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notyourpanda: brettnexx: chimpiewestside: annie-banks: reichenbachfallfromgrace: raisedyoufromperdition: sirwatson: moriartyed: scipsy: Not so good, but since the most common vocabulary size for non-native English spearkes is from 2,500–9,000 words, at least I’m in the average. Test Your Vocabulary: how many words do you know? pretty much what i was expecting 21,500 words aw yeahhh 23,600 words good thing it didn’t ask me to spell all of them… Seems studying for the GRE has yet one more use: taking online vocab tests.  lol… My occasional semantic pedantry explained. (Go to http://testyourvocab.com to…test your vocab!)  The being ESL probably plays a part, too, since other ESL people have initiated semantic debates with me too, which is to say I understand how my semantic pedantry can be frustrating.Why use a lot of small words when you can use one big word, right?EXAMPLE:“Jeeze, what do you have against fun? It’s just that I think we’re giving a lot of information, and everyone will get bored.”“We’ll make up for it with alacrity.” “What does that even mean?”“Vivacity! Joie de vivre! We can put the fun in the delivery. I mean, if we know our stuff and we’re prepared, we can be cute and casual about it, but we’ll still hit all the points we need to hit. That’s why I’d rather have everyone not rely on notes for the whole presentation, and why I propose we all meet to get wired up on caffeine before the presentation. Believe me, we’ll get them engaged, and we won’t have to resort to…I mean, remember that the goal here is to make a consultancy presentation that a company would pay us 5 grand for. Skits and youtube clips just don’t seem appropriate. Let’s give it a practice run, and you’ll see. Full perfomance level, everyone!”  “Wow. I actually had fun watching us. It wasn’t boring at all.”“See? Alacrity. We didn’t have to resort to gimmicks, and people won’t probably know that dem be l’arnin!’” We won the client in this academic simulation ^_^ Sometimes, I have a counterproductive tendency to explain small words in terms of big words as well. “Do you have good dexterity?” I asked one of my lab partners while motioning with my hands before we worked on dissecting a frog to add chronotropic agents to its heart. “What does that mean again?” “Are you good with your hands? The frog’s really small so I might get butter fingers and fuck the frog up.” “No, but what does it mean exactly? Like, the dictionary meaning.” “Well, dexterity could refer to manual or mental dexterity so I guess I should’ve said manual dexterity instead. Nimbleness. Adroitness.” Imagine how much more verbose I’d be if I broke big words into bunches of small words.

notyourpanda:

brettnexx:

chimpiewestside:

annie-banks:

reichenbachfallfromgrace:

raisedyoufromperdition:

sirwatson:

moriartyed:

scipsy:

Not so good, but since the most common vocabulary size for non-native English spearkes is from 2,500–9,000 words, at least I’m in the average.

Test Your Vocabulary: how many words do you know?

pretty much what i was expecting

21,500 words aw yeahhh

23,600 words

good thing it didn’t ask me to spell all of them…

Seems studying for the GRE has yet one more use: taking online vocab tests.  lol…

My occasional semantic pedantry explained. (Go to http://testyourvocab.com to…test your vocab!)  The being ESL probably plays a part, too, since other ESL people have initiated semantic debates with me too, which is to say I understand how my semantic pedantry can be frustrating.

Why use a lot of small words when you can use one big word, right?

EXAMPLE:
“Jeeze, what do you have against fun? It’s just that I think we’re giving a lot of information, and everyone will get bored.”

“We’ll make up for it with alacrity.”

“What does that even mean?”

“Vivacity! Joie de vivre! We can put the fun in the delivery. I mean, if we know our stuff and we’re prepared, we can be cute and casual about it, but we’ll still hit all the points we need to hit. That’s why I’d rather have everyone not rely on notes for the whole presentation, and why I propose we all meet to get wired up on caffeine before the presentation. Believe me, we’ll get them engaged, and we won’t have to resort to…I mean, remember that the goal here is to make a consultancy presentation that a company would pay us 5 grand for. Skits and youtube clips just don’t seem appropriate. Let’s give it a practice run, and you’ll see. Full perfomance level, everyone!”



 
“Wow. I actually had fun watching us. It wasn’t boring at all.”

“See? Alacrity. We didn’t have to resort to gimmicks, and people won’t probably know that dem be l’arnin!’”

We won the client in this academic simulation ^_^

Sometimes, I have a counterproductive tendency to explain small words in terms of big words as well.

“Do you have good dexterity?” I asked one of my lab partners while motioning with my hands before we worked on dissecting a frog to add chronotropic agents to its heart.

