User 100115
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How old are you, out of curiosity?
And you could live blog it with me over skype, I don't get to watch it with anyone either!
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How old are you, out of curiosity?
And you could live blog it with me over skype, I don't get to watch it with anyone either!
-ImaginaryInsider
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Excellent post... echoes what I've experienced.
Once you realize that you can lose anything and everything and still be ok, you stop letting things eat at you. I'm learning how to be at peace with myself regardless of what life dishes out.
And life dishes out a lot of good regardless of how it sometimes looks.
Thanks, Bagels!Yeah right now we're just going by number/percent grading and the letter things (Satisfactory, Needs improvement, Good, Excellent) are just to show our work ethic etc. To be honest, I just need to get around 70s in this course, since calculus is the course I need to really worry about, as every life science program I am interested in requires it (Biology? Really? Clearly have no clue how university science works.). I would love some tips on getting into med school; it's always been a dream. Make money while saving lives and doing good in the world? Sign me up; money doesn't matter, I just want to be able to say "Yeah, I helped someone today. Feels good, man."
You need calculus for medical school. You'll need it for calculus-based physics. You're both in luck as calculus is what I taught in college.
I tried calculus in high school and did kind of meh. I tested into an accelerated/honors Calc I and II+ in college and it really, really clicked. From there, I took all honors math and earned a minor. It really just takes a slightly new way of thinking. Once you can get there, you can work a problem and you'll KNOW if the answer is right or not just by looking at it. I honestly believe ANYONE can learn to think mathematically. You just need decent instruction.
Fun story: one of my students was a jerk who picked on me and my friends in high school. In college, dude kissed my ass hard, which was sweet revenge. He was dumb as a brick, but I saw him after our class ended one day and he ran up and hugged me and said, "Bagels! Bagels! I passed! Thank you so much!!!" His mom made me fucking cookies. :/ I was pretty proud of that, actually.
(My brother is finishing his math PhD, so if we need to call in the big guns, we can do that, too.)
I'll dig up my old med school thread. We can talk more about that, too. It's a tough course of study, but nowhere near as hard as some people think.
Jubei - people on here obviously like you. Seriously, if you weren't across the country we'd go hang out. You sell yourself way short.
I'm way passed my experation date. 32
User 100115
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I am 30. And just getting my life started. I've sheltered and shut in my whole damned life, and I am just now trying to step out and do it on my own. 32 isn't old.
You need calculus for medical school. You'll need it for calculus-based physics. You're both in luck as calculus is what I taught in college.
Fuck Physics. That is all. Fuck your forces, fuck your kinematics, fuck your work, for your statics, fuck your magnetism, fuck your air resistance. Fuck you're 5 problem tests which are 20% of the grade each.
This is America. If I want to explain shit, it shall be by God's will and that is unquestionable.
User 100115
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You need calculus for medical school. You'll need it for calculus-based physics. You're both in luck as calculus is what I taught in college.
I tried calculus in high school and did kind of meh. I tested into an accelerated/honors Calc I and II+ in college and it really, really clicked. From there, I took all honors math and earned a minor. It really just takes a slightly new way of thinking. Once you can get there, you can work a problem and you'll KNOW if the answer is right or not just by looking at it. I honestly believe ANYONE can learn to think mathematically. You just need decent instruction.
Fun story: one of my students was a jerk who picked on me and my friends in high school. In college, dude kissed my ass hard, which was sweet revenge. He was dumb as a brick, but I saw him after our class ended one day and he ran up and hugged me and said, "Bagels! Bagels! I passed! Thank you so much!!!" His mom made me fucking cookies. :/ I was pretty proud of that, actually.
(My brother is finishing his math PhD, so if we need to call in the big guns, we can do that, too.)
I'll dig up my old med school thread. We can talk more about that, too. It's a tough course of study, but nowhere near as hard as some people think.
Jubei - people on here obviously like you. Seriously, if you weren't across the country we'd go hang out. You sell yourself way short.
