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{{Launch School Edition}}: The Importance of Paying Attention
Around two years ago, I was asked to complete a personality assessment that included DiSC®. DiSC® is a personal assessment tool used to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace on four behaviors: dominance, influence, steadiness and compliance. High compliance scores are associated with analytical, detail oriented, andcautious learners. Low C’s tend to…
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A Change of Heart
Today I will be honest. This blog is a lie. I’m not premed anymore, and I’m not going back. After doing a lot of soul-searching, I’ve come to the conclusion that I do want to help people, just not in a clinical setting. I could use my talents, my mind, for something far grander: telling…
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Organic Chemistry I: Tips for Mechanism
These are the only notes I understand from my organic chemistry class 😦 Hopefully you can make better sense of it than I can!
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Organic Chemistry: Rules for Resonance Structures
Organic chemistry makes me believe that there is a God. Even within the same structure, there’s many possibilities of other structures. I don’t care how they’ve explained it. The overlaps between p orbitals is simply divine.
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My Tier 5 Visa Application Experience
I completed an item on bucket list: I lived (and worked) in a foreign country. However, study abroad would be too expensive for me as I probably wouldn’t have had clearance to work that particular semester. And so I did the next best thing: I applied for and went as an intern with Index on…
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Organic Chemistry: The Energy it Takes
In this blog post, I will explain how an atom can bond to so many different things, and how it does that. This blog post will deal with hybridization and atomic orbitals forming bonds. For the purposes of my course, I will be dealing with s, p, sp, sp2, and sp3 orbitals.
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Organic Chemistry: Dimensions and Dipoles
Shapes of molecules are super important in organic chemistry. like everything else…