Class of 2019!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ss123]

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yeah i was explicitly invited so it could be cool

i'm just afraid of feeling noobish with all the veteran grad students and postdocs around

 

[CaliGirl14]

yeah i was explicitly invited so it could be cool

i'm just afraid of feeling noobish with all the veteran grad students and postdocs around

feel honored!!!

 

[deleted393595]

would it be weird to go to a celebration my PI's house if i've only just recently met him? it seems like it'd be a nice way to get to know him

Go for it!

 

[Neurosis]

good god i'm so bored. where are you guys?

 

[CaliGirl14]

I am sad.

 

[Neurosis]

I am sad.

Why?

 

[CaliGirl14]

Why?

I'm like the epitome of complete failure.

 

[nctw]

I am sad.

Me too. I woke up feeling like crap, and my stomach has been killing me all day. On the bright side, however, my bronchitis-like cough that I've had all week is now faded.

I didn't get much accomplished today (although the night is young) because I went to a neighboring college to visit some of my high school friends. It was weird being back with them all, and I miss the level of comfort we all had together. I feel like although I have friends here, it's not the same. With due time, with due time.

What's wrong, CaliGirl?

 

[deleted357625]

I'm like the epitome of complete failure.

when are you going to stop putting yourself down

 

[Neurosis]

I'm like the epitome of complete failure.

I'm forced to reiterate...why?😕

 

[CaliGirl14]

Me too. I woke up feeling like crap, and my stomach has been killing me all day. On the bright side, however, my bronchitis-like cough that I've had all week is now faded.

I didn't get much accomplished today (although the night is young) because I went to a neighboring college to visit some of my high school friends. It was weird being back with them all, and I miss the level of comfort we all had together. I feel like although I have friends here, it's not the same. With due time, with due time.

What's wrong, CaliGirl?

Why does your stomach hurt? Have been taking enough iron? I know coughs are sometimes linked to iron-deficiencies.

I haven't accomplished anything today besides work :/

Yeah, the friend thing is weird. You're going to have to adjust.


As of right now, I kinda can't keep up with my friends, and I'm a complete failure with that. At least with you guys, you won't expect much from me.

when are you going to stop putting yourself down

I just expect better from myself.

I'm forced to reiterate...why?😕

Because there is 24 hours in a day, and I'm obviously not doing everything i humanely can do.

 

[Neurosis]

Why does your stomach hurt? Have been taking enough iron? I know coughs are sometimes linked to iron-deficiencies.

I haven't accomplished anything today besides work :/

Yeah, the friend thing is weird. You're going to have to adjust.


As of right now, I kinda can't keep up with my friends, and I'm a complete failure with that. At least with you guys, you won't expect much from me.



I just expect better from myself.




Because there is 24 hours in a day, and I'm obviously not doing everything i humanely can do.

Oh. I'm so sorry. I feel like that sometimes too, usually what I do is just tell myself not to do so much and save work for tomorrow. I mean what's the rush?

 

[ss123]

Lol turns out the PI lives in the middle of nowhere, on top of a mountain in the middle of a forest. Dang what's with these professor-types

Decided a party wasn't worth my life and bailed 😛

 

[nctw]

Why does your stomach hurt? Have been taking enough iron? I know coughs are sometimes linked to iron-deficiencies.

I haven't accomplished anything today besides work :/

Yeah, the friend thing is weird. You're going to have to adjust.


As of right now, I kinda can't keep up with my friends, and I'm a complete failure with that. At least with you guys, you won't expect much from me.



I just expect better from myself.




Because there is 24 hours in a day, and I'm obviously not doing everything i humanely can do.

I'm not sure why my stomach hurts. I used to have AWFUL acid reflex as a kid, and it occasionally acts up again. Nothing some tums or pepto can't solve. I haven't eaten much today, but I tried the BRAT diet thing for dinner tonight (even if that's an old wives tale). Sprite FTW.

As for the cough, I don't think it's an iron deficiency. I eat a lot of iron-rich foods like beans, spinach, and collard greens. But again, I'm no doctor.

I totally get the friend thing. I feel like I don't make myself interact as much as I probably should, but it's probably just another thing I worry about. I hate having such a high expectation for myself as well (getting melodramatic, but we're all friends, right?) because I'm always worried about letting myself down. I could care less what others think...but I hold myself to a higher standard. What's your specific issue? Presently, mine is stressing out about these exams that are in 2-3 weeks. I feel guilty every minute I'm not doing schoolwork, and it's hard to completely relax. Like I said, I went to hang out with friends today, but in the back of my mind, I was thinking: "I should be doing homework/readings/studying"

 

[CaliGirl14]

Oh. I'm so sorry. I feel like that sometimes too, usually what I do is just tell myself not to do so much and save work for tomorrow. I mean what's the rush?

