Addiction LV7
08-31-16, 08:54 PM
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Addiction LV7
New math. 
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08-31-16, 08:55 PM
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Anyhow, [MENTION=107711]datlas[/MENTION]
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08-31-16, 08:56 PM
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I made the top 5!
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08-31-16, 08:59 PM
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08-31-16, 09:00 PM
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08-31-16, 09:01 PM
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Does @BillyD have any idea how Roman numerals work?
08-31-16, 09:03 PM
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Loved to drive them and they are pretty simple to work on. Even syncing SUs and stuff is easy once you learn. Still, I wish I had a dime for every time someone spit on the road and my engine drowned out. 
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08-31-16, 09:19 PM
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Lol. I just a text from a former intern. He is a California boy, grew up in Beverly Hills.
We sent him to Iowa for a surgery residency.
He tells me he:
1. Got a coonhound.
2. Saw the butter carving competition at the state fair
We sent him to Iowa for a surgery residency.
He tells me he:
1. Got a coonhound.
2. Saw the butter carving competition at the state fair
08-31-16, 09:23 PM
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08-31-16, 09:23 PM
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08-31-16, 09:25 PM
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So...
I get a phone call from one of my cohorts today. He is on-site looking at some structural steel that I designed. His claim is that the layout is incorrect. The fabricator wants us to take a look at it. I tell my drafter we are taking a trip, get the drawings and we will depart after lunch. Upon our arrival, we are greeted with indifference. We are pointed in the general direction of the steel and out host disappears. We spend some time looking at the fabricated steel and can't figure out what the issue is. I call back t the office and get no help. So, we start nosing around. We discover that some gusset plates are in the wrong location, some base plates are the wrong size and we start making notes. We walk over to some other sections, look at each other and realize the same thing at the same time. All of this steel was fabricated to the wrong drawings. It was all fabricated to a previous issue of the drawings. Sorry, not much we can do. We tell the fabricator we are at a loss and tell him we will be back in the morning to check the rest of the steel.
I get a phone call from one of my cohorts today. He is on-site looking at some structural steel that I designed. His claim is that the layout is incorrect. The fabricator wants us to take a look at it. I tell my drafter we are taking a trip, get the drawings and we will depart after lunch. Upon our arrival, we are greeted with indifference. We are pointed in the general direction of the steel and out host disappears. We spend some time looking at the fabricated steel and can't figure out what the issue is. I call back t the office and get no help. So, we start nosing around. We discover that some gusset plates are in the wrong location, some base plates are the wrong size and we start making notes. We walk over to some other sections, look at each other and realize the same thing at the same time. All of this steel was fabricated to the wrong drawings. It was all fabricated to a previous issue of the drawings. Sorry, not much we can do. We tell the fabricator we are at a loss and tell him we will be back in the morning to check the rest of the steel.
08-31-16, 09:27 PM
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08-31-16, 09:28 PM
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08-31-16, 09:34 PM
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So...
I get a phone call from one of my cohorts today. He is on-site looking at some structural steel that I designed. His claim is that the layout is incorrect. The fabricator wants us to take a look at it. I tell my drafter we are taking a trip, get the drawings and we will depart after lunch. Upon our arrival, we are greeted with indifference. We are pointed in the general direction of the steel and out host disappears. We spend some time looking at the fabricated steel and can't figure out what the issue is. I call back t the office and get no help. So, we start nosing around. We discover that some gusset plates are in the wrong location, some base plates are the wrong size and we start making notes. We walk over to some other sections, look at each other and realize the same thing at the same time. All of this steel was fabricated to the wrong drawings. It was all fabricated to a previous issue of the drawings. Sorry, not much we can do. We tell the fabricator we are at a loss and tell him we will be back in the morning to check the rest of the steel.
I get a phone call from one of my cohorts today. He is on-site looking at some structural steel that I designed. His claim is that the layout is incorrect. The fabricator wants us to take a look at it. I tell my drafter we are taking a trip, get the drawings and we will depart after lunch. Upon our arrival, we are greeted with indifference. We are pointed in the general direction of the steel and out host disappears. We spend some time looking at the fabricated steel and can't figure out what the issue is. I call back t the office and get no help. So, we start nosing around. We discover that some gusset plates are in the wrong location, some base plates are the wrong size and we start making notes. We walk over to some other sections, look at each other and realize the same thing at the same time. All of this steel was fabricated to the wrong drawings. It was all fabricated to a previous issue of the drawings. Sorry, not much we can do. We tell the fabricator we are at a loss and tell him we will be back in the morning to check the rest of the steel.
08-31-16, 09:37 PM
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We didn't decide. We did everything we could to advocate for him getting accepting into a residency. There's a matching program that does the deciding.
It's very competitive to get a surgery residency straight out of an internship in vet med. Maybe a 20-25% chance. Most people have to apply multiple years. It's only the rock stars that make it on the first try.
So if you have a rock star intern, you have to kind of campaign them and pull out all the stops to make their application really reflect that. I wrote one of his three letters of reference. You need to know what to say and I've been in the game long enough that I pretty much know what to say. Then you have to ask them where they're applying and figure out who you know where and what personal contacts you can tap, who you can call or text or email to put in a good word. That's how it works. Sometimes kids applying for residencies don't get a position because their mentors don't understand how it works, or have no contacts, or can't be bothered. But the interns work so hard that when we have a gem, I'll go above & beyond to repay their hard work.
You can't BS it though. Because you send someone a dud resident & your recommendations lose all cred.
It's very competitive to get a surgery residency straight out of an internship in vet med. Maybe a 20-25% chance. Most people have to apply multiple years. It's only the rock stars that make it on the first try.
So if you have a rock star intern, you have to kind of campaign them and pull out all the stops to make their application really reflect that. I wrote one of his three letters of reference. You need to know what to say and I've been in the game long enough that I pretty much know what to say. Then you have to ask them where they're applying and figure out who you know where and what personal contacts you can tap, who you can call or text or email to put in a good word. That's how it works. Sometimes kids applying for residencies don't get a position because their mentors don't understand how it works, or have no contacts, or can't be bothered. But the interns work so hard that when we have a gem, I'll go above & beyond to repay their hard work.
You can't BS it though. Because you send someone a dud resident & your recommendations lose all cred.
08-31-16, 10:04 PM
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Sounds almost as demanding as being recognized as a serious Bike Forums poster.
