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[er-cryptid]

Alpha-Carbon Deprotonation - Ex. 1

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possessed while studying for the mcat in the middle of the night to write an RMP review for my favorite professor bc her RMP rating is so bad and people are just haters because orgo is fucking hard

[noiriarti]

The Arrangement: Armitage Hux x Reader (College AU) Ch. 3

Summary: A cuddle-buddies-to-lovers college AU.

Ch. 1, Ch. 2, [Ch. 3], Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6

Chapter 3: Four Knocks

He felt even more fucked the next morning. He had promised himself he would not fall asleep with you there, and instead spend the night on the couch. But he wanted five more minutes. And so he five-more-minutes-ed his way into falling asleep remarkably quickly. Unlike most other nights, he didn't wake up tossing and turning, or stare at the ceiling and beg for sleep to come. But that was a problem.

When he woke up, it wasn't to his blaring alarm clock. The room was silent, apart from the sound of your breathing. Right. Your breathing. He was in bed. With you. Maybe five more minutes wouldn't hurt. As he drifted off, he saw the clock he kept on his desk. It was fucking noon.

Armitage had very regimented days, and sleeping in until noon was not part of the plan. He usually loved days crammed with activities and tasks. They kept him on target, made sure he achieved all his goals, and prevented him from thinking too carefully about what he really wanted in life. Today, however, he found himself wanting to do none of his usual routine. He'd already slept through orgo and the gened he shared with Phasma--did it really matter if he didn't do his stupid MCAT flashcards?

After laying there for over half an hour, in and out of sleep while still holding you, he decided he should probably wake you. The very thought seemed cruel; you were so angelic like this, the frizzes in your hair caught by the morning light, your lips parted just so. Your hand had gotten under his at some point in the night, and he tentatively rubbed a gentle circle with his thumb over your knuckles. 

But he really should wake you, he reasoned. Armitage said your name and squeezed your hand (and decided not to process that he was holding your hand), but you didn't shift. He repeated himself, louder this time, and then again, which drew a groan from you.

"I'm up, I'm up," you grumbled. You shifted under his arm, turning around to face him with your eyes still closed. He found himself almost smiling at you, so clearly pretending.

"Alright, then open your eyes," he teased. You produced some sort of noise, obviously displeased, but opened your eyes to look at him.

"The good news is you got plenty of sleep, but the bad news is that it's 12:30," he said. Your eyes widened, and you bolted upright in bed and cursed, looking for your phone, or a clock, or something to prove him wrong. He was, unfortunately, completely correct, which meant that you had missed one class, and half of another. Goodbye, sweet attendance points.

"Well, there's nothing I can do about it now. Besides, I'm in Discrete Math and Algorithms with one of my friends, Dopheld, and he can send me the notes," you said. The silence hung between you for a few seconds. "Want some breakfast? I mean, lunch? ...Brunch?" Armitage nodded, and you hopped out of his bed to go back to your room and change.

Ten minutes later, he found you in the kitchen, making yourself an obscenely large bowl of Lucky Charms. You offered the box to him, and he hesitated. Usually, he ate two cups of Greek yogurt with rolled oats, a teaspoon of honey, and fruit, if someone else hadn't eaten it already. Lucky Charms were calorically inefficient, according to his stepmother Maratelle.

Fuck it. He poured the cereal into the bowl and covered it with milk, then went to perch on the couch. Millie, who had spent the night somewhere around your feet, came up to lay next to him. Gwen had sent him a couple of texts asking where he was, and then just sent her notes when class had ended. While drunk on wine, once, he had bitched to her about how little sleep he got, and, since then, she had been buying him melatonin gummies and encouraging him to sleep through his early morning classes. You deserve it, she said, although Armitage wasn't sure he "deserved" anything, really. Working hard was the entire reason he came here.

You sat down next to him, thighs touching again, and ate your cereal with a vicious speed. By the time you finished, he was barely a quarter of the way through, so you got up and made yourself another bowl. Between mouthfuls, you determined you would be the first to speak.

"So, we should probably talk," you said. Apparently, that was the best you could come up with. 

"Is everything alright?" Hux asked, although he really meant to ask what he did wrong, and beg you to give him one more night. The desperation with which he wanted to touch you, to hold you again was staggering. He didn't remember where it came from, and it shocked him. You didn't seem any the wiser to his generally panicked state, so you continued eating the cereal.