I'm already doing 5 years at UG with only one major, I feel like a failure already 🙁

Lol turns out the PI lives in the middle of nowhere, on top of a mountain in the middle of a forest. Dang what's with these professor-types

Decided a party wasn't worth my life and bailed 😛

you turned down free food? 😱

I'm not sure why my stomach hurts. I used to have AWFUL acid reflex as a kid, and it occasionally acts up again. Nothing some tums or pepto can't solve. I haven't eaten much today, but I tried the BRAT diet thing for dinner tonight (even if that's an old wives tale). Sprite FTW.

As for the cough, I don't think it's an iron deficiency. I eat a lot of iron-rich foods like beans, spinach, and collard greens. But again, I'm no doctor.

I totally get the friend thing. I feel like I don't make myself interact as much as I probably should, but it's probably just another thing I worry about. I hate having such a high expectation for myself as well (getting melodramatic, but we're all friends, right?) because I'm always worried about letting myself down. I could care less what others think...but I hold myself to a higher standard. What's your specific issue? Presently, mine is stressing out about these exams that are in 2-3 weeks. I feel guilty every minute I'm not doing schoolwork, and it's hard to completely relax. Like I said, I went to hang out with friends today, but in the back of my mind, I was thinking: "I should be doing homework/readings/studying"

👍 Tums is a life saver! At least the cough is getting better? If not, you know where the doctor is.

I totally understand. I feel like I have friend obligations that I'm clearly not meeting. OMG I'm in the same boat! I have these high expectations of myself and I'm definitely no where meeting them, and I'm just completely depressed. I feel like my list of ECs are complete crap, and I have no research, and it'll be my one downfall in the application cycle. I feel like I'm wasting my time constantly doing nothing..

 

[ss123]

omg biology is killer, i'm gonna study all night and take notes

dang i wonder how this full course load is gonna work out... esp. since i'm kinda slow and not really as smart as my classmates

 

[nctw]

omg biology is killer, i'm gonna study all night and take notes

dang i wonder how this full course load is gonna work out... esp. since i'm kinda slow and not really as smart as my classmates

Gen Bio?

 

[Neurosis]

Gen Bio?

probs.

 

[Neurosis]

Common, 2019'ers where are you?

 

[Epen]

Common, 2019'ers where are you?

I'm right here. Watching. Waiting. Doing chem homework and trying to smash my shiny new research job into my schedule 😀

Freaking out over money. Missing friends who are miles away. Feeling bad for the place I'm quitting. (I'm #7 to leave in 3 weeks) Feeling bad for myself, cuz next week I'll be workin both the research job and the fast food job. Drinking way too much tea at way to late a time. Latently panicking.

Y'know. Doin' dat freshman thang.

 

[Neurosis]

I'm right here. Watching. Waiting. Doing chem homework and trying to smash my shiny new research job into my schedule 😀

Freaking out over money. Missing friends who are miles away. Feeling bad for the place I'm quitting. (I'm #7 to leave in 3 weeks) Feeling bad for myself, cuz next week I'll be workin both the research job and the fast food job. Drinking way too much tea at way to late a time. Latently panicking.

Y'know. Doin' dat freshman thang.

Yeah, well my school is going so slow that i get work done pretty quickly and studying is almost nonexistent...at least for now.

 

[Epen]

Yeah, well my school is going so slow that i get work done pretty quickly and studying is almost nonexistent...at least for now.

I made the relatively stupid decision to take a weedout course that I probably don't really have the prereqs for, whilst simultaneously taking calculus, which I am not at all good at.

I hate calculus with a rage that transcends generations.

And my job (WHICH I GET TO QUIT NOW YAY) likes to keep me working until 1130 at night or so. That makes the relatively small amount of homework I get seem that much larger. Also, it makes me a very bad driver.

 

[deleted393595]

I made the relatively stupid decision to take a weedout course that I probably don't really have the prereqs for, whilst simultaneously taking calculus, which I am not at all good at.

I hate calculus with a rage that transcends generations.

And my job (WHICH I GET TO QUIT NOW YAY) likes to keep me working until 1130 at night or so. That makes the relatively small amount of homework I get seem that much larger. Also, it makes me a very bad driver.

😱

Yeah, well my school is going so slow that i get work done pretty quickly and studying is almost nonexistent...at least for now.

😀

I've been pretty busy with stuff. HW's pretty easy, but it's the ECs that are sucking up my time like a vampire.

 

[deleted393595]

I'm like the epitome of complete failure.

Let's turn this frown upside down!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😎

Would you like to chat about what's bothering you that much?

 

[deleted393595]

omg biology is killer, i'm gonna study all night and take notes

dang i wonder how this full course load is gonna work out... esp. since i'm kinda slow and not really as smart as my classmates

What stuff are you'll doing in bio? If you need any help, just PM me or FB me.

