I ordered a red pencil skirt for my white coat ceremony and Nordstrom Rack messed up and sent me a $1,600 Herve Leger dress. Should I keep it? The skirt was $150 and didn’t charge me extra.
That being said, I WILL be wearing the dress to my white coat ceremony despite it being virtual now. It not only fits me like a glove, it’s ✨infamous✨. How could I not?
At the end of the day, I know that I’m an honest and ethical person (at least I aim to be). I have a good heart and am going to be a fantastic physician.
Thanks to those standing up for me in the comments. I tried to do what I thought was right and return it before I even posted this. I just wanted to ask my little 1100 followers whether or not it’s worth it to own something worth that much.
Legally, I can consider the dress a free gift since I was sent something I didn’t order. I’m also entitled to the original $150 since I didn’t receive that item. I don’t think I want to pursue because a) I don’t want to sit on the line with customer service and b) it feels greedy
Honestly, even $150 is a lot for me. I thrift most things I own. I could donate the dress (and thought about it!) but then I’d be out that money. So, if you want to cashapp me the $150 I’ll donate the dress after wearing it ($3critty).
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I ordered a red pencil skirt for my white coat ceremony and Nordstrom Rack messed up and sent me a $1,600 Herve Leger dress. Should I keep it? The skirt was $150 and didn’t charge me extra.
I ordered a red pencil skirt for my white coat ceremony and Nordstrom Rack messed up and sent me a $1,600 Herve Leger dress. Should I keep it? The skirt was $150 and didn’t charge me extra.
Hi. If youre a new follower, you’re probably following because of THAT dress. Good news for you! I tweet about things other than material items. Including:
✨HIV advocacy
✨medical education (& making it more equitable!)
✨Black lives mattering
✨general public health
We need to stop acting like the west coast is this safe haven for marginalized communities. Discrimination is alive and well in our healthcare, criminal justice and education systems… I mean, I was called the n word and yelled at just the other night…
I haven’t posted about it because ✨depression✨ and ✨imposter syndrome✨ but I haven’t been doing well in school. Anyway, I finally passed my first quiz this morning and am no longer failing! I may have figured out how to study after all!
I’m so grateful to be in a program that gives its med students early clinical exposure. Getting hands-on experience as a MS1 is such a great reminder of why studying non-stop is worth it 🥺💕
My best step 1 tip so far is to order a family size platter for takeout if you don't feel like cooking. I have food for the entire week and it cost me about as much as a week of groceries.
If you’re getting your MCAT score today remember that whether you got your goal score or didn’t do as well as you hoped, you took that vile test DURING A PANDEMIC. You can always take it again (I did 3 times!), celebrate your win today.
Can’t wait to tell my kids about how I applied to medical school during a pandemic, social justice uprising, wildfires, historical presidential election, and invasion of the US Capitol. I don’t even believe me.
Here I am, once again, asking my professors to show images of disease presentation on darker skin tones… two weeks after a presentation on health equity in derm. Whyy is this still a problem? 😩
@SScott2024
Thank you! It is beautiful but I might sell it (or wear it once and then sell). I’m not sure I can justify keeping something worth so much when I’ll have things that step, UW, etc to pay for soon 🥴 If I could have returned it, I would have!
I don’t know what the opposite of imposter syndrome is but that’s what I have. I know, without a doubt, that I deserve to have gotten into medical school. I know it’ll get hard but for right now I’m ✨thriving✨
I was 8 when I first started to say I want to be a doctor and to go to
@UWMedicine
for medical school. After 20 years, I can finally say that dream is coming true! I’m going to be Dr. Crittendon MD MPH MSEd!
@memesMD
@dremilyportermd
Thanks. I really tried and was at the store before posting (I hadn’t even tried it on yet). And no, they didn’t send me the skirt. If anything, I’m legally owed the original $150 on top of the dress but it feels wrong to pursue that as well.
If you’re Black and in medicine and I didn’t follow you back today, please let me know. It was wild today but I don’t want to miss out on following your journey because of that.
Some people are making this a philosophical exercise when the dress was legally and ethically mine to decide what to do with as soon as the cashier handed it back to me when I tried to return it.
The question was whether or not to resell. That’s it.
