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StarryNights said:
AMCAS has a help button that I used for classification, which was really helpful (yay for astronomy counting under physics, and stats under math, hahaha). I think only one of the classes I was really lost on (epidemiology) so I put it under other. Let the AAMC people work that out
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good call on that...it just takes so much patience and i have none right now
 
bigballer27 said:
yeah makes sense

i have a question, does it matter what class classification you pick for our classes? i don't know how to classify some of these classes, cuz it can be either natural science or behavioral science cuz it dealt with both

also for the arts, i dont know how to classify some of them
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it doesn't matter too much, follow the guidelines they give you as the best that you can, and just let the amcas ppl sort it out :laugh:
 
almost done adding classes, will finish the rest tomorrow
 
Ugggggggh! I want my MCAT score! I know it's still 2 1/2 weeks away but I get twitchy when I think about it.
 
StarryNights said:
I went to volunteer today and the coordinator told me I have 160 hours. Isn't that on the low side for clinic volunteer??
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Not really. Its more about the length of commitment then number of hours. Number of hours is somewaht meaningless and isnt the bench mark. Long term consistent commitments > hours. I.E if you volunteered for someplace for 1 year and got that 160 hours, its a hell of a lot better then someone cramming in 160 hours in like 4 months. If it makes you feel better i had only 120 hours over like 14 months at my hospital no one cared. Granted i had like 2000+ hours of clinical from research so maybe thast why.

Geekchick921 said:
Ugggggggh! I want my MCAT score! I know it's still 2 1/2 weeks away but I get twitchy when I think about it.
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You know you got a 38 or so no need to worry 🙂
 
AACOMAS has all my transcripts and I think my GPA's went up... so does that mean they did their own calculations already and I should expect those GPA's to be what I'm applying with?
 
msb1190 said:
AACOMAS has all my transcripts and I think my GPA's went up... so does that mean they did their own calculations already and I should expect those GPA's to be what I'm applying with?
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Yep. AACOMAS does GPA a bit differently than AAMC -- they're more friendly.


I believe I am officially keeping my scholarship, which is all I was worried about this semester =). Transcript requests are in and LOR writers are supposedly writing. After some more volunteering and hopefully some shadowing, I'll be good to go! Oh ****... and I need to work on that whole personal statement thing =P
 
hey guys quick question

im trying to find a few other ppeople to shadow before the apps are due, but i don't know what department to look into

any ideas? i don't really know what i'm interested in b/c ive never done any of that to see

also, people have told me to make sure to shadow a primary care doc because its better on your app, is that true?
 
primary care seems like a good place to start. it might expose you to some things and encourage you to want to shadow other fields.
 
what is considered primary care?

pediatrics, obgyn,...?
 
specialized internal med wouldnt count tho, shadowing in a free clinic or something would be good.
 
oh aiight good stuff maybe pediatrics or IM

how was last night btw?
 
lol my bad i was gettin confused i thought ur sisters grad was last night but its sat, right? just wierded out because my cousins grad is on a wednesday too lol
 
wednesday is weird for a graduation. it's saturday. going to raleigh tomorrow. should be a good time, for sure.
 
bigballer27 said:
hey guys quick question

im trying to find a few other ppeople to shadow before the apps are due, but i don't know what department to look into

any ideas? i don't really know what i'm interested in b/c ive never done any of that to see

also, people have told me to make sure to shadow a primary care doc because its better on your app, is that true?
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doesnt matter who you shadow, general internal med or peds might just be a good place to start. Nothing really "looks better." With general IM you might just get to see a lot more then something specialized.

Like i said i did trauma surgery and let me say it was sweet🙂
 
Whatsup everyone.

Your boy might've found a new protein today.
 
msb1190 said:
you mean, How?
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Haha, I meant oaklandguy; How is too busy studying the effects of kissing butt on the female gender.

Naww, I study a specific immortalized cell line, and I was reading up on some articles about treating brain cancer, and I realized that a few proteins they were inhibiting were forming during a certain disease I am studying and might be causing apoptosis of the cells. So I tried to see if the specific cytokines and kinases would do anything to my cells and I got a dosage dependent result, so I decided to run some gels and I ran a gel with all the proteins found when I injected these kinases, I also ran a zymography and a western blot. On the one gel, I had a couple really really thick lines, so I ran the gel sideways with the whole pH thing, and there were some weird blots, so we digested them and decided we would try to sequence them tomorrow. But as far as my PI knows, he said it didn't look like anything he had seen before. I also found out that the certain proteins that are shown to cause apoptosis in my cell line are still in high concentration; however, the western blot showed them to not be active.

What is making me really happy is that this was all a side project on my own time that I didn't really mention to my PI, so when I showed him the pictures of the cells and all my results he was really excited. I get pretty excited too when I see results; unfortunately it doesn't happen that often and I'm unable to control my emotions because getting sets of data isn't something I'm used to lol.

