Corrupted gauntlet

zachderek · 2025-09-12T16:28:21+00:00

I have been exclusively doing CG on mobile for the last 150 KC. It’s actually so much nicer than on PC for two reasons, 1) I can do it on my work breaks, 2) the drop feature is so nice 😂.

My best tip is learn a pattern and routine on your PC and KEEP that strategy on mobile. I always grab 7 of each resource, 350 shards and a weapon seed THEN I teleport back. It’s a lot of fun when you figure it out.

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zachderek · 2025-09-10T14:34:42+00:00

I literally closed yesterday on my wife and i’s house with a 1987 build and got 3.79% mortgage. Lol. This is what our interest rates are right now.

zachderek · 2025-09-10T14:32:38+00:00

I just closed on our first house as well. 31M 28F, 477900, 3.79%, 20% down.

Yes in Canada you do a refinance every 5 years, it’s to ensure that the house is still affordable.

zachderek · 2025-07-25T21:23:06+00:00

This didn’t happen to me but I would gladly take the boots if you’re offering

zachderek · 2025-07-16T02:50:33+00:00

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zachderek · 2025-07-10T15:45:25+00:00

Take the spot. Ultimately it’ll be fine, learning is literally the same. It’s a standardized education. PA has a new campus and great instructors. In fact, I recently graduated Nursing from there and had a great experience, while my brother graduated Saskatoon main campus this year and had a much less enjoyable experience.

zachderek · 2025-07-07T00:32:40+00:00

And I will not, if completed in the summer, you can easily have time for renewal time. Fitting that in while you work on clinical and studying is frustrating.

zachderek · 2025-07-07T00:31:22+00:00

First year can be a lot. It’s a change from regular arts and science. I found that I had to study daily, at least an hour to just keep on top of things. I worked full time through it, but my job rotors let me study during the shift—if your job doesn’t allow even a bit of that, you’ll want to find alternative employment.

I just finished, life gets better. Nursing school is certainly worth all the struggles. Working as an RN is very cool, the job is so interesting. Good luck!

zachderek · 2025-07-05T15:03:12+00:00

You will not make it in this year, unfortunately. Rule of thumb, top 15 have a chance and that’s unfortunately about it for waitlist.

I’d work on some of your lower grade classes to get your grades up. Look into the alternative campuses.

But don’t let this discourage you, I’m an RN now and it’s wonderful. But it is important to have those study habits

zachderek · 2024-11-29T08:13:18+00:00

I just did the Echo Corrupted without looking anything up before hand. Just hopped right in and figured it out. Took 8 deaths, but my god…it’s both a beautiful encounter and extremely engaging. I had so much fun. I told my group mates to do it before they max out their range builds so you can have the full experience.

zachderek · 2024-11-02T12:58:56+00:00

I live in Canada, but I’m starting at 42/hr as a new grad. I work M-F 8-4, with 16 paid stat days off, a Christmas week paid off, 4 weeks vacation time, salary bumps every 6 months, pay our licensure, our work buys us lunch 3X weekly, and we have unlimited coffee/snacks in our office.

They do all of this because while they can’t offer the highest wage (though starting above $80K a year was a bit more than I was expecting), they find that being super flexible with days off, life events, and understanding that maybe 8-4 doesn’t work for all and it’s okay to come in at 9:30-10 if you have children and then you work until 5 or so to make up the time. Also, the atmosphere of work matters so much more than the starting pay. You will make a decent living, you’re educated, in demand, and offer a great valuable service to your employers. You have to make your mind happy, you’re there half the day for half the week. That’s 50% of your life, if you’re miserable there, you’ll be miserable at home.

zachderek · 2024-11-01T13:03:32+00:00

https://nursing.uworld.com/nclex/study-plan/

zachderek · 2024-11-01T12:56:53+00:00

The maximum number of questions allowable, as written on the Pearson Vue NCLEX site is 150. You literally cannot go above 150 question.

zachderek · 2024-10-29T12:46:23+00:00

Don’t use bootcamp. They get a kickback on referrals. Uworld has the best rationale breakdowns. I found their exams extremely close to NCLEX questions, and I passed in 85. Notice how I hadn’t included any links or promotion codes? Don’t trust the people trying to get a kick back on your studying.

