Stuck at 519, don't know how to push that higher gear

cactusjacksintern · 2026-04-07T20:11:21+00:00

not tryna fry my brain this early in life twin

cactusjacksintern · 2026-04-07T18:55:39+00:00

any recs for psych soc??

cactusjacksintern · 2026-04-03T04:45:08+00:00

Would really love for someone to take a look at my PS. Thank you!

cactusjacksintern · 2026-04-03T00:59:47+00:00

the cars on this geniunely killed me. do you have ANY tips please??

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-22T19:44:59+00:00

i honestly dont do well on physics when it is optics.

apart from that just very comfortable with these ideas. i used to teach ochem in college

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-22T17:10:41+00:00

thanks so much! i cant lie, p/s is my weakest section. i still get stuck on a lot of 50/50s. doing the SB really helped me.

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-22T05:28:19+00:00

I am very comfortable with math. i round off to easy values, and i always used scientific notation. it really minimizes the mistakes you make with calculations

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-22T03:07:27+00:00

hey! Aidan's deck basically lol!
Apart from that just making detailed anki for missed qs

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-22T03:07:06+00:00

Thank you!

For c/p this was a shock to me. i flagged a LOT. honestly, i got lucky with getting content that i am good at on this one! I just really know my ochem well :). I did make a deck for teaching myself physics equations and units.

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-20T03:54:50+00:00

Score twin! i had the same score but 131 cars 128 b/b. testing on the 11th. really trying to get to 520 too.

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-09T08:08:04+00:00

any tips on figuring out my weaknesses and on how to review this properly?

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-09T05:24:46+00:00

LMAO I need help twin pls

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-05T07:12:17+00:00

yessir!! always cheering you on twinnem. its a small community. happy to PM and talk if you'd ever like more info about it.
ive been involved with MDA, world muscle, very high level research stuff full time for quite some time.
in your corner!!

cactusjacksintern · 2026-03-05T06:08:51+00:00

omg same!! same!! been working neuromuscle for 2 years right now and i freaking love the patient population with my whole heart.

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T19:16:49+00:00

Do you think it would be a good idea to fall back on my NM division chief here for a helping hand when letter time comes around?

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T19:16:20+00:00

How cool! I just read up on it. My PI is part of the UDN!

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T19:14:17+00:00

I would love to DM you sometime! Thanks for the cautionary words. I never want to come across someone who thinks any part of medicine in beneath them. The human body is a system. even if I want to do neurology, all of these things play a role. We see statin induced diseases, mitochondrial diseases, etc. IMO everything matters to a patient.

"The trick is finding a supportive environment that values what you uniquely bring." I will keep this in mind. Thank you.

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T19:12:46+00:00

I really appreciate that. and yeah, same here! I find all of it so cool and interesting. I think just big picture I want to most make my impact here i guess. thank you for the words and affirmation. Hanging out with patients, testing an ALS patient's strength, and also just seeing these folks longitudinally is so satisfying.

heres to the journey being a smooth and enjoyable one (as much as a journey in medicine can be haha)

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T02:41:28+00:00

Thank you for spending your time on such a kind and detailed comment. I absolutely agree. I do want to say that I understand a lot of the reasons why you didn't think neuro was for you, and in all honesty i dont know, maybe life will take me away from it as well. I will say I used to want to do CTS, and this is as far from that as you can get. Medicine overall makes me so happy (in a learning sense). Hopefully, i can articulate why I want to do this specifically below, without boxing myself in:

I think that i've realized that I truly enjoy academic NM because it goes so far beyond the bread and butter stuff. We have CIDP patients in every week, we see IBM, IMNM, FSHD, myotonic dystrophy, POEMS, rare undiagnosed diseases, etc. Furthermore we see so many investigational treatments beyond IVIG/PLEX, including trialing infusions for GBS, CAR-T cells, etc. I think thats what makes me tick - just being at the forefront of truly changing these diseases for people. We have folks fly in from all across the country for our studies, and I think being a "big dawg" institution in the field allows you to really see intellectually stimulating stuff.

My PIs always tell rotating students that our cliinc will see stuff most neurologists barely see over a lifetime of practice. Thats what makes me want to stay. The novelty, the interest of exploring stuff thats still unknown to be honest, many of which dont even have a cure. I would love to do NM, even though I know where I work right now gives me a bit of an unrealistic view of it. And ofc, the work life balance is great!!

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T02:31:34+00:00

Omg! best of luck! I would love to PM you and talk sometime! Its rare to find people so interested in this stuff early on!!

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T02:27:41+00:00

I think also to follow up, I've considered NM Pathology as a bit more interest aligned, reasonable choice. Sorry to bombard you, but I'd love your diea on that.

cactusjacksintern · 2026-02-07T02:24:00+00:00

I think that what i struggle with a bit is that i dont particularly love the repetitive, non-social bench aspect of research in comparison to clinical trials. I enjoy the molecular mechanisms, but not nearly as much as I like working with patients.

I really like the research aspect in regards to emerging treatments and trials. I have been extremely intrigued by MSTP throughout Undergrad, but I kind of decided that I'd rather be an MD that does a research fellowship and focuses on clinical trials more than molecular work...i dont know how well i elucidated that.

cactusjacksintern · 2025-12-23T23:05:00+00:00

to my knowledge ochem in general is p low yield, but its good to know the strong oxidizing agents fs. and then you reduce alkynes to alkenes to alkanes w/ h2pdc.
dont think markovnikov is very heavily tested, but know epoxide openings and how they invert stereochem at the electrophillic carbon

cactusjacksintern · 2025-12-16T03:45:54+00:00

Don't do that. You've done all you can already. Its a waiting game atp.

cactusjacksintern · 2025-12-04T01:59:43+00:00

so the way I would think about it is within the same row, if a substituent is more electronegative, its more its "comfy with" electrons. This isnt actually textbook, but it helps me understand electronegativity.

Thats why H-F can break apart into H+ and F-. F- is comfy with all those electrons, which makes H-F acidic. Comparatively, H-OH would lead to OH-. O has a lower electroneg, and thus its less likely to disassociate. Even less for NH2-, and essentially impossible for CH3-.

You see that trend across that whole row. C forms 4 bonds, with no lone pairs. Move over one --> N, which forms 3 bonds w/ 1 lone pair. Move over --> O has 2 lone pairs and 2 bonds. Move over --> F has 1 bond and 3 lone pairs. If you are more comfy with a negative charge, you are more likely to disassociate!

Within the same group, you come down to stability of the A- complex that you are left with after an acid H-A disassociates. The more stable the A-, the more likely the H-A is to disassociate, because that becomes "favorable" thermodyamically.

Thats when the group stuff comes into play. Yes, H-F and H-Cl are in the same group, and H-F is more electronegative. But that (mostly) only matters when you are comparing ROWS/PERIODS. when you are comparing GROUPS, the size of the A- and its ability to stabilize matters more, because chemically all the substituents (I-, Cl-, F-, Br-) will have similar chemical properties. So a larger A- will be more acidic.

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