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This is my second week at a 4-year school after transferring, and I totally forgot that there is this thing called ROTC. Those poor souls.
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I have the pleasure of retaking organic chemistry II since the school I'm at now didn't accept the semester of it I did at community college. Being in a lecture hall of 100+ students where it seems half of the class are all on a pre-med track and watching how they interact with the professor and the TA seem to explain a lot about what I remember of the doctors I worked with at a Naval Hospital and in a few BAS/RAS. Chemistry is my major and it's loving annoying to have to wait around for everyone else to grub about their grades when I want to know how the poo poo really works.
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The catch with being 10% disabled and trying to get voc rehab is that you have to have a serious impairment to getting employed. Or so they told me when I tried to get it. The overall process made it seem that I wasn't disabled enough yet have acceptable social skills to qualify.
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Sep 25, 2017 08:00
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They also get some kickbacks from the government for hiring veterans.
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Sep 26, 2017 03:26
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cowboy elvis posted:My classes are typically full of bright-eyed kids and girls who believe clothing is merely a suggestion. This is the case for nearly the entire campus for me. I'm knocking out my three mandatory electives this semester and the looks of despair the polisci people make when I say I'm a chemistry major are amazing. It's like watching someone go through flashbacks.
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RobotDogPolice posted:What aside from my GI Bill should I be using as a vet? I'm going to community college right now, with the intention transferring to a university. I'm interested in Biology, but I haven't pinned it down to a specific interest yet, although I'm leaning toward genetics/botany. Are there any scholarships I should look into that are for veterans specifically? Check and see if your CC has science scholarships for veterans. The CC I was at had one that had 20 $1k awards but only four or five people actually applied per year.
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This is why I avoid the vet lounge. It is not worth the risk of listening to that.
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Oct 30, 2017 18:56
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This semester I'm starting to work in a biochem research lab for credit. I get to wash glassware for a few weeks to start, which isn't that big of a deal since the Navy made me do a lot of mundane poo poo like this. Now I get to try and explain to the foreign grad students why the Navy made us do mundane stuff a lot.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:After I got off the ship in WA, I got back up to speed with math by taking Multi-variable Calc, Diff Eqs, and Physics 2 at the local CC. Professors were actually engaged in the material rather than it just being some bs they had to teach while they were doing research. A+++ decision would do again. I did the same thing. It was great having only 30-60 people in my chemistry, physics, and math classes at CC instead of doing whatever horror occurs in something like this: 
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Feb 13, 2018 03:36
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One more week to spring break for me. But I'll still end up on campus every day since the prof who runs the biochem lab I'm helping out in for credit treats us undergrads like grad students. 
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Mar 17, 2018 07:24
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So what did you all with 10% do to get your voc rehab? The second after I stated I'm working towards a chemistry degree the counselor I saw more or less said "You're not dumb enough to qualify for voc rehab, get out unless you can get up to 20%."
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Apr 17, 2018 09:16
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This was my first semester solely focusing on my major and minor. Pulled a 2.93 after doing three chem classes, 1 math class, and 10hr/wk research lab. Not too thrilled with myself.
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May 17, 2018 19:48
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The CC I was at gave me 0 credits and I had to fight not taking a 'health' class over a year since Navy boot camp isn't as intensive as Marine boot camp, even though I deployed with Marine infantry as a Corpsman. Transferred to a four year and they magically take 11 credits that only count to my financial aid cap. What I'm saying is the military will always find a way to gently caress you no matter how far you think you're done with it.
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May 21, 2018 09:23
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Don't hate on differential equations. Linear algebra, on the other hand...
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EBB posted:Man if you think regular linear algebra is harder than DiffEq what is wrong with you. Abstract Linear Algebra...now there was a course I never want to see again. I did abstract algebra last semester and oh boy was that not fun. I'm going to finish off my math minor with a class called "Discrete Dynamical Systems and Chaos" this fall so I hope it won't be a total struggle. Sounds interesting though.
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I did calc II twice. The first time I didn't do the """optional""" homework since it wasn't part of my grade and got thoroughly slapped with a D. Second time I did every problem two or three times and got an A. So do the problems as others have said. Someone showed me a first exam for the inorganic chemistry class I'm taking this fall and it's gonna be a bumpy four months.
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Aug 10, 2018 05:19
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Great thing about priority registration: don't have to worry about the waitlist.
