#mcat bio

[er-cryptid]

Biology Suffixes

-ase = enzyme

-itis = inflammation

-lysis = break apart

-ology = study of

-ologist = studies

-ose = sugar

-oxide = containing oxygen

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[capyclub]

i hate memorizing amino acids

#knew em all for the mcat 3 years ago and then promptly forgot them #gotta relearn them by friday which i guess isn’t that bad except for the fact that i have a billion other things going on #we don’t need to know the actual structures tho which is nice #ramblings #i truly cannot wait until we start our physiology blocks im SO over cell and molecular bio this is so uninteresting to me #i guess we’ve been doing genetics for the past few days which is fun but like. it’s still not what i want to be doing #ughhhhhhh i also cannot for the life of me figure out how to study bc what worked well for me in college definitely won’t here and idk wh #what or how to change #at least this exam on friday doesn’t count toward our grade but still

[arugulalover]

gahhhhhhhh so much is happening rn i am feeling very overwhelmed heheheheheh 🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️✌

#first of all i have fucking covid #so i cant leave my apartment which is my worst fucking nightmare #esp when its finally getting warm and theres only 2 more weeks of fucking college and i wanna see my frirends #and also theres the fucking mcat #and i dont think ive studied enough #but like wtf am i supposed to do?????? keep studying ??? lmao lmao lol lol #and im so scared im gonna fail it and be fucked #and its a lose lose bc i either study for mcat or for my finals but if i dont pass either one i lose my med school seat #and i havent been to my bio lecture in like 2 weeks #bc ive been doing all this shit for my poetry class #which is almost all done so thank god for that but at the same time i dont want it to be over bc getting to teach poetry workshops #to 4th graders has been the best thing ever and i literally just cried in the shower thinkng abt thier poems and how profound they r #but also i am stressed about drama w a and o #bc i texted a abt our project and also covid and they nvr replied #and i feel bad bc they prob think im talking shit w o #but i feel so stuck in the middle and geuinely sad for a #bc everyone seems to dislike them and i get why but also i just feel really bad when there is drama #like a must be really sad rn and i have spent sm time w them i hope they r doing okay #also also i missed out on the dnd campagin we have been planning for fucking months #so now everyone has bonded w/o me and YES i have fomo and i think that is so valid of me #like r u serious group bonding dnd oneshot that I PLANNED and i have to miss it?????? #honey.post

[lycocarpum]

yeah college is fine thanks (emitting a distress call at a frequency only heard by bats)

#im back in the MCAT boys #im not but it fucking feels like it #i think cell bio just traumatised me

[dilatorywriting]

Hi this is a weird question but I was wondering what were your gpas, stats, and hour for when you applied to vet school. I’m going to apply this year but I’m nervous my gpa and hours are not good enough.

Hello hello! Best of luck to you my friend! 😊

Here's everything I can think up, so hopefully it helps answer whatever questions you have!

My GPA was low, about 3.45, which was just above the minimum 3.4 needed to apply to the the majority of schools. That was my biggest concern, but I'd read that overall if you kept your head up and did well in other areas it would work out. And, well, I got in on my first round so I'd say it was all fine!

I took the GRE + Bio rather than the MCAT, because I'd heard the MCAT was really heavy psychology and wanted to avoid it. I don't remember what my exact score was, but I was somewhere in the 90th percentile for the regular GRE and somewhere in the 80th percentile for the Bio portion

My saving grace was that I did a LOT of work experience. I spent every summer of my undergrad working as an assistant in a Small Animal ER/Referral Center, averaging about 50hrs a week. So by the time I applied during my final year of undergrad, I had hundreds, if not thousands of hours of experience. On top of that, I was lucky enough to get into a decently competitive internship doing marine rescue and rehab, so that helped a lot as well. However, that one wasn't on my application itself because of overlap of submission deadlines and the final internship selection, yadayadayada. So you don't need something super high intense to get the interview. But I think it definitely helped during the interview

The biggest thing I've seen from my own experiences and my friends' is that it comes down a lot to your mentality, if that makes sense. Like I remember getting absolutely grilled in my interview over it to the point I thought I'd absolutely flopped the whole thing. Vet medicine is tough, especially now with the post-pandemic pet boom and the way owners seem to be getting nastier and nastier. My program started before all that went down, and I still know at least half a dozen people who dropped out in the first year. Schools want people who are going to stick around. So you have to show that this is a career you're passionate about and that you have at least a basic understanding of how the current environment in the field is. Basically, you have to show that not only do you love animals, but that you love medicine. And that the field has its challenges now but you want to be a part of improving it for the better.

It's a tough process, but it all works out in the end. Don't let bumps in the road get you down! Only about 50% of applicants get a spot every year, and it can be even less than that on a first attempt. Not to scare you off!!! But as a "it is really, really hard. And it's not just you. It's hard all around so don't think you aren't cut out for it just because you may not feel great about how things went the first time around."

