15 miles uphill against tropical >storm winds coming back... THAT's nothing! We walked twenty miles ....... uphill ..... EACH WAY! Joel >Not really. Hope everything works out well for you. The first two years >are the most difficult, but don't give up. >Jorge Bonilla, DMD I didn't work outside of dental school either. It would have been a great hardship, though some guys did it. Most of them were bartenders or waiters on Friday and Saturday nights. JME, Fawks > thanks Dr. Steve and Mark...this does really help.. > I appreciate it again [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> >> Steve > do you think holdin a part-time job would be a good idea or should I just > depend on the loans? Loans! Borrow more than you need and sock it away in a savings account. You'll need it to live on when you graduate until you pass your boards. What is tuition now-a-days? Private schools easily go over $40K a year, but what does it cost at the State funded school? Signature~+--~+--~+--~+--~+-- Stephen Mancuso, D.D.S. Troy, Michigan, USA .................................................... This posting is intended for informational or conversational purposes only. Always seek the opinion of a licensed dental professional before acting on the advice or opinion expressed here. Only a dentist who has examined you in person can diagnose your problems and make decisions which will affect your health. ...................... > >> do you think holdin a part-time job would be a good idea or should I just >> depend on the loans? > > Loans! Borrow more than you need and sock it away in a savings account. > You'll need it to live on when you graduate until you pass your boards. > What is tuition now-a-days? Private schools easily go over $40K a year, > but what does it cost at the State funded school? Tuition at Univ. of Florida dental school is $17k/year for in-state residents. >>What is tuition now-a-days? Private schools easily go over $40K a year, >>but what does it cost at the State funded school? it's $18K for Ohio residents.. > Tuition at Univ. of Florida dental school is $17k/year for in-state > residents. My alma mater is about $40K. Signature~+--~+--~+--~+--~+-- Stephen Mancuso, D.D.S. Troy, Michigan, USA .................................................... This posting is intended for informational or conversational purposes only. Always seek the opinion of a licensed dental professional before acting on the advice or opinion expressed here. Only a dentist who has examined you in person can diagnose your problems and make decisions which will affect your health. ...................... > >>>What is tuition now-a-days? Private schools easily go over $40K a year, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> Tuition at Univ. of Florida dental school is $17k/year for in-state >> residents. That is dirt cheap! I wonder what Salvatore will choose to do in 8-10 years. If he chooses dentistry, I bet tuition will be higher yet. Signature~+--~+--~+--~+--~+-- Stephen Mancuso, D.D.S. Troy, Michigan, USA .................................................... This posting is intended for informational or conversational purposes only. Always seek the opinion of a licensed dental professional before acting on the advice or opinion expressed here. Only a dentist who has examined you in person can diagnose your problems and make decisions which will affect your health. ...................... > >> What is tuition now-a-days? Private schools easily go over $40K a year, >> but what does it cost at the State funded school? > > Tuition at Univ. of Florida dental school is $17k/year for in-state > residents. > That is dirt cheap! I wonder what Salvatore will choose to do in 8-10 years. > If he chooses dentistry, I bet tuition will be higher yet. In 8-10 years, Salvatore will likely be *teaching* in college. Vaughn From what I hear, UMKC is about the same cost as others. It does have a nice new clinic and is paperless. After Angie goes through, maybe she'll get me switched over. <G> Fawks > What is tuition now-a-days? Private schools easily go over $40K a year, but > what does it cost at the State funded school? >do you think holdin a part-time job would be a good idea or should I >just depend on the loans? Going to dental school is a full time job. >thanks >Bill [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> Best, >> Steve -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com >hey'all >I got into the Ohio State university dental school... >any tips for a first year dental student? Study hard. >cheers to u all >Bill -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com >hey'all >I got into the Ohio State university dental school... >any tips for a first year dental student? >cheers to u all >Bill YEAH! Congratulations ...... Advice? Sure. Keep good company in dental school. A good attitude is the MOST IMPORTANT quality. Joel >>hey'all >>I got into the Ohio State university dental school... [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Joel Good test taking skills and good eye-hand co-ordination are the most important qualities. