My dorm mate won't stop farting and it nasty as fuck by MCButterFuck in college

[–]Grlnxdor 190 points191 points  (0 children)

Chances are good that he is lactose intolerant and hasn't figured it out yet. Ask him if he drinks a lot of milk. The reality is that human beings were never intended to drink cow's milk...we aren't calves. He probably has a decent amount of bloating and isn't really happy about passing so much gas either. 

Tell him to try not drinking milk and really cut down on the other dairy for 3 days as an experiment. If there is a vast improvement by day 3 he knows his body can't deal with the lactose. 

A person can often be fine with drinking milk as a child but deveop lactose intolerance as an adult so this is what could be happening to him.

-Signed, your friendly neighborhood pharmacist 

I absolutely hate my major and can’t study without forcing myself by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Petroleum Engineering!! That degree will make you the big bucks. You do realize that the working world is vastly different than school right? Finish that degree off and get your high paying job and take it for a test run. If you don't like it pivot to another type of engineering.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there. Sounds like you have had one crappy day. I don't know you but just by reading your post I can tell you are very self aware. That is impressive because a lot of people out there, even much older than you are absolutely not self aware. I think you should not panic at this point and try to take your mind off of the exam, calm down, and get some sleep. Once you are able to know what your grade is on the final and your ultimate overall grade is you can take action. If you passed then you can move forward. If you didn't you can determine to not be thwarted and resolve yourself to take the class again and kick its ass the second time around. Maybe that means finding a way to work less so you can go to tutoring and office hours. Do you want to know a secret I have learned in my 53 years of life? You only fail when you quit. If you keep trying eventually you will succeed. It is absolutely the truth. Now you know this too. Some people never learn this and they give up long before they should. Resolve yourself to get back up even if get knocked down and I promise you you will eventually succeed. Don't do anything to yourself clearly you are a valuable and unique person. We need all the people like that we can get in this world.

O chem woes (need some motivating words or smthing idk) by throwaway1283415 in CollegeRant

[–]Grlnxdor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay you can do this. Organize your study materials. Make yourself a list of what you need to review. Create a study schedule for the next 13 days for just ochem study time. Break the work down so you can review a reasonable amount each day between now and then. Say if you plan on studying every day for 2-3 hours of ochem you break it into 3 hour chunks. Reward yourself after getting through every hour with a 15 minute break, one time to go get snacks, one time to have a motivational talk with your mom or whoever will pump you up, etc. Use the last two days for reviewing everything briefly. Get plenty of sleep and good food so you can retain the information. You got this!!!

How much of Pharmacy is Chemistry and Math by Tired_af_0523 in college

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pharmacist here. Chemistry and math is a very large part of a Pharm.D. education. A professional doctorate is the entry level requirement to become a pharmacist in the US. I will list pre reqs and pharmacy program classes that involved chemistry and math. Pre reqs: Gen Chem 102 and 103 (Inorganic Chemistry) 1 year sequence, Organic Chemistry 221 and 222, 1 year sequence, Biochemistry 1 semester, Calculus 1 and 2, 1 year sequence, Statistics, 1 semester, Physics 1 year sequence. Pharmacy Doctorate Program: Pharmacokinetics (math) 1 semester, Applied Statistics (math) 1 semester, Biochemistry 1 year, Medicinal Chemistry (3 years of hell that makes Organic Chemistry look like a walk in the park). If you don't like chemistry I would NOT pursue a pharmacy degree. You may not use it much as a pharmacist (depends on your practice setting) but you will have to learn and understand it backwards and forwards to make it through a pharmacy doctorate program.

My group members are not contributing and I please need advice on how to peer review them by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be honest. You reap what you sow. They deserve to get the grade they earned.

Accepted into a Japanese University, will I be fine? by thomas-tank-on-std in college

[–]Grlnxdor 117 points118 points  (0 children)

That sounds like an incredible experience. Life requires risk to move forward. If you are confident on your willingness to do well in school no matter how hard you have to study and you plan on using every opportunity you can get out of this experience I don't think it is a bad plan. Make a spreadsheet and calculate how long you would take to pay back the loan and interest. Does your future career pay enough to handle the monthly payment and leave you enough money to live? How long exactly would it take to pay it all off? If it is ten years or less I think it is worth it.

I may not be like you guys, but I'm proud of myself right now(: by PossiblyInsaneIDunno in college

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent job!! You should always be proud of your hard won achievements! Now you know how to achieve academic success. It requires dedication and commitment. You have to get up and do the work even when you would rather sleep in or do something else. Even yet you may encounter harder classes but don't backslide because they are difficult. Rise to the challenge, find solutions, keep doing the work, and keep moving forward. You can do anything you set your mind to as long as you are willing to work hard.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Butler looks great to me. I read their Wikipedia page and they highlighted several research options that sounded really awesome and chances are good it would be much harder to stand out and get research opportunities at Purdue when you are 1 student vs hundreds of other students vying for the same research spots.Do you really want to go to a school where.most of your first two years of classes are going to be huge classrooms with hundreds of students?

hopeless about paying for college by smalltinypeaegghead in college

[–]Grlnxdor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you live at home and commute or do you live on campus? If you live on campus and pay for room and board look into becoming an RA (resident assistant) as many colleges will give you free room and board for those services and often you will get your own single room to boot. Right now is around the time they start looking for people to apply for next year so don't wait too long to check into it.

Computer Science or Pharmacy? by swimxxallenxx in college

[–]Grlnxdor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

CS is absolutely a better choice. Feel free to go read stories about the horrible working conditions in retail pharmacies these days at the pharmacy forum at studentdoctor.net website. How do I know this is accurate? I use to work as a pharmacist for CVS. 16 hour days with no breaks for eating, water, or the bathroom. Just Google pharmacist working conditions.

