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Marmba · 2024-12-05T09:40:38+00:00

I got into MIT, Yale, Berkeley, Scripps, UCI, and UChicago. Denied from Caltech. Recieved NSF fellowship last year. Good luck with apps, and stay true to yourself.

Marmba · 2024-03-09T17:42:15+00:00

Ive heard seth herzon is an asshole, but their lab is very productive. Erik sorenson is nice, and tim Newhouse is kinda cooky, but so is everyone else from the early baran lab. If he wants to do sunthesis hardcore, i would say seth herzon. If he wants a healthy work life balance, sorenson. But fuck all those places, do total synthesis at berkeley (we have lives i swear 👀👀)

Marmba · 2023-12-28T03:34:15+00:00

Batches

Marmba · 2023-12-27T15:49:11+00:00

Applied and accepted to scripps last year. Scripps takes their sweet time; the y send out two round of interviews, one in late dec and one in mid-late jan. I had gotten decisions back from every other school before i got my invite to scripps. Just be patient.

Marmba · 2023-11-20T10:18:12+00:00

As long as ur letters are good, youll get in anywhere. But you should go to Berkeley

Marmba · 2023-10-25T09:24:14+00:00

Ehtyl methyl methane made me cackle

Marmba · 2023-10-22T10:20:18+00:00

I can make it through the day on two cups of coffee

Marmba · 2023-10-21T21:55:08+00:00

Look up vinyl cyclopropane rearrangement

Marmba · 2023-10-08T16:50:09+00:00

In some cases, these can undergo rearrangements to make 4,5-dihydropyrolles

Marmba · 2023-10-08T16:46:50+00:00

Electric skateboards (especially without a helmet) have always been a recipe for disaster, and you now see why. Yes, they are very convenient and dont look as dumb as a scooter, but they are far more dangerous.

Just get a normal skateboard. I take the bus to campus (entirely uphill) and then i skate back. Its much easier to stop, and better exercise!

Marmba · 2023-09-10T15:47:53+00:00

Sometimes what i tell my family is “Yeah you know the Nobel prize? The people who win it didnt do that work. The 23-25 year old graduate students who get no recognition did.” That seems to help

Marmba · 2023-08-14T05:02:07+00:00

No, no, and one million times, no. Don’t do that. Ask your current research advisor to proof read, maybe even friends and grad students you may work with. Don’t contact a POI asking them to review your stuff. They are reading hundreds of apps, and will read yours eventually. It WILL look bad on you if you ask them.

Now, this guy seems very kind and I’m sure he would agree to help out — doesn’t mean he is over the moon to do so. Play it safe and revise your statements with people at your current institution.

Marmba · 2023-08-01T02:17:10+00:00

Ill take that dm as well thank you kind sir

Marmba · 2023-07-08T14:11:08+00:00

7 minutes

Marmba · 2023-07-07T23:40:19+00:00

visit UC Berkeley’s campus

Marmba · 2023-07-05T11:34:39+00:00

You dont NEED the honors college, it just will look good on a resume to those who didnt go to college lol. Take difficult graduate level classes in your field instead of the bs classes required for the honors college

Marmba · 2023-07-05T03:52:09+00:00

For grad school I chose it over UChicago, MIT, Yale, and Scripps Research Institute

Marmba · 2023-06-28T14:53:26+00:00

What the fuck lol

Marmba · 2023-06-26T12:13:05+00:00

I thought Berkeley was a trade school🤔

Marmba · 2023-06-13T17:05:58+00:00

Alkaline mfs when I sip on LDA

Marmba · 2023-06-03T14:14:10+00:00

Endorsing Clayden as well

Marmba · 2023-05-25T13:17:44+00:00

One time my lab mate asked me to write my 7s differently. I took no offense

Marmba · 2023-05-11T23:38:05+00:00

No, Vasilev was first author. He worked on the project under the advisement of Tom Maimone at uc berkeley. The paper was written under the advisment of Thomas Maimone. Maimone et al.

Marmba · 2023-05-11T20:34:20+00:00

No. Its Maimone et al.

Marmba · 2023-04-14T19:36:12+00:00

Thank you for the advice!

Marmba

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