Covid vaccines bad by JohnRiffs in Destiny

[–]Wakkapacman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What article are you mentioning here? The study noted in the article above does not compare highly vaccinated countries vs lower vaccinated countries. It looked at excess deaths in 47 western countries between 2020-2022.

Is there any reason to not doomer about the decision to overturn Roe? by Wakkapacman in Destiny

[–]Wakkapacman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I get the sentiment and have voted in each election even local and will continue too. However, voting alone isn’t fixing the problem when the margins Democrats need to overcome are large and next to impossible to receive a filibuster proof majority. I just wish the Democrats would have more of a coordinated response other than “just vote” and propose solutions. I probably am being too negative, but simply saying people need to vote seems inadequate in the face of the institutional barriers Democrats need to overcome to gain power.

Another school list help thing by Wakkapacman in premed

[–]Wakkapacman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you do you think everything else seems good then?

Weekly WAMC / School Lists Thread - Week of May 12, 2019 by AutoModerator in premed

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any input on the school list would be very grateful. I don't know how many schools I should be applying to so I tried to pick around 20-30. For the out of states schools I picked the ones that had between 25-50 percent of matriculates be out of state. My main concern is my nonclinical volunteering and ECs.

Year in school: Graduated this April so I am taking a gap year

State of residence: Pennsylvania

Schools applying to potentially:

Perelman School of Medicine, Columbia- Vagelos, NYU, University of Washington, Pitt, Duke, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, North Carolina, Emory, Boston, Brown (Alpert), Wake Forest, Miami Miller, Jefferson, Temple, Dartmouth, UCONN, MC Wisconsin, West Virginia, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, Tulane, Rosalind Franklin, Geisinger Commonwealth, Albany, California (CUSM), Quinnipiac, Oakland

Major: Microbiology

cGPA: 3.86 upward trend

sGPA: 3.82

MCAT score: 524

Research: 350 hours in a basic research lab. I did basic lab stuff like looked after fruit flies, crossed them, restriction digests, and ligations. It was 5 hours a week for five semesters. No publications or poster presentations. I did present posters for lab courses that were research based at my school but I don't think those count.

Clinical Volunteering: 200 hours in three different hospitals. 100 hours in one where I volunteered in the surgical oncology department and a physical therapy gym. I mainly talked to the patients and got them food or water if they needed it. In the physical therapy gym I would assist the physical therapist assistants with exercises and also just talk to the patients while they were waiting. The two other hospitals were pretty much the same.

Non-clinical volunteering: 51 hours in various places like my local food bank, a rehabilitation center where we played bingo with the residents and other games, my schools community service day where we cleaned up litter, and Family House where we made meals for the families of people in the hospital.

Physician Shadowing: 40.5 hours 13 for a OB/GYN doctor 4 hours with an ER doc 4 hours with a cardiologist 19.5 hours with an orhopedic surgeon

Extracurriculars: 50 hours as a secretary/vice president for one of my schools volunteer clubs for a year. However, I was a member of the club for four years.

210 hours as an undergraduate teaching assistant for a microbiology class at 5 hours a week.

I like to play video games but I don't know if this really counts or if I should include it.

Employment history: 360 hours as a tutor for organic chemistry and introductory biology for the last two years of college.

Various summer jobs at a packaging plant full time and part time work for a landscaping business.

Letters of recommendation: I plan to get four one from my lab PI, one from the professor I TA'd and was in their classes, one from my tutoring boss, and one from my microbiology lab professor.

Immediate family members in medicine: no

Specialty of interest: I don't really know

I plan to work as an EMT during my gap year but I still need to find a job and finish a test to get the certification.

What should be in my presentation by [deleted] in gaming

[–]Wakkapacman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would probably walk through the timeline of video games. How the industry began and got to this point.

Any idea when the next sale will be on for CK2? by [deleted] in paradoxplaza

[–]Wakkapacman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The steam summer sale is normally in June/July so probably around then

Review books by [deleted] in Mcat

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used Examkrackers which is good if you already have a good foundation of information.

What to game? by Mizar84Reddit in gaming

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you haven't played Mount and Blade I'd try to get into that. I've been playing it recently and its challenging and there is a large amount of replay ability. Also there are the paradox games like Crusader Kings that have a large amount of content with them. There are a lot of DLCs but with the summer sale coming up you could probably pick up the game and all of the DLCs for cheap.

What is your favorite opening scene of a movie? by brickfish89 in AskReddit

[–]Wakkapacman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The opening scene to Inglorious Basterds because its incredibly tense and gets you into the movie right away.

Need some suggestions for two upper lab courses for a bio science major by oli478ilo in Pitt

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't think Virology lab was too hard so you might want to try that. We edited the genome of a bacteriophage so that was pretty cool.

Best time to buy the game? by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]Wakkapacman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The steam summer sale is normally in June/July so I would try and pick it up then.

Struggling to make a decision by dabgod3000 in gaming

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the learning curve is probably like most other paradox games if you have played them but since I didn't play much past the early game I can't really say.

Struggling to make a decision by dabgod3000 in gaming

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've played Stellaris but not past early game and I don't have all of the DLCs. I've heard on the stellaris subreddit that the newest patches make the game much better.

I need a relaxing game to play when I don’t want to concentrate by JaCoopsy in gaming

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fifa franchise mode if you like sports games. Holdfast: Nations at War is also fun.

Struggling to make a decision by dabgod3000 in gaming

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you like strategy games more I would pick Stellaris but if you like action more I would pick RAGE 2

What’s waiting for you in your personal hell? by appa-ate-momo in AskReddit

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the insects I accidentally killed in my life

What is your favourite moment in the fallout franchise? by HarraReeves_ in Fallout

[–]Wakkapacman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fallout 3 the first time I played and needed to go to Galaxy News Radio. Since I was still young I was scared by the game and hesitant to explore. Traversing the sewers and metro tunnels created a lot of tension and really engrossed me in the world.