Good luck <3

#Asks #Vet Med

[a-is-away]

everything i studied this week

anatomy lab: (central) nervous system anatomy, eye anatomy, sheep brain anatomy

human and animal reproduction:twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (research paper)

mcat: reviewed practice exam, bio/biochem content review, chem/phys content review

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[celestie0]

ellie, please share your tips on learning biology.

haha i’m so stoked by this ask bc i used to DREAM of having a studyblr account when i was in college 🤣 i’ll try to give sort of unconventional tips that helped me study

tbh practice practice practice was most helpful for any calculus, biochem (at least for rxn & pathway diagrams), physics or ochem that i had to take, but not so much for bio since it’s mostly memorization (but it depends on the professor/class i guess)

1. use anki/quizlet & incorporate it into your morning routine (ex 20 flashcards while eating breakfast)

2. have your friends quiz you. make it funn like if you don’t answer correctly within 30 secs they get to hit you with a pillow or you have to take a shot of something gross

3. repetition is key for memorization, most importantly spaced repetition! studying the night before for a bio test is academic suicide and WILL make you want to dropout lmfaooo

4. for bio, i think the kaplan mcat prep book is decent and summarizes most of the systems of the body pretty well. even if you’re not planning on taking the mcat, it’s handy to have

5. to prep for any frq type exams, just read a lecture, write down headers for topics onto a sheet of paper, then immediately after reading it just try to write down everything you can remember for that topic within like a minute.

6. draw diagrams!! this was so useful when learning ab diff systems like circulatory, respiratory etc. just draw a gigantic diagram, and annotate the actual diagram w your notes. that way your brain ties the visual to the words, and it all becomes easier to picture in your head when you’re taking your exam

7. with any study tip/strategy, i think its important to include a component of “stress” or “stakes” to mimic the exam environment, whether that be some sort of light punishment, time constraint, resource constraint etc so that on actual test day, you’ve sort of primed yourself into feeling comfortable with the material despite your anxiety, which can really help give you an advantage

8. if you don’t feel like studying, set a two min timer and start. most of the time, you’ll keep going even after those two mins are up

9. convince yourself you’re in love w someone in your lecture hall so you wanna go to class

sorry this was more generic tips rather than bio-specific but i think these tips work BEST for any type of memorization subject such as bio

okay back to jjk brainrot

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[11queensupreme11]

mcat registration is only open for certain months (4 days out of the months?) so plan the registration times! you can see them on the AAMC website. i’m from CA but i had to travel out of state to take the exam 😭😭

i definitely agree you should take the mcat after you finish your physic/ chem series! there’s also ochem, biochem, bio, psych, and soc in the test

since i’m applying this upcoming cycle, i took it in january. depending on my score, i’ll retake in april/ may. taking it in may will mean i send in my scores blindly.

they open up registration from january - june/ july-september. if you want more chances to take the test, you can definitely start earlier! there’s a 3 limit cap per year, and a 7 limit cap in general

here are the reddit links!

study guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/92ndgx/my_review_sheets/

anki deck: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/cckw41/my_anki_deck/

how to use/ study anki if you’ve never used it before: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/q8k7k0/how_to_study_miles_down_anki/

equation sheet: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/7vs9dq/equations_sheet/

anki is good for content review but you have to understand the concepts pretty well before using it. otherwise you’re just guessing and not learning as efficiently (at least for me)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING, I NEEDED THIS SO MUCH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

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[kawaiiinla]

Imposter Syndrome in Science

I know no one will answer this since I'm basically just non-existant on this platform but... on the off chance

Anyone working toward a bio-science degree / premed style degree feel like an imposter? I've gotten through a lot of classes and have done well enough. I guess someone on the outside would say I am smart enough but I don't feel it. I don't feel like it at all. I still have two more classes before I take the MCATS and I just don't feel like I am cut out for anything. I se ejob postings for synapse exploratory labs, oncology labs, genetics labs, and so on and I feel so ... not there. All that work I've put in and I feel so inadequate. Stupid science.

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[lucysweatslove]

Hey friend! Your profile says MD to be. How far are you in your studies? What's your end goal?

YES I AM! Proudly gonna be a doctor!

As a note/rant: I put MD to be because it rhymes and it’s true, but because it’s important to me, I feel the need to say this. MD is not inherently better than DO, I’ve had and known many amazing DO docs. There is a HUGE anti-DO stigma among medical education which comes, IMO, from difficulty of acceptance. DO schools are easier to get into, BUT this doesn’t mean it’s easy to get into DO or that those who “can’t” (don’t) get into MD are somehow worse / less intelligent / less capable. Basically what happened: people thought we would have a surplus of docs back in like the 70s/80s I think, which lead to a general moratorium of seat expansion in MD programs. DOs tend to be more private schools (generalization, not accurate in all cases) and they still expanded. This meant more DO seats, fewer MD, and MD was still more widely known. So MDs had a lower seat:applicant ratio, making it more selective. Selectivity has raised substantially over the years for both MD and DO, but it’s raised higher for MD due to the perceived prestige, which acts as a feedback loop. One of the largest factors is MCAT score- even though we see very little correlation between MCAT scores around average or above with future residency performance, we keep selecting for higher and higher MCAT scores and especially in MD schools. We need some way to stratify, the MCAT is standardized, so we think that works- it’s just a shit predictor. It was somewhat good at predicting step 1 scores but that’s now pass/fail.

