De-stress thread

[Picklesali]

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So...The forum has been vewwy vewwy quiet lately. What's everyone up to? For those of us applicants who are still in school, finals are looming!! agh! How are you dealing?

I thought maybe we could have a complaint thread to get things off our minds. I'll start:

1) Physics lab is a waste of my time...

 

[j-weezy]

I flew back yesterday and haven't been to class since last Tuesday. Oh but I just had two exams today - see previous sentence. I also have a test tomorrow - and a paper due Monday and a make-up final next Tuesday due to the fact I fly out again on Wednesday not getting back until Saturday at which point I need to study for another make-up final on Monday....it doesn't sound too bad but when you also add in the non-class stuff I have to do as well it's a bit overwhelming - but I can't really complain because I brought this upon myself for interviewing

ugh

 

[Dodo23]

Glad to see you on here, Picklesali.

J-weezy, I think I met you at an interview this week (?). I wish you the best of luck in catching up on all your schoolwork and your interview next week.

Well, lots of stressful/painful things happening in my life right now. So, to add to the list:

1) Tons of work to do in the next week (midterm, final paper, take-home final exam) plus catching up on tons of schoolwork I've missed over the last several weeks.

2) Need to get back into the lab soon after a long hiatus, or my thesis will not be thanking me.

3) Cornell Tri-I decisions will be known tomorrow...

4) Last but not least, a friend's suicide has left us all reeling here in my dorm.

So did I need to vent? Heck, yeah...

 

[magwi11]

I'm sorry to hear about your friend Dodo, that's an awful situation, and it's got to be particularly hard to deal with when you don't have the down time to process what's happened. I'll think happy thoughts about good Tri-I news coming your way today to relieve at least some of that stress.

As for me:
1.) The script that I used to analyze a bunch of data has an error in it, so what I thought would be done today will instead require that I a.) figure out what is wrong with the old script. b.) write a new one. c.) reprocess all the data. *grumbles* (And no, I did not write the first script, it was given to me by one of the post-docs.)
2.) The due date for the take home final for my night class was moved UP a week, so now we have half the promised amount of time to do it.
3.) My S.O. is in Iraq, so I am missing the person that can usually cheer me up/calm me down the best, and I have something extra to worry about.

Blah. Christmas/Winter break soon though. I'm not in school anymore, but old Dubya just made Christmas Eve a federal holiday, so I'll only have to take one vacation day to go home for 5 days. That's something to cheer about.

Good luck with finals to those who have them.
magwi11

 

[Inuranic]

I'm insanely irritated with my Biochem professor who waited till the last two weeks of the semester to assign us/finally tell us the requirements for 2 lab reports and a biochemical adaptation paper - as well as flying through the last few topics to throw in on the final exam on Wednesday.

We've only had two tests so far, so these final four assignments make up a huge % of our grade (obviously).

At least I've completed 8 of 10 medical school interviews and have about a month before the next one. And, happily, my last interview is Miami in the middle of January - awesome.

 

[Jorje286]

I'm not applying until the next cycle, so I don't know if I qualify. I'm trying to do everything I can to boost up my application, so I'm in the process of losing my mind.

Those last two days I have been having nightmares about P. aeruginosa and E.coli. I'm trying to work my ass of to get an A in microbiology, and for that I need to do really well on the lab final, which consisted of a 1 week project to try to identify an unknown bacterial culture. I was able to identify it yesterday (it turned to be E coli - easy), but I had it contaminated before so I had to isolate the unknown again, and ofcourse I was having "stress strokes" while waiting to see the results.

In the last few weeks, I worked my ass off on my research to try to get an abstract, and after all the anxiety, the failures and the doubt, everything came correct the last week, and I got an abstract. Ofcourse in the process I lost 10% of my neurons. I'm also starting a new chemical biology project with an dingus professor who wants to me to work on two projects simultaneously when he knows how much I have to do. And I'm volunteering in a hospital on saturdays one hour and a half away from me and I had to write 2 papers this week and I did each 2 hours before the deadline and they were 5 pages each (I keep surprising myself when it comes to finishing up work just before deadlines), and I still have my finals for next week.

