#med school apps

[trixree]

Absolutely obsessed with the TikTok community that is just reposting clips from House MD and making the most unhinged House/Wilson fancams and writing shit like this in the comments on every single one

But this one is for SURE my favorite

So far, MY favorite House MD arc is the one in season 4 when he just fucking kidnaps a man

#yall have me frightened but captivated #everyone in this show is a horrible person it's actually endlessly entertaining #but the babygirlification of hugh laurie is as unexpected as it is entirely predictable somehow #im making my partner who is in med school watch with me and the show has its own rules about the human body #get me on houseblr stat 🙏 #a masterpiece of early 2000s writing #house md #clock app #trixree speaks #im high and on mobile i cant add alt text rn apolgies will add later 👍

[emgoesmed]

10/16/2023

Residency programs started sending interview invites and it feels surreal. 😳

Other than checking my email all the time, I'm enjoying all the Halloween decorations around the neighborhood and feeding the cat treats.

#emgoesmed #studyblr #studyspo #med student #med school #med studyblr #ms4 #eras #interview season #crazy to think i'll be an intern next year #i am also starting to see what m4s last year meant by having too much free time after submitting apps #after this week i have 2 weeks of vacation (yay) #but i still feel weird about it #anyway just gonna keep going to the gym and enjoying my hobbies #and we'll see how things go

[raspberry-bi]

IM DOING IT SCARED AAAAAAAAAAAA

#its med school apps again. all my confidence from last year is gone haha

[sroloc--elbisivni]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(this is good screaming)

#sroloc babbles #i finished my grad school apps and put them out into the universe yesterday and woke up still bleary on cold meds to my first offer letter #and just got!! offer letter!!!! for first choice school!!!!!!!!!! #if you are looking at this in the 17 minutes after i posted it congratulations you know before my mother

[prince-liest]

i wanted to ask how you just stayed mentally strong after getting through your first round of med school rejections... i haven't gotten an interview from anywhere and it feels as if i'm just behind on the person i wanted to be and i feel a bit lost now... i just wanted some advice since i do feel sad about it all unfortunately :(

Hey, there! I'm really sorry to hear that, I know it's a really tough time to go through. I honestly don't think there was any part of medical school that's been as rough as the application cycle, and it's very understandable to feel sad and rejected.

A lot of it came to my dad's particular brand of supportiveness, which I personally found very reassuring, so I will pass on what he told me and hope that it may offer you some comfort as well:

This is not the end of the world, and there is nothing wrong with trying again. We grow up in this grade school - college - graduate school system where it feels like we have to be doing everything on a specific timeline, and if we don't, we're failures. This is very much not the case with medical school: it is standard and expected to take gap years between college and medical school, only 40% of people who apply to medical school any given cycle are accepted anywhere, and depending on where you get your statistics, anywhere from 1/3-1/2 of current medical students have applied multiple cycles. There's a guy in my class who was 41 years old when he was accepted. You have time, you can try again, and you are not behind because you are not participating in a process in which there are the same standards of "being behind" as you've been experiencing during high school and college.

What you need to do is give yourself some time to work through your feelings with your support system, and then, when you feel like you can, sit down and take a good look at your application to see what there is that can be made more competitive. Is it your grades? I was applying to post-baccs at the same time as my second cycle. Is it your MCAT? I took mine three times before I figured out how to actually study for it properly, and my second score was worse than my first. Is it your extracirriculars? Your shadowing hours? Your essay?

There is no rush, and this is one of those things where putting together a careful plan and following through on it will serve you much better than (like I did, HAH) freaking out, deciding that maybe you should just get a Master's or a PhD instead, and calling up the local state university's biochemistry department in a weird panic to get a sponsor for their graduate school program. (Thank you for talking me down, oh father mine. I don't know how I managed to get that far in like six hours.)

I am a planner at heart, and having these kinds of reassurances and plans in place helped me a lot with feeling like everything was under control. It was also really great to be supported by my family: I'm often so hard on myself that I expected them to be disappointed in me, because my dad especially is very much the, "Oh, a B? Hm... could be better..." type of immigrant parent, but both of my parents were actually incredibly supportive. Lean on your support systems, whatever they may be!

I hope this helped a little bit, anon, and I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors! <3 There is always a way forward! Just because it's not the same one another person took does not make it inferior!

#ask #personal #medical school #anonymous #also: a little surprised people remember whenever it was that i said it took me more than one app cycle! #not in a bad way haha I'm just graduating med school in may so I was like 'hm it's been a while! wild!'