I wonder if you'll still think that when I am begging you for help later >.< I took my placement tests for college right? Owned the writing and reading, and failed the math. The first one. They didn't even let me take the next three. With a 28. For serious. In high school, I failed Algebra 1, they put me in Algebra 2, I failed that. For my senior year, I had to take Algebra 1 again, applied math, and geometry to graduate, and I made it by the skin of my teeth. I sometimes worry I have some sort of learning disability when it comes to math. It took me two years to memorize my own phone number >.<
You need calculus for medical school. You'll need it for calculus-based physics. You're both in luck as calculus is what I taught in college.
I tried calculus in high school and did kind of meh. I tested into an accelerated/honors Calc I and II+ in college and it really, really clicked. From there, I took all honors math and earned a minor. It really just takes a slightly new way of thinking. Once you can get there, you can work a problem and you'll KNOW if the answer is right or not just by looking at it. I honestly believe ANYONE can learn to think mathematically. You just need decent instruction.
Fun story: one of my students was a jerk who picked on me and my friends in high school. In college, dude kissed my ass hard, which was sweet revenge. He was dumb as a brick, but I saw him after our class ended one day and he ran up and hugged me and said, "Bagels! Bagels! I passed! Thank you so much!!!" His mom made me fucking cookies. :/ I was pretty proud of that, actually.
(My brother is finishing his math PhD, so if we need to call in the big guns, we can do that, too.)
I'll dig up my old med school thread. We can talk more about that, too. It's a tough course of study, but nowhere near as hard as some people think.
Bagels, if you could help me get to a low 70 in pre-calc before late January (which seems impossible, really. I have a test on Tuesday that I'm totally unprepared for. Ha!), and you could help me in calculus, I'd ship you over some fine wine or something. Seriously. Math is the only course kicking my ass, aside from physics (which I dropped because my concentration/motivation went to deep hell) in school now. Making me rethink majoring in Neuroscience to majoring in Philosophy or Greek studies or something.
Amen, friend. Fuck all that noise. I liked work, though.
Did you study up on Math before you took the placement exam? I also owned the reading and writing portions but I was able to pass the Math part due to studying my ass off before taking the test. I bought some kind of Math basics book and spent a good month going through most of it. If I didn't do that, I'm pretty sure I would have failed.
User 100115
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I studied the practice test. I really did. I worked through all the problems and looked up stuff I had no clue how to do...and then I got into stuff I had no idea even how to begin looking up, and I gave up on that. Figured I'd just get placed in a class that was more basic and that would be that. I didn't expect to fail the first test AT ALL.
Charles Foster Kane
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Birthdays and holidays remind me of this lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=PsdZtbs5aUo&feature=endscreen
We've got this, Windam! We'll set something up.
Majoring in neuroscience is awesome! I wish I had done more cognitive science and things in college.
Here's my medical school thread, the only thread I ever started:
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=351533
I'll have more advice for the college-bound student.
Fiction, getting you to pass math sounds like my greatest challenge yet. You're lucky I'm mildly fond of you
Sorta, yeah. I don't have an awesome beard though.
I go out like once a week. Don't know if I should consider myself a hermit, but I don't have the beard.
Charles Foster Kane
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Wow bagels, you seem like a really awesome person. Nice to have you around here.
Necromanti
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When are you deep within the throes of depression, hearing "it gets better" sounds naïve, ignorant, and reductionistic...but then you get to a point later in your life when you realize, my goodness, it really was true. It's the journey there that's the hard part. But it is not impossible.
Out of curiosity, do you mean going out for fun, or just in general? I still count going to school/work/etc. as "going out" in some capacity.
We've got this, Windam! We'll set something up.
Majoring in neuroscience is awesome! I wish I had done more cognitive science and things in college.
Here's my medical school thread, the only thread I ever started:
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=351533
I'll have more advice for the college-bound student.