“What does that mean again?”

“Are you good with your hands? The frog’s really small so I might get butter fingers and fuck the frog up.”

“No, but what does it mean exactly? Like, the dictionary meaning.”

“Well, dexterity could refer to manual or mental dexterity so I guess I should’ve said manual dexterity instead. Nimbleness. Adroitness.”

Imagine how much more verbose I’d be if I broke big words into bunches of small words.

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My mother’s tax preparer better get her a lot of refunds; I spent two hours printing and filing dis shit. I got injured too! I’d like to say it was a paper cut, but glass was involved in this somehow. (I was preparing it under this sheet of glass covering a collage of pictures on the counter…it’s a long story) My mother told me her friend got 100k in refunds off this tax preparer (after going over 10 years of tax history— the tax preparer used to work for the IRS  and works on commission so homegirl is legit), and I’m like, shit, son, that’s my master’s and maybe the first year of my clinical doctorate right there. I love that I develop necessary life skills in my function as my mother’s personal assistant. lol Speaking of my mother and my academic plans, I have, more than ever, been getting peer-pressured into considering med or pharm d school. Friends, classmates and professors have been telling me that mah brainz is meant for more than just what I am pursuing, but the MCATs and my life-satisfaction projections might beg to differ. Fortunately, my interactions with my mother has trained me to at least justify why I would rather not pursue medicine. In a nutshell, I’ll become like Gregory House except with less intelligence and even less propensity for drug abuse. (Hello, Medical and Pharmacy board from the future!) Unfortunately, I have no defense against Pharm D except that it would make the post-secondary teaching route impractical and/or long-winded (less so than med school, which borders insane) although I suppose I could at least become a preceptor for a pharmacy school. I hate/love that the potential twofold increase in salary should I get a Pharm D isn’t enough to get me sold on it. I mean, I figured I could just get a clinical doctorate— which should let me earn as much as a pharmacist— on top of my masters should I decide to make bank at some point in my glorious dream of achieving college tenure. I’m hoping they don’t change the requirements for an entry-level tenure track from an MS to a PhD in my field because, I mean, my insanity has its limits.  Y’know though— and this seems like uncommon knowledge— professors can make bank to the tune of close to 200k, although, really, I’m cool with 50k full-time for a job that doesn’t suck all the time out of you. It still probably will, but I’ll do it out of my own free will and not of my master’s bidding because I am a free man! The only person allowed to make my life unnecessarily hard and complicated is me, m’sieurs et m’mselles! This is because I intend to make my exams essay-heavy, which will be a bitch to grade, but will fairly appraise comprehension of the material. Appropriate enough, methinks, since comprehension can mean life and death in dem medicinal matters. “So, is my answer right?” my Physiology study groupmate asks me. “Hmmmm,” I take a couple seconds, “yeaaah I guess.” “What do you mean ‘you guess’? Do you know what the answer is?” “I mean, it’s not exactly accurate. Okay, so actually, technically, this should be…” “Oh god,” she says, exasperated, “just assume it’s the same thing. That’s what they are to me.” “Welp, too bad I’m a pedantic bastard. I mean, I guess in this case they are kind of the same.”  ”You’ll be such a hard teacher.” “Hey, I’d still give you credit for it! I mean, I’d probably give more credit to an exact answer, but I’ll still give you credit. I’ll probably scribble stuff on your paper just to make sure you know what’s what though. For larnin’, y’know.” Heck, I’d teach part-time as a lucrative hobby and general life-satisfaction index booster.

My mother’s tax preparer better get her a lot of refunds; I spent two hours printing and filing dis shit. I got injured too! I’d like to say it was a paper cut, but glass was involved in this somehow. (I was preparing it under this sheet of glass covering a collage of pictures on the counter…it’s a long story)

My mother told me her friend got 100k in refunds off this tax preparer (after going over 10 years of tax history— the tax preparer used to work for the IRS  and works on commission so homegirl is legit), and I’m like, shit, son, that’s my master’s and maybe the first year of my clinical doctorate right there. I love that I develop necessary life skills in my function as my mother’s personal assistant. lol

Speaking of my mother and my academic plans, I have, more than ever, been getting peer-pressured into considering med or pharm d school. Friends, classmates and professors have been telling me that mah brainz is meant for more than just what I am pursuing, but the MCATs and my life-satisfaction projections might beg to differ.

