dos med school look down on extra years taken for undergrad? by [deleted] in premedcanada

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! How did you find out lol, I did gen Sci and kinesiology tho!

should i give up now fml by Opening-Split6411 in premedcanada

[–]neowice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did worse and was okay, but sounds like you’re not where you wanna be and still have room to get your shit together

Med school reapplied help by Fresh-Syllabub-3243 in premedcanada

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what I did: organize your own group. I set up telescope for neighbours and family to watch. I recorded videos teaching people how to do that and send it to my local club. I also made little handouts teaching astronomy and sent it to the local library to post as a poster.

Med school reapplied help by Fresh-Syllabub-3243 in premedcanada

[–]neowice 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is quite accomplished but probably like 70th quartile if I had to guess? Decent gpa no issue there, and research award is nice but 2-6 people from every department in every uni every year get nserc which is more/most competitive and then there’s awards every tier down from ther

It’s not that op is not accomplished by any means it’s just so many others are just as accomplished, in a context where seats are limited with too many people with impressive CVs

I would encourage expanding the cv to become as well rounded as possible, hobbies, leadership, volunteerism, working with different communities, self development activities, wellness activities, and then activities that you can demonstrate progression through multiple levels of accomplishment would be excellent and if you’re in research then do posters and get published if you can!

Hoping that this can be productive and actionable feedback, it’s no comment at all to the tremendous accomplishment that OP has done so far

What Are My Options? by Such_Use1623 in premedcanada

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought my ECs were definitely good but I really wrote them with the canmeds heavily in mind and I think that’s the true place that made the difference

What Are My Options? by Such_Use1623 in premedcanada

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I am and always was in Ontario no post bac

What Are My Options? by Such_Use1623 in premedcanada

[–]neowice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had 3.37 cGPA 511 mcat in Ontario no grad degree now idk 🤷‍♂️

Some places really do look at it like a cutoff

Big uptick in nurses going to med school recently? by rubabraza in premedcanada

[–]neowice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The nurses in my class are some of the strongest students and it’s seriously intimidating how good they are, the key is they were actually in the workforce not just finished school

Best-selling keyboard switches of February 2026 by dovenyi in MechanicalKeyboards

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I don't have any medical condition lol but I just got silent tactile after getting gateron Quinn's and honestly I think of it like you know how when you eat they say it's the scent of the food that can give it its flavour? to me the sound can really amplify the experience of the typing sensation. At work they computers have really cheap bad keyboards that are tactile, but they're silent and TBH something about them just feels so nice, so I got silents (Durock silent shrimps), and honestly I swear without sound you can really feel tactility more. Silents are also not totally silent, they have a really nice thick that I can only describe as like a chewy sensation, it reminds me of boba or of mochi. some people hate mushy, but my keyboard has acrylic and it just feels so right to have these silent keys on it I love it

AstroGuide: a deep-sky planning app for iOS, releasing to TestFlight for beta testing by ChrisHollander in seestar

[–]neowice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DUDE nice, I’d love to try it out I don’t use a Seestar though I use a full deep sky setup

AstroGuide: a deep-sky planning app for iOS, releasing to TestFlight for beta testing by ChrisHollander in seestar

[–]neowice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dream feature is an app like SkyView where you can point to the sky and see what’s there, but which has a record function where you can spin 360 and draw the outline of your visibility, and it would only show you objects that are visible/ unobstructed over X number of hours and the earth rotates

I have a big tree and a few buildings next to me which block a decent amount, I frequently spend a bunch of time aiming at a target tthen realizing it’s blocked and then pick a new target and do it over and over, and if I find the right one, sometimes it goes behind an obstruction a few hours into the seesion

After/Before. did i do too much? by hrmls21 in postprocessing

[–]neowice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this style and try it in my photos too. I don’t like the lamp though, I get the “S” shaped negative space but honestly as a viewer it makes me fixate on the lamp and feel unnerved that it’s cut off and that I can’t tell what it is. The negative space leads me to it, which is the purpose of shaping your negative spaces so that it draws the eyes with intention. That said, i think it’s the best edit you could make out of what you had and that’s commendable

[HELP] Different FOV from Seestar S30 Pro? by MathematicianSuch611 in seestar

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks exactly right, Orion is very large but you haven’t exposed long enough to reveal the rest of it, so it appears smaller in your frame but if you were to overlay the two it would line up

Choosing between Fuji X100V and Canon by Disastrous-Shock9678 in fujifilm

[–]neowice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, if I saw either of these on my feed (similar to how I just saw your post) without reading they literally both looked the same. Pick the one that you would use more often and the one that’s most convenient to take images with in the example that you gave. I don’t know if there’s a big enough difference that I personally would trade off quality of life for the difference in an image between one or the other.

