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10 days left of undergrad

things I will do:

-be back here

-apps

-get a JOBBBB

-ya

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we back, we back

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“This is Marcus Martin. You may have seen him in another picture- being hurtled in the air as a terrorist’s car plunged through the crowd of counter-protestors in Charlottesville. Marcus had pushed his fiancée, seen here hugging him, from the path of the vehicle before it slammed into him. After Marcus was hurtled over the car, the terrorist backed up over him. Miraculously he lived, a broken leg his only injury. This picture was taken at the vigil for Heather Heyer who was a friend of Marcus. Marcus was wounded standing up for what is right.”

thank you marcus. you’re a hero. ✊

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I think about this more often than I should

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Life goal

I just want to work in medicine and travel and watch Netflix.

Simple life.

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Does everyone secretly feel lost? Sort of shoved into a corner alone?… Have you ever felt like your home wasn’t home anymore? If you were me, where would you run?

Shannon Hale, Forest Born  (via thequotejournals)

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Hi, first of all, thank you for sharing your journey to medical school. You have been very aspiring! I had a question about med school apps, as I will (hopefully) be applying this cycle. How early did you start working on your personal statement and applications? Thank you!!!

You guys, I’m probably going tosay this a million and one times: GET YOUR SHIT DONE AND TURNED IN AS EARLY ASPOSSIBLE.

I’m not going to tell you what Idid, because I fucked up, so instead I’ll tell you what you should do.

I suggest working on yourpersonal statement early. I believe people recommend starting in March/April, justgive yourself at least a couple months (applications can be sent to schoolsearly June). You’ll probably hate your few first drafts, so you want to giveyourself time to write up a good one by the time the application opens.

In regards to the entireapplication, I suggest going through and organizing your extracurricular,research, volunteer, shadowing experiences etc, writing up a little blurb oneach. It doesn’t seem like it, but it actually takes a while to adequately/eloquentlywrite up your experiences in the character limit allotted. The applicationopens in May, so you have about a month to get your application together beforeearly June when you are able to send it in.

Another thing that you didn’t askabout, but I believe is worth mentioning: get your letters of recommendationEARLY. You don’t want your whole application to be derailed because someprofessors are taking their sweet time writing a letter, especially since theapplication opens near the end of the semester, when they are likely busygrading papers/exams/etc.  

In regards to secondary applications, try to get a quickturnaround on those. Individual schools suggest sending them in by 30 days, butagain, the earlier you can send those in, the better your chances, so try toget them turned in as soon as you get them. So while you’re waiting for yourprimary application to be verified by AMCAS (can take up to 6 weeks), getstarted on “pre-writing” secondary applications. You can find each schools’essays from past cycles’ on prospectivedoctor.com and studentdoctor.net (yeah,yeah I know, but I only suggest this site for pre-writing secondary essays,nothing else).

Remember: admissions are rolling. This means your chances ofinterview invites/acceptances is higher if you get your application in early.You don’t want to be me, who due to unforeseen circumstances andprocrastination, turned her applications in a little late in the game.

Here’s the link to this pastcycle’s “AMCAS instruction manual”. I hope it helps. I suggest reading throughit when organizing all of the material you need, months before the applicationopens.

For real though, try to get your application in early(honestly, try to turn it in the day applications can be sent to schools).

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, I’m morethan happy to help! I’m sure some of my other followers have other tips/advice.

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Dorp :) [Via @awkwardyeti]

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Just incredible.

Source: BuzzFeed

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You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

Benjamin Mee  (via fyp-philosophy)

happens to me all the time

(via hastag-med-school)

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A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.

The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental threat” to global health.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.

In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about tobecome resistant to all remaining drugs.

But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.

“We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways,” Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. “One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself.”

The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it’s already being hailed by scientists in the field as “a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine”.

Before we get too carried away, it’s still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.

But in all experiments, they’ve been able to kill their targeted bacteria - and generation after generation don’t seem to develop resistance to the polymers.

Continue Reading.

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Relationship goals: Bob and Linda when Linda shouts out the window “He’s dead! Go away he’s dead!” to help Bob avoid people

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You’re living, you occupy space, and you have mass.

You know what that means?

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mcat update #554759450

OK so i suck at updating bc who wants to write about a day of stress inducing STRESS????

anyways, guess what tomorrow is???? ahhh i’m pretty scared,PRAY FOR MEEEEE thank you thank you thank you! also my classes started today but i’m still in a different city from my uni, and i keep getting emails about shit thats already due so that’s nice too lol