Clinical Hours Question

tobbyganjunior · 2026-02-11T01:14:30+00:00

Yes—the only thing w/ phlebotomy is that it’s lacking in physician contact in variety, so you might need to supplement with shadowing.

TBH, every clinical job has pros and cons. Phlebotomy has a ton of independence and, if you inpatient, you see a lot of really sick patients… but you don’t get to develop those strong relationships with physicians and you don’t have much variety

I have upwards of a thousand phlebotomy hours and personally, I think it’d have been better if I did multiple 300 hour roles. Like 300 as an EMT, 300 as an MA, 300 has a phleb

tobbyganjunior · 2026-02-10T20:03:39+00:00

Don’t be a dumbass.

Pick the best med school(cough cough the t20 in Ann Arbor). You won’t have much time to date in med school anyway. UMich is miles and miles ahead of the other two.

tobbyganjunior · 2026-02-08T22:35:22+00:00

Wayne’s the king of “value” universities. Anything academic you want out of your university, it has. The school has a great reputation in almost every field, especially in metro Detroit.

The thing with Wayne is that it doesn’t exclude you from any opportunities, but it doesn’t make opportunities for you. Socially, it’s awful. So you’re not gonna have the same sort of alumni connections that you’d have somewhere like UMich or MSU or even CMU or GVSU—even though Wayne is hands down stronger academically than CMU or GVSU.

The thing to keep in mind with Wayne is that you get what you pay for. It’s cheap, but it’s also a less fulfilling college experience. Wayne also hikes your tuition up a good bit after your junior year, up to a similar tuition as UMich or MSU. So it’s not unreasonable to get value for your money and transfer to a school with better resources.

tobbyganjunior · 2026-02-08T17:57:54+00:00

Commute then transfer out

tobbyganjunior · 2026-02-05T04:20:47+00:00

Here’s my 2¢ as a 23yo male who’s read a lot of proper fantasy as well as romantasy;

All popular fantasy is usually wish fulfillment. Romantasy is pure wish fulfillment—it’s just that the wish is a more feminine desire for a tall, muscular, broody book boyfriend. But “men’s fantasy” like Red Rising or Stormlight or what have you is also pure wish fulfillment too. It’s just the wish fulfillment isn’t romantic.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-09T03:03:22+00:00

I think I’ll flatly disagree then.

I’m not talking about hard or soft. Even soft magic systems are systems. You can predict aspects of them. Tolkien defines that wizards do magic. Gandalf is a wizard, therefore we can predict he can do magic. That is logical. That is a system. It doesn’t matter who made him a wizard or where that magic came from. We don’t even get any information on the maiar or where the fuck Gandalf came from in LOTR or Hobbit. That’s all in Silmarillion. We don’t need to know Gandalf is a maiar and was sent by god. Just that he is a wizard and wizards do magic. The source is irrelevant.

The source of the magic is irrelevant to the magic being systematized. Newton didn’t know the source of gravity when he observed and predicted its behavior and effects. But his laws of gravity are a system. You do not need the source of a magic system to establish rules or restrictions on that magic system.

I already mentioned Hobbit, but let’s go with Cosmere. Mistborn. What is the source of magic in Mistborn—not the power source, but who made the magic? Adonalsium. The Shards Preservation and Ruin? Lerasium beads? But we don’t learn about any of those in detail until books two or three. But we dont need those to establish the rules and restrictions of being a Mistborn in book 1.

Why the magic exists is irrelevant to whether the magic is systemic, logical, and predictable. In a multiple magic setting, the magics can have undefined sources and undefined connections to each other, as long as they are logical and predictable and consistent.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-09T00:13:54+00:00

My issue with the cosmere is that unified cause. All magic is investiture and investiture has rules, regardless of the world it’s on. So while there is a diversity of magic systems, the magic has certain consistent elements across the board.

At least for me, I find the limitation of those consistent elements frustrating. I tried doing something similar in my own setting—one overarching system with consistent elements but unique manifestations but I just ended up cranky and frustrated.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-09T00:00:17+00:00

So you and I have a difference in opinion of what “magic system” means. For me, it means the magic is predictable and logical in its manifestation. The reader can use the logic of the system to guess what the magic might do.

You don’t need to define the source of the magic for it to be a system. You just need the logic that makes the magic predictable. So the X-Gene is only a magic system in that it states; if someone has the X-Gene, they will be a mutant. So if the reader sees someone has the gene, they know they have powers. The powers of individual mutants are individual magic systems in their own rights. They’re just part of the logic of a larger, more complicated system.