Fiction, getting you to pass math sounds like my greatest challenge yet. You're lucky I'm mildly fond of you
So many great people here on GAF, and in this thread. More than I know in person. This gives me some hope. (Believe me, that's an accomplishment on your part.) Thank you Bagels, and everyone else here helping out.
Did you just say biological sciences had more math than Physical Chemistry? wat?
I can help you with math (and any other science, just not Physics please. I can try though.) too Windam, hit me up on steam if you have any questions... It's only been a year since i've taken Calc 1&2 for the second time... (first time being in high school in Europe. Yes, we had Calc.) 3rd year Molecular Biology & Biochemistry here.
And I have a BMI of less than 17, I know the feeling. I went to the doctor, they did shitloads of tests, and it all came down to sending me to a nutritionist who told me to eat less salad. (i'm not even joking). So... going to the doctor might help if it's something serious, but don't expect wonders. On the bright side, I then found a really good doctor who was actually able to properly diagnose me, and it turns out there really WAS something wrong with me physically. Nothing serious, but it's extremely annoying and painful somedays. Bottom line, I felt better eating less, so my stomach got used to it and I'm never hungry. When I get sad/angry, I stop eating, sometimes I eat a bag of chips all day. It's really sad how anorexia (not anorexia nervosa, which is the condition where you don't WANT to eat. anorexia itself is simply being underweight) is treated in public, similar to depression probably. "just be happy" vs "just eat more". well guess what, I can't. Is that how it is for you too?
And trust me, like someone else (Fiction) said, some girls like skinny guys. I didn't think it was possible before I met my girlfriend either, but some really do.
Charles Foster Kane
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Very nicely put. I think religion is a very important thing for human kind, though I can't say I'm religious. Some can go deep into all the wars and bad things that have happened with religion, but it does offer an outlet for many and the overall message is good. If it's help give people hope it's good to me (we can overlook all of its past). It's a promise for something better and to be honest I like to think that there is actually an after life. This life seems much more shallow and empty and pointless without that thought. It's great you're an empathetic person.
Thanks!
fredrancour
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Did you just say biological sciences had more math than Physical Chemistry? wat?
I can help you with math (and any other science) too Windam, hit me up on steam if you have any questions... It's only been a year since i've taken Calc 1&2 for the second time... (first time being in high school in Europe. Yes, we had Calc.) 3rd year Molecular Biology & Biochemistry here.
And I have a BMI of less than 17, I know the feeling. I went to the doctor, they did shitloads of tests, and it all came down to sending me to a nutritionist who told me to eat less salad. (i'm not even joking). So... going to the doctor might help if it's something serious, but don't expect wonders. On the bright side, I then found a really good doctor who was actually able to properly diagnose me, and it turns out there really WAS something wrong with me physically. Nothing serious, but it's extremely annoying and painful somedays. Bottom line, I felt better eating less, so my stomach got used to it and I'm never hungry. When I get sad/angry, I stop eating, sometimes I eat a bag of chips all day. It's really sad how anorexia (not anorexia nervosa, which is the condition where you don't WANT to eat. anorexia itself is simply being underweight) is treated in public, similar to depression probably. "just be happy" vs "just eat more". well guess what, I can't. Is that how it is for you too?
And trust me, like someone else said, some girls like skinny guys. I didn't think it was possible before I met my girlfriend either, but some really do.
I do not understand the bolded. Explain?
I'm unemployed, so it's like once a week... in general.
OMG. I'm exactly like you.
Did you just say biological sciences had more math than Physical Chemistry? wat?
Opposite of that. Bio sux because there's no math, hence PChem 4 Life!
We had Calculus (Integration & Differentiation, which is usually considered advanced math/university math/"calculus") in Grade 11 where I went to High School (Switzerland). Then I moved to Canada and had to take Calculus 1 & 2 as two university-level courses (mandatory for my major) and realized they were the same content as my high school courses. 1st year University in Canada = Grade 12 in Switzerland. Bachelor's is only 3 years there vs 4 years here, too.