On the other hand, my main project is supposed to be curcumin's effect on the retina; and it's going miserably. I know it turns on a transcription factor, but I haven't been able to find anything different going on inside the cytoplasm or the nucleus of my cells even with high concentrations of the Indian spice... I'll still play around with it, at least the stuff tastes good too.
 
oaklandguy said:
Haha, I meant oaklandguy; How is too busy studying the effects of kissing butt on the female gender.

Naww, I study a specific immortalized cell line, and I was reading up on some articles about treating brain cancer, and I realized that a few proteins they were inhibiting were forming during a certain disease I am studying and might be causing apoptosis of the cells. So I tried to see if the specific cytokines and kinases would do anything to my cells and I got a dosage dependent result, so I decided to run some gels and I ran a gel with all the proteins found when I injected these kinases, I also ran a zymography and a western blot. On the one gel, I had a couple really really thick lines, so I ran the gel sideways with the whole pH thing, and there were some weird blots, so we digested them and decided we would try to sequence them tomorrow. But as far as my PI knows, he said it didn't look like anything he had seen before. I also found out that the certain proteins that are shown to cause apoptosis in my cell line are still in high concentration; however, the western blot showed them to not be active.

What is making me really happy is that this was all a side project on my own time that I didn't really mention to my PI, so when I showed him the pictures of the cells and all my results he was really excited. I get pretty excited too when I see results; unfortunately it doesn't happen that often and I'm unable to control my emotions because getting sets of data isn't something I'm used to lol.

On the other hand, my main project is supposed to be curcumin's effect on the retina; and it's going miserably. I know it turns on a transcription factor, but I haven't been able to find anything different going on inside the cytoplasm or the nucleus of my cells even with high concentrations of the Indian spice... I'll still play around with it, at least the stuff tastes good too.
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Dude that's baller status!



I started writing out a second draft brainstorm thing for my PS and it looks like this:

Reasons: Huge, tangled, interweaved web of stuff.
Demonstrations: A list of my EC's plus a couple of significant life events.

Now how to work that into something relatively clear and linear.
 
i wish i would've had this TBR from the begining of my MCAT endeavors. its so indepth and since i havent had gen chem in 5 years, this is what i need.
 
so far i dont regret using TPR, except for one question on my test that wasnt covered in the book, but everything else was pretty good (maybe a little weak in solubility stuff)
 
dude, i dont know what is wrong with ESPN3 tonight, but it's not streaming the game for me.
 
msb1190 said:
dude, i dont know what is wrong with ESPN3 tonight, but it's not streaming the game for me.
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r u kidding me? theres a few illegal sites im sure u can find it on lol

it is quite a game tho, 8 min left and lebron is seemingly coming to life now
 
yeah, i'm not the happiest camper right now. and, lebron is a bum.
 
peace out lebron and the cavs 🙂

i did kinda feel bad though, even though i think he's overrated he still had an amazing team and couldn't ask for more weapons to win with
 
if you cant win with lebron, mo williams, shaq, and jamison you can't win, period.
 
yeah exactly

shaq is still probably 5th best center in the game i think

orlando is playing really well though, hopefully it can be a bos-LA finals for some revengee
 
the magic are rollin' though. celts are gonna have their hands full.
 
this further proves kobe is still the best player in the league. i'll bold and say kevin durant is the second best player in the league.
 
yeah true that, but they are really streaky

if boston plays this defense, it should be an interesting series, hopefully more fun than the la-suns series lol
 
you dont think the suns-lake show series will be fun? i think grant hill can corral kobe and steve nash will take care of derek fisher. if the suns can get one of their bigs to step up and help amare it could be a very interesting series.
 
yeah suns are almost as hot as orlando right now, but i dont think they're big enough.

if gasol and bynum can will theyre way like they did with utah, it shouldnt be a problem. there is a big difference between ginobli and kobe, and hill is a good defender but not quick enough i don't think

i think the bench is the key for that series because the suns bench is amazing and lakers'...not so much so
 
yeah, but if kobe is playing like an old man he is about equal to manu, which i hate to say.

i'm just going to be bummed when bball is over for the season.
 
maybe paintballing on saturday morning and hopefully get sh it faced at night

hopefully some basketball on sunday and some work i need to do to get this poster done thats due monday and i haven't started

you will probably be hungover on sunday i assume lol
 
haha most likely. i talked to my boy today and he said it's going down saturday night.

i dont know if you've done a poster before, but a good way to do it is use a powerpoint slide and adjust the dimensions to whatever you need.
 
ive never done one, but thats how my PI suggested i do it

i just don't have any diagrams or figures yet, and need to come up with a clever design for the whole thing
 
no diagrams or figures yet?! you better get crackin! haha.

once you get that stuff it'll pretty much design itself.
 
hahah well my PI better have something for me tomorrow lol
 
Do you guys ever watch the show Frontline on PBS? I am a big fan. I am watching one on assisted suicide right now. It's pretty deep.
 
nah never seen it, i didn't even know PBS was still around these days LOL
 
lebron just READ something during the press conference... toooool.
 
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