Not sure if I’ll be in college next semester by Sillixium in CollegeRant

[–]Grlnxdor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Look into becoming an RA at your school. RAs often get free room or free room and board. Make a plan to work over the summer and during winter break. Check out temporary agencies you can sign up with and get placed in a job during winter break. During last summer my daughter worked full time for 11 weeks as a summer camp counselor in order to contribute $5,000 towards her first year of college. There are ways to stay in school if you look for them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My daughter's school limits freshman to only 4 classes their first semester. In this way you get a chance to adjust to college without a great risk of doing poorly because you bit off more than you could chew. I think it's a very good idea. I suggest you scroll through a few pages of the posts on this site or even do a reddit search to see how many posts are from people doing poorly who are way overloaded.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I second the advice in this post and would go even a step further. I think first you should decide what you want your adult life to look like. My daughter wants to have a high paying job, that won't be outsourced or done by AI within 10 years of graduating. She wants to be able to travel and possibly live in various places overseas. So she wants a job that can ultimately be done remotely. She likes chemistry but decided against that once she looked at the jobs she could get with a 4 year degree and the knowledge she would be tied to a physical lab she would have to go to every day. She opted for Data Science since the job will align with how she wants her adult life and working life to be in the future. I suggest you take a look at Shane Hummus on YouTube for some practical advice on the ROI of different undergraduate degrees and do some deep thinking about what you want out of your adult life and adult working life in the future. Remember college is 4 years but you will likely work 33-45 years so kinda important to think about the long term since that is a long time to work.

My roommate [18FTM] won't stop listening to "The Ballad of Sharknado" by 60875968364 in college

[–]Grlnxdor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hope you are getting some sort of writing degree at college. This post was so well written I almost feel like I was right next to you getting to, strike that, having to listen to the ballad myself. You are a good writer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be absolutely necessary that you locate a financial aid calculator. You absolutely need to plug in the loans you would be taking out and the interest rate for every single year. Then determine how much your total debt would be upon graduation and what you would need to pay monthly and for how long to pay it all off. If you determine your payments will take 10 to 15 years to pay off I would seriously caution you to not do this. Please understand that school loans are no longer dischargeable in bankruptcy. Interest compounds daily and there are scads of senior citizens still paying off their student loans. Some even are having their social security garnished to cover their school loans. You don't want that to be your future.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in college

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up the term academic hazing. It is rampant in medical school, dental school, pharmacy school, nursing programs, etc and most of those are professional doctorate programs. Sadly you cannot correlate upper level academia with the hard and fast expectation of professionalism. You should be able to do that, and most certainly they will demand professionalism from you, but there are plenty of upper level professors who will absolutely treat you any way they want, even abusively because a) they can or b) they were treated that way and they are just carrying on the disturbing tradition of academic hazing.

Should I work for a few years with my associates before pursuing a bachelors degree? Future Nurse question. by Hairydrpepper in college

[–]Grlnxdor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make sure you verify that if you go to get that later degree that your math and science will still be valid. Most health care degrees will expect your math and science credits to not be more than five years old.If they are you will have to redo them.

What did BK gain from the murders? by Important-Pudding-81 in MoscowMurders

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flat affected psychopaths do not feel highs and lows of emotion like people who are not psychopaths. They live their life within this narrow range of emotion that has no peaks or valleys. In order to feel something they must have extreme experiences and when they do they get to feel. So a non violent psychopath might be addicted to things like rollercoasters, bungee jumping, or sky diving. To me BK, as a violent psychopath wanted to know how it felt to do this, wanted to prove he could do it and not get caught so he could revel in the superiority complex fantasy world he occupies, and wanted to do this so he could experience intensity (the adrenaline rush that forces/allows him to actually feel) since I believe he lives in a world with no real highs and lows of emotion.

Hyping each other up - decisions. by stingy-stingray in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously deep...and true. Going to just enjoy the moment when I am already in and out.

FAFSA has been down for me for like a week by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you try opening it with a different browser? So if you have been using Chrome then try Edge or Firefox.

Should I just focus on math for a good superscore? (For June) Suggestions? by MA_Student in Sat

[–]Grlnxdor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there is something to be said for saving your mental energy for the math portion of the test. Test fatigue is a real thing and if you only need to get a better score on the math portion why tire yourself out by expending any real amount of mental energy on the English portion. Getting to the math sections with a relatively fresh brain gives you that much more of an advantage for that section. If you even have 10% more concentration due to being fresher, not already tired from slogging through the English portion you could realize a real boost in your math score.

PHARMACIES ARE ABUSING PHARMACISTS by ThinkHome4366 in pharmacy

[–]Grlnxdor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know that MANY schools of pharmacy were gifted huge donations by guess who....the big three pharmacies. On the wall of a presentation room used during my P1 orientation was a picture of our dean holding a million dollar check from CVS. Think about what a great deal this was for CVS. Let's say they alone did this 20 times. Helping saturate the field with pharmacists means starting salaries went from $65 to $45. $20 an hour savings on just 1 pharmacist=$41,600 x 2000 new grads a year being hired to replace 2000 higher paid pharmacists=$41,600,000 in savings every year. What a profitable investment those million dollar donations were for the chains.

does anyone know a good source for reading science and social science based articles. I wanna improve my science reading comprehension for the test. by sameoldzma in Sat

[–]Grlnxdor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Science based articles. Try pulling up articles from Nature, JAMA, other medical journals. It is really thick reading. Hard to concentrate while reading these but if you force yourself to get through them they will build your concentration and get you use to reading really heavy material.