I say all this going to one of the top schools in the country, after having gotten a pretty darn high MCAT score. Which I bring up not to brag but because whenever I talk about med Ed, the shitty predictability if the MCAT, artificially high selectivity, and anti-DO bias, people assume I am “saving face” and did poorly overall. Sometimes people assume I’m DO deluding myself. Nope.

Anyway sorry for the rant. I could get into it more but won’t.

I’m only about 2.5 months into school proper. We are in our second preclinical block, a little more than halfway through. Our first was some basic science + bio stats, now we are doing infections and immunity.

End goal, idk. I’ve worked in both derm and psych previously and LOVE them both. My issue with derm is that it’s heavily procedural (not a huge fan) and we are getting saturated with derms here, and my primary motivation for going into medicine is to serve the people in my state as we are chronically underserved. I’m not really filling a niche with derm. Derm is also ridiculously and stupidly competitive. My issue with psych is that it just feels really familiar, and there aren’t a ton of “underlying physical pathologies” which makes it more boring to me. It’s SUPER cool, needed everywhere, and there is so much to potentially research, but there isn’t a lot of current integration with neuro (I think there should be) and there isn’t a lot that is currently known. You have a lot of disagreement in the field, like two attendings could meet the same patient and have the same interview and have two different dx with two different treatment methods.

Which, I also like neuro, but residency programs are notoriously malignant.

Thanks for the ask, friend!

#lucy goes to med school

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[day of productivity 5/?]

bagel and coffee for breakfast, MCAT study, lab (recreating the knockout fragment but with a different gene 😑), lecture on brain derived neurotrophic factors, natural resources lecture, then hanging out with friends and going home to study some cancer bio!

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[er-cryptid]

Branches of Biology

Botany = study of plants

Zoology = study of animals

Anatomy = study of body structure

Physiology = study of functions of body systems

Embryology = study of embryo development

Genetics = study of inheritance

Evolution = study of origins and species relationships

Ecology = study of environmental relationships

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[thistelltaleheart]

Hey, I noticed your bio says you're a pre-med student! Could you explain more about your pathway into medicine? (sorry if you've been asked this already)

"Painter, Pre-med student, Poet, and Probably not a mad scientist." XD And sure, I don't mind. :) I haven't been asked yet!

I was drawn into medicine by my fascination with the heart, actually. Both a scare with my own and my grandmother suffering a heart attack (she's fine now, don't worry) kicked off my interest. The magic that is the heart and how it's central to life and death sparked my curiosity about its function. I'd always been curious about the body, and so this interest seemed a natural extension. The more I researched, the more I fell in love with cardiology and medicine as a whole. Now there is nothing more I'd love than to share my love of the body with others and use my passion for knowledge and the heart to help those - like my grandmother and myself - whose hearts betrayed them.

If you're more interested in my "physical" path: I did my first two years of uni at my local junior college (in Biology) before moving onto my "4-year" university. I majored in Health Sciences with a pre-med concentration and am now preparing for the MCAT and applying to med schools. I did some research in cardiology last summer (which cemented my love for the subject!) and am currently working as a doctor's scribe. :)

[sunlightandsuffering]

so i’m actually curious, what premed course eren took? and what branch of medicine he’s at?

AHHAHA so funny u mention this bc this chapter is literally me deciding Eren is not in fact going to follow through on his dreams of being a doctor 😂 bc it is simply TOO MUCH WORK! And the logistics of him and MIKI living happily ever after while he goes to school for like another 100 years just didn’t make sense to me. But he’s still a science boy I was thinking sports therapy, maybe a masters for him. But where I live anyone can be pre med as long as u take the required courses and do well on the MCAT. So for example I was literally a bio major and I did in fact take and struggle with O Chem 1 😂🙈 that was my tipping point for actually getting out of sciences bc I was like fuck this shit man! So that’s where Eren is at, he’s doing all his required courses considering the MCAT but for the sake of the timeline he’s gonna give up lol

[stuckinapril]

omg i’m premed too! But my dad got in a car accident and there were no attending orthopedic surgeons available so a resident put my dads leg back together with I think like 80-90 percent accuracy? So my dads leg has a bit of a tilt to it but still really good! Only reason a resident had to do it though is because the hospital thought my dad didn’t have insurance so they delayed his surgery for over 4 hours after he was admitted

OMGG fellow pre med hiii!!! are you a bio major?? what year are you?? are u taking a gap year. when are u taking the mcat. i love u. that story about your dad is crazy

#sorry seeing other pre meds on here is so cool #healthcare experiences

[itsallwearecalledtodo]

only good thing about the subjects on the mcat is that sometimes they’re redundant. like thermodynamics is covered in gen chem and physics. acid-base chemistry is covered in gen chem biochem and organic chem. the nervous system is covered in bio and behavioral science. lots of similar stuff.

#laurel does the mcat