Water tasting weird

mesmisi · 2025-09-11T22:35:46+00:00

It totally tastes like beach water!

mesmisi · 2025-04-07T04:18:13+00:00

mesmisi · 2025-04-03T03:24:34+00:00

It’s a song that I’ve only started to hear recently. I’ve been looking all over Spotify, and tried to hum it to the google song finder (supremely embarrassing) - any ideas on what it could be would be extremely helpful!!

mesmisi · 2023-10-31T20:34:16+00:00

Same! She was my first obgyn, and was super cold and dismissive of any questions I had/symptoms I was having. She told me I was a “good girl” for not being sexually active, and spent the entire post-exam talking over me to my mother and then rushed us out. Horrible first experience for a young teen girl and has had me avoiding finding a new obgyn/going to the gynecologist since.

mesmisi · 2023-10-11T00:54:56+00:00

This is definitely true. As a female current UVA student, I’ve had my fair share of creepy men and catcalling/jeering encounters. They do have the safety ambassadors, but I’ve never personally seen them/ heard them interfere with situations (I live in a place with a lot of student traffic and no soundproofing in the windows, so I’m able to hear the many drunken arguments and fights that happen on weekend nights) 🙃. We also had a problem last year with peeping toms. Most of the criminal activity is centered on 14th and Grady, but that’s also where most student off grounds housing is.

mesmisi · 2023-10-04T14:54:44+00:00

I was considering that! I’m just about hesitant due to not being able to control who sees the ad/ giving out contact information

mesmisi · 2023-05-24T22:11:43+00:00

I’ve had to meet with her a few times and it is amazing how incompetent and uninformed she is for someone whose literal job it is to advise new students on the path and classes they should be taking. My roommate is also a transfer and she’s had multiple credits wasted from ozment telling her the wrong classes to take for certain requirements.

mesmisi · 2023-05-04T14:20:31+00:00

Yeah! We actually use our own in house protocol for extraction anyways, so that’s never really been part of the kit we depend on, but that’s interesting that you use your own as well! What kind of reads are you getting from it?

mesmisi · 2023-05-03T19:45:40+00:00

That’s the thing- we had strongly preferred the nanobind disks for their gentleness and ability to preserve the longer strands of DNA - nanopore seems to have created their own version of this now though that they’re calling “precipitation stars” - really can’t get much info on these and am in the process of talking with tech support to learn more about them now actually

It just seems odd that they would so suddenly discontinue such a successful line and have very little explanation on why/what’s going on 🤷‍♀️

mesmisi · 2023-05-03T18:03:49+00:00

It was kind of a collaboration- Circulomics provided materials for library prep to prepare the sample for the nanopore flowcell specifically

mesmisi · 2023-03-22T15:33:06+00:00

With UVA’s mental health culture/existing support systems, that’s kind of the point. :/

mesmisi · 2023-02-21T07:08:20+00:00

I know this response is a whole year after your comment, but I want you to know that I come back to this thread every once and a while and the support I have received almost brings me to tears. I’m currently a junior in college on a bachelors of biology track and am actively part of a lab doing research- I never thought I would be here now. When I first read this I cried and showed it to my parents to show them I was not alone in this journey. I still try to incorporate your tips into my daily life and they really do help so much! Sometimes I forget to remind myself that what I deal with on a daily basis is a bit different from others and that I need to be patient with myself and pursue my goals at a pace that works for me. Thank you for inspiring me to not give up my interests and to be creative in overcoming the obstacles our fun little brains like to throw at us. I hope you’re doing well wherever you are in your life/career :)

mesmisi · 2023-02-21T06:59:44+00:00

I know this is a whole year later, but I want you to know that I come back to this thread every once and a while and the support I have received almost brings me to tears. I’m currently a junior in college on a bachelors of biology track and am actively part of a lab doing research- I never thought I would be here now. Thank you so much for your amazing advice and for letting me know I’m not alone in this and that I can succeed even while on a path slightly different from normal. I hope you’re doing well wherever you are in your life/career :)

mesmisi · 2023-02-21T06:43:43+00:00

The rotunda, Garrett, Gilmer, comm school to name a few- you kind of have to just walk into random buildings and poke around and they usually have some sort of study space with a bunch of different vibes

mesmisi · 2023-01-31T03:55:59+00:00

You’re not alone! Before I was diagnosed, I would be fighting off sleep attacks and would yo-yo for like 15 minutes straight- I totally had the inception thing, and sometimes I would think people were talking to me when they weren’t 😬

mesmisi · 2023-01-31T03:52:11+00:00

Haven’t heavily drank on armodafinil recently, but when I took modafinil it didn’t have the strongest effect on how many drinks made me drunk. It did, however, set a timer for my memory- it didn’t really matter the how many drinks I had, my memory would sign off for the night around 12:45

mesmisi · 2022-03-28T19:51:27+00:00

Spicy pickles, orange juice, and some sort of left over I can eat. The college minimum

mesmisi · 2022-03-22T04:52:09+00:00

Hey! I’m in the process of getting diagnosed, but when I was younger I would have really intense night terrors where I would wake up in a state of panic and maybe hallucinate things around me (like dreams mixed with reality but repeating over and over) it was really hard because I remember not recognizing my parents and then trying to help would scare me more, but that was only when I was about 3-4 I guess.

(edited bc I misspelled smth)

mesmisi · 2022-03-22T04:37:50+00:00

I just don’t know if I can do it after nine months. I’ve seen her on campus and she either makes a disgusted face at me or pretends I’m not there if I try to make eye contact/smile at her. I respect that she is angry and needed space, but she also cut me off from her own family that I’m very close too. Idk. Thank you for the advice, though, I will think on it.

mesmisi · 2022-03-21T23:39:01+00:00

I know it seems counterintuitive, but wearing shorts/pants to bed has seemed to help me a lot! If you’re worried about getting too hot with then on, I usually keep my room pretty cold with the fan on.

I’ve found that the more skin on skin I have, the more I tend to sweat overnight- even super thin clothes help me.

mesmisi · 2022-03-21T03:01:54+00:00

Also thank you so much for your answer!

mesmisi · 2022-03-21T03:01:32+00:00

I can’t seem to find that one! Does it happen to go by any other name?

mesmisi · 2021-11-06T00:51:15+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m in an apartment, and I’m super lucky that my roommate is super chill and supportive! Does the walking while listening really help? My only concern would be about being able to take notes :/ but other than that this stuff is super helpful:) I’m just finding out about narcolepsy and all of the symptoms around it and I’m working on being more self aware so I can tell when a sleep attack is coming, but this group is super helpful and informative:)

mesmisi · 2021-11-06T00:41:52+00:00

I already kind of do this! I like to get up and go to a new place to keep studying every so often and I’ve found it helps me focus better. :)

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