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com >Good test taking skills and good eye-hand co-ordination are the >most important qualities. >-- > >W_B >Take out the G'RBAGE So you agree with Steve Mancuso that testes are important in dental school? >>Good test taking skills and good eye-hand co-ordination are the >>most important qualities. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >So you agree with Steve Mancuso that testes are important in dental >school? ovaries are also acceptable. -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com > Good test taking skills and good eye-hand co-ordination are the > most important qualities. Good test taking skills are very important, if GPA is important to you. Equally important is taking the time to thoroughly psyche out your professors and listening carefully to what it is that they want from you. I always had great success with study partners. A good "give and take" session between study partners keeps you focused and will help you avoid missing study topics. A good study partner will probably also make a good lab partner. Vaughn (a guy who has never been to dental school but who did manage a 4.0 grad. GPA) > Vaughn (a guy who has never been to dental school but who did manage a 4.0 > grad. GPA) In ENGINEERING?!?!?!? That's phenomenal! SP SignatureFinally: take out the TRASHH >> Vaughn (a guy who has never been to dental school but who did manage a 4.0 >> grad. GPA) > > In ENGINEERING?!?!?!? That's phenomenal! Yes, that would be phenomenal for me; which is why it is not so. The only "C" I ever got in college was in Calculus III and that convinced me to give up Engineering. My Bachelor's is in Business and my Master's is in Public Administration. Vaughn > SP > My Bachelor's is in Business and my Master's is in Public > Administration. > > Vaughn Still respectable.... Don't know too many dudes with a 4.0 in anything. SP SignatureFinally: take out the TRASHH > Equally important is taking the time to thoroughly psyche out your > professors > and listening carefully to what it is that they want from you. I liked that part so much, I had to re-post it. >>>hey'all >>>I got into the Ohio State university dental school... [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > most important qualities. > -- Congrats from here too, keep your grades up until May, Eye-hand co-ordination requires shooting pool with your classmates in a greasy bar with formica tabletops. That's all you can afford for a while. Don't even think about FT work. I made a quite a few bucks making retainers for my uncles, you might want to contact a few ortho's, learn how to make a Hawley retainer - you have to meet their schedule but you can still pick your own hours to a degree. carabelli It was the best of times.....it was the worst of times..... I saw Don Hatfield at the KC meetings a couple of weeks ago and he went on and on about still owing me a big favor for helping him in C&B. He had ground a hole through his bridge in lab and thought he was going to have to start waxing and casting a new one. I patched the hole with solder, polished it up, and it passed. But, all he did was *talk* about it.....no food, no beer, nothing... ;-) Fawks > Congrats from here too, keep your grades up until May, Eye-hand > co-ordination requires shooting pool with your classmates in a greasy bar [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > carabelli > It was the best of times.....it was the worst of times..... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > But, all he did was *talk* about it.....no food, no beer, nothing... No beer? I'd turn him into the dental school. Maybe they'd strip his degree from him. > hey'all > I got into the Ohio State university dental school... > any tips for a first year dental student? > cheers to u all > Bill IMO, don't take any part time jobs, unless it's in a research lab or something in your faculty. This like of work can stimulate appreciation and interest- provided it is not too involved. It can also lead to completing some of your elective credits in an area you will have come to be interested in. Failing that, and unless you are a male model, or something and you can make enough to obviate taking loans and bursaries, I'd say don't work. The prescious few free hours would be better spent doing your Paul Bunion (sp?) imitation (good ol' EXERCISE, to work off your frustrations). BION, one of my summer jobs was bein' a garbage collector... It kept us in shape and allowed us (all students) to become animals in a socially tolerated way for a few hours each summer day. I never look down on menial labor, as I know there is more to it that just turning off your brain. One last bit of advice: don't fall in with the cigarette smokers, and when you finally start classes, don't waste your valuable time on Usenet or the Web. As Inspector Clouseau said to Kato: 'This is NOT the time' Congrats and Best of luck. SP SignatureFinally: take out the TRASHH > One last bit of advice: don't fall in with the cigarette smokers, Yes! Expensive and an icky habit, especially for a dentist. > when you finally start classes, don't waste your valuable time on Usenet > or the Web. As Inspector Clouseau said to Kato: 'This is NOT the time' A little porno is OK. Vaughn
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