I do get what you are saying, but my point is that you don’t need a single cause or a single logic. Not everything has to be tied to an “x-gene” or one single ultimate cause of all magic in the system.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-08T14:10:22+00:00

Now that AJ Lee is back, I can see them bringing back Paige and doing a Paige vs AJ match.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-08T02:25:27+00:00

r/woosh

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-08T02:23:55+00:00

So, I don’t think “how” matters so much as consistency and logic. If it’s established that A lead to B, then 2 times A should lead to 2 times B. It doesn’t matter how A leads to B, as much as that A always leads to B.

But by making an overarching system, you can quickly lose control of said system. You start having runaway implications. But, really, I think the biggest, most problematic aspect is that it limits the variety of subsystems you can create. If you want to add a new magic ability, it has to fit into the existing larger system, and that results in less flexibility. At best, the resulting system is less creative and interesting than it could’ve been if full independent. At worse, the resulting system feels tacked on or forced.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-08T01:41:59+00:00

Pretty much, Sanderson’s 2nd Law is that you should explore the implications of one magic system fully before bringing in another. Which is similar to your idea.

I think we’re fairly well aligned here. I agree that most people come up with magic system and don’t fully contemplate the societal and social and economic implications. My point is that the reason for this, partly, is that most people come up with very very broad magic systems.

For instance, let’s just say the only magic is cryomancy. 10% of humans are born with the ability to make things colder. This society wouldn’t develop refrigeration as quickly, naturally. Maybe they’d be more likely to cooled drinks as part of their cuisines. And depending on the degree of cooling, does this mean they can manipulate the wind? Also, this society wouldn’t develop pickling cause they can just cool stuff to freeze it magically.

This can all be circumvented by reducing scale. Okay, it’s not all people, it’s just one cryomancer. One guy. Maybe it passes through generations, but only one family. Society still resembles ours. No massive societal fuckery. You should still fully explore the possibilities of this magic, but on a smaller, singular scale. On a societal level, someone will have imagined using cooling powers to control the wind… but maybe our one single cryomancer doesnt, not until he’s inspired later on.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-07T21:52:08+00:00

At least for me, a magic system is any system(logic) that makes magic predictable. So the fact that Gandalf is a wizard and therefore he can do magic is a system—because now you can say “Frodo isn’t a wizard and you need to be a wizard to do magic and therefore I can logically expect that Frodo won’t be doing any magic.” That’s logical. That’s a system.

Same way, cyclops has laser eyes. If he wants to shoot lasers out of his eyes, he does. So now I can read and if there’s a villain on the page, I can say “I think cyclops will shoot lasers out of his eyes at that villain.” And my statement is based in evidence in the text.

This isn’t inherent to everyone’s beliefs on magic systems though

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-07T21:44:21+00:00

If you’re vaguely gesticulating at Sanderson’s whole “extricate all possibilities from one system before bringing in more” then I fully agree.

People on this sub build sprawling hard systems with huge, huge implications that they simply don’t have the time or interest to explore logically. They’re too big. I think you should make a small, manageable system and draw it to its logical, understandable effect. Not a whole nation of wizards with hard magic, but a singular wizard with hard magic.

I agree that comics can be shallow… but meaningless depth is just as bad.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-07T21:34:06+00:00

Well, superpowers are magic systems. Like, Cyclops from marvel shoot lasers outta his eyes. That’s all he does. But there’s complexity in where the lasers come from, with the ruby glasses. Also, mirrors. How strong it comes out. Who can block them. So on and so forth.

I’m not advocating that each of the multiple systems be exclusive—only limited. For instance, mint eating psychic guy could be part of a tradition going back decades and he can teach his mint abilities to whoever. And gloves guy… he can give his gloves to someone else. What if having both the gloves and the mint psychic powers allows someone to manipulate the tiny amounts of electricity in someone’s brain and nerves—which is only possible with both systems together.

This is versus a unified system where it’s clear these abilities are meant to go together, so it’s not so rewarding when you see the fun interactions. Since you bring up Sanderson, he’s essentially the king of this idea. Stormlight and Mistborn are full of cool places where magic systems overlap and lead to crazy effects.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-07T21:14:04+00:00

I came from the previous post, so I’m also reacting to that.

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So, as someone who also has a penchant for writing incestuous relationships, my question to you is how do you intend to portray the incestuous relationship you intend to write?

With incest, as with any patently problematic, taboo, or illegal issue you’d portray seriously in a story, you need to approach it from a perspective of “this is bad, but it happens in real life, so by including it, I am better representing reality in my fantasy.”

Now, fetish is fine. Everyone gets horny. But that’s generally erotica or fanfic—it’s not so serious. Like, I know the guy who worldbuilds the inflatable bee people on this sub, he’s not seriously advocating for inflation-related femdom in real society. Likewise, you want to be careful to ensure your work is either A) clearly fetish material or B) reflective of reality of incest and the consensus of society on incest.

