Your job, school, what you do that is somewhat productive

Battletard · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:39 am

talk about it n shit.

Random fact: If I had started a shift at my job and worked continuously 24/7 since starting it, I would still be just shy of $400,000. This assumes my current wages and does not account for overtime laws.

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I need a new job. I'm not really complaining, as I'm well paid for my level of education and training and specializations. Just some trivial knowledge no one needs to know about but I found it somewhat funny..in a bad way.

http://www.convertunits.com/dates/

Pretty cool. Also can find out exactly how long I've been with my girlfriend. 4 years, 8 months and change.

Last night I worked an 11 hour shift. No overtime allowed. sux. My cool story bro for last night was I was able to get all the freight done for my assigned areas in a somewhat timely manner and was able to be extra productive and bring down really large and bulky heavy items with the order selector. I was just licensed on it within the last month or so, and it's making my job so much easier to work efficiently. Right now our shelves in the area above purchasable merchandise (topstock area) are getting extremely full due to Black Friday approaching. I'm primarily responsible for the Tools department so Christmas season is also increasing the amount of freight flow we receive. Shelves above shopping level are ridiculous. So it's great that I was able to get so many heavy items that consume large volumes of space down and free up more area.

How's ya'll peeps work/school/fapping going?

in b4 thread is about the economy and not actual cool stories by bros
in b4 cool story bro
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Fantastique · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:13 am

School's great (UMD, GO TERPS!) as always, been taking extra classes to boost my GPA a bit. They all have to be upper level bio/science courses which is kinda lame but oh well. Classes are as follows:

- HLTH 377 Human Sexuality (highly recommended)
- BSCI 437 Virology (for those who don't believe in the flu shot, take this class)
- BSCI 453 Cellular Neurophysiology (quite interesting)
- BSCI 338 Cancer Biology (VERY informative, but it is more of a seminar class)
- BSCI 430 Behavioral Ecology (lol..)

Kinda packed, but thankfully they all start later on in the morning so I don't have to wake up too early.

Work is good, too. I've been isolating a gene (I think it is called the "luciferase gene") from HepB and HepC cells at NIH and it's been a real eye-opener. By that I mean I have confirmed that I will never do research as a career lol. I also work at Washington Hospital Center as a radiology assistant and the manager of the Radiology Assistant program for UMD. We just interviewed 30 people for 5 spots out of a total of 200 applicants.. that was hell. But now that it is over, I'm at ease.

Fapping? Eh, it's okay I suppose. Kinda difficult to get a moment to myself though..

Usdk · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:16 am

lol the lucifer gene.

EVIL!

Battletard · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:20 am

Fanta, what can you tell me about the Genome project and it's impact on the treatment of psychological disorders? My psychiatrist mentioned something about it but I didn't quite catch everything.

If Genome project will lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatment, mi gusta.

Fantastique · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:34 am

Basically, the goal of the project was to "map" the entire human genome, so that we know where the gene that controls a particular trait is located (eye color gene, etc). That way, each of the millions and millions of traits associated with humans, including ailments and diseases, would have a sort of "home base" where we could identify where the error is and hopefully fix it.

Some psychological disorders have a genetic basis. The HGP would tell researchers where the gene(s) that control for them are located and what is the "correct" sequence vs the "incorrect" sequence. Then, researchers and doctors would be able to develop treatments at the genetic level. In addition, the technique was applied to genomes of other organisms (such as bacterium that are responsible for sicknesses) so that we can manipulate them to our advantage if need be.

Human Genome Sciences, Inc headquarters is actually located 10 mins from my house, as is NIH. It was my dream to work with genes and shit back in high school, but research is waaaay to monotonous for me - I get ansy after an hour lol.

Battletard wrote:

If Genome project will lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatment, mi gusta.

It has, it does, and it will. Technically it was completed back in '02 or '03 iirc, but some bit are tough to sequence with current technology.

Battletard · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:42 am

I also see ethical issues. How do we define 'normal' and who get's to be the 'we'.

Usdk · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:43 am

should just be what's harmful or whats not harmful.

if you want to change your eye color or something, fuck off.

Battletard · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:56 am

Usdk wrote:

should just be what's harmful or whats not harmful.

if you want to change your eye color or something, fuck off.

I want a smaller penis so girls aren't as intimidated. Pokerface.jpeg

Jushiro · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:00 am

Battletard wrote:

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Fantastique · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:07 pm

Usdk wrote:

should just be what's harmful or whats not harmful.

if you want to change your eye color or something, fuck off.

Well, if people have the money, they will def pay for it, which means companies will develop it

I agree though, fuck off.

Aestu · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:21 pm

Me? Nothing, atm. I strive and hope for the future. I'm throwing out apps and sending emails.

Battletard wrote:

If Genome project will lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatment, mi gusta.

My concern is it will lead to entirely correlation-based diagnosis which is first cousin to superstition and witch doctoring.

Just because people who live in misty areas tend to get malaria doesn't mean that mist causes malaria (or even has an an active role).

Just because people with a certain gene tend to get a disease doesn't mean the gene causes the disease (or even has an an active role).

Yuratuhl · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:19 pm

I take a train to the second-most-hideous city in New Jersey every day to learn how to get paid $300 an hour solving peoples' fake problems.
In all seriousness, I'm probably going to specialize in immigration law. For the time being, I'm taking a general immigration law class, commercial law (long live the UCC), internet law, and patent law. I'm not actually qualified to sit for the patent bar, but the class itself is really interesting.

Also, Fant, am I wrong in thinking you were already in grad school? I ask only because 300s and 400s are undergrad numbers.

dopenkly · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:17 pm

I'm finishing up a PhD program in Information System's Management, working on a few private projects, and being a house husband. Yeah, *sigh* I clean and shit.

Battletard · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:13 am

Greetings from beautiful Reallyfuckinghighup!

Fantastique · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:45 am

Yuratuhl wrote:

Also, Fant, am I wrong in thinking you were already in grad school? I ask only because 300s and 400s are undergrad numbers.

Yeah, I've already graduated but I'm not in med school yet. I'm taking extra classes as a sort of personal post-bacc while working a bit to fancy-up my resume. Then I plan on doing an official post-bacc program at NIH and then go to med school.

That's the plan for now, anyway!

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