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Turbocharged: Which network?

philclem: Was there last week,u need to see how bad the road is and yet the houses In this same area are very xpensive

wild child: my coolfm partner.. do you feel those mixes he does on #tableofmen too?

9ja4eva: DJ Vetkuk - Orlando


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fittty: ^^ IF the landlord isn't ready to renovate then why on earth are they still living in the death trap?

sauer: https://gifsforum.com/images/gif/fail/grand/fail-eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3-2578.gif

Caracta: The last part is sooo funny. Lol. Thanks for sharing...but i didn't understand the Q and A part. Too many errors.

bigfrancis21: Its honorary to note that Chidubem once was an active member of this forum, from 2010 and 2011. His moniker is cezeozue and he was active on the 'Preparing for the GRE' thread.

It is really inspiring to read his story. For those that are not familiar with him, I'll quickly go on to summarise his story for you.
1) He attended the University of Nigeria Nsukka where he read Electrical Engineering (my same course and school). I knew him back then in school - I was in my first year then in 2008 and he was in his final year.
2) He graduated that same year with a 4.83 CGPA. He then took the GRE exam, DICED it like some easy piece of cake and scored 800 in Quantitative, 730 in Verbal (170Q & 168V - perfect scores!).
3) In 2009 he initially applied to MIT, Cambridge and Oxford and got rejections from all 3 three universities. However, he remained undaunted. The following year he applied to 8 universities this time: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Caltech, UPenn, Penn State, Johns Hopkins, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia (with mixes of M.Sc and Phd). Not only that he applied to universities but he applied to the best US engineering universities.
4) Then the rejections started coming in again despite his pristine profile - 6 of the universities all rejected him for admission. Stanford accepted him for admission but offered him Masters instead of the PhD he applied for and, with no funding. He seriously needed admission + funding and intently looked on to it. MIT was his only hope left. And as God would have it, MIT, of all schools, gave him admission plus the much sought-after funding he all along wanted! His joys knew no bounds. At this point he wrote to Stanford rejecting their offer and afterwards he travelled out in 2011 to study.

Very inspiring story indeed.

It is also worthy to note that many years before now, another EE graduate from UNN broke records when he got accepted into the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (The 3rd best US ECE school) to pursue his masters + funding. Before him no other Nigerian had been accepted into the ECE department of UIUC and few years after him one other Nigerian from another university followed suit. Nigerians making Nigeria proud.

trekkie: you are welcome and sorry about the accident.

trekkie: @1ndidi
use the oil (lightly, you don't want to block the pores of your skin)while it is still healing and you may not need the lemon anymore; and yes the lemon is for after the wound has healed and scar tissue forms.

PS
please make sure you buy good quality olive or coconut oil and not "goya" or whatever passes for olive oil;so you'll get the desired result.

cheers

Shollypopz: I'm not sure how deep your injury is but I'm assuming if you didn't go to the doctor, it was more like a bruise or a minor cut.
If I'm right, clean injury thoroughly with cold water and Lil bit of soap. Do not use hydrogen peroxide, (spirit) Rub Vaseline on it and cover with plaster.

It takes our skin x days to heal and rejuvenate. I think it's 28
20days<x<30days

You said you got this injury from a bike, so I'm assuming this injury was sustained in an area of your legs. Frankly, you are more than likely going to end up with a little scar because that area of skin is going to be under tension and pull from walking. Try not to go running and try not to stress the affected area too much.

Try to keep that area of your body protected from sun.
Also, get silicon gel sheets or just the gel from a pharmacist and apply on your wound daily before covering with plaster.

Do not peel your scab.

When you finally take off plaster, apply sunscreen SPF 40+ daily, in fact have the tube with you everywhere you go.

If you still have a scar and your wound has completely healed, apply fade creams twice a day. Types of fade creams I recommend : ambi fade cream, nadinola fade cream, Palmers skin success fade cream.

trekkie: oops! misread your post. to avoid or reduce a scar use olive oil 'cos it's rich in vit e which is good for the skin. (unless it does not agree with your skin, cos anything vit. e darkens the skin of some folks) in which case lemon (not lime) is a better alternative. but one key point is to keep the spot supple with oil cos dry unkempt wounded skin can leave ugly scarring behind. good luck