"Yeah, just thought we might want to establish some ground rules. Like, no sex, just cuddling." Armitage nodded. "And we can end at any time one of us wants to." He nodded again. "And we shouldn't tell Gwen and Kylo. They wouldn't let us live it down." Armitage chuckled, but nodded. "Finally, I think we should promise to tell each other if we catch feelings. And just, be honest in general."

"Agreed." The final rule worried him for some reason he couldn't quite place, but he let it go. "Perhaps we could meet later in the night, when Gwen and Kylo are asleep? They tend to sleep earlier than I do, so we could meet around 12:45? Oh, and we do not have to meet each night. Just text me if you want to," he added. You smiled at him, finished your cereal, and the two of you watched garbage Netflix shows for two more hours before going back to work.

And so, your arrangement was born. Most days, he'd get a text from you in the afternoon saying something like "see you tonight?" or "hang out later?" and he knew to expect you. At 12:45 am, almost on the dot, he'd hear it. Tap tap tap tap. Always four, always quiet. What you did each night varied. Sometimes, you wanted to be quiet and rest, but, on others, you'd go through your day and tell him about what had happened in class, and he found himself telling you about his day, too. About how he loved chemistry, but was terrified of med school. Of the responsibility. His medical ethics gened with Gwen was really scaring the bejeezus out of him. 

About three nights in, you turned to him and said that you should get to know each other better. Each of you would ask 5 questions of the other, you said. He answered your questions with ease the first night. Favorite animal? Cats. Duh. Favorite TV show? Doctor Who. Best friend? Gwen, probably. Last time he went on a date? A year ago. Why become a doctor? That one was much harder. Because it felt like the right thing for him to do, he said. Because he liked it.

He asked the same questions right back. Cats, Friends, also probably Gwen, last month, and because the pay is better in computer science. He tried not to dwell on the fact that you had been on a date recently (by his standards). He casually inquired if you were still seeing them, but you told him it didn't go well. He didn't ask more questions about it.

Night over night, though he found your closeness and warmth incredible, he realized he was looking forward to hearing about your day more than anything. The tap tap tap tap on his door meant he'd ask you five questions about you--not just the you that went to classes and put food out for Millie, but the real you. The core of you. One time, when your head was on his chest and he was trying to slow his heart down so you wouldn't hear it, you asked him about his insecurities (how pale he was, that he wasn't smart enough for med school). When he asked you the same question, you listed some that baffled him. What did you mean, your voice? Or your hair? Or that you felt like you were always behind everyone else in class? It broke his heart to hear you speak about yourself like that, which he immediately told you, and regretted. He whispered into the night that you had a great voice, and he thought your hair was very good hair, and that you had literally caught up to the compsci juniors in half a year, so you could be nothing short of brilliant. He didn't see it, but a tear or two slipped out.

A month into your arrangement, Armitage took stock of his life, and realized you probably knew him better than he did. Some mornings, he'd come out of his room and find a bowl with two cups of Greek yogurt with rolled oats, a teaspoon of honey, and strawberries. Just how he liked it. And he would grab you lunch right before the dining halls closed, so that when you arrived ten minutes later after class, you could still have food. 

It was little things that alerted Phasma to whatever you two had going on. The unsubtle mooning eyes Armitage was giving you across the living room were disgusting, but confirmation. You were making he same face at him when he was poring over his books five minutes later, which was doubly disgusting, but double confirmation. It was time to do something about it.

Two days later, when she had left class, Phasma sent a text to the roommate group chat, like she always did around that time. Lunch? Within 5 minutes, Armitage had sent a thumbs up, and you had liked the message. Kylo left it on read, which was Kylo-speak for yes. Thirty minutes later, you were gathered in the Holdo Dining Hall, eating a variety of carbs, as usual. Kylo was giving a replay of something that had happened at their last match (something about their goalman getting hit in the face by the ball?), when Phasma interrupted him with your name. 

"Yeah?" You asked nonchalantly. Gwen smiled like a predator about to catch its prey, mainly because she was.

"I've got some juicy gossip about you," Gwen singsonged. Armitage's head whipped around. He didn't even realize he had been staring at you. Gossip? About you? That was probably about some party you went to. You had skipped last Saturday, and, after surviving the bone-crushing emptiness of his room, you had told Armitage the next night that the party was absolutely insane and featured multiple friends-of-friends making out. His heartbeat accelerated. What if you had kissed someone there?

"I know someone who has a crush on you."

Armitage's heart stopped.

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AN: all four of them share a brain cell, and phasma has it 99% of the time

[happidragon]

Ayeeeee @wurmwizzard and @trebhum tagged me in a "10 people you want to get to know better" ask game :] Thanks buds let's do this thing

LAST SONG: i went to check and when i saw it i was like "ahhhh. Predictable." Katamari by Femtanyl

LAST BOOK: Dance of the Dead by Christie Golden from the Ravenloft anthology! There's some kind of werewolf thing up next but I got sidetracked by the one and only Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus

LAST MOVIE: Me and some pals are on a quest to watch every Nic Cage movie and we just saw Honeymoon in Vegas. It was............ ok!

LAST TV SHOW: X-Files!

LAST THING I SEARCHED: "degree of unsaturation formula" -_- Orgo Chem is kicking my ass, man

FAVORITE COLOR: orange :)

SWEET, SAVORY, OR SPICY: Savory for sure. I can have a little salami as a treat

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: well every time we order food we order two completely different things so we can split 'em, so i guess you could say things are getting pretty serious (we have been together for 5 years)

LOOKING FORWARD: i'm finishing my post bacc program and taking the MCAT this June! EVEN IF IT KILLS ME

CURRENT OBSESSION: if you have seen my sideways teeth coyote tag u may be interested to know that I'm 30k words deep into writing a novel about a fucked up coyote who kills people. And i think about him all the time. Swtc i wish you were real

This was fun :)) thanks for the tag

Go, my mutuals @actuallumberjake @persiefae @bones-barlow @thebeatlebird @strategypillar @godlessrevlry @kr1spbacon @urbanknightart @vanderslootassgiraffe @poltergeistwife

on the other hand feel free to ignore the hell out of this if you don't feel like it. bye

[thesilent-reader]

alright this is attempt (??) of locking in

back from my little vacation and now i desperately need to get back to work otherwise i know im going to regret it

(TW g*n violence?) i survived a school shooting just a couple of months ago (my PI accidentally saved my life when she had me do some extra lab work that day, an extra 15 min that saved my life, otherwise I would have been having lunch in my usual spot which was attacked) and havent been in the best mindset since. I know I need to lock in properly if I still want to go into medicine - and i think i do since its the only academic based thing im still interested in, but i have zero motivation.

Ive been pretty much lost in my own head for a little while and I know that if i don't pull myself out imma regret it.

My goals are:

Learn Physics on my own before classes start

Learn Python

Learn Chem 2 and Orgo chem before classes

MCAT Prep for the classes I am done with (Bio and Psych)

Get back to a healthy mindset as well as become physically healthy again

better relationship with school work, sleep, and food

I just don't want to look back one day and regret not trying.

Im going to try to use Tumblr as a way to hold myself accountable, since I've kind of been using it as an escape for the past couple of weeks.

So yeah! this is my digital journal/diary ig? hopefully it actually helps

~🪔💋���

[mymcatprogress]

Day 1 (...or 11) of MCAT studying

putting this out into the void i guess.

So, I'm studying for the MCAT, and really need something to hold myself accountable. Hence, this blog.

And I doubt anyone will ever find it, so I'm just writing out my lil updates for me.

Today is day 1 (actually it's day 11, but who's counting?). I've gotten some stuff done already in the past ten days, and some even well before then.

Here's the breakdown:

I took a diagnostic back in October (Kaplan free FL) and scored a 503. It was pretty reflective of my strengths and weaknesses, I would say. I scored highest in CARS and lowest in B/B, which felt pretty accurate.

In January, after having taken Orgo 1, refreshed on Physics 1, and studied amino acids, I took the Blueprint half-length. Scored a 503 again xd. But I'm pretty sure BP is deflated, so maybe it should've been higher.

Anyways, onto now. I test at the end of August and my goal score is a 520+!! Is it possible? Who knows... certainly not me.

Anyways, here is the breakdown by section of what I've done (in the past 11 days)

C/P

Not much in this section

I've taken all these classes, and while I don't remember much, it'll all be mostly refreshing knowledge rather than starting from scratch, so I've been putting it off

I've completed two Kaplan chapters of physics, