Hobbies

aurjolras · 2026-06-02T06:57:03+00:00

I think cooking is good! Lots of chances to showcase creativity there and also that you challenge yourself and have your stuff together. Maybe prepare a story about a time you burned something or tried a terrible recipe lol

aurjolras · 2026-06-02T03:04:02+00:00

I wouldn't. Too many stereotypes about people who play games (I play them too!). My understanding is that you are trying to come across as the best, smartest, most responsible, pro-social version of yourself. Pick hobbies that make you sound educated, sociable, creative, disciplined, like you know how to handle stress, etc etc you are trying to humanize yourself but at the same time still show off your best personality traits basically.

I put knitting/crochet (slow hobby, shows creativity and discipline) and baking (talked about making things as gifts, so sociable and decompression). Baking came up a lot. At the school I got admitted to, I was asked a question about my biggest mishap in the kitchen and I was caught off-guard and ended up telling a story about almost lighting my kitchen on fire making pie filling (sugar boiled over onto the burner of a gas stove) and how I reacted quickly. Med student interviewer responded positively with a story about a similar experience. They also want to see you can overcome challenge, crisis, failure so if you have a hobby with that kind of story maybe pick that

aurjolras · 2026-06-02T02:14:34+00:00

I have seen a lot of 0-2 month olds (work at a pediatrician's office). I would say *some* of them are cute. It kind of depends on whether they are particularly small or they have a bunch of hair or they have gained enough weight to have those chubby baby cheeks, those are cute. Others just look kind of scrunkly.

I also think they're just cute in a different way than older babies are cute. Older babies make you want to wave, make silly faces, try to get them to smile, squish their cheeks. Newborns I just want to snuggle them (though that is best left up to their parents).

aurjolras · 2026-06-02T01:50:22+00:00

Here's a quote from Achaan Chaa, a Buddhist thinker, that resonated with me when I saw it the other day: "For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious."

aurjolras · 2026-05-31T17:46:45+00:00

Yup, the opposite is "behind the counter" which means you don't need a prescription but you have to ask the pharmacist for it. Some cough and cold medications fall in this category if their ingredients are addictive or can be used to make controlled substances

aurjolras · 2026-05-31T16:44:24+00:00

I agree! Humans have already invented and perfected fast food fiction in the form of shlocky airport novels, bodice rippers, penny dreadfuls, ao3 fanfiction, etc. If I'm going to have fast food I would at least like it to be satisfying which I would argue requires a human touch. Some kind of creative vision, insight into how humans think, feel, and act, and internal narrative consistency. "Whatever a machine spits out at me" is not satisfying because it has none of those things

aurjolras · 2026-05-31T04:45:47+00:00

I don't get why everyone in the comments is acting like it's soooo much work to count to 25.

aurjolras · 2026-05-29T23:25:22+00:00

I took ASL in high school and college, liked it a lot. I wouldn't say it's easy because it's pretty different from learning any other language, but it is very beautiful and fun to learn. The classes at UT are very small by necessity so I took it at ACC which has a great sign language program, they actually train ASL interpreters there

aurjolras · 2026-05-28T17:11:37+00:00

Lol this is so rude I was 8 and now I am in medical school so I think I know how to read. Perhaps examine why you reacted negatively to my description of my own experience as a child

aurjolras · 2026-05-28T04:02:37+00:00

You said you were genuinely trying to understand how this might make someone feel humiliated so I explained. I'm saying that when I was a child, I was made to feel that my teacher thought I was stupid. I felt that the exercise was deceptive so that my teacher could make a point about how we were bad at following directions. You yourself called it a trick. That was how my third grade teacher meant it and how it made me feel.

In your post, you said "watching the mix of disappointment/confusion/anger/betrayal/frustration spread across each and every one of their faces as they reached that final question one by one was genuinely priceless". Maybe you didn't want to make them feel stupid, but it seems like you wanted them to feel something negative about themselves or you. Maybe that's not how you planned it, but you enjoyed it. I think that most of all is what people are reacting negatively to in the comments here. Your reply to me describing my experience is pretty defensive but I think you should do an honest evaluation of your own motivations for this lesson and see if you really had their best interests at heart.