[medimagination]

Just spent 7 hours of productive time on studies today !!!✌️

#forest app #studyblr #medstudyblr #study notes #studyspo #study hard #med school #medstudentblog #medstudentlife #study motivation #studygram #study aesthetic #student #mbbs in india #mbbslife

[thelasttime]

yup ! yup !

#.txt #putting in the languages i know for my med school apps

[munamania]

anyone else have the tendency to base the status of their relationship with people like entirely on the way ur last interaction with them went. it’s def not a fun or healthy way to be. also anyone feel like they miss every natural beat in conversation looking back. yeah it’s been about two weeks since i’ve had my meds i think

#😐 thank god my one friend has an excess of prozac since these fuck ass doctors felt like it was ok #to just. stop refilling with absolutey no warning or anything and now trying to find time to call and make an appt since it’s not fucking #working on the app is impossible #i’m gonna kill those doctors i should be able to sue at least #abby talks #crazy how taking away the meds that help with anxiety and depression has added an extra layer of difficulty in trying to get myself help #and also is fucking up my first week of school

[disengaged]

i've got 2.5 months til i'm done my bachelors degree & yet this shit feels harder than ever

#i suspect sleeping 11 hours a day & working 25hrs per week is not helping me get my schoolwork done #& neither is having multiple major essays and presentations for every course. but hey #light at the end of the tunnel right? #....... right ? #pegasus speaks #my grad school app status got moved to 'under review' today tho :') #even tho im kinda like. undecided if i even want it . or how effective i would be in a MEd program given my current situation #im honestly doing the bare minimum to function and it scares me #haha estimated 6 month wait time for my sleep study let's gooo !!!!

[adhirasam]

I have an exam tomorrow and am literally so unserious rn

#watch me come back to tumblr crying when i fail #and delete this app only to download it again #desiblr #desi tumblr #desi shitposting #college #desi girl #med school

[capyclub]

they should invent an ibuprofen that works

#my fucking headache is not going away!!! #I already took two so i can’t take anymore today :| #i have an intense training day for my volunteer thing tomorrow #and i mean it is remote so it could be worse but still #technically I wouldn’t be lying if I said I felt unwell to get out of it #but idk I’d feel bad #I really need a day off though #ramblings #in other news I FINALLY finished my last few med school apps so I’m officially done!!! just gotta wait for the interview invites (or #rejections oof) to roll in

[evankinard]

there's a little goblin in my brain that looks at my schedule for next semester sees I have a 2.5 hour break in the middle of my 12 hour school+work day and thinks...I bet I could get another job and fill that up

#im hitting her with a broom as we speak #thats our LUNCH BREAK you DEMON #im already gonna be a full time student with 16 credits gonna TA 1-2 classes have my one job and another internship on top of it RELAX #but also. if I keep this research job itll look super good for med school apps 🤕 #... #i could probably do 6 hours a week #update: the goblin got vanquished my girlfriend got mad at me

[emgoesmed]

9/9/2023

I have the whole weekend off before starting my week of night shifts. I'm looking forward to being productive and enjoying the free time! (It feels liberating not to have uworld on my to-do list lol)

clean kitchen

take out trash

laundry

budget

workout

emails

review program list

#emgoesmed #studyblr #studyspo #med student #med school #med studyblr #ms4 #productivity #coffee #weekend #cafe #chores #gotta do eras stuff #as in residency applications #not as in taylor swift lol #can't believe apps are due in less than 3 weeks #actually wild

[joysmercer]

i did not get into my first choice 🙃

#officially i wont know until tomorrow but the portal usually updates the night before and no updates for me #time to simply cry i guess #med school app tag

[irrelevantnostalgia]

4. Cake Mania: Main St (2010)

I remember describing Cake Mania’s games’ progress as exponential once, but I think that the perfect graph to describe the progression of Cake Mania’s games with regards to quality is a sigmoidal curve. 

The first three games can be represented by the bottom of the curve. They’re a steady rise in terms of overall quality and then bam, the graph shoots up and levels off near the top. What is it about Cake Mania: Main St that I’m really loving? 

The plot is similar to the original Cake Mania. Evil MegaCorp, worse than the one before, is coming to Bakersfield. This time they are introducing a soulless new shopping mall which will push out the vibrant mom and pop shops. In response to this, Jill is going to get out her magic equipment and use cake to save Bakersfield, again. Only this time, she is going to be fighting the good fight alongside her friends and players are going to be able to play 4 different games. We get to play in Jill’s bakery, but also Jack’s burger joint, Risha’s plant nursery, and Tiny’s sushi restaurant. No need for Jill to defeat the evil by herself, she will now fight alongside her comrades.