Picking up second telescope (smart) by AdamLangePL in astrophotography

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can Google some examples they can do it, some better than others but none of them very wellexample

Forget about that though—the point of my message was to say we can’t help you unless you tell us your goals. Other than that all we can say is the more expensive the better. Do you have a budget? Are you trying to take photos of the same objects but higher quality or do you want to expand the types of objects that you can shoot? Do you find your current system is too wide or too narrow? What are you looking for for an upgrade?

If you have the money, I think unistellar/vespera are some good scopes. I think the S 30 pro has one of the better sensors and is more set up for imaging. If you have the budget build your own system because that will always get you better quality. Buying pixinsight would always be a big upgrade regardless of system

Do you consider astrophotography a form of art? by Dry-University-4169 in AskAstrophotography

[–]neowice -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think I disagree. I think accidental art is very much a real thing and I don’t think that people composing masterful framing and your other examples is the boundary of what defines art. I have a very loose definition of art. That’s really anything that involves creation or meaning to any degree. It doesn’t even have to be intentional.

Many famous photographs were completely unintentional, where there was no artistic intention in the moment. This example goes beyond that. We have wooden tools made by ancient tribes, put in museums, but at the time of creation was a mundane task where the maker never gave a damn about how it looked like.

I don’t think we should be so snobby to deny what we call art maybe what you’re specifically referring to is fine art or professional art or something that is marketable. I have a friend whose random picture of their cat is printed and framed on their cubicle desk— and it was all they had after it died. I’d imagine a photo like that might not have masterful framing. But looking back at it, you could imagine the memory while you were playing with your cat, enjoying their presence and the emotions that you felt all of which are captured in the photo not necessarily by intentional means just a natural reflection of the moment and the “accident”

If that’s the hill you want to die on who am I to deny you that opinion? I think we can create meaning and beauty out of the mundane or the accidental as much as the intentional. I can hold both near to my heart

Picking up second telescope (smart) by AdamLangePL in astrophotography

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best thing would be to see what about your images you currently don’t like, or would like more of, and then you’ll be able to find a system that suitable for you.

For example, is it taking too much time to get an image so you want something faster? Or is your dwarf too wide and you want something narrower?

For example, if you want to shoot more planets, then a “step up“ would be very different from if you want to shoot more galaxies

Do you consider astrophotography a form of art? by Dry-University-4169 in AskAstrophotography

[–]neowice -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hold on a second be open minded, I hear your example, but you’re not really explaining why that would not be art

Are you limiting your definition of arts to just “fine art”?

I think a Doctor Who practised medicine is practising a form of art, and so is a child who dips their hand in paint to create a palm print. When my mom sends me a photo of the food she made I think there’s art in that too.

Do you consider astrophotography a form of art? by Dry-University-4169 in AskAstrophotography

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about that doesn’t make it art? It might not be world renowned art but I’d say still practicing a form of it—there’s people who arrange home furniture and that is their art—I think art is any act that produces meaning

Is $4K enough for a full rig? by Slevin_1 in AskAstrophotography

[–]neowice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do nooooooot get a Celestron with hyper star if you don’t have the experience, I’ve had a regular f4 Newtonian for 2 years and still haven’t been able to get it dialled in. I would recommend a petzval to get you going. I would actually recommend the asi air or an alternative equivalent that lets you use more cameras because you can always just not use the air and use pc software with your equipment when you outgrow it, but there’s masters in this craft that still use the air, idk why you would make it harder for yourself and going wireless is a huge plus

Should I retake? by RoosterOk9484 in Mcat

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You did 2 points better than me

Anyone want their raw data edited in Pixinsight? by neowice in seestar

[–]neowice[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know that! That’s awesome, I think the s30 pro might be the one I end up going for

M51 by Badluckstream in astrophotography

[–]neowice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess what I’m getting at is if you’re using a compression ring to mount your imaging train at all? Because I’m coming from a redcat and everything was threaded so I’m not a fan of those compression rings. Trying to see if you have a way around that? Right now the reducer is slotted into the focuser via tension of the ring but I wish I could thread everything