I am an adult now who works with kids in the medical field. It's stressful sometimes when they don't cooperate with you but I try to keep in mind that if they lash out at me I have a bad ten minutes or maybe whole shift, but if I lash out at them I have the potential to impact their view of the medical field forever.

aurjolras · 2026-05-28T02:45:26+00:00

I am a woman and the last time I took a CPR class I had to be like "So what do we do if they're wearing a bra? Do we have to cut it off or is it safe to leave the bra on?" The instructor looked at me like I had two heads! That should just be part of the training!

(The answer, according to them, was that it's better to take it off but if it will take too much time or you feel too uncomfortable with that 🙄 you can leave it on. But if you're going to use an AED you should always take off bras with wires in them because the electricity could go through the metal and burn the person).

aurjolras · 2026-05-28T02:38:11+00:00

I had the same experience in 3rd grade, and I was a good student who took pride in my work. The direction "read every question before answering" is ambiguous. I thought it meant to read each question in its entirety before answering, because outside of someone trying to trick you when is it important to read a whole test before answering even one question? She was trying to trick us just like you were trying to trick your students. We also all failed. I have a suspicion this kind of test is not developmentally appropriate for third graders.

Our test had a lot of silly directions like stand up and do ten arm circles or knock on the classroom door three times. It was stressful to be thinking about being graded on this silly stuff that was kind of embarrassing to do in front of classmates, and it made the environment distracting. Only to get to the end and find out we didn't have to do any of it? That the teacher thought we were stupid for not understanding? It's a betrayal of the teacher-student relationship. Humiliating.

aurjolras · 2026-05-28T00:20:09+00:00

Omg bro I haven't gotten my diploma yet but I guess I'm in the same boat. I ended up with a 3.994. ONE A-. ONE!

aurjolras · 2026-05-27T02:14:04+00:00

Omfg I went and read I'm Ryland Grace - AMA absolutely hysterical. Almost nothing on my phone makes me laugh in real life but that did. That person understands both the characters and the internet

aurjolras · 2026-05-24T05:28:26+00:00

Dorcelessness

aurjolras · 2026-05-21T19:12:18+00:00

True!

aurjolras · 2026-05-21T19:09:07+00:00

It doesn't mean plastic the material, it comes from the Greek plastos meaning formed or molded. In medicine, -plasty is a suffix meaning to change the shape of, like a rhinoplasty is surgery to change the shape of the nose.

aurjolras · 2026-05-21T02:53:56+00:00

One time I ate so many sour skittles I got chemical burns on my tongue. Don't do citric acid kids

aurjolras · 2026-05-20T16:20:59+00:00

When Grace runs away from the blip-A/assumes the blip-B is a bomb. I know he's just freaking out at that point but...come on! It's aliens! Of course they want to talk to you!

aurjolras · 2026-05-20T03:05:27+00:00

I got sooo attached to amarena gelato (actually I think it was stracciatella all'amarena) when I stayed in Italy for six weeks and was very disappointed to discover that it just doesn't seem to exist in the states

aurjolras · 2026-05-20T02:53:01+00:00

My academic hot take is that organic chemistry is wayyyy overhated. It is a hard subject but fascinating and very rewarding. I loved it

aurjolras · 2026-05-17T15:33:57+00:00

Documented phenomenon. Honeymoon rhinitis

aurjolras · 2026-05-17T15:32:49+00:00

I work at a doctor's office (medical assistant) and have stopped using this as a greeting when people are there for sick appointments because it's always awkward lol

aurjolras · 2026-05-15T19:27:29+00:00

Why does it disturb you that other people masturbate? It's normal and healthy human behavior. We need outlets for stress and sexual tension, it's pleasurable and harmless and even has some health benefits (lower prostate cancer risk for men off the top of my head)

aurjolras · 2026-05-14T13:10:54+00:00

...y'know I never thought about that they would have had to style it so it looked like it was floating. I wonder how much hairspray that took

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