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽'𝓼 𝓝𝓮𝔀

No More Animation: No more uncanny and incomplete animation. The cutscenes have returned to the normal comic format, but kept the voice-acting. Thank fuck.

Tiny as a part of the main gang: As the number of Cake Mania games increase, Jill’s inner circle does as well. In Cake Mania 2, we were introduced to Jack and Risha as people of importance in Jill’s life while Tiny was just another customer. He didn’t even have a name, he was just the sumo wrestler customer. In Cake Mania 3, he was a member of Jill’s entourage that got transported back in time. There was somewhat of an indication that Tiny has a bigger role in the game than some of the other members that got transported back, such as her grandpa and “Agent Bundt”/Deliveryman from Cake Mania, but not enough so I did not bother pointing it out. However, in this game Tiny is featured as one of the main characters in this game with his own stage so it is safe to say he has officially joined Jill’s inner circle.

This Entire Game: After 3 games of basically the Same Thing (except maybe some game-equivalent facelifts, haircuts, and manicures to give the game a new look), the game had to try something new. It would be foolish to radically change up the classic formula of Jill + Baking, because it works well. It is just getting old at this point. Instead of changing up Jill + Baking, why not just add more to do? 

Unlock It (Charli XCX ft. Kim Petras & Jay Park): We have the four businesses that we are going to operate and various flags around town that represent attractions. We can unlock these attractions through through gameplay. Once an attraction is unlocked the flag turns blue and we have the option to buy it, and we can even earn a small amount of money from the attraction for each level/”day” we complete.

Split the Bill: Since this game has the new objective of buying attractions around town, the money that you earn from the levels gets split--half of it goes to the fund to upgrade the equipment in the stage you are working in, like how it was for the rest of the games. The other half goes to the town fund (pictured above with the cash amount in the green sign). 

Upgrade U (Beyonce ft. Jay-Z): You can upgrade each location which makes it bigger and more elaborate on the town map, while changing the decoration a bit when you play the levels. This set up allows for each location to be a speed-run version of the previous games since you can experiences various “stages” across 25 levels.

This aspect is the “fluff that I was okay with doing but ultimately don’t give a shit about” that was present all throughout Cake Mania 3. I understand why we are purchasing attractions and making the town pretty, but I didn’t feel anything while doing it. Not excitement, not irritation. I suppose this trying to be a more “interactive” way of saving the town compared to Cake Mania where you just played levels and got the happy ending. However, this is not something that needs fixing. The entire game is just clicking buttons, but clicking buttons in a level provides you with some kind of excitement. Buying the attractions felt like opening up a new word document, it just didn’t add anything.

𝓛𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼

Evans’ Bakery

The old formula we all know and love is back with some minor tweaks. A lot of the stuff I thought was useless fluff in Cake Mania 3, such as the mini-games and stage-specific power ups, did not make a return in this game. However, the sugar rush power-up, drink station, and overnight fridge stayed!

Since these different locations have compressed an entire game’s experience into 25 levels, equipment and upgrades are cheaper again. You also have the option to sell your equipment if you are in a bind to get some money back.

Risha’s Flower Shop

This is legit the only location where I found it to be difficult to play at times, which is a good thing because every other location is fairly easy to play in my opinion.

Risha’s flower shop has the same set-up as Jill’s bakery. You have the flower “oven” with the wrapping “froster.” I’m not sure what it is, but they feel slower or the location goals are much more difficult to achieve. Literally the first time I played this game I rage-quit (lmao) this location because I was struggling to get the super goals, which eventually turned into struggling to get the bare minimum goal. Sometimes getting the super goals required replaying a level and hoping that the random amount of money each customer gave to you was a little higher because I would be $5 off. I would attempt to get either of the two “topping” machines to get some extra money tacked on to each order, but this would be during the snail-speed machine stages which ended up biting me in the ass since each order just took longer and you couldn’t get as many customers in.

 Eventually, I decided to just change the location of the “oven” and “froster” to be closer to each other and voila. Now, I wasn’t making Risha slow-walk across the stage constantly which saved time. It is odd because while adjusting the location of the oven+froster to be closer in any of the Cake Mania games helped a lot, but was not necessary for me to achieve the superstar goal. For Risha’s location it is practically necessary for me after the first few stages.

