Wednesday, March 28, 2012

La Fitness is the absolute worst gym

on earth.

I'll say some of the people I dealt with at the whitemarsh Bally's now turned La Fitness were ok to pleasant to deal with. Had an idiot who calls himself nick call me and he was ignorant and plain rude. Told me the first month's payment i made when i signed up was the 30days prior to that. when i asked him why I have to pay for a time prior to signing up he tells me that's how it works. Ask him a few other questions and he gets the audacity to hang up on me. Call back and speak to even more stupid girl who uses the word "um" ten times in a single sentence. From the look of things, someone was telling her what to say because when i ask the questions, She goes "hold on" listens and then answers me.

Either way, I walked to the gym and cancelled my membership today. I did pay that balance they couldn't charge to my card and when i asked the guy what happens to the last month payment i made when i signed up, he then goes your membership is good for another month from now. I'm going to use it because i really need to practice my swimming. In hindsight, I regret cancelling my membership at the YMCA. The Y has a clean facility, courteous and professional staff. Their equipments are newer and better. When they said you get a 1hr free whatever with a personal trainer, they did honor their word and I got to work with someone who was very helpful.
My free personal trainer whatever at La Fitness was a scam. Lady asked me a few questions and said, these are your options. Options being different types of rates for signing up for personal trainer. When i said i'm not interested in signing up for this now, she just said you know where my office is at.

After researching La fitness cancellation, It's clearly obvious this is the worst. When I ask the girl what happens if i don't pay the due balance, she tells me we'll keep calling you and everyone for all the memberships will keep calling you till you make that payment. The stupid thing is that like the person who told her what to say when she said hold on, she wasn't smart enough to realize that I can change my phone number or block their stupid calls.
I need a gym membership now so i can incorporate exercise into my whole studying routine. I can definately suck up to running outside in may and then that's it.
I'm really glad that membership is cancelled and I hope no one in their right mind signs up with LA Fitness.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Just destroyed TBR ochem chapter 6

Carbs aren't my thing. Was always scared of them. I think reading kaplan over this helped cement the content. Either way, I just finished phase 1 with 1 error which i corrected myself when i reread the question again.

That said, I've been back to studying. Not as much as i'd like. I've even taken time of work but i tend to watch tv or sleep or do something else. I end up spending about 6hrs or less studying and there're some days i don't study at all.

That said, I'm doing most of the phase 1 and for the one's i've not done, i plan on completing them. I've completed bio and ochem in kaplan although lack of review a day or a week afterwards makes me feel like i was better off not reading in the first place as i've forgotten and find myself rereading. I do know that the best way i studied back in high school was to read material taught that day that night and skim through the next day. End of the week i go over the entire week. I'm starting to think i should do that. Also, I've completed the fundermental of reading in mrl and done the pretest for the introductory course but i've yet to sit down and do passage sets. I've only done 1 or 2 so far i think. 2 half sets in powerscore and 1 section test.

In terms of practice, i've done at least one subject test for each subject. since i'm pretty much done with content phase 1. I just need to go through phase 2 with 60% practice and 50% content. And verbal. Haven't signed up for a date yet but here's to making it.