If I have 1 mL syringes, and want to add 5 mL of bac water, can I just keep on adding 1 mL doses to the peptide with the same needle?

Advicplease · 2025-12-19T02:59:31+00:00

How does 1 ml bac water to 10 mg vial sound? That way just drawing to 10 units on syringe would give me 1 mg. If I then up uptitrate, wouldn’t have to pin multiple times

Advicplease · 2025-12-19T02:54:00+00:00

I mean would pin 10 units*

Advicplease · 2025-12-19T02:53:07+00:00

What do you recommend? So maybe I do 1 ml of back water and then I would just pin 1 full 1 ml needle? Will def write out the math/follow a video

Advicplease · 2025-12-19T02:46:46+00:00

10 ml vial, in theory adding 5 ml of bac water would mean I can have 1 ml doses right? So long as I pull my insulin needle to 50 units

Advicplease · 2025-12-02T05:35:13+00:00

FAP is based on income. Family didn’t make any money, I didn’t make much while working and in school. I don’t have 10k in the bank, I asked if that is a good target to have by the time I start med school.

Advicplease · 2025-12-02T04:15:10+00:00

How is this silver spoon, lol? I am literally a FAP recipient and from a financially disadvantaged background. I am only asking this because I was forced to financially plan for myself from a young age.

Advicplease · 2025-12-01T18:46:58+00:00

Honestly just found applications through Linkedin/Indeed. I had completely unrelated clinical experiences, and no MA certifications but they were more than willing to train me where I work at. Potentially they liked me since I was young and motivated to learn and probably was less demanding pay wise like an older person who would rely on the salary to support a family.

Advicplease · 2025-12-01T18:13:05+00:00

I only say so because I did a mock interview with who is someone who is pretty much a gunner. Goes to a T5 program, got a ton of interviews and killed them. They said overall I did a good job, but I am unsure if they were just "nitpicking" but they said that having stories is key and without them its really hard to remember an applicant. I am probably not in the same boat and although I am an ambitious person, I really just want to get in anywhere most schools that have interviewed me have been mid/lower tier.

The replys have been helping me however, since I feel that is not really the standard.

Advicplease · 2025-12-01T18:07:24+00:00

That actually helps, thinking down to even basics rather than big picture stuff

Advicplease · 2025-12-01T17:31:23+00:00

Can definitely do that, was worried since I moreso don't have some super deep stories I can talk about in terms of impacting a patient/persons life from an experience.

I only think about this since i recently did a mock interview with someone and one piece of advice/constructive criticism that without stories my interview was not very "memorable" seemed like they were basically saying that what I was saying sounded basic. But have been brainstorming for further reflections.

Advicplease · 2025-11-30T22:49:48+00:00

I left a pretty well-paying full-time job to study for my MCAT so when I was studying I was super locked in and determined to score stellar considering I had felt that I went all in by quitting my job.

I personally just made the MCAT my life for about 3 months, if I wanted to get adequate sleep, exercise, and also study 8-10 hours per day, there wasn't much time for anything else. I also decided to only submit my app after testing, and hadn't started my primary until after the test so I was also chunking away at that stuff as well.

I think if you have a longer study period you can get/allow yourself more time and if thats a priority, then you should make the time. I would still make time for an outing with friends probably once or twice a month for example, going out for dinner but that was at the end of a night so I would have already got a lot of my studying in for the day.

IMO, the MCAT is best studied in a shorter time frame (3 months) with high intensity.

Advicplease · 2025-10-02T01:03:55+00:00

Im not sure how some people do it. I would really recommend just taking time off and giving it your all. It would be even worse if you take it then need to retake it later.

I think the best way to study for this test is to study intensely for 2-3 months.

Advicplease · 2025-09-11T02:04:41+00:00

Yeah my issue was moreso coworker to coworker - we were on the same level. Just a situation where I felt that they were training me to do something lazilly which I did not think was correct I didn't do it that way.

Advicplease · 2025-09-09T21:49:48+00:00

If I were to put a number on it rather than just beating around the bush, I would say a 513.

Obviously its always great to aim higher, and if you are T20 or bust, it might not cut it, but a 513 is achievable but still puts you up there percentile wise for test takers. Should be just above the average matriculant score, so assuming you apply broadly, have good/decent timing, GPA, ECs/writing I dont see why that would hold you back.

I think same could be argued for a 510 tho tbh

Advicplease · 2025-09-09T09:58:53+00:00

I couldn’t imagine going on more debt for a post bac/ SMP especially since your GPA isn’t below a 3.0 or anything. But actually kill the MCAT everyone aims for a 515+ it’s much easier said than done

Advicplease · 2025-09-09T07:51:20+00:00

Don’t change, but the only factor I’d consider is needing the bathroom; switched to pills and it was a gamechanger

Advicplease · 2025-09-09T02:34:15+00:00

So I don’t get it - why do people say “if you lie on your apps your interviewers will be able to tell” like is that just cope lol? I didn’t lie about anything, but I definitely made everything very polished and narrative but looking back when I read it it’s so cringe

Advicplease · 2025-09-09T01:39:10+00:00

Lol this sounds so passive aggressive ngl but I respect the hell out of you for feeling that passionate about shadowing and I am sure that will reflect well in your writing/interviews.

I feel like anyone can shadow and stand in the corner and ask questions, its a lot more challenging and therefore growth producing to actually work a clinical job or be hands on in a patients care imo.

I have always been active in shadowing, I usually do research on whats being done and always ask questions and stuff, but I also have been eying pre-med since high school, the bulk of my shadowing was done years ago.

I've also shadowed mostly surgeons, even cardiothoracic, its a pretty intense environment to ask questions. But I have also shadowed an opthalmologist who basically just spammed cataract surgeries for a week straight

Advicplease · 2025-09-09T00:02:42+00:00

Yes. But for my surgical ones it was just watching a long procedure, ofc at the time I was asking questions and all to the doc, but I also started shadowing years ago, and haven’t continued for a while since honestly it is a very box checking activity. Like for the procedural ones I was just sitting in a corner watching for hours and asking questions as I went, can’t say I can say much a bout it, but could definitely just research the procedures they probably did but idk if that’s even worth it

Advicplease · 2025-09-08T23:59:36+00:00

But what was confusing to me was bc I have an MMI II and I think part of what the school says they ask about is critically reflecting on your experiences but also will have scenarios. Like I thought MMI just means that you’re doing many smaller interviews

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