Also, Risha’s flower shop has two “decorators.” You can add the bouquet equivalent of a topping, ribbon, or both. I honestly recommend fully upgrading one before purchasing the other. By the time you fully upgrade one, you will have the funds to purchase all the upgrades for the other. 

Jack’s Burger Barn and Tiny’s Sumo Sushi 

These games have the same formula, similar to the relationship that Jill and Risha’s locations have. Jill and Risha’s locations are based around upgrading equipment. The orders are important, but the main objective is how you are going to invest the money you earn into making your establishment run more efficiently and churn out more money. Jack and Tiny’s locations have a set up where you have various ingredients spread out and have to make the orders yourself instead of only clicking buttons on an oven, kind of like the Burger Island games. The way to progress through their locations is to unlock and buy more recipes, and the only equipment you can buy is the distraction cookie machine and the TV. The recipes are also unlocked in order, so you can’t skip around with which recipes you purchase. 

Another interesting aspect to note about these games is that the rules for making the food are lenient. Throwing away a cake or a flower comes with a penalty, but with Jack and Tiny’s locations you can prepare as many burger patties or fried salmon as you want to make preparing orders more convenient. I found them to be much easier to play than Jill and Risha’s locations due to this reason. 

Here is the completed town, with all of the attractions unlocked and all the locations fully upgraded!

Here are all the trophies you can earn as well. For each location, (minus Evans’ Bakery) you can earn a trophy for unlocking it, fully upgrading it finishing all the levels, and finishing all the levels with the superstar baking goal. The balloons are for unlocking and purchasing all the local attractions, and of course the ribbon for completing the entire game. This is a much better approach to achievements than Cake Mania 3, which gave you a trophy for breathing.

Now it is time to introduce the stars of this game

𝓒𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓼

*Deep Sigh*

Favorite TV Station: Penguin Documentary

They look like the result of several generations of Nekogirl inbreeding for the worst traits. The pugs of Nekogirls.

Me in the Future

Favorite TV Station: Penguin documentary

Throwback from Cake Mania 2! Love to see her and her cat still thriving

Happy Lady

Favorite TV Station: Cartoons

Sad Sack: Hotdog Edition 

Favorite TV Station: X-Files 

A Cake Mania staple character

Chef Gordon

Favorite TV Station: News

One of many Blue Bubble customers

Marquis

Favorite TV Show: X-Files

Throwback from Cake Mania 3! He provides you with a sugar rush when he arrives

Super Matt

Favorite TV Show: News

Another beloved Blue Bubble customer. What’s great about this guy is that, unlike Napoleon and the Emperor from Cake Mania 3, this guy only immobilizes one customer adjacent to him. He does this by freezing them, so they are immobilized for a while. Gotta love it.

Ninja

Favorite TV Show: Cartoons

There can never be too many Blue Bubble customers. He’s like Super Matt, except he uses a smoke attack against customers instead of freezing them. Residents of Bakersfield get to truly pick their poison while waiting for cake or a burger.

1 Adult Customer

Favorite TV Show: Penguin documentary

This customer is just a SINGLE ADULT in a cute little coat. One individual in a coat. Only one. And they are grown, and definitely don’t need to be in school instead of waiting in line for flowers or sushi. 

Alien

Favorite TV Show: X-Files

Throwback from Cake Mania 2! And yes, they still change the channel to their favorite one. 

Pirate

Favorite TV Show: Penguin Documentary

Yep, this is customer goes from 0 to Blue Bubble if you anger him. He’s kinda like the Dinosaur from Cake Mania 3 in that regard. 

Tiny

Favorite TV Show: Penguin Documentary 

Throwback to Cake Mania 2!

Don Carlos

Favorite TV Show: X-Files

ANOTHER Blue Bubble customer, this time he is pulling a Robin Hood and trying to take your profits from you

Mr. Jack Jill-Evans

Favorite TV Show: News

Our favorite Himbo actually gets to be a customer

Dracula

Favorite TV Show: News

Throwback to Cake Mania! And also the Blue Bubble-customerification of Dracula. 

420 Blaze It

Favorite TV Show: You know what? Throughout the entire game I never learned his TV preference, because I didn’t have to. Because, yes, he will take literally ANYTHING. Also yeah he is high. 

♥This Guy♥

Favorite TV Show: X-files

I don’t know why he would make anyone happy. He’s just a guy. But he is the people’s guy because he lifts their spirits. 