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Aug 28, 2018 16:54
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That starts August 2019. 
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Aug 28, 2018 18:53
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Lol oops, statistical mechanics is hard. Luckily my physical chemistry prof drops the lowest score of our six exams!
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Sep 14, 2018 21:56
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M_Gargantua posted:Get an internship. Yay calculus 
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Sep 17, 2018 16:35
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It is amazing how across the board of subjects and departments a lot of professors are unorganized.
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Sep 20, 2018 22:17
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That's what I do. All my books are cheap used ones so I have an extra couple hundred dollars for "educational expenses."
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Sep 21, 2018 19:57
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Excellent. I got an immunizations hold for my last semester, my fourth one here, when I submitted proof during my first one on campus. I now understand how Marines felt when we lost their medical records at the BAS. 
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Oct 15, 2018 18:01
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Thank my vet status for early registration. Only 20 seats for the advanced physical chem lab I need to graduate. 
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Oct 28, 2018 10:06
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Neato the school is letting me take the grad-level mass spec class for my last major elective for my last semester. Very exciting.
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Nov 2, 2018 17:06
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My school only gives us Wednesday-Friday off next week. loving sucks.
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rifles posted:I'm taking Swahili at OSU because that's the only language course they had open for the Spring semester. That happened to me when I transferred to SDSU. I had to retake Ochem 2 because I got a B at CC and "It's upper division here." Luckily someone dropped the class and I got in to retake a class I passed. Otherwise I'd be staying another year since nearly all of the upper division chem
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Nov 17, 2018 02:17
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Is that quarter units? Lol that's a whole four year degree to do if it's semester units. The Aardvark fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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Nov 28, 2018 02:42
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My worst final is going to be pchem 2. The semester final is over two days and then we have the ACS pchem exam which covers both semesters. 
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Nov 28, 2018 22:26
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No even as a regular student they're loving bad.
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Nov 30, 2018 21:58
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What makes it worse is they're always adding more layers to the admin stuff. Right now I have a general college advisor just gen ed classes, a major advisor for chemistry, and a minor advisor for math. They're now trying to add another advisor at the College of Science level to act as an "intermediate" for some blackbox reason they don't explain.
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Nov 30, 2018 22:11
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Had my inorganic chem final today and thoroughly enjoyed watching three premed students get caught passing papers among each other and using their phones. 0 on the final that's 50% of the grade. So many tears.
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Cojawfee posted:Is inorganic different from regular chemistry? Inorganic goes into depth on a lot of gen chem stuff like molecular orbital theory and types of bonds (sigma-sigma, pi-sigma, etc), but focuses on the behavior of transition metal complexes, bonding with d orbitals, reactions of metals, etc. Like in gen chem you learn you can have up to a triple bond between atoms, but some complexes like chromium(II) acetate have a stable quadruple bond or even a quintuple bond like potassium octachlorodimolybdate.
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Dec 15, 2018 18:54
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 better than medicine which I came from
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Dec 16, 2018 03:51
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And with the submission of a math technical paper, my second-to-last semester ends. 
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Dec 17, 2018 23:00
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The few issues I've had like that have been on the medical side of the VA with the retired gunnies/chiefs treating everyone like we're all still in the hellworld of rank. Re: CC chat A 25 person Ochem 2 class was much better than the 200 person Ochem 2 class I was forced to retake. It was easier to ask for help or shoot the poo poo with the prof than dealing with all the premed people grubbing for their A at office hours than caring about the science.
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Dec 21, 2018 22:54
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In the bichem lab I work in for credit, the lab tech left on the 4th and the only postdoc leaves on Feb 1st. Gonna be a fun time for the three units I'm looking to get this semester.
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Jan 11, 2019 20:00
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It turns out the other two undergrads in my lab didn't actually do as much work on their research projects last semester as they said so I get to write two abstracts for two posters for a student research fair since the two projects I'm working on tie into the work of the others. Of course they're due on Monday. Yay first day of classes.
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Jan 24, 2019 08:36
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Lol rip me. I get to train four undergrads who are brand new to lab research and their schedules don't line up so I can teach them all at once.
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Turns out I'm going to be first author on this paper I've been writing since mid-January about the research I did last semester. I thought it was going to be part of my senior project grade at the end of this semester. It's pretty cool that it's turning out this way but it also means what I have so far is utter poo poo.
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