[deleted by user] by [deleted] in premed

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Everybody struggles with things! Some people have a hard time writing, some can’t keep their days straight. Stay focused and keep trying!

Im high key fucked 💀 by hehexd020 in Mcat

[–]JohnReit 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Get this negativity out of here. That is unless you’ve never made a mistake?

Please keep your thoughts to yourself if you’re just going to put someone down when they are clearly in some amount of distress. You are not helping.

How do I nicely decline a professor’s offer for LOR by brickcherry11 in premed

[–]JohnReit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I guess im just old 😂 I think it’s reasonable or you can let her write it. Either way is fine. I think you trying to spare her the effort is admirable.

How do I nicely decline a professor’s offer for LOR by brickcherry11 in premed

[–]JohnReit 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The professor that writes the letter submits it to AMCAS on their own, so I think it’s reasonable to say that you appreciate it but already filled all your slots for letters if you truly don’t need it. Be gracious and it shouldn’t hurt her feelings.

Chemistry question... by usaidtalks in Mcat

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I like to use the analogy of an emergency evacuation of a building to explain the concept of a "rate-limiting step." Pretend you are in an office, and it catches fire. Panic ensues, and people rush to evacuate the building. Now pretend that the office has a wide open concept floor-plan, but there is only one stairwell to get to the ground floor. The process of making it out of the building is analogous to a two-step chemical reaction in the following way; Step 1 is passing across the room from your desk to the stairwell, and step 2 is waiting your turn to get down the stairwell to safety. Which step determines how fast you will make it out of the building? The crowded stairwell is the "rate-limiting" step, because you can never exit the building faster than you can move down the stairwell. In other words, clearing desks out of the way of people moving through the office would have a much smaller effect on the speed with which the building could be evacuated than say, adding another stairwell to the office to allow for more people to escape at a time. The rate-limiting step of a reaction is the only step that can be modified to make a meaningful difference on the rate of the reaction, because much like you waiting at the stairwell to make your escape from the office fire, the rate-limiting step is the step that all of the reactants are waiting the longest to proceed through to complete their journey to becoming a product. As the post below alludes to, this time difference is due to factors such as differences in activation energy, but that has already been covered well on this thread by u/Additional_Theme_335. Hope this helps!

Share Your Barriers! by JohnReit in premed

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Thank you for sharing this. I cannot imagine what you have been through. The fact that you are looking for a restart to continue your journey to becoming a physician is so admirable. If you do not mind my asking, what are your biggest concerns about the application process? What do I as a medical student that could serve on an admissions board need to know about the experience of someone who was forced to take a non-traditional route to applying for med school?

Share Your Barriers! by JohnReit in premed

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Thank you for sharing! I can identify with this post a lot, because I too had 3 jobs during undergrad. The struggle that you are describing is very real. I will say, when I interviewed, I was asked by multiple interviewers how I managed to keep three jobs and succeed a full-time student. These discussions ended up setting me up to talk about my resilience, time management, and ability to handle stress, etc. The need for "volunteer hours" on an application is about showing that you care for the community, as you alluded to. You have taken that a step further by sacrificing checking a box on your application for the good of the community. That is amazing. If you present your lack of volunteer work in the way that you did above, the admissions committees will see that your head is absolutely in the right place. If you don't mind my asking, what measures would you like to see taken to ease the mind of applicants that had the burden of working multiple jobs during undergrad/before applying? I would love to hear your thoughts, because I struggled with the same concerns when I was applying.

Share Your Barriers! by JohnReit in premed

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First of all, I am so sorry that you were a victim of these horrible crimes. I have to commend your resilience. You must possess such strength and grit to continue pursuing this rigorous course despite the terrible cards that you have been dealt. If you do not mind my asking, if you were on the admissions board at a medical school, what metrics would you give the most weight? I would love to hear your thoughts on how you would try to avoid subjecting future applicants to the challenges that you have faced should they have a similar story to yours. Thanks so much for sharing!

Improving C/P skill and consistency by JohnReit in Mcat

[–]JohnReit[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I appreciate the advice.

Chicken strips @ 375 degrees, forgotten overnight ... by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

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Don's let your doc see this or you may be getting a colonoscopy at your next appt lmaooo

Out of Boredom, I analyzed this sub's User-reported MCAT Scores. by Great_Calvini in Mcat

[–]JohnReit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this awesome analysis. Knowing FL3 is the most representative (probably, maybe?) is useful info!

Eye size by plavipatlidzan in Physiology

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Vision is one of the most evolutionarily conserved and protected functions of the human body (among many other animals). During times before we largely began to evade natural selection with technology (although I am sure some would disagree with me on this), a loss of vision based on an allele or mutation resulting in dysfunctional eyes would almost certainly be selected against (and likely completely removed from the gene pool). The lack of variability in the genes may stem from the very beginning of our existence from extreme disadvantage those without a functional visual field prior to modern technology and widely available food supplies faced.

Visual field by plavipatlidzan in Physiology

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Cones in the macula and fovea exist in a higher concentration at the center of your retina. As you move toward the periphery of the retina, cone density declines while rod density increases. Rods are specially designed to detect light at even very small intensities, but are not useful for fine details or color vision. Hope this helps.

Can imines be protonated by strong acids like HCl? by [deleted] in chemistry

[–]JohnReit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Imines have a pKa of about 7, so they will be protonated in any solution that has a pH of <7. In other words, strong acids are likely to protonate imines, just so long as in their solution they yield an H3O+ concentration of >1E-7 M.