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There have been some changes happening around school, the most notable being the construction of our
new building. From all the floor plans it looks quite nice with additional lecture halls, a new anatomy lab, hospital like simulation rooms, and plenty more. They tore out part of the parking lot and basketball court in front of campus to build this thing, so you can imagine it's been somewhat noisy lately (not that I've noticed it myself since I study at home). But I guess things have been so loud that people who study in the library and the lectures halls have been complaining to the administration. I even heard a couple months back that someone suggested for DeVry to buy us all a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. I laughed and said "yeah, that would be too awesome of an idea to ever actually happen" and never thought about it again... until now... duh duh duh! Apparently it was approved by DeVry last week to buy the entire student body (around 600 of us) a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones! WOOOO AWESOME right? I went on the Bose site to figure out what we could possibly be getting and there are only two options: the QuietComfort 15 acoustic noise-cancelling headphones valued at $299.95 or the QuietComfort 3 acoustic noise-cancelling headphones valued at $349.95. HOT DAMN. And did I mention that these will be free???? The shipment is supposed to be arriving in 2-3 weeks and I cannot be more thrilled for these. THANK YOU DEVRY, maybe you aren't so bad if you're willing to shell out $180,000 to keep us happy. Ah yes, the perks of being owned by a publicly traded company.
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That's not a bad deal at all!!!! So I gotta ask... I read somewhere once upon a time in someone's blog that "all students at Caribbean medical schools" would rather be on the mainland instead of in the islands (not sure who said that)... What's your take? Has the experience in St. Maarten been one for a lifetime? Or will it depend on how smooth the clinical rotations go for you before you can make that judgement?
ReplyDeleteHaha I think I'll have a more concrete answer once I match into residency, but with how things have gone so far... I'm actually very happy everything turned out the way it did. I've had a great experience in med school here on St Maarten, but again I'll know better a couple years from now :)
ReplyDeleteFair enough... Guess I'll have to stay tuned then. Haha. Good luck!!!
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