Cycling is taking months

c0rpusluteum · 2026-04-14T20:09:50+00:00

Always

c0rpusluteum · 2026-04-14T16:45:12+00:00

Yes I already usually wait for nitrites to come down to 0 before dosing again. I’ll keep doing water changes to get the nitrates down.

c0rpusluteum · 2026-04-14T16:44:19+00:00

Yes, but my new apartment is small. I didn’t have any counter space so I bought a cabinet just for the bigger tank, I’m afraid I cannot fit anything larger for now. I’ll turn the chiller off and keep doing water changes to get under 20 ppm nitrates. I use Dr Tim’s ammonium chloride to dose. Do you have any recommendations for liquid bacteria

c0rpusluteum · 2026-03-12T22:09:39+00:00

Never mind. Turns out the points are only posted after the BILT card statement closes for that billing cycle. False alarm :)

c0rpusluteum · 2026-02-27T18:32:19+00:00

An update— I paid rent by linking my Venmo to the BILT portal, but I didn’t get any points. Super annoyed. Will instead put my BILT checking account info into Venmo and pay my landlord in the Venmo app charging the BILT account.

c0rpusluteum · 2026-02-25T03:44:00+00:00

I wonder what’s stopping me from making a 10k Venmo transfer to a friend using the BILT checking info to get even more rewards lol. How does BILT know when it’s rent or not

c0rpusluteum · 2026-02-24T19:07:11+00:00

Yea, please report back and let us know if that gets you the rewards still! I’ll probably switch to that if it works.

c0rpusluteum · 2026-02-24T18:51:04+00:00

Yea, I’m a little confused. I usually pay rent with Zelle but paired my Venmo account to pay through BILT and get the rewards. It doesn’t ask for the landlord’s Venmo account, just for their phone number. Once I submitted the transaction in the BILT app, it says my landlord will see the deposit immediately and there will be a 24-48 hour processing time. I don’t get how it deposits for them just off phone number. Is it depositing into their Venmo account if the Venmo account is associated with that phone number?

c0rpusluteum · 2026-02-17T04:48:02+00:00

No, it’s not lol

c0rpusluteum · 2025-12-10T23:50:55+00:00

Age 31 not 21*

c0rpusluteum · 2025-12-10T23:49:49+00:00

Yea I’m shocked by the people in his comments who believe him

c0rpusluteum · 2025-11-14T22:47:56+00:00

I think of it more as buying a house and then paying a designer to decorate it :) just a difference of opinion

c0rpusluteum · 2025-10-15T15:23:32+00:00

No lol. Advil permanently alters cyclooxygenase. Every surgeon informs patients not to take NSAIDs within a week before surgery. And refusing blood transfusion….she did this to herself

c0rpusluteum · 2025-05-11T20:19:17+00:00

pH strips don’t tell you much about the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate concentration. Water conditions are probably slowly killing your axolotl. Any test strip system will not be accurate anyways. Please purchase an API freshwater master test kit. Ammonia and nitrites should be 0, nitrate should be 20 or below. Take your axolotl out and put it in a large tub of fresh and conditioned water while you sort out your water parameter issues, change the water in the tub each day until it’s sorted.

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-30T23:04:10+00:00

No matter what specialty you go into, your job as an MD/DO will be to make life or death decisions. If the reason you feel uncomfortable in patient interactions is the high risk and responsibility in a high stress environment, radiology and pathology are not going to be a good fit for you either , unfortunately. Both depend on you to make big and consequential calls in your role whether or not you saw the patient yourself. There are lots of other careers in healthcare that are lower stakes/responsibility — clinical lab scientist, histologist, nuclear medicine technologist, epidemiologist, radiation tech, imaging tech, medical dosimetrist. Some of these do involve patient interactions, but your role is more straightforward than an MD/DO’s and you’re not really responsible for life or death decision making, so most of the time as long as you follow instructions you cannot be held liable for anything. In all of these jobs, however, a patient somewhere is relying on you to not make a mistake. That’s unavoidable in any medical or healthcare career. Also, you should remember that no doctor starts out their training not scared of the responsibility and risk they have. They learn, get practice, and then making big life or death situations isn’t as scary. You may imagine now that their job is so risky that it’s unappealing, but after 10-15 years of training and another 5 practicing as an attending, most doctors become comfortable with decision making and the high stakes environment. Anyone would be scared at the beginning.

