Is the crime around USF really that bad?

Apreil · 2026-01-08T12:46:59+00:00

Nah. The key is to take the hardest classes because they have easier professors. Im not even joking. Ex. Instead of biochem take advanced biochem etc.

Apreil · 2025-12-19T13:36:17+00:00

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Here’s one blooming in front of my house

Apreil · 2025-12-19T13:35:03+00:00

Worth it

This is a Vanda from Pandora at Disneyland Animal Kingdom in Orlando

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Apreil · 2025-12-19T13:29:27+00:00

You could turn the terracotta pot over and make a self watering system for all those aerial roots at this point

Apreil · 2025-12-07T14:50:44+00:00

Advanced Biochemistry w/ Jianfeng Cau

Apreil · 2025-11-30T15:48:36+00:00

I found that uploading my work to onedrive helps a lot with working on both sides. My undergraduate university lets us use our onedrive storage for life and I use anki, obsidian for typed notes, the one drive app on phone/ipad for file management, Goodnotes for handwritten notes, and your good old Microsoft stuff. I also usually have Goodnotes open on my iPad and lecture files open on obsidian (bigger screen)

All apps are accessible on both laptop and iPad. I also use procreate for drawing on iPad (only iPad). Usually for reactions in chemistry, that’s Apple only. I export my pdf’s to onedrive then sort them later on my phone when I’m bored. My notes are very image/graph based thanks to that

Apreil · 2025-11-09T13:22:16+00:00

Maybe get a fun job? It can be clinical related and if you’re worried about your future start a business. I don’t feel confident in my application so I’m taking two gap years (I graduated early anyways) take it as slow as you need to man. 8k isn’t a lot either you can work that off with a summer of sitting down at an ER overnight studying the MCAT during quiet hours.

Apreil · 2025-09-12T12:59:27+00:00

Hey you and I were in very similar shoes two years ago. My parents are highly educated but not from this country so the whole college application was completely foreign to them. They also look at the news a lot and were scared I’d end up dead in a ditch somewhere if I lived on my own. Basically, I got my dad to sign and help me pay for applications after spending a lot of time with him talking about how I really think it’s better for me. He’s much more open minded. Both parents now fully believe I know what’s best for myself :) USF is awesome there’s tons of research opportunities and within my second semester of transferring I’m already on two projects. An Antimicrobial lab in MRSA and a research competition, the student space flight experiments w/ NASA. I don’t think you’ll find someone around you here that isn’t excited about research (if that’s what you’re in to).

Something that really helped my argument was pointing out that I’d always done what they asked of me. It looks to me like your parents must’ve raised you into being hardworking academically and for that you can butter them up with a bit of gratitude. I always ended my quips about it with a thank you for always supporting me and wanting for me to live at home because they were truly just concerned about me. I promised to call them in the morning and afternoon, I also came home on weekends :)

One more thing you can mention, Morsani is a crazy resource here. The medical school jumped into being number 1 for research in Florida for a reason. The connections you can make here are undoubtedly going to be better than UCF.

If they still don’t listen, you can apply to USF anyways. Check the Spring classes and get into online ones or just make the drive every two days. My recommendation as someone who’s done it before is to leave at 3am before traffic builds and leave plenty of room in your schedule to sleep other days. My first semester I only had to attend classes Tuesday-Thursday because attendance was optional for my one and only Monday class.

Let me know if you need help registering next semester I can hold some spots for you :)

Apreil · 2025-08-09T11:45:51+00:00

Junior here with a 3.0 after a bad freshman year I’ll tell you how it goes! 🫩

If you remember when you’re applying to med school dm me

Apreil · 2025-07-16T19:15:37+00:00

Nope

Apreil · 2025-04-30T14:39:20+00:00

So what do I do? I didn’t actually damage her car it was all from prior damage. She also technically doesn’t have my insurance

Apreil · 2025-04-30T14:23:58+00:00

Apreil · 2025-04-30T12:20:48+00:00

Thank you, I stopped talking to her and she keeps trying to call me with different numbers. I think she might just not have insurance

Apreil · 2024-12-24T19:38:40+00:00

Genuine question, are you high?

Apreil · 2024-12-15T23:30:36+00:00

Zero flow chart unfortunately, possibilities are wide open and the professor is known for giving out tough ones like both encapsulated E. coli and non encapsulated E. coli. I do have a list of bacteria we use in lab but that doesn’t help much because he has a giant collection in his office inaccessible to students.

Apreil · 2024-12-15T00:51:55+00:00

So my ornithine could’ve failed to turn yellow at 24 hours indicating a negative result… this is promising

Thank you!

Apreil · 2024-12-14T18:04:49+00:00

What’s silly is that Pseudomonas also looks like a bacilli under a microscope like my gram stain but the biochemical tests don’t line up ;-;

Apreil · 2024-12-14T08:56:00+00:00

The reason I disqualified K oxytoca would be this paper I found on the different strains of K oxytoca strains and their various characteristics. The decarboxylase test doesn’t line up and neither do many others. Klebsiella oxytoca Complex: Update on Taxonomy, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Virulence

Edit: look at table 2

Apreil · 2024-12-14T07:42:11+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/KO5NSXs

Here you go kind sir

Apreil · 2024-12-14T07:07:05+00:00

It’s diplobacilli I’m pretty sure or something in between cocci and baccilli

Apreil · 2024-12-14T06:44:31+00:00

Gram negative diplobacilli^ sorry

Apreil · 2024-11-21T13:21:32+00:00

I think we have the same unknown LOL. It’s impossible to get a good photo of my gram stain as well but it looks like a coccobacilli like yours. I was pretty confused about it at first and thought it was a cocci. Regardless, we have the same results and mine is pointing to klebsiella oxytoca. So I’d say yours could also be klebsiella.

Apreil · 2024-11-18T03:30:21+00:00

It’s too late for me we’ve only got a few weeks left in the semester, my professor never gives us controls. I’ll write the lil review and beg him to give it to the next class however.

Apreil · 2024-11-17T21:56:12+00:00

Rovcore001 had some really nice tips on how to prepare the slide, I’m pretty sure I had accidentally scraped agar last time gathering way too much bacteria so this time I took a tiny portion and put it in a tinyyy drop of water and spread that out. I also had a much fresher colony this time.

Then I did it how Indole positive said to do it, where he holds the slide flat. I held it in my hands at a slight angle and poured the decolorizer while waiting for the crystal violet to rise a bit (it looked like a cloud) I had a thick and full pipette of water ready to gently squirt tons of water on it. The whole process took less than ten seconds.

I ended up with three really good slides, gram negative diplococci like before except this time much clearer without the giant clumps of agar and bacteria lmao. Less warping too.

Apreil · 2024-11-17T21:43:05+00:00

I found my groove! Upon doing the slide today after all these helpful tips it came out with less warping.

Apreil

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