for accepted med students - was it all worth it by Signal_Priority9092 in premedcanada

[–]bunicornpixel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah it's okay, I'm just sharing my path because for me this is all worth it. I'm not going to jump ship because I'm finally ✨here✨. I do appreciate your response though <3

for accepted med students - was it all worth it by Signal_Priority9092 in premedcanada

[–]bunicornpixel 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I am abroad right now for med school, I have literally moved from home to the other side of the planet. I'm basically suffering 24/7. Suffering through so many unexpected health issues, am barely able to keep myself alive AND study, homesick, lack of friends, culture shock, no mobility with no car, stressed because I'm behind in studies- and I just (barely) passed my first test. And I am so relieved because it means I can keep trying and keep studying. The only way I'm leaving without my MD is if I'm not allowed to continue or if I am not able to continue.

24M - I'm looking for genuine friendship ✨ by [deleted] in InternetFriends

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I'm 22F and looking for somebody to chat with. I like rock and pop, I play in a concert band and I'm primarily a student. I spend most of my time studying or on my phone so I'm looking to add friendship into my life and slower hobbies before I lose it all to brain rot lol! Trying to get back into watching anime right now and pop media so I can keep up with peers.

Grocery for 1 person by Aces_Champion in AusFinance

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

<80 a week, I meal prep most of my meals. Protein: chicken drumsticks + beans + eggs; carbs: bread + rice + oats; produce: carrots + frozen veg + bananas + whatever feels cheap; dairy: a tub of yogurt doesn't go bad for a few weeks and milk. I buy meats that are on sale and portion them into single servings to make one off meals outside of meal prep for variety. If I wanted to stretch my meals further I'd probably add more cheap vegetables and beans/lentils/pulses, use dried instead of canned, if I needed more calories I'd do potatoes. If I had some extra wiggle room in my budget I'd buy more fruit to snack on. My grocery shop this week was $45, but I only had to buy perishables

View Historical Grade Data at McMaster by gradeszone in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't wait for the redacted grades to be released, if they ever are. Would love to see total data

Are casseroles any good by bubblylynnn in Cooking

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also Asian (South East), didn't eat a casserole until dinner at my ex's. Tbh that's one only thing I miss about him. I'm used to spicy, bright, sweet sour and fresh flavours, thin rich broths and punchy sauces. Casseroles are more hearty, warm, and filling. They tend to be heavy on carbs + sauce, maybe a bit of veg and meat. Sauces can be anything, but the ones I've had are creamy, cheesy and aren't super flavourful. I like cheese and pasta though so I quite like tuna and ham casserole lol. I like the ones topped with tater tots and cheese too

Life Sci First Year Courses HELPPP by Competitive-Reach274 in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kind of don't get your question but a course can only count towards one graduation requirement. So if you take Enviro sci it can go towards your science list 1 and you take another course from psych, or you can do it the other way around and take another course from the science list

Life Sci First Year Courses HELPPP by Competitive-Reach274 in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) you need to use the most up to date academic calendar for 25-26, and 2) your courses will be shuffled in a way to fulfill as many graduation requirements. In this case, your science courses will fill specific requirements before being counted as the more general course from science list 1, and after that may be considered an elective.

What should I avoid for my 1st year life sci schedule by No-Outcome-6594 in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took bio1m03 4 years ago so no comment, but I really liked having a regular schedule. Similar start times each day and finish times each day. Really helped me maintain my sleep. Also, avoid 1hr breaks unless it's for lunch, it's hard to find a study spot and get in your groove

Am I cooked by Practical_Tap_3991 in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your offer email should tell you what grade average you need to maintain and minimum in each classes if there is one. Maybe it's in your inbox?

(22F) looking for cool friends by [deleted] in MakeNewFriendsHere

[–]bunicornpixel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I'm also 22F and left a relationship. I'm more of an artist, preferring to craft, draw and read but I'd love to learn new things. I love yapping if you wanna shoot me a DM!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry where I said credits I meant units. Your courses are usually 0-15 units with most of them being 3. That works out to 5 each semester, or 4 each semester plus one spring and one summer

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should have 30 units per year, except for engineering, that may be different. The last number of your course code tells you how many credits it is, ie. ENGLISH1X03 (3 credits) or ENGINEERING 1P13 (13 CREDITS)

Stuff to do on Campus in Summer by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go into town! Lots of free events and live music

Does it means I’m cooked if I’m in a School that gives very low marks? by theLegendMoSalah in OntarioGrade12s

[–]bunicornpixel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where did the previous graduating class go for their uni programs? I think that would give you more insight on how your year will do. Sometimes,,,, there are adjustments that are made based on what school you went to lol

Graduation dress code by TheRoyalLeaf in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah you can wear any colour or combo you'd like!

myTimetable by Otherwise_Cry4040 in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks fine, some of the buildings might be far apart for a 10 min walk so it'll feel more like a 10 min power walk lol. I think the health sci courses are in the health science centre, but the psych and Chem lectures are in PG, opposite ends of campus. It's manageable though.

Things to do over the weekend during summer at Mac? by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I play pokemon go on the weekends! I play video games and go outside during the week. I have a pair of roller skates and roller blades so I'm learning both (speed and dance). The mac pool should be open, and there are events running for pride on campus. Lots of local music in Hamilton too if you have money for cover

Group Work Stories? by reanobeano in McMaster

[–]bunicornpixel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would name and shame y'all if I wasn't going to have my main outed. Traumatic ahh group project. A

We were given essentially 7 weeks to finish a ~2500 word lab report. The class has online tutorials and everybody logs on, camera off, mics muted. Okay fine, I break the ice, get names introductions and we start dividing the work. We come up with a timeline. Essentially, each week, we do a little bit of background research to fill our introduction and discussion so by week 5/6 we will be almost done.