Fortunately, my interactions with my mother has trained me to at least justify why I would rather not pursue medicine. In a nutshell, I’ll become like Gregory House except with less intelligence and even less propensity for drug abuse. (Hello, Medical and Pharmacy board from the future!) Unfortunately, I have no defense against Pharm D except that it would make the post-secondary teaching route impractical and/or long-winded (less so than med school, which borders insane) although I suppose I could at least become a preceptor for a pharmacy school.

I hate/love that the potential twofold increase in salary should I get a Pharm D isn’t enough to get me sold on it. I mean, I figured I could just get a clinical doctorate— which should let me earn as much as a pharmacist— on top of my masters should I decide to make bank at some point in my glorious dream of achieving college tenure.

I’m hoping they don’t change the requirements for an entry-level tenure track from an MS to a PhD in my field because, I mean, my insanity has its limits.

 Y’know though— and this seems like uncommon knowledge— professors can make bank to the tune of close to 200k, although, really, I’m cool with 50k full-time for a job that doesn’t suck all the time out of you. It still probably will, but I’ll do it out of my own free will and not of my master’s bidding because I am a free man! The only person allowed to make my life unnecessarily hard and complicated is me, m’sieurs et m’mselles!

This is because I intend to make my exams essay-heavy, which will be a bitch to grade, but will fairly appraise comprehension of the material. Appropriate enough, methinks, since comprehension can mean life and death in dem medicinal matters.

“So, is my answer right?” my Physiology study groupmate asks me.

“Hmmmm,” I take a couple seconds, “yeaaah I guess.”

“What do you mean ‘you guess’? Do you know what the answer is?”

“I mean, it’s not exactly accurate. Okay, so actually, technically, this should be…”

“Oh god,” she says, exasperated, “just assume it’s the same thing. That’s what they are to me.”

“Welp, too bad I’m a pedantic bastard. I mean, I guess in this case they are kind of the same.”

 ”You’ll be such a hard teacher.”

“Hey, I’d still give you credit for it! I mean, I’d probably give more credit to an exact answer, but I’ll still give you credit. I’ll probably scribble stuff on your paper just to make sure you know what’s what though. For larnin’, y’know.”

Heck, I’d teach part-time as a lucrative hobby and general life-satisfaction index booster.

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I have come to a point in my life where “proficient in Excel” is no longer a lie lol Man, we’ve been doing these t-tests a lot ately— probably every other day— and it drives me crazy when I have to manually recalculate everything and quadruple check that I didn’t enter a single value wrong. The B1 and B2 values trigger my OCD the most. It’s the sum of all the squares of the numbers that add up to A1 and A2 so it’s a doozy to double-check them (I seriously mutter, “I hate myself,” when I end up with a different value) especially when dealing with a large sample. (The most we’ve had so far is n=30, fortunately.) This is important because if you screw B1 and B2 up, then it screws C1 and C2 up (=B - [A^2 / n]), which screws t-calc up (=(|X1-X2|) / √ (([C1+C2]/n1+n2-2)*([1/n1]+[1/n2]))) which is the only value you really need o say, “a bloo bloo bloo there is/isn’t a statistically significant difference between the two samples.” So I decided to learn Excel. You just copy and paste, man! Copy and paste, and it does all the math for you! All you have to do is check that you set up the right formulas! Ah, the things you learn out of laziness time-efficiency. lol

I have come to a point in my life where “proficient in Excel” is no longer a lie lol

Man, we’ve been doing these t-tests a lot ately— probably every other day— and it drives me crazy when I have to manually recalculate everything and quadruple check that I didn’t enter a single value wrong. The B1 and B2 values trigger my OCD the most. It’s the sum of all the squares of the numbers that add up to A1 and A2 so it’s a doozy to double-check them (I seriously mutter, “I hate myself,” when I end up with a different value) especially when dealing with a large sample. (The most we’ve had so far is n=30, fortunately.)

This is important because if you screw B1 and B2 up, then it screws C1 and C2 up (=B - [A^2 / n]), which screws t-calc up (=(|X1-X2|) / √ (([C1+C2]/n1+n2-2)*([1/n1]+[1/n2]))) which is the only value you really need o say, “a bloo bloo bloo there is/isn’t a statistically significant difference between the two samples.”

So I decided to learn Excel. You just copy and paste, man! Copy and paste, and it does all the math for you! All you have to do is check that you set up the right formulas! Ah, the things you learn out of laziness time-efficiency. lol

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WHOOPS, our study group’s mean dropped to 91.25% (± 8.85) :( I still got a 100% though! ^_^

To be fair, the the prof did say that the trend for our class leaned towards lower scores than the first exam, and only seven people got an 89% or better minus the 7 points of extra credit questions [The prof hasn’t checked those yet, but three of us are almost certain we maxed those extra credit points out, and one is sure she’s going to get 6] so it’s still a pretty decent turnout for the most part.