Lol turns out the PI lives in the middle of nowhere, on top of a mountain in the middle of a forest. Dang what's with these professor-types

Dudeeee. That would be like the awesomest place to live!

 

[ss123]

I've been pretty busy with stuff. HW's pretty easy, but it's the ECs that are sucking up my time like a vampire.

yeah exactly man

the work itself isn't hard. it's getting the work done early enough, and at the right times, so that you can still do ECs and stuff that's the hard part

 

[ss123]

What stuff are you'll doing in bio? If you need any help, just PM me or FB me.

thanks man. it's just that we had to read like 3 chapters that weren't even covered in class in order to pass our homework. pretty standard for college i guess

Dudeeee. That would be like the awesomest place to live!

lol it was literally like: "if you wanna back your car up, you're gonna fall off this cliff"

"also my house is secretly a torture chamber for undergrads. the grad students, postdocs, and i lure them here with promises of research rotations"

that sorta thing.

 

[deleted393595]

yeah exactly man

the work itself isn't hard. it's getting the work done early enough, and at the right times, so that you can still do ECs and stuff that's the hard part

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. I'm a week ahead of my classes in notes and HW, but I don't know how long that lead's going to last.

 

[deleted393595]

thanks man. it's just that we had to read like 3 chapters that weren't even covered in class in order to pass our homework. pretty standard for college i guess

Was it the 3 intro chapters in Campbell?

 

[deleted393595]

"also my house is secretly a torture chamber for undergrads. the grad students, postdocs, and i lure them here with promises of research rotations"

that sorta thing.

Like he actually said that? If he did, that would be really creepy.

 

[ss123]

Was it the 3 intro chapters in Campbell?

2, 3 plus another one (ch. 21) (campbell c&c 7e)

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. I'm a week ahead of my classes in notes and HW, but I don't know how long that lead's going to last.

yeah same. it's hard enough to master things as they come. i thought about going ahead but decided it's better to spend more time just completely mastering everything about the current chapter (like getting 100's on practice tests, quizzes and stuff on MB and knowing all the definitions). there's basically no time to really "review" anything. you have to master things as they come

 

[ss123]

Like he actually said that? If he did, that would be really creepy.

no no no, that's just the vibe i got from the place. they're all (seemingly) pretty nice people. it's just that there was no cell phone reception 😱

 

[Epen]

no no no, that's just the vibe i got from the place. they're all (seemingly) pretty nice people. it's just that there was no cell phone reception 😱

I feel ya there. My chem class makes me feel as though I'll go in there one day and never be found. Doesn't help that there aren't any clocks anywhere, so nobody knows how much time has passed until the prof. tells us to leave

 

[deleted393595]

2, 3 plus another one (ch. 21) (campbell c&c 7e)



yeah same. it's hard enough to master things as they come. i thought about going ahead but decided it's better to spend more time just completely mastering everything about the current chapter (like getting 100's on practice tests, quizzes and stuff on MB and knowing all the definitions). there's basically no time to really "review" anything. you have to master things as they come

Yeah. The approach that I prefer is to preview a chapter a week before and take notes on it, review it very briefly for about 5-10 mins for a couple of days so that it has time to sink in and then do a final review (15 mins) the day before class. So far, it's working for me and it's a lot better than cramming.

 

[deleted393595]

no no no, that's just the vibe i got from the place. they're all (seemingly) pretty nice people. it's just that there was no cell phone reception 😱

Haha. How far away from the uni does your PI live?

I feel ya there. My chem class makes me feel as though I'll go in there one day and never be found. Doesn't help that there aren't any clocks anywhere, so nobody knows how much time has passed until the prof. tells us to leave

Are there like 500 people in there?

 

[Epen]

Are there like 500 people in there?

More like 200, but they're all chemical engineers. A lot are older than I am too...

 

[deleted393595]

More like 200, but they're all chemical engineers. A lot are older than I am too...

Yeah, my class is like that too but the professor is pretty chill. Don't worry, they probably don't pick on the fishes 😉

 

[Epen]

Yeah, my class is like that too but the professor is pretty chill. Don't worry, they probably don't pick on the fishes 😉

Sadly, at least the teacher has already. When I introduced myself as a biochem major, he cut me off and told me to drop the class. And a large part of the grade is answering questions in class, which I do quite frequently and very well at that might I add which angers the big fishes quite a bit.

I gots mah points, tho 😎

 

[CaliGirl14]

2, 3 plus another one (ch. 21) (campbell c&c 7e)



yeah same. it's hard enough to master things as they come. i thought about going ahead but decided it's better to spend more time just completely mastering everything about the current chapter (like getting 100's on practice tests, quizzes and stuff on MB and knowing all the definitions). there's basically no time to really "review" anything. you have to master things as they come

btw just for your informatino you can find all the textbook test answers online.

