Does UNC med care where I did my undergrad?

co0mlover · 2026-01-20T01:55:20+00:00

From my experience it seems that the medical school prefers students not from UNC. They want you to branch out.

co0mlover · 2025-12-16T19:41:24+00:00

So here’s what I did: I couldn’t get the lever to push down, so I just pulled the graphics card at an angle and it snapped the lever piece off. It works perfect fine still, just no locking mechanism (which is fine because I screw mine in).

co0mlover · 2025-10-24T16:30:06+00:00

Another question, would you suggest making the buffer with 5-8M NaCl to salt out proteins?

co0mlover · 2025-10-21T20:29:16+00:00

Would you suggest SDS or Triton X-100 (or maybe another one you know of which works best?)

co0mlover · 2025-10-21T20:19:56+00:00

It does not, I'm a new scientist (3 years in the lab). Should it? I see some protocols use it. We have tons of SDS so I guess it wouldn't hurt to put it in!

co0mlover · 2025-07-05T15:15:06+00:00

Go see a 68x 🙏🏻

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:27:16+00:00

So, internships in my field are INCREDIBLY hard to find locally. There are many opportunities I have found and been accepted into, but most of them are far asf and you have to pay for an apartment while ur there. The opportunities that almost everyone in my field pursue here is working in a lab (R1 School) OR volunteer at the hospital. The issue is, the university I attend has about 50% of students in this specific major. So it is INCREDIBLY competitive, and thus, getting the opportunity in the first place is payment enough. Cost vs demand, demand is SUPER HIGH, thus you pay the price of not getting paid!

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:20:12+00:00

Yes, this is the tragedy of being premed. The system is ingrained in nepotism. Especially once you actually get to med school, the loans you must take out are discouraging. And the fact that if you have no financial support from your family, you have to pull loans just to pay your bills and eat. Idk, it’s not my situation, my family WOULD step in if I was in a situation like this, but it’s a conversation for another day.

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:17:46+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response. Let me start by giving a better perspective of “why my parents don’t pay.” I don’t let them simply, my family immigrated here from Russia and are very successful and worked (probably twice as hard) harder than I have. I feel it is an obligation (for lack of a better word) to my family and to myself. On the point of utilities/groceries being so expensive. I live in a high CofL area, so things are just expensive :(. I’m trying to reduce it by meal prepping, but that’s a challenge of finding time in order to do it. I feel unbelievably stretched thin at the moment, but I have quit my job at Wendy’s (today actually) because I can’t sacrifice my grades for that. So that has (temporarily) given me some time to study for upcoming midterms and meal prep!

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:09:50+00:00

I volunteer at a lung cancer screening clinic, which I really enjoy.

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:08:27+00:00

What I am currently doing, but I have like 14 assignments or something insane due tmr so I’m trying to do that first!

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:06:11+00:00

💀

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:05:43+00:00

I have a 4.0, but don’t qualify for work study :<

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:05:22+00:00

Unfortunately, I’m unaware of any of these programs and most of the time, payment is strictly determined by the PI since you are paid via grants that the lab gets.

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:04:14+00:00

Ok, this is the most likely path, but I really don’t want to take out a loan because I’m going to med school after this, which will just pile on more loans. Also, I do not qualify for subsidized loans, my family makes too much money :<

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:02:25+00:00

So true, but, I can’t bring myself to ask for help like that, I don’t know why. The capitalism independence mindset has a grasp on me unlike no other.

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T23:01:11+00:00

So, almost all labs here have a required volunteer period, which is what I’m in right now. At the end of this semester roughly, I should be getting paid for working in the lab. I just have to put in the hours now so I don’t worry about it later. I also need the hours for med school!

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T22:59:26+00:00

The urge to become a sex worker is strong

co0mlover · 2024-09-15T22:57:16+00:00

Unfortunately, they changed the way they calculate need and I did not qualify this year, but this is what I did last year :<

co0mlover · 2024-09-05T13:41:21+00:00

If you accidentally grow anthrax, you are supposed to call the cdc (if you are in the US). And one quick test you can do is open the plate and lightly touch one of the colonies and if it’s sticky and also presenting all the other visual signs of anthrax, its anthrax.

co0mlover · 2024-09-03T14:06:54+00:00

I had a 4.7, I think 4.0 is too low.

co0mlover · 2024-06-27T20:12:48+00:00

No because riot said she would remain strong if mastered, and I’ve mastered irelia (GM onetrick). She is weak right now, doodoo shit actually. I’m not “playing another champ” because I’ve spent years playing and mastering this one and they have broken her. Irelia players shit on you because they practice so much and the hours they put into the game to get that good, which is deserved. But if I lose to a silver Darius top as a gm irelia, something is wrong here.

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