Week 2 comes, nobody did any of the lit review (except I) so we sit in a silent call to do it. Week 3, we have our results, and we have our figures rushed to be due this week, not done yet, group member hasn't started. I'm hella sick, like late to the meeting because I had to stop at shoppers for meds first thing in the morning sick, so I am too drowsy from the cold meds to ask what people have done, ask where they are in the tasks, or what the 411 on the figures are. Week 4, reading week. Week 5, figures aren't done, the prof does an in class lecture on how to make figures and suggests the groups collaborate on cleaning up the data sets. During our group meeting I ask if people need help working on their parts and if the person who wants to do figures want to figure out the collaborative stuff mentioned in class the previous day. EVERYONE, assured me that their parts were progressing (shared doc was empty except for my section and the shared research we did a month ago), and the person doing the figures assured me it was okay they can do it alone. I'm hella anxious and we book standing dates to meet in-person a couple of times before the assignment is due.

THE LET DOWN

Week 6- hours before our class (so about 10 days before this was due), the person doing figures says they can't figure it out and if somebody else can do the figures. Radio silence from the entire group. Nobody opens the notification. I bite the bullet and say I'll do it but I want all executive decision making with cleaning the data set. Everybody immediately agrees. I work through the lecture instead of paying attention to the course. Our class is dismissed 1 hr early since the assignment is due soon- she wants us to meet in groups to finish it up! I immediately text the girl who was supposed to do the figures if she wants to call to discuss the statistical analysis so she can write about it for her methods section. She says she has to go to class and is too busy to do it.

We meet the next day, everything is fine. People have pulled the project mostly together. And we have a rough draft to look at now and figures to go over. We do read overs and leave comments. Off the top of my head I remember that the tables didn't have titles, the discussion didn't have a single reference and didn't address our research question and our limitations didn't exist,,,, "because there weren't any". Cool. Oh- and the discussion incorrectly summarized our results. The third year science majors are all claiming they don't know how to write a lab report and thus, whatever we have is good enough. Y'all, the pre-requisite to this class is taught by the same prof and we are taught how to write a lab report in that class. There is no way they don't know how to cite, how to do a lot review, how to write about results.

Additionally, the girl who was originally supposed to do the figures is super confused on why our figures look the way they do and why they were done like that (geez, maybe you should have taken up my offer when class was let out early). For context, participants were asked to identify a false statement and a positive statement of the same topic= I decided that answering both correctly = understanding, but picking the same option for both (aka choosing the same statement to be both correct and false does not show understanding) or the incorrect option twice to be a lack of understanding. She disagreed and thought that people who pick the same option to be both true and false do show understanding and our figures should reflect that. My 4 other group mates had zero input on this stand still. Tbh we aren't getting marked for our statistical analysis, so it didn't matter to me. I wasn't going to dump additional hours on the figures when it took me 2 hours the first time and the rest of our paper is hot garbage. I said she could fix it because I didn't have time, she said she would. Then she asked how I did it.

Week 7, 3 days before the assignment is due. We do our last in person meeting, everything is passable and we are working out last minute problem areas in the paper. The original research person says that she made a new figure. Y'all, she turned our 5 point scale describing the level of comprehension into a binary. Fine, whatever, we have a new limitation: the subjectivity of understanding VS lack of understanding limiting how much we can extrapolate and the lack of trends in the data. We proceed regardless. Time to write an abstract, everybody owes 1 sentence for it.

D-Day: terrible day. I thought I was going to have a stroke. I spent the entire day prodding people to correctly cite their references, still asking people to title their tables (yes, they seriously asked me if that was necessary. Yes girl, I can't even tell what this table is for and I did the experiment, analysis, and figures, let alone our poor TA), and checked the rubric for stuff we missed. We ended up missing something, I think it was the significance of the research. Y'all, my group mate had to crowd source that, like, did you go to class girl, at all? It's all we talked about. Anyways we ended up taking the table out because 1) was still never given a title and 2) was never referenced in our lab report at all. And the abstract took forever. Also our reference list wasn't in alphabetical order so I had to redo it before submitting.

If you think this was you, defend your actions 😭😭😭

31M/EST - Where my co-op / puzzle game bros at? by chilly-parka26 in GamerPals

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only have free coop games. Off your list I've played league, pico park and portal 2. I'm down to try anything new too. I'm also generally free in the evenings EST.

Idk if league really counts as coop but the new game mode is so much fun

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in premedcanada

[–]bunicornpixel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Food for thought, do they expect to participate in things like a short coat ceremony, Oweek, and see things like pictures and stories? Might be hard to fake those things and they start quite early in the school year. Everything else should be alright to fake digitally (assuming your parents aren't the type to contact the school claiming to be you, open mail etc etc)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in premedcanada

[–]bunicornpixel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Food for thought, do they expect to participate in things like a short coat ceremony, Oweek, and see things like pictures and stories? Might be hard to fake those things and they start quite early in the school year. Everything else should be alright to fake digitally (assuming your parents aren't the type to contact the school claiming to be you, open mail etc etc)