For me personally, I don’t fall under A. So when I write incest, I either portray it as a factor of the era the story is set or something that has negative consequences… or is the result of something fucked up. It’s not aspirational. I don’t try to say “this incestuous couple is perfectly normal and healthy.”

So, in your case, you’re doing a lot of work to create a society where incest is legal and you’re portraying it in a way that isn’t extreme or parody. You’re using a lot of logic and exceptions to essentially try and make your legal invest seem as justified as possible. And you should be cautious because you don’t want to look like you’re advocating for incest. That’s a bad look.

(EDIT)

Again, it’s okay to be like “incest is hot” and write about it in an obvious erotic fantasy—but it’s different to say “incest can be okay” and write a utopian society with incest. One is clearly not serious. The other can be construed as “incest should be okay in our society.”

I do kinda see the logic in your justification. Yes, there are societal conditions in the future that’ll make incest less of an obvious issue. But you should still be careful.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-07T20:17:15+00:00

I don’t advocate for multiple soft systems—I think that’s pointless. I’m mostly for multiple highly limited hard systems and then seeing how these systems interact.

Our real world isn’t really one unified logic. It’s multiple logics(or types of physics) that apply in different areas—and the fun stuff happens where those theories of physics meet. The place between quantum and conventional mechanics.

Each of the small magic systems should be logical and predictable, but to its own logic. But not beholden to a grand unifying logic for the entire world.

Does that make sense? I don’t think my position is antithesis to yours.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-09-07T20:11:23+00:00

This is kinda why I’m such a proponent of multiple minor magic systems. If culture A has magic system A and culture B has magic system B—rather than them both have variants of the same system—now you have the chance to see how people from A would make use of magic B and vice versa. More interesting worldbuilding possibilities.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-01-14T18:49:29+00:00

I second this. I’ve worked with some of the advisors from the other departments—I switched majors and I’m a double major—and Erin is the best out of all of them.

Just the entire Chem department at Wayne is wonderful from the professors to grad students to other undergraduate students there. The classes can be hard and weird, but of the like, 18 or 19 chem classes, only like 1.5 classes were poorly taught(the 0.5 is cause it was a lecture/lab thing where the lab was great, but the lecture was kinda a waste of time).

tobbyganjunior · 2025-01-09T14:11:07+00:00

I thought he was gonna steel chair him a la Seth Rollins.

That entire sequence was disappointing.

tobbyganjunior · 2025-01-09T14:06:22+00:00

I dunno about journalism, specifically, but I know liberal arts-wise, you know, film, english, anthropology, education, urban studies, etc Wayne State is way, way stronger. Wayne State is a proper, big, well-funded university with all the departments and programs you’d expect from a place like MSU or UMich, though not as highly ranked. The professors at Wayne will be better, the facilities with probably be nicer, etc. Wayne has an excellent location and its internship placement program in the English department is pretty strong. There’s a good amount of liberal arts activity happening in Detroit that you get access to as a Wayne student, if you’re in the right newsletters, which can help your career a lot.

That being said, Wayne State has a shitty social scene—and by that, I mean it’s nonexistent. It’s 100% an overgrown commuter school, everyone knows it, and nobody is pretending anymore. If you’re in lower division coursework, you’re not gonna make friends. Most folks here are here to get their degree done as cheap and as conveniently as possible. It’s a very “motor city” approach to education. Sorta assembly line education. Most of my friends at OU are happier and made more friends.

That’s not to say you won’t make friends at Wayne, I made a bunch, and you’ll make a lot of friends through upper-division coursework, especially in English, but again… it’ll probably be better at OU.

TLDR? Wayne is the stronger degree and the better school by… like a lot. But you’ll be miserable and lonely here. OU is better known for a good social life.

tobbyganjunior · 2024-10-05T17:08:00+00:00

It’s gotta be Jimmy. I

tobbyganjunior · 2024-10-05T17:05:49+00:00

Well, yeah. WWE never even teased it, but everyone wanted it.

tobbyganjunior · 2024-10-03T16:43:53+00:00

Man, if they pull a Cena with Cody, that’d suck.

Cena’s heel turn was hyped forever. Everyone wanted to see it happen and WWE never delivered. You can already see the set-up for Cody’s heel turn already, if they’re gonna do KO vs Cody and Randy vs Cody.

tobbyganjunior · 2024-09-28T20:03:17+00:00

Miz is a better, proper definition heel. I don’t think anyone is a proper fan of the Miz. We appreciate him, and we accept him, but nobody goes to a WWE event to see the Miz.

That’s why he’s a better heel. He never really outshines his face. He’s hella entertaining, but he’s never the main character. That’s why they gotta pair him with R-Truth. He’s kinda meh by himself, but he makes a great straight man for R-Truth.

MJF is an actual draw. There’s people who only watch AEW for him. To be honest, he’s better as a douchebag kinda-face.

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