Random non-MCAT and only peripherally related to the MCAT thread - Part XXVIII

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I have to write 3 really lame essays for biomedical ethics. They depress me.😴But I've been procrastinating for weeks, so I gotta tackle at least 2 of them tonight so I stop feeling guilty.
 
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lol. I get the whole conservation of energy thing quite well, we just have like half the info needed to calculate the friction business. should it look something like K+U-friction equals Knaught+Unaught-friction ?
 
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spicedmanna said:
*sigh* I knew medical school wasn't going to be too much fun when I went down this path, but right now I'm really, really, not having fun. There just doesn't seem to ever be any reprieve. 🙁

I sincerely hope this isn't all there is and that better stuff is on its way.
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its gets better! BELIEVE ME it gets soooooooo much nicer. you go through all this crap in M1, 2, 3... and then you hit M4 and it gets EASIER and you have tons of time, its beyond awesome being a senior. You actually have a bunch of free time again to be a normal person. :laugh: Especially once you are done with apps, interviews and step 2.
 
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Arsenic said:
its gets better! BELIEVE ME it gets soooooooo much nicer. you go through all this crap in M1, 2, 3... and then you hit M4 and it gets EASIER and you have tons of time, its beyond awesome being a senior. You actually have a bunch of free time again to be a normal person. :laugh: Especially once you are done with apps, interviews and step 2.
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it's a nice vacation they give you until they hit you with residency 🙂
 
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spicedmanna said:
Thanks, Funky. I hope so, too. I guess I'm just at this phase of the "boot camp" when I wish I could go home and wondering if it's all worth it.

Anyway, I just need to pull myself up by the bootstraps and get through all this blasted anatomy, embryology, and histology. That's the priority right now. 👍
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don't worry, i've been feeling the same way. i think we just have to keep trudging along as well as we can and hope for the best! 🙂
 
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I hate essays...I wrote one out of the 3 yesterday and it was freaking 4+ pages, single-spaced.😴
 
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Spent the last hour or so coming up with a dichotomous key for my micro "unknown" that we're starting tomorrow... I'm real excited about that (lord I'm a nerd). We have two weeks and any materials we want to determine what organism we're working with.

Tomorrow: Gram staining, identification of shape, and oxidase testing. Then it's off to the incubator to grow some cultures.. lol.
 
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gradu8in2003 said:
My 😍 is for the Colts (5-0 in AFC) and the Packers (4-1 in NFC). And *hides face in shame* my Saints....

Hometown boys rock! Gotta love Farve and the Mannings...👍
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i get pretty mad at our manning
only if he were peyton 🙁
 
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gradu8in2003 said:
Spent the last hour or so coming up with a dichotomous key for my micro "unknown" that we're starting tomorrow... I'm real excited about that (lord I'm a nerd). We have two weeks and any materials we want to determine what organism we're working with.
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I don't think there's nothing wrong with being excited about identifying unknowns for micro. Sounds like fun. 👍

Then again, I'm probably a nerd, too. :laugh:

I like nerds. 🙂
 
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gradu8in2003 said:
Spent the last hour or so coming up with a dichotomous key for my micro "unknown" that we're starting tomorrow... I'm real excited about that (lord I'm a nerd). We have two weeks and any materials we want to determine what organism we're working with.

Tomorrow: Gram staining, identification of shape, and oxidase testing. Then it's off to the incubator to grow some cultures.. lol.
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Oh yeah, we did that, too. Except for they gave us a very nice flow chart that made it easy for evil people like me to get out of doing work.:meanie: I gram-stained my stuff and then performed the very last test of the ones given for gram-negative series, and it turned out to be this one bacterial culture....so I didn't have to do any of the preceding tests.:laugh: I'll just *write* that I did them.:meanie:
 
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jochi1543 said:
Oh yeah, we did that, too. Except for they gave us a very nice flow chart that made it easy for evil people like me to get out of doing work.:meanie: I gram-stained my stuff and then performed the very last test of the ones given for gram-negative series, and it turned out to be this one bacterial culture....so I didn't have to do any of the preceding tests.:laugh: I'll just *write* that I did them.:meanie:
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hahaha.. we have two weeks to do our testing so im not in a hurry. i asked him to give me something interesting... i dont want boring lol.
 
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Man, I just thought the unknown was going to be fun. This morning in class, my lab partner came in with tonsillitis. My micro prof told me I could swab her (if she agreed) and see what I could come up with.

She agreed. This is going to be so much fun.
 
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The section on bone remodeling in my A&P textbook has inspired me to take a calcium supplement for the first time in months. Education at work!:laugh:
 
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gradu8in2003 said:
Man, I just thought the unknown was going to be fun. This morning in class, my lab partner came in with tonsillitis. My micro prof told me I could swab her (if she agreed) and see what I could come up with.

