<p>I hope no one minds that I decided to quit the “count” since we’re on the new board.</p>
<p>I don’t have too much to say, but it just didn’t seem right without a Twinkle thread so I decided to get one started.</p>
<p>I tried to post the link to the old thread, but without success. If someone could help with that (and maybe let me know how to do it right) I’d appreciate it. :)</p>
<p>I never understood the meaning of this thread… </p>
<p>Could someone elaborate?</p>
<p>yeah seriously… these “twinkle’s posts” always seem to get a lot of responses… what is the meaning of this and how does it relate to college…?</p>
<p>Twinkle’s thread is well over a year old at this point - it isn’t exclusive to her or anyone she’s met through here. TheDad has likened it to a conversation at a party - ongoing, anyone can join in, and people wander in and out. </p>
<p>If you have time, read through the posts of last year. It’s quite informative to see the admissions process all the way through - from “where do I apply” indecision to “I won’t get in anywhere” angst through the winter, and, finally, likely letters in March and glee in April. Twinkle and Sunshine have posted about how they are doing at college now (Trinity College and Cornell engineering, respectively) - so they’re around occasionally. There’s also parent discussions, Demingy’s quarter-life career change, and my law school story.</p>
<p>Anyway - Sox game kept me away from Contracts all night - quite heartbreaking end… it’s off to work for me. :)</p>
<p>I think I might have figured out how to post the link to the most recent “Twinkle” thread.</p>
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<p>Demingy,</p>
<p>My sister once had thoughts of becoming a dentist. She was accepted into dental school, but never ended up going. Turned out she she didn’t really want to be a dentist–she wanted to work 3 days a week and drive a Porsche (which is what her dentist friend did). </p>
<p>Good luck to your friend. The first semester at college is a tough one for someone who has been away from school for a while. Maybe her second one will go better.</p>
<p>Ellemenope-
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for my friend because I know that she really does want to be a dentist. As I had mentioned, she’s currently a dental assistant (for a local nonprofit clinic) and she <em>loves</em> dentistry. She’ll go on and on about the times when she was able to do fillings, one time she was able to assist with a dental surgery and she “thought it was soooo cool”. She wanted to see the most recent filling I had received from my dentist. I can’t imagine who would be so excited about teeth and the mouth, but she is. I just think it would be a shame if she had to give that up.</p>
<p>I do think that things will get better as she gets “into the swing of things”. I talked to her a couple days ago and it sounds like her biggest issue that she’s been struggling with is “not getting it”…meaning that she’s frustrated that she doesn’t just instantly know all of this. Maybe this semester will teach her that she isn’t going to understand everything right away and that she’ll have to work on it. I know that she finally understood that I’m not some “genius” when she called me around midnight and found out that she hadn’t woke me (and that I still had another half hour to go before bed). 
I think she’ll get it, but she’s going to be taking the tougher road.</p>
<p>Ariesathena: Responding to your post in the previous board, the patent agent’s examination requires detailed knowledge of USPTO rules and certain basics of patent law. The pass rate is usually no more than about 50%. It should only be taken with lots of preparation and preferably a review course.</p>
<p>It can be taken by anyone having the requisite scientific background (as in my archived post on that topic). Most of our law students have not taken it before graduation.</p>
<p>DadofSam: Thank you. I think that will eliminate the option of trying to cram it in over spring break. I’ll try to look at next summer ('05) for it - mostly to get it out of the way and to learn more law (because we all see me diving for more casebooks at the end of spring semester…). </p>
<p>It’s Friday night, and I’m outlining in the library. It is a bit sad, but I still would rather be here than home after a week of engineering. </p>
<p>DC tomorrow for some fun, and then the usual marathon study session on Sunday. Two months and two days down, two months to go.</p>
<p>Ariesathena: If you can get some experience at your company, try to do that to get some experience working with the rules, and to see whether you like it, before you spend time cramming for the exam. You really can wait a bit to take it.</p>
<p>Anyway, better casebook diving than dumpster diving.</p>
<p>LOL! But the latter is what I may be reduced to after waaaayy too many student loans. ;)</p>
<p>Hello… hello… anyone around?</p>
<p>As a lifelong Bostonian, I’m thrilled that the Sox are doing well. As a law student, I wish it could have been, oh, last year. I have today off (yay!), so I’ll be using it to catch up on outlining. Hurrah! </p>
<p>Only five weeks of classes left, then finals. It’s a bit nervewracking - just knowing that it’s coming up. I’ve kept reviewing, trying to keep up outlining, and I’m up with reading - but wow, there isn’t much room for error.</p>
<p>Feels like I’ve been here forever - hard to believe that it’s only been about eleven weeks or so.</p>
<p>Aries, glad to hear you’re keeping your head above water. I’ve been thinking about you.</p>
<p>With 2 Yankees fans in the house, and a son in Boston, this series was interesting to say the least.</p>
<p>Aries–at some point, you should start looking at old tests and practice writing answers. I don’t know if law school tests have changed in the past 20 years, but our tests usually consisted of 2-4 fact situations to which we would be asked to apply the little law that we knew. It is not like a science or math test, with specific questions and concrete answers. It may take some getting used to for a science/math/engineering type.</p>
<p>One of my professors compared law exams to those puzzles you’d see in a kid’s magazine. It would be a drawing of a scene and hidden within the scene was a zebra, a refrigerator, etc. that you were to find. A very apt description, I thought. Good luck!</p>
<p>Demingy–good luck to your dentistry loving friend. Very few people instantly understand chemistry. It takes work (especially if she is not math-inclined).</p>
<p>I have not been so very happy in ages. SOX! SOX! SOX!</p>
<p>To whom it may concern: My S, after all of two months in college, has been so enthusiastic about all the new things to get involved in, that he hasn’t spent any time on the interests that used to consume most of his time B.C. (before college).</p>
<p>Looks like the same may have happened to Twinkle; one of her big hobbies seems to have been posting here, but she hasn’t made much of an apperance this fall.</p>
<p>Twinkle - if you still are out there - don’t take this message as any indication that you have to go back to your old hobbies (like posting here). Lots of people become new individuals when they get to college; that’s one of the things that ought to happen. We parents ought to know; happened to us too when we went to college.</p>
<p>Wow, quiet thread. Just a quick update. I managed A’s in both Chem and Trig last semester and Chem II is going very well this semester (my prof is very excited about feeding my interest in genetics and I really like her). My friend is taking Chem I again this semester–but she seems more excited about it and she feels like it has finally “clicked”, so hopefully she’ll put more work into it.</p>
<p>I’ve missed everyone here and hope you have all been doing well. On that note, I need to get back to work.</p>