With E.C, we should be getting 100, 94, 92 and 79. I know I said she should be worried, but I was thinking she’d get a mid B. I mean, she’s an honor society officer, what the hell, but, going by the extent of comprehension she shows in study groups, it’s an accurate appraisal. I was actually surprised she did as well as one other group mate the first time and thought it was a bit of a skewed, almost unfair appraisal, but I like how the test is more comprehension-based (as opposed to memorization-based) this time around… even though it brought me down 3% lol

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Why you might want to reconsider being in a study group with me

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  • While I have qualities that may make me an excellent, pastry-bearing study groupmate (see-- tmblr.co/ZmxKTyE-_vj7), I have my less than graceful, more snitty governess taskmaster moments as well. Sometimes, I think I'm the lovechild of Dwight Schrute and Angela Kinsey.
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  • Study Groupmate 1: I studied for seven hours last night, but I'm still so worried!
  • Study Groupmate 2: Well, okay, tell me all the steps involved in thyroxine and triiodothyronine release.
  • Study Groupmate 1: No! I don't know that yet! Hehehe
  • Study Groupmate 2: Oh, come on, you had this down yesterday.
  • Study Groupmate 1: But I've forgotten it now!
  • Study Groupmate 2: Come on, try.
  • Study Groupmate 1: No! I really don't know!
  • Me: Then you should be worried.
  • Study Groupmate 3: *gives me a knowing, giggly, "oh no you didn't, bitch" look*
  • Me: I mean, the prof was pretty clear that there's a good chance that it was going to be an essay question, and we went over this a lot of times in study group so I mean...
  • Study Groupmate 1: No! Don't tell me that! I need to get an A!
  • Me: I mean, I'm just saying-- if you don't know that yet, then I don't know what you do know.
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  • Study Groupmate 1: I'm so scared. I studied for seven hours last night, but I didn't know a lot of things on the exam! How many hours did you study after study group, Dino?
  • Me: Zero?
  • Study Groupmate 1: Really?
  • Me: Not sleeping probably didn't help you. Sleep helps your brain encode stuff. You need to do other mental activities and give that part of your brain some rest too. I mean, at some point, things just aren't going to stick. You would've probably been better off sleeping.
  • Study Groupmate 1: You probably study a lot every day, huh?
  • Me: I just listen really well in lecture.
  • Study Groupmate 1: Photographic memory!
  • Me: Not really. I'm an auditory learner, and I try to explain things to myself and write my notes in my own words so I understand things rather than just memorize them. It makes the memory more long-term. It's actually nice that he asked questions in this exam that demanded a bit more integration. That's why I always ask you guys to explain your answers when we go over them because we should really know the whys and not just the whats.
  • Study Groupmate 1: Oh my god, I'm probably going to get a B in that exam. At best.
  • Me: Welp, the secret to life is low expectations.
  • Study Groupmate 2: You're not going to get a B. If you do, we'll boycott the next exam!
  • Me: I mean, I love you guys and all, but I'm taking that exam.
  • Study Groupmate 2: Hahahaha! Dino's all, "screw you guys!"
  • Me: I mean, really, what's going to happen if we boycott the exam other than get our grades screwed?
  • Study Groupmate 2: True.
  • Me: Just write a strongly-worded letter.
  • Study Groupmate 2: Yes. That's what we'll do.
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  • Study groupmate 1 then goes around asking people how many hours they studied before the exam and/or every day, which irritated me because one, she's being really weird and probably inappropriate to these people. Two, referencing how many hours people study for your own study approach is pretty useless since people have different speeds and capacities?
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  • Me: WELP, it's good that you all look worried because we got lazy this time around. I mean, yesterday, we just weren't focused (Study Groupmate 1 had to attend something [which I found out she could've attended some day and time else] and we all got dragged along) so we need to know what we need to do next time.
  • My time was wasted (I would've been fine-ish attending SG1's thing, had it not been a last minute, important-schedule-wrecking event), I'm sleep-deprived (and hate myself for just getting 5 hours of sleep before an exam because I just absolutely had to do a marathon of Craig Ferguson interviews and UMVC3 Online Warrior episodes on Youtube -____-) and I just found out that I possibly have a gravely low RBC count. YOU GUYS, even Lady Diana's gracefulness probably didn't have 100% uptime, okay!
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