It's weird, because I don't really feel... "bad" about it. Like, I know I'm dangerously underweight, and I KNOW I should eat, but I just don't feel like it. sometimes my stomach feels like it should eat and I'm just like "naw that'll pass" and then an hour later it's gone and I still haven't eaten.
You are a weird, weird person.
Molecular Biology and Biochem for life!
I studied biophysics because it was the only program in grad school with a strong mathematical foundation (aside from imaging which is boring as fuck. Oh, a new CT algorithm? How...fascinating...)
fredrancour
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You said it like offering a high school calc option is unique to europe. between the ap and the IB I thought it was common in the us and canada too. my school in the us even had a non-AP calculus. It's not important I should probably stop browsng the internet now.
Ah fair enough, sorry, I wasn't sure. I know a lot of people here in Canada who never had any kind of Calculus in High school, but yeah, not that important
Bottom line: we're here to help you with hw if you have questions Windam
User 100115
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I am also thinking of taking an elective singing course when I finally get to go to school. But I am terrified to do so. What if I actually suck? I love to sing, and I sing all the time, sometimes even do karaoke if the crowd is mostly family or friends, but....what if they are all just being really nice? I'd rather them tell me I suck so I won't embarrass myself than say I sound okay >.<
Idk, Bagels, I don't think everyone can think mathmatically. High school level algebra 1 was something I couldn't wrap my head around. The most basic of basic. Couldn't do it. Still can't. Luckily I've never had to use it since school. My cousin basically built a wing of a house just on working out the math how much of what was needed and where it needed to go. You give me a ledger to keep and my brain will explode.
Did you just say biological sciences had more math than Physical Chemistry? wat?
I can help you with math (and any other science, just not Physics please. I can try though.) too Windam, hit me up on steam if you have any questions... It's only been a year since i've taken Calc 1&2 for the second time... (first time being in high school in Europe. Yes, we had Calc.) 3rd year Molecular Biology & Biochemistry here.
And I have a BMI of less than 17, I know the feeling. I went to the doctor, they did shitloads of tests, and it all came down to sending me to a nutritionist who told me to eat less salad. (i'm not even joking). So... going to the doctor might help if it's something serious, but don't expect wonders. On the bright side, I then found a really good doctor who was actually able to properly diagnose me, and it turns out there really WAS something wrong with me physically. Nothing serious, but it's extremely annoying and painful somedays. Bottom line, I felt better eating less, so my stomach got used to it and I'm never hungry. When I get sad/angry, I stop eating, sometimes I eat a bag of chips all day. It's really sad how anorexia (not anorexia nervosa, which is the condition where you don't WANT to eat. anorexia itself is simply being underweight) is treated in public, similar to depression probably. "just be happy" vs "just eat more". well guess what, I can't. Is that how it is for you too?
And trust me, like someone else (Fiction) said, some girls like skinny guys. I didn't think it was possible before I met my girlfriend either, but some really do.
You've already done a lot for me (yes you did!) and now you offer more? Well, at least I can say one thing is going well: finding people who care (even if they aren't physically around me).
Regarding the weight issue, not exactly. Some days I have a huge appetite, other days, none at all. It's weird.
And eh, I'm seriously underweight. Not attractive at all.
And trust me, I don't find myself attractive at all either. I weigh like 115pounds, and I'm not particularly short (5'10). BMI = 16.5fredrancour
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A lot of teachers are horrible. With a good one you'd probably be able to get high school algebra.
I'm also available by pms for math help.
I need to start posting in this thread regularly so I don't feel bad when I want to make a post mid-depressive episode. There've been 3 or 4 times this year where I've entered the thread, typed up a post, and not posted it.
I was 115 pounds two weeks ago. 101.8 now, and I'm around the same height as you! It sucks
I was 115 pounds two weeks ago. 101.8 now, and I'm around the same height as you! It sucks
I was down to 110 for the longest time, yeah :/ You should go see a doc for sure though, even if you have no other physical problems. It helped me figure out other stuff that was wrong, if not necessarily my weight issues. There's many potentially harmless or harmful causes. especially over such a short period of time. Do you have to pee a lot, if you don't mind me asking?