I ordered a red pencil skirt for my white coat ceremony and Nordstrom Rack messed up and sent me a $1,600 Herve Leger dress. Should I keep it? The skirt was $150 and didn’t charge me extra.
One of the cool things about being first-gen that doesn’t get talked about enough is how your win is everybody’s win. My friends and family are so excited to know someone going into medicine and it’s adorable 🥺
A medical school applicant who was denied admission to medical schools in Texas has sued, alleging discrimination based on his status as a white male.
(🧵)
I’m begging y’all to stop using GPA and MCAT scores as markers of intelligence when anyone who has ever taken the MCAT knows full and well if you’re a good test taker and have $$ for resources you’ll do well.
@sheilak94
@smalltownOMS
if youre looking for honesty, its that they are typically known as inferior in enrollment based on GPAs, roundedness, MCAT scoring. also, during the formative medschool training(III/IV), DOs largely dont have home base hospitals, leading to all kinds of variables/weaknesses
Moved my MCAT date because the AAMC won’t protect my health nor recognize that Black pre-meds are enduring additional levels of stress rn so I’m just going to have to take it into my own hands ✨
I’ll go first. I got a 493 my first try. Took it two more times 🥴 and now I’m accepted to the
#1
school for primary care,
#7
for research, and am starting med school this August.
My mom got me a instapot and I love/hate that she did this to it 😭
Anyway, what are your favorite pressure cooker recipes? Preferably budget-friendly since I’ll be a broke med student shortly.
I just left a lecture on race and racism to protect my peace. These discussions are clearly not designed for the learning of people of color so why is it mandatory for us to be present??
Just a reminder that if Will Smith had built a time machine and went back in time and slapped harriet tubman as a baby for a joke she made (however insensitive), she easily could’ve fallen backward, cracked her skull and never freed slaves. Violence is NEVER okay.
Being a woman of color in medicine sometimes means facing unfair scrutiny when your hard-earned accomplishments are reduced to seemingly being a 'diversity hire'. Shoutout to the women of
@StanfordSurgery
for paving the way for future generations. Y'all inspire me 🥺
#TACOMA
!
@TacomaPD
is not innocent. On March 3rd, 2020 Manuel Ellis died in police custody as a result of ‘oxygen deprivation and the physical restraint that was used on him.’ He could be heard on the police scanner saying, “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.”
#blacklivesmatter
The MCAT is hard and the MCAT is important, and to do well on the exam it matters HOW you prep and NOT JUST how much you prep. That’s why we here at The Princeton Review have a work smarter and not harder philosophy..
I tested positive for COVID after a negative at-home rapid test. No symptoms, just following advice from others on Twitter suggesting to get a PCR after rapid testing. I’ll be okay, just very bummed I’ll be spending the holidays alone again.
Good morning everyone! I have admittedly been in quite the slump this past week, but it is Thursday and I still wanted to kick off
#MedTwitterThirstTrapThursday
!
Love yourself out loud today, and maybe it’ll help me do the same! ❤️
#MTTTT
Did you know more Black men applied and matriculated to
#medschool
in 1978 than in 2014? Register for the AAMC Virtual Fair on 9/21 at 3PM ET & learn more about the documentary Black Men in White Coats:
@NoelSoMD1
@SScott2024
I have a similar dress (though, much less expensive) from the same designer that I wore to my MPH grad, fancy galas, and any other occasion I could. I saved up for it so I was going to wear it as much as many times as possible!
I do need to say that at the end of the day rankings don’t matter. My point was that it’s possible to get into a T10 school with multiple MCAT retakes. Don’t let SDN tell you otherwise.
I get what y’all are saying now about having a physician in the family. My niece might not choose to go into medicine when she’s older but it’s incredible to see her enjoy playing doctor ❤️
#FirstGen
#MedTwitter
@EleusinianMyst
Yes, and I tried to return it before. The cashier said she believed me and that I could probably call customer service to get the $150 back ON TOP of the dress since I never got that item. I’m choosing not to because that feels wrong.
@uche_blackstock
Thinking about how the MCAT was my biggest hurdle to matriculating. First attempt was working full time & unsurprisingly didn’t score too well. Encouraged to apply anyway and failed to get off of waitlists. Took two years to save to afford time off, improved my score by 9 points.