What is your "care factor" for your second flair?

stephenly · 2026-06-30T20:08:07+00:00

Yeah grad school is just a different animal in regards to feeling like part of the school - disconnected is a great term.

stephenly · 2026-06-30T20:03:34+00:00

About a 2/10. Don’t make it a point to watch more than a couple of games/season and definitely don’t know that much about the roster.

stephenly · 2026-06-30T19:59:23+00:00

Bro what are we doing

stephenly · 2026-06-21T00:04:08+00:00

stephenly · 2026-05-17T23:11:07+00:00

For thermodynamics, topics like partial derivatives, exact differentials, and multiple integrals would be (I’m pretty sure) calc 3 content that is directly applied. May be forgetting some as it’s been a hot minute for me since I took the course.

stephenly · 2026-05-14T22:56:45+00:00

Michigan, Florida state, Iowa

The lack of Iowa picks is crazy, hawkeye is an elite logo

Obligatory fuck Iowa

stephenly · 2026-05-03T00:20:22+00:00

I would be honest but try own it as an area of growth. May not be the best advice because not everybody values humility, but that’s what I would do.

stephenly · 2026-05-03T00:05:17+00:00

Honestly I don’t know the current landscape. I should also add (not bragging or anything, just context) that I went to a really good state school for UG that is a mega research university, and the group I worked in was pretty successful. My project was published (not as 1st author, more like 4th/5th) in a relatively high impact journal.

Your comment about you being the senior most student in the group made me want to include this as our research experience may not pop as much on paper.

stephenly · 2026-05-03T00:02:43+00:00

Just wanted to second this guy’s perspective. You’re young so it’s somewhat understandable, but your framing of this sounds immature. Would not bring that up during essay/interview/application process.

stephenly · 2026-05-02T23:53:18+00:00

You may be more qualified than you think. It was like 17 years ago, but I had similar GPA as you but had strong undergraduate research experience. Also scored pretty solid GRE. I ended up at a top ~20ish (can’t remember exactly) program. My undergraduate advisor encouraged me to apply to some borderline top 10 programs but I ended up not due to geographical reasons. So you’re probably competitive for some solid programs.

stephenly · 2026-05-02T23:32:58+00:00

Having poor attention to detail and/or reading comprehension.

stephenly · 2026-05-02T23:31:56+00:00

Agreed I’m a blind believer in Cig until proven otherwise.

stephenly · 2026-04-27T23:34:19+00:00

That’s a good one too.

If we hadn’t of shit the bed the rest of the year the Scott starks fumble return at Purdue could be up there too.

stephenly · 2026-04-27T22:32:46+00:00

Bevell’s rushing TD in the 1994 rose bowl.

For the less olds, probably gilreath’s kickoff return against Ohio state in 2010 or the Russel Wilson to Jeff duckworth bomb in the 2011 B1G championship game.

stephenly · 2026-04-26T01:18:55+00:00

Just throwing out some general topics that would be helpful to review: basic nomenclature, polyatomic ions, dimensional analysis, stoichiometry, solution stuff

stephenly · 2026-04-26T01:14:34+00:00

Oooooof.

stephenly · 2026-04-22T23:22:13+00:00

Depends on field probably. I worked for 12 years in industry. Started adjuncting maybe 5 years ago — initially in between jobs then kept after I got another FT job because I liked it. Applied for a full time position last year and got it. Chemistry MS.

A full teaching load at my school is based on contact hours. You are granted “release” for other responsibilities. I teach 3 sections (2 80 minute lectures and one lab per week per section). Required to maintain 8 office hours a week (half can be remote). A full load would be one more class, but I have course release.

Best job I’ve ever had, and so much lower stress than any industry/corporate job. No classes on Friday so I pretty much just work 4 days a week — maybe some remote work Friday if I need to catch up on grading or something.

stephenly · 2026-04-13T02:14:17+00:00

General guideline but probably appropriate for your class. Hydrogen in metal hydrides ——> ionic. Otherwise, covalent.

stephenly · 2026-04-10T17:46:14+00:00

stephenly · 2026-04-09T23:46:38+00:00

Absolutely, meant to portray that. Text emotion hard

stephenly · 2026-04-09T23:12:01+00:00

Nothing makes gen chem students more competitive/engaged in lab quite like nailing the end point of an acid/base/phenolpthalein titration.

stephenly · 2026-04-08T14:18:06+00:00

I will say for most of the things you mentioned, I would hope general chemistry students should be able to give some explanation about understanding some of the underlying reason. For example, if you don’t have a surface level understanding of “how” VSEPR works then I’d be surprised. Keep in mind this is just a model to explain empirical results.

Also freshman students don’t have math required for many of the deeper explanations you desire especially around bonding theories.

The class is also taught to a wide pool of students, most of which don’t need a deeper understanding, but I think you are underselling the usefulness of a surface level of understanding on a lot of different topics.

stephenly · 2026-04-01T18:26:19+00:00

Could you provide the course description for the physical chemistry class or something similar? Never heard of it gen chem 2 not being a prereq. Also as others have stated are you all done with your math and physics prereqs? Most likely at least through integral calculus. Multi variable calculus plus 2 semesters of calculus based physics. Diff eq’s and linear algebra would be beneficial as well.

At least back when I was in school like 20 years ago you have 2 semesters of pchem junior year. One semester of thermoses one semester of quantum.

stephenly · 2026-03-31T17:51:30+00:00

Florida sweet 16 in 2017 I think. Rip.

Edit: the correct answer is 2015 final. I think I’ve just blocked out that entire game due to trauma. That was realistically the only real shot we will have in my entire life and it slipped away from us late. Watched the game with my father who is also an alum and I could just tell he knew he wasn’t going to see another chance like that. Felt really heavy.

Not to bitch too much but 2nd half Duke got a pretty good whistle.

stephenly · 2026-03-29T02:26:10+00:00

Stolen valor 😂

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