OK I guess that's enough for now.

 

[Dodo23]

I'm sorry to hear about your friend Dodo, that's an awful situation, and it's got to be particularly hard to deal with when you don't have the down time to process what's happened. I'll think happy thoughts about good Tri-I news coming your way today to relieve at least some of that stress.

As for me:
1.) The script that I used to analyze a bunch of data has an error in it, so what I thought would be done today will instead require that I a.) figure out what is wrong with the old script. b.) write a new one. c.) reprocess all the data. *grumbles* (And no, I did not write the first script, it was given to me by one of the post-docs.)
2.) The due date for the take home final for my night class was moved UP a week, so now we have half the promised amount of time to do it.
3.) My S.O. is in Iraq, so I am missing the person that can usually cheer me up/calm me down the best, and I have something extra to worry about.

Blah. Christmas/Winter break soon though. I'm not in school anymore, but old Dubya just made Christmas Eve a federal holiday, so I'll only have to take one vacation day to go home for 5 days. That's something to cheer about.

Good luck with finals to those who have them.
magwi11

Thank you, magwi. My friends and I are dealing with it as well as we can. And I sincerely hope your SO comes home safely (and soon) from Iraq.

 

[Inuranic]

I'm not applying until the next cycle, so I don't know if I qualify. I'm trying to do everything I can to boost up my application, so I'm in the process of losing my mind.

Those last two days I have been having nightmares about P. aeruginosa and E.coli. I'm trying to work my ass of to get an A in microbiology, and for that I need to do really well on the lab final, which consisted of a 1 week project to try to identify an unknown bacterial culture. I was able to identify it yesterday (it turned to be E coli - easy), but I had it contaminated before so I had to isolate the unknown again, and ofcourse I was having "stress strokes" while waiting to see the results.

In the last few weeks, I worked my ass off on my research to try to get an abstract, and after all the anxiety, the failures and the doubt, everything came correct the last week, and I got an abstract. Ofcourse in the process I lost 10% of my neurons. I'm also starting a new chemical biology project with an dingus professor who wants to me to work on two projects simultaneously when he knows how much I have to do. And I'm volunteering in a hospital on saturdays one hour and a half away from me and I had to write 2 papers this week and I did each 2 hours before the deadline and they were 5 pages each (I keep surprising myself when it comes to finishing up work just before deadlines), and I still have my finals for next week.

OK I guess that's enough for now.

Heh - I remember the final semester before I applied. Starting early huh? I like that.

Unfortunately, all the things I started to boost my application have snowballed and continued. Thankfully, it will result in a couple of abstracts and at least one paper (hopefully), so I think it's worth it in the end.

 

[redoc]

Hi All,

I'm new to this forum. I noticed that I'm not too stressed about my academic work this semester--probably because most of my anxiety has digressed towards the MSTP applications. Anyways, if you guys and girls have time to kill, here is a video I made last night instead of writing a research proposal haha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymTjK06hZg

I hope you like it. 🙂 I'm hoping to breakdance my way into an MSTP program, and IN YOUR HEARTS! hahaha!

-DK

 

[FoxTrot12]

All I have to say to that is sweeeet!

 

[dazlindz]

*sigh* i'm on interviews right now.

btw... anyone heard about nyu at all? i know of at least 3 acceptances already, but i haven't heard anything from them, good or bad. it makes me think that perhaps not hearing = rejection? i really hope not, because i would love to go there, but... i guess i'll find out sooner or later.

haha i guess that wasn't very de-stressing... but good luck to everyone on their interviews and congrats to all who got in already!

 

[Jorje286]

I have to study for two exams for monday this weekend, and write 8 lab reports (each is like 4/5 pages double spaced). I think my blood will be grey on monday because of coffee.

 

[j-weezy]

I have to study for two exams for monday this weekend, and write 8 lab reports (each is like 4/5 pages double spaced). I think my blood will be grey on monday because of coffee.

no wonder vampires can stay up all night

 

[j-weezy]

no wonder vampires can stay up all night

adcoms reading this - please don't reject me for my sense of humor