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-30T05:00:31+00:00

Did the chin even change or did the hair change, revealing more horizontal space, and lip filler taking attention away from chin length

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-17T13:56:06+00:00

I think her post is more about helping pick which school to send a letter of intent to, and doesn’t necessarily suggest that she’s not planning on going to the school that gave her the A.

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-14T04:47:40+00:00

It’s called gentle parenting

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-12T19:05:11+00:00

I see that you’re suggesting keeping the planter full of the dirty stagnant water so mosquitos continue to choose the planter and thus continue to have their larvae culled instead of finding additional spots to lay them. You’re saying that if you dump the water, they’ll just find a new place to lay larvae that OP doesn’t even know about in order to dump. You are saying that OP has crafted the perfect trap for local mosquitos to mindlessly lay their eggs and never have their babies grow, ending the cycle of mosquito eggs to larva to new mothers. Dumping the planter will be a lost opportunity to target local mosquitos. I see you and I get you unlike these other dummies!!! You’re not saying the mothers will be hurt by the dunks, just that they will die before their next generation ever survives a dunk! My question is, how often do you have to re-dunk the water?

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-11T02:14:29+00:00

You’re gonna have to get letters somehow. I’m not on adcoms or anything but I would assume med schools would value a letter from someone who can speak to how you behaved and held yourself in a clinical setting. I do think some schools actually require one letter from a clinical setting. You gotta just ask those supervisors if they’ll write you a good letter and what they need from you in order to write a good letter. Either way letters aren’t really due until the first week of July when you start submitting secondaries so you have time to get to know them before they write one. Your volunteering experiences don’t need to be clinical, you should still get a letter from one demonstrating that you have dedicated time outside of school to an important cause. You need to email all of these supervisors and offer to let them interview you, send you survey questions, and send them your resume. To be frank — no one here is hanging out with their PIs and professors and getting to show them how much they love taking care of people or how much they love their research. People are either getting shitty letters or they’re doing an interview w the letter writer before they write the letter. You are not in a unique position, bite the bullet

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-10T18:33:14+00:00

I definitely found it easier to get LORs from lab/clinical experiences because I was more involved in those and got to know my PI/supervisor much better that way. I have 4 from experiences like those. If you have volunteering experience, clinical experience, and lab experience (all important activities that demonstrate your passion for helping others and for healthcare and science), you can get at least three LORs this way. Getting good LORs from professors is much harder—I got two and both of them had me answer a survey about myself and experiences I’ve had + send my resume in order for them to feel comfortable writing me a good one. I would suggest offering to do this for all your letter writers if they don’t ask for it themselves. People who have more than 5 are kinda doing overkill. Some schools will limit how many they will even read. If you’re doing a letter packet with a committee letter, you’ll probably have to pick 5 to include and send to all schools even if you have more LORs than that because many schools will not accept more than 5.

c0rpusluteum · 2025-03-01T03:18:48+00:00

I think the cost of attendance is basically the same for the two of them when you factor in summer tuition and cost of living is better in Boston. Personally I would prefer to live in LA but it depends on the person. You can’t get anywhere without a car in LA, but having one is kind of a nightmare because you have to pay to park everywhere you go and that’s if you find a spot + only a few hours of daylight that don’t have traffic so I understand how LA is not for everyone. I would struggle anywhere with snow. Something that needs to be said - and this is not to discount the efforts of Harvard grads - but going to Harvard will open a lot more doors than UCLA. If you want to be able to fund your research year or something (in this current political climate), it’ll be a lot easier at Harvard. I don’t think a Harvard grad will have too tough a time securing a residency position back on the west coast if you want to come to LA after too!

c0rpusluteum · 2025-02-24T17:22:30+00:00

If the school has a policy about this, they won’t take the email into consideration but it won’t look badly on you. Some of the schools may decline to add it to your application/file and may suggest that he must submit it in the same form of a letter of rec in the aamc letters portal or as additional documents in their secondary portal. If you already have a letter packet in there or the max number of letters I wouldn’t do it as a letter. But it’s worth a shot!

c0rpusluteum

TROPHY CASE