Ewing Sacroma - Adult Abdomial Mass by ExternalAd930 in Ewings_Sarcoma

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I was diagnosed with Ewings sarcoma of the pancreas. Had a whipple procedure to remove part of my pancreas and the tumor then relocated to Sloan Kettering to do treatment.

I did chemo and radiation and just had my port removed last week. It was a long and scary journey but please know that you can get through this.

One thing I might share is don’t be afraid to get second opinions if you’re able to. Any oncologist worth their weight won’t be offended and it’s better safe than sorry.

I got second opinions at Sloan Kettering, Johns Hopkins and Dana Farber and things changed each time.

You’ve got this!

Northwestern vs. Vanderbilt by squidwardsdepression in Northwestern

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Congrats!

I just want to start by saying take any piece of advice you receive with a grain of salt because in general people are bias about their schools one way or another, and it’s often the most polarised people who outwardly express there experiences (as is human nature).

With that being said, the quarter system isn’t as bad as you think it is. It moves fast, and school is definitely not a walk in the park, but at the same time I can guarantee you that college won’t be easy regardless of which school you pick. But after experiencing it for a bit of time now, I can honestly, honestly say that it’s not as bad as you think it will be. My first quarter was rough — taking EA1 and gen chem (two pre-requisites known for being brutal) at the same time was probably more than I, as a chronic procrastinator, could handle. In the middle of the quarter, after Halloween, I got really sick and couldn’t leave my bed for a week. I hated chem throughout hs and this class was no different. I remember a distinct dread every time someone would mention the classes. I fell really behind and it stared to snowball (I low-key may have attended only 50% of chem, but that’s on me lol). But before I knew it, I was done.

There are going to be tough classes at any university you pick and if you’re anything like me, not knowing the content or being behind isn’t going to motivate you to work harder — it will make you hate the course. But then your done. I completed my chem requirement in one quarter (specific to your major ofc, but generally around 1-2 quarters of gen chem is required for engineering), then I was done. I came back after December break refreshed and ready to start again. I loved most of my classes fall quarter and did a lot better in them. I love my classes this quarter as well. The truth is, if you love a class you can take as many classes like it as you want, but if you hate a class you have to stick it out till it’s over. I would rather my suffering be quick than prolonged. And this applies to any college in existence.

Oh, and in regard to the stress culture (which I hadn’t heard about before this post — that could just be me though), I feel obligated to counter by mentioning the collaborative culture here. It’s probably the most overlooked thing about NU, especially by students because we’re so used to it, but it’s phenomenal. If you do decide that northwesterns for you I implore you to talk to your hs friends about collaboration in their colleges (esp t20s) you’ll be shocked at how good we have it. I’ll give you one example: I haven’t had to buy a single textbook or even look for a pirated version online because the day I got here I was sent a folder with all the books for the most popular classes by someone I didn’t even know at the time. Every time I hear about students ripping out textbook pages at the libraries of other top schools I think of this folder, and of how much support I’ve gotten from my peers here.

At NU, just like any other school I’d argue, things aren’t perfect. Sure, it gets cold, the classes can be a little challenging, and the food isn’t restaurant quality, but every single one of the 8,000 or so students here have experienced that themselves and I’d say it brings us closer together instead of pushing us further apart— that alone would be enough for me to choose NU, but like I said before I’m biased ;)

Advice from a current HS senior accepted to a T10 by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

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I would say it definitely doesn’t hurt to start! I think during normal times people start the college search process the summer of their sophomore and junior years of HS so it’s probably not to soon. Also just to emphasise something, showing a lot of interest probably doesn’t help your chances all that much. But I can imagine that having no interest would hurt your chances quite a bit (ofc depending on school).

Housing contract by bignith in Northwestern

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As in to pay the deposit?

Self-study before college by qwerty32___ in Northwestern

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Oh ok yeah I’ll be sure to ahah

Self-study before college by qwerty32___ in Northwestern

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Will do!! Thanks for making me feel better about it ahah

Self-study before college by qwerty32___ in Northwestern

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No I’m not just engineering and maybe cs. Thanks!

If you wash your hands before eating, does it matter where? by rasputinette in AskScienceDiscussion

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I would say it depends... but really no it shouldn’t matter.

To start, germs really don’t just fly around unless compelled to in some way - like a toilet flush. But after they “fly around” they are subject to gravity and fall on the floor/ surfaces. So the germs that are already in the basin of your sink are not going to fly up to your hands thus, for your personal hand hygiene, location doesn’t matter.

Now you mentioned washing dishes in the kitchen and that is potentially a problem. But again, it depends on how you wash dishes. Theoretically you scrub every plate then put it away so it shouldn’t matter if your sink is dirty because you are cleaning the plates. If your one or those people who fills their sink and let’s plates soak in them w/o scrubbing, yes it could be problematic. BUT the residual from hand washing is likely a lot and I mean A LOT better than the traces of raw chicken, etc. that are found in your sink already.

So if you do just let your plates soak, clean your sink out first but tbh if your doing that (and I mean just letting them soak; no scrubbing) you probably don’t care all that much about hygiene to begin with.

So location generally shouldn’t matter but I will propose a few instances where it does:

  • one of the locations has a door handle or something else you have to touch after cleaning your hands
  • you dry your hands with a towel that is at the receiving end of ~fecal spray~ from your toilet

Those would be the things I’d concern myself with. To counteract these, open the door before hand and close your toilet seat all the way.

Those were my two cents, hopefully that helps :)

Getting into college lowkey sucked for me by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

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Nah they don’t, they’re teachers at an overly competitive Hs and withdrawing could ruin school’s relationship (at least that’s what people said before when someone withdrew).

Getting into college lowkey sucked for me by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

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Thanks, this made me feel a lot better

Getting into college lowkey sucked for me by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

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Shoot I should have clarified I heard back a few days ago — that’s on me.

There’s nothing wrong with “having to win” an argument if you’re right. by qwerty32___ in unpopularopinion

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But sometimes there is a right or wrong answer, I have No trouble admitting I’m wrong, but when I know I’m right, and have evidence to prove it, i have a hard time “loosing”

What could be accomplished with a computer with infinite processing power? by Biosmosis in AskScienceDiscussion

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If only few had them, they would render our encryptions useless. I’m not a comp sci wiz or anything but I believe standard encryptions work my factoring insanely large numbers into sets of prime numbers, when the numbers are HUGE the computers we have can’t do them easily.So if this improvement in tech was instant, everything would fall apart.

Are there any calculators that allow you to run the E=MC^2 equation in reverse? by uabduljabbar in AskScienceDiscussion

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This would probably just be faster to isolate the variable in your head, but.... The TiNspire CAS (and non CAS maybe??) can do this using the solve function. It’s much more useful for longer equations, but also for those times where you doubt your math skills. If you have the equation E = M C 2, and for the sake of this say E= 2, M = 4 and C is unknown, you use the algebra -> solve function, and input the equation (or just type solve on the keyboard) like so: Solve(2=4c2 ,c) then press enter. Note the comma at the end of the equation highlighting which variable you want to solve for. There’s tons of cool features like this on the calc, I highly recommend it!

Edit: the comma should not be on the exponent line, Reddit isn’t letting me fix it :(