She agreed. This is going to be so much fun.
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Nice! (not that your lab partner has tonsillitis, but that you get to do a culture) I wonder what you'll find.
 
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Ok, I've been lurking and loving this thread for a while and want to jump on the bandwagon!

I took micro this past summer and definitely had a blast with it (clearly a dork here!) I was so stressed about my unknown (it was worth 30% of our lab grade!), but I nailed it! Boo-ya! I had Bacillus megaterium - one of the few bugs that will grow on mannitol salt agar (MSA) AND turn it yellow. (Another much more common one is Staph aureus . . . in fact, as soon as I told my prof for the lecture portion that it turned MSA yellow, she told me I definitely had S. aureus . . . and I believed her for a while because I didn't trust my gram-staining capabilities :laugh:) Anyway, the MSA test is a good one to do because if it's positive, it can really narrow down your options.

As for swabbing your lab partner's tonsils, that is bad*ss! I'd be freaked out that there would be multiple unknowns there, though!! :scared: Have fun and :luck:!
 
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Soooooo, I was looking at Case's match list last night, annnnnd I think if I get in there, I'm gonna throw up and then explode. :barf:
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They turn out like 10 orthopedic surgeons, 10+ anesthesiologists, and 10+ radiologists a year, it's pretty crazy.:wow:
 
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jochi1543 said:
Soooooo, I was looking at Case's match list last night, annnnnd I think if I get in there, I'm gonna throw up and then explode. :barf:
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They turn out like 10 orthopedic surgeons, 10+ anesthesiologists, and 10+ radiologists a year, it's pretty crazy.:wow:
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must have been an overachieving bunch
no med school mail today, only a credit card bill :barf:
 
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spicedmanna said:
Nice! (not that your lab partner has tonsillitis, but that you get to do a culture) I wonder what you'll find.
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Definitely. My culture went great and she barely even gagged.. haha. It's incubating on nutrient and MAC agar, to be narrowed down with time.

My "other" unknown - the actual lab one - came out Gram neg today, so we've started the narrowing down process. Had to grow it on nutrient and MAC as well for isolation to be sure I had a pure culture before I started my other tests.

I'm recruiting in the morning ... leaving the house at 7, recruiting, be back just in time for phys. It'll be a long day, but I 😍 recruiting trips.
 
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CultureDoc said:
Ok, I've been lurking and loving this thread for a while and want to jump on the bandwagon!

I took micro this past summer and definitely had a blast with it (clearly a dork here!) I was so stressed about my unknown (it was worth 30% of our lab grade!), but I nailed it! Boo-ya! I had Bacillus megaterium - one of the few bugs that will grow on mannitol salt agar (MSA) AND turn it yellow. (Another much more common one is Staph aureus . . . in fact, as soon as I told my prof for the lecture portion that it turned MSA yellow, she told me I definitely had S. aureus . . . and I believed her for a while because I didn't trust my gram-staining capabilities :laugh:) Anyway, the MSA test is a good one to do because if it's positive, it can really narrow down your options.

As for swabbing your lab partner's tonsils, that is bad*ss! I'd be freaked out that there would be multiple unknowns there, though!! :scared: Have fun and :luck:!
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Welcome! Yeah, I did some differentials to "narrow down" what I was looking for and hopefully when the culture grows up over the next few days I can get a much better look at it.

It was my first "clinical" testing though (on a live person that is) and it was amazing and so much fun!
 
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Morning randomites! I'm about to be off to the *insert sarcasm here* huge city of Magee for our recruiting trip.

Hopefully I'll get home in time to go work on my unknowns in the lab before physics.

If things are boring in Magee, look for me to be posting via mobile. haha.
 
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wow, no activity since this morning
i guess everyone's busy doing their thanggg 🙂
 
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MAN! I canNOT have chocolate in this house! I bought a bag of milk chocolate chips this morning, had some chocolate-dipped strawberries for breakfast, and just devoured almost everything that remained! ARGH.

Luckily, I've got boxing tonight, so I could eat a truckload of lard and still not gain weight from this.:laugh: I'm gonna have to bump my post-boxing cardio from 15 to 30 mins though...I'd do more, but I think that a 3-hour workout might just send me into cardiac arrest.:scared: :laugh:

Yes, he makes me do MORE cardio after 2 hours of boxing training....MONSTER!😡
 
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Submitted the Minnesota secondary...yay! Everyone who is complete by Oct. 15 (which I am, everything else is already in) should hear back before December 15th, which is nice.👍
 
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