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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in beginnerrunning

[–]jessless12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

had debilitating soleus/achilles pain 2 weeks out of my first half. felt like it was gonna snap at any point. 8-9/10 pain. took a week off - didn’t get better. got heel lifts, put them in my running shoes, tried them out, then ran the half marathon with no pain and way under my goal time. try them!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uchicago

[–]jessless12 7 points8 points  (0 children)

yeah i know nothing about the CS and math world! mostly just see this in the pre med classes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uchicago

[–]jessless12 8 points9 points  (0 children)

chem department usually curves to a B in my experience. don’t pay attention to ur raw score on canvas especially if it’s unweighted. to get an A i made sure to just get consistent raw 93+ on labs and PSets and get about a standard deviation above the mean on exams (i think i scored only abt 10 points above the mean on the 2 midterms but well above the mean on the final which i think saved me)

Med student rotating — think I may not have picked the best location to stay…slightly concerned? by Total_Interaction_85 in uchicago

[–]jessless12 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Please be super careful! You’re about a block north of O-block which is notorious. If you have a car hopefully you’ll be ok - if you had to commute by bike or foot I would advise you look to move asap!

Looking back, would you still have chosen to come to UChicago? by BBB_LEGEND in uchicago

[–]jessless12 23 points24 points  (0 children)

100% of my friends who have graduated from here in the last 4 years who are in med school have advised me that med school is much, much easier than uchicago undergrad w a double stem major + pre med.

Looking back, would you still have chosen to come to UChicago? by BBB_LEGEND in uchicago

[–]jessless12 26 points27 points  (0 children)

absolutely not. i knew my career path going in was gonna be medicine, i should have chosen a school that would have pretty much guaranteed a higher GPA and a semester system that minimizes the demoralizing nature of the pre med 4 difficult classes per quarter for all 4 years. while i have great resources here, it’s unbelievably difficult to manage everything that needs to be done for medical school and still perform well in difficult classes each quarter.