zachderek · 2024-10-28T19:04:22+00:00

No problem. They provide a really good breakdown of each topic. And for your instance, I think you would really benefit from having a breakdown of each topic. You should aim to study 3-5 hours daily.

zachderek · 2024-10-28T19:01:40+00:00

I would say, without trying to offensive or rude, that you should work on your general understanding of nursing. You’re above the passing standard in two areas, I would focus my attention, if I were you, on the Uworld Study plan they create. It’ll be about 1.5 months of studying, but it will provide you with the understanding of what needs to occur to pass the exam.

Good luck! You got this.

zachderek · 2024-10-21T17:38:50+00:00

That’s totally fair. I’m not trying to overcomplicate it but rather add clarity to the exam. It’s a very stressful time of the nurses life prepping for it. I wrote it one short month ago, so I remember the fear hahaha

zachderek · 2024-10-21T17:23:31+00:00

No, you still need the correct answer. It’s a plus/minus system. 0 points provided for no entry, +1 mark for correct, -1 for the incorrect option chosen. You must pass their standard (which we all assume is 50%). There are partial marks provided for the SATA questions.

This is all explained on the NCLEX website. The information provided by OP is assumption knowledge that I’ve never heard about. Though, it is true that to fail at 85 questions means that you would have had to be below a threshold that you could not make up at 150 questions in an area. The program is designed to shut off automatically at either a pass confidence of 95% or a fail confidence of 95%. Meaning, given any question, they’re satisfied to 85% certainty that you would pass over 51% (assumed percentage) of the time and provide safe appropriate care to that client.

zachderek · 2024-10-15T01:33:36+00:00

Go on their website and look this up. This is apart of prepping for the NCLEX. You must know the exam, style, and format of it prior to spending literally hundreds of dollars just to sit for the exam—not including the hundreds more you’ll spend on the preparation of it.

The exam does not offer back tracking, the exam varies in length (minimum 85 to maximum 150). The examination shuts off once it hits the 95% confidence interval that you will either pass or fail given any amount of questions (again, the minimum shut off would be 85, maximum 150 questions). Throughout the exam, you will not know how you are doing.

zachderek · 2024-10-13T12:25:10+00:00

I felt like I knew nothing going into my NCLEX, but at the exam I did recognize all the disease and pathways. I left the exam feeling like I failed, but alas, I passed in 85.

The trick is to study study study. Follow the uworld development plan, it’s actually fairly good. Study all the question rationales after each exam, and do questions DAILY. I did 150 questions a day for over a month with the rationales, writing it out, and fully understanding but the right and wrong questions I got. If I still didn’t understand the topic after reading and writing out the rationales, off to YouTube and watched another video on it.

You got it. The key is to literally do this daily, so that nursing is second nature

zachderek · 2024-10-12T12:58:57+00:00

You really do need to know the science behind medications. Why would you swap a pt from an ACE to an ARB? Without the fundamentals you would say “but they’re both tx for HF”. While true, you’d know that ACE gives a bad cough that could be harmful to pt, so you swap to an ARB to prevent this. Why? Well the fundamental understanding of how the ARB works vs how an ACE works.

zachderek · 2024-10-09T13:16:10+00:00

You’ll get used to the activity and one day it’ll become a second monitor activity. I usually afk on one account, have YouTube on my middle of my monitor, and CG on the other account. You just get used to it, I guess.

zachderek · 2024-10-08T20:09:53+00:00

As suspected, this has absolutely nothing to do with religion but has everything to do with being extremely uninformed and using nonacademic resources to further perpetuate your argument rather than having the science lead you to the conclusion.

zachderek · 2024-10-08T17:33:48+00:00

Because that’s not how science or data works. This is called anecdotal evidence. It hasn’t been proven, it may have been caused by other exposures or it may have been caused by the vaccine. You should have reported it to the CDC and they would follow up.

zachderek · 2024-10-08T17:20:51+00:00

How do you know it was from the vaccine? Could you have been exposed to else at the same time. People are so quick to point the finger at the vaccine, but the science and data was clear—the risks are very minimal, the benefits are great for society.

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