 

[nctw]

yeah same. it's hard enough to master things as they come. i thought about going ahead but decided it's better to spend more time just completely mastering everything about the current chapter (like getting 100's on practice tests, quizzes and stuff on MB and knowing all the definitions). there's basically no time to really "review" anything. you have to master things as they come

That's what I'm trying to do as well. It's hard to pack all of the ECs and this into my schedule...but the work isn't bad for now

 

[ss123]

btw just for your informatino you can find all the textbook test answers online.

Don't tell me about it, it'd be too big a temptation to not learn anything and rely on someone's else's answers 😀

 

[deleted393595]

Don't tell me about it, it'd be too big a temptation to not learn anything and rely on someone's else's answers 😀

I agree. I just looked at Chapter 21 and it seems dumb to just have someone jump straight into it without going over the material for genes and DNA. Why would your professor randomly make you do it?

Sadly, at least the teacher has already. When I introduced myself as a biochem major, he cut me off and told me to drop the class. And a large part of the grade is answering questions in class, which I do quite frequently and very well at that might I add which angers the big fishes quite a bit.

I gots mah points, tho 😎

Own those big fishes for us 🙂

That's what I'm trying to do as well. It's hard to pack all of the ECs and this into my schedule...but the work isn't bad for now

I'm trying to do the same 1 at a time. Classes are going reaaaaalllly slow this week. Like we never got past sig figs in Chemistry, even though it was our third class.

 

[Neurosis]

I agree. I just looked at Chapter 21 and it seems dumb to just have someone jump straight into it without going over the material for genes and DNA. Why would your professor randomly make you do it?



Own those big fishes for us 🙂




I'm trying to do the same 1 at a time. Classes are going reaaaaalllly slow this week. Like we never got past sig figs in Chemistry, even though it was our third class.

that's nothing, in chem we're still doing measurements and in bio we're on biological chemistry

 

[Neurosis]

i joined the bio club this afternoon 😀 I feel so accomplished.

 

[Gigantron]

Had my first bio lab today (it was cancelled last week) and was partners with one of the other kids in my BS/MD group. Near perfect SAT's, all 5's on his AP exams...this guy made me feel like such an idiot, especially when we had to figure out the size of the NaCl crystals in μm (micrometers). However, in a thinly-veiled attempt to make up for my own academic shortcoming, I'm 99.9% sure he has Asperger's. He was really giddy when we took out the microscopes.

Time to turn up studying one more notch.

 

[Neurosis]

Had my first bio lab today (it was cancelled last week) and was partners with one of the other kids in my BS/MD group. Near perfect SAT's, all 5's on his AP exams...this guy made me feel like such an idiot, especially when we had to figure out the size of the NaCl crystals in um (micrometers). However, in a thinly-veiled attempt to make up for my own academic shortcoming, I'm 99.9% sure he has Asperger's. He was really giddy when we took out the microscopes.

Time to turn up studying one more notch.

God, I hated kids like that in high school (yeah I'm a hater right now), but seriously you have to wonder what the hell their parents did to them when they were younger. They were probably deprived of a normal childhood.

 

[Epen]

God, I hated kids like that in high school (yeah I'm a hater right now), but seriously you have to wonder what the hell their parents did to them when they were younger. They were probably deprived of a normal childhood.

o_o You're making me feel bad...so what if I like microscopes? So what if I voluntarily had myself abandoned in libraries as a child for hours on end? So what if my childhood was far from normal? And so what if I have asberger's? I ENJOY EVERY D*** MINUTE OF IT!!

All work and no play? Make work your play, and the fun never ends!

 

[Neurosis]

o_o You're making me feel bad...so what if I like microscopes? So what if I voluntarily had myself abandoned in libraries as a child for hours on end? So what if my childhood was far from normal? And so what if I have asberger's? I ENJOY EVERY D*** MINUTE OF IT!!

All work and no play? Make work your play, and the fun never ends!

I'm just really jealous. Wish I had autism...ok not really. But I do wish I had devoted more time to my education, such a slacker in school 😳.

 

[Neurosis]

Wooh Hooh tops.

 

[Epen]

I'm just really jealous. Wish I had autism...ok not really. But I do wish I had devoted more time to my education, such a slacker in school 😳.

Haha, to be honest they're not sure I have autism either. I was just a really weird, hyper, obsessive kid, and they decided to slap on labels (and ritalin, yay!) until something stuck. Asberger's was just the last diagnosis before my parents decided to stop wasting money on my freaky personality. But still, it's kinda awesome to be a fully functional and intelligent 'autistic'.