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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…
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4 Financial Apps You Need When you start college
What can I say? I’m a Taurus and I love money. Not in a greedy way, but in a way that makes me understand the use of a dollar. It gives me security…when I have it. But as it stands, I’m a low income college student now just making their way in their career. Given,…
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Organic Chemistry I: Drawing Squiggles and Dots in Space
I’ve finally arrived at every premed’s bane: organic chemistry. As the single most important course to be taken for the purposes of MCAT and the basis of most of medicine, I am understandably shaking in my boots.
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Organic Chemistry: Acids and Bases
One thing I hate about organic chemistry is one topic can be a inch across, but a mile deep. Such is the life of acids and bases: this topics relate heavily to reactivity, and its parts to make its conjugate base and H3O-.
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How I built up my Credit Score while in College
If there’s an industry that will build in you a distrust of capitalism faster than anything, it’s the finance industry. Learning about the bank fees for literally everything, the sneaky advertising for expensive lifestyles and the constant consumerism threw me for a loop, but you know what got my blood boiling? Credit scores.
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Financial Stablity While in College
Money is definitely an object. It has been, it will be and always will be something to be needed, wanted and hated. This summer, I had a lot of fun in a very expensive city. But now with the semester starting up, it’s back to work, figuratively and literally. I want to put down everything…
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Where to Get Healthy Trash
Since starting college, I’ve realized that you have very little time for anything else but learning. While that’s not a bad thing, that makes absorbing new material that has nothing to do with your major requirements, minor requirements, graduation requirements, or isn’t a requirement in general pain in the brain. And we already have enough…
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Greetings from a ‘S—hole’ Country
Hey, it’s Nicole here on vacation from the USA back in my motherland, Ghana. The sun is high, harmattan is dry, and the tilapia and yam chips are fried. It’s good to be home. It’s good to see the progress Ghana has already made, from no dumso where I reside to consistent clean pipe water.…
Nico Addai 