Only when I drink a lot or when I drink something after a long period of being thirsty.
okay good. Large Weightloss and excessive peeing is fairly indicative, so I'm glad that's not it. Still, please go see a doc and run some tests. It can only help. And don't hesitate to ask questions
Bagels is probably more knowledgeable about the boring sciences, and I can cover the interesting stuff. -cough-okay good. Large Weightloss and excessive peeing is fairly indicative, so I'm glad that's not it. Still, please go see a doc and run some tests. It can only help. And don't hesitate to ask questions
I really I hope don't have diabetes. It runs in my mom's side of the family. D: And ha what do you mean boring sciences? I find bio fun. Chem is alright. Physics? Fuck no. That shit makes me feel sad. Just thinking about those kinematics equations... Yeesh. Bad times.
That's what I meant hehe. He's a Physical Chem major, I'm a Molecular Bio major. Living science > dead science.
And yeah, my sister has juvenile Diabetes too, that's why I was wondering.
Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that. This world sucks. Bad things happen to those who don't deserve them.
Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that. This world sucks. Bad things happen to those who don't deserve them.
It really does, but she has gotten VERY used to it now. It took her a while, admittedly, but she's a lot better now. Bad and good things happen to people, too. She recently went to Tibet for half a year and was fine with Diabetes, so if you can do that, you can do anything, right.
But thank you.That's what I meant hehe. He's a Physical Chem major, I'm a Molecular Bio major. Living science > dead science.
And yeah, my sister has juvenile Diabetes too, that's why I was wondering.
Chemistry BS, short stint in geophysics, Masters in Receptor Biology/biophysics, stint in addiction research, 3/4 of an MD. I got this shit covered.
Trump card: self-taught juggler, bitch.
Chemistry BS, short stint in geophysics, Masters in Receptor Biology/biophysics, stint in addiction research, 3/4 of an MD. I got this shit covered.
Trump card: self-taught juggler, bitch.
niiiiiiiiiiice. All I have on my resume is discovering a new gene.
Does that count?niiiiiiiiiiice. All I have on my resume is discovering a new gene.
Unless it's an awesome gene...IN YOUR FACE! WHO IS YOUR GOD NOW? BOW BEFORE ME!
Might need some sleep...
Honestly, it's great to see people offering help to get each other over some of the hurdles in their lives. Let's keep this thread going strong!
Not really... it's not even a human gene... boo. Could be involved in Polycistic Kidney Disease though!
But yes, if people have specific needs... it never hurts to ask.
Be it school, gaming sessions, etc.Okay, near the bottom of the page. Shame be damned! "Ugly"-GAF, I present Bagels' Junior prom (I'm on the left. My date was taking the picture, so my friend and I are both escorting his date for some reason). Again, took all day to look like THIS. This is not the face of someone who would have good luck with the ladies and marry a beautiful woman, you know?
(More recent pic in the "post new pics" thread for some degree of redemption)
There's hope for all of us.
(More recent pic in the "post new pics" thread for some degree of redemption)
There's hope for all of us.
No offence Bagels, but posting a picture of yourself looking unattractive due to poor fashion choices doesn't really help your point much. Not everyone is beautiful underneath, and other factors like bone structure and skin tone play a much greater role. You can offset those, but they're not going to change.
Thankfully, working in retail helps you realise how shockingly ordinary the average person is. Those that are above average just stand out more than usual.
EleventhDoctor
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So my wife just took Wellbutrin for 2 weeks and had a horrible experience she just couldnt sleep for the life of her, even with the sleep aid they gave her they just switched her to Selexa, but shes still having issues Can anyone give me some positive news or hope regarding this ending?
EleventhDoctor
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Yes. The first week it was 2 doses. Now they have her on one-but nothing seems to help. She's exhausted all day and then when it's bedtime, she just can't fall asleep.
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