Risha

What’s great about her is you don’t even have to hand her a menu, she is ready to order the moment she walks in. 

...and finally

♥La Reina, Queen of Cakes, the Malika of Marzipan....Jill Evans♥

Favorite TV Show: Cartoons

The division of customers either being neutral or affecting other customers with their mere presence has been reduced heavily in this game in favor of Blue Bubble customers. I don’t like this decision because I did like the chaos that customers like the mummy or witch provided. At the same time, it is not like having your customers frozen or changed to hot dogs makes for smooth gameplay, and it was still fun navigating the nonsense that came with this batch of Blue Bubble customers. Still, I prefer Cake Mania 3′s approach more since it allowed for both kinds of customers.

𝓜𝔂 𝓞𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓷

You can gauge what I think of this game from the entirety of this blogpost. I really, really like this as a next step for the Cake Mania series. It keeps the recipe that we all know and love and adds on to it instead of creating a completely unrecognizable game. The changes this game provided weren’t as fluffy as Cake Mania 3. There is maybe one aspect that was changed that I didn’t like, and even that was not an issue that made the game unplayable. I really think this is the furthest this series can go before the game gets too ridiculous and deviates from the main draw of the game.

I give this game a 4/4. As in, all 4 locations are fun!

Anyways, here are the choice screenshots

Self aware game is self aware

Comrade Jill? 

Throwback to Cake Mania 2!

The series portrays Jack to be a massive Himbo who has some interesting business ideas, which he basically is, but the dude is highkey very clever. This is hilarious.

I think this would be really a nice really poster at a dispensary.

Risha’s “thing” in this game is that she is a city slicker who is a fish out of water in this small town. This aspect about her gets contradicted in a later game when we find out that [spoiler].

Oh yeah, Jill is pregnant btw. 

Comrade Don

Nightmare fuel. Also can you tell this is from the late 2000s/early 2010s?

Grimes and Elon Musk is that you?

I’d imagine this is a normal day working in food service during the Bush-era

#cake mania main st #cake mania #pc games #time management game #old web #time management #childhood game #nostaligiacore #nostalgia #childhood nostalgia #faced the same problem w the text editor smhhh #also this took wayyyy longer than usual like i finished this game in july #its cause i was filling out med school secondary apps T-T #but i left that flop era and will be entering a new one soon #i wont stop cakeblogging tho

[boysandgirlsandbabes]

as you held me down you said

Relationships: Nicklas Backstrom/Alexander Ovechkin

Word count: 6.1k

Rating: M/M, explicit (other tags on ao3)

Summary: 

Nicke raises his eyebrows. “You’re the problem, not me,” he says. Now Alex’s thumb is lightly tracing the inseam of his pants, almost lazily, at the crease of his inner thigh. There’s something about the exact pressure that he’s using that’s making it slightly more distracting than it should be. “I would never.”

Alex snorts. “Liar,” he says, leaning in closer. “You fool everyone else, maybe. But can’t fool me.” His mouth is so close that his breath ghosts over Nicke’s lips like a second skin. A strange little shiver goes down Nicke’s spine, in spite of himself. 

“Yeah?” he says. “You know who I am?”

Alex’s mouth twitches. “Always,” he says, and then slides out of his seat and onto his knees in front of Nicke.

(read on ao3) (🔒)

Sometimes you're just minding your own business merrily not looking at the Washington Capitals crashing and burning in their last few games before playoffs, and then your twitter gets inundated with a thousand videos of Alex Ovechkin joyfully showboating in a press box in front of 20,000 fans while Nicklas Backstrom fondly films him, and the only way to cope with it all is to write a thousand words about their gross exhibitionist kink that morphs into 6k about their even grosser marriage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#rpf #my fic #cannot emphasize how much this is just COMPLETELY self indulgent nonsense. writing this was truly like #im at the caps crashing out of round 1 coping mechanism im at the nicke post-season interview about considering r********* coping mechanism #im at the med school apps due in 2 weeks coping mechanism im at the combination caps losing nicke r******* med school apps coping mechanism #im telling myself that when im done with everything ill come back and fix it so its not bad lol. but i cannot look at it rn #like literally. i do not have time lolol #i realized also this is my first time writing in-universe 819 and i just gotta say. 0/10 experience would NOT recommend #these bitches are SO obsessed with each other. and they have BEEN so obsessed for YEARS #what is UP with that #anyways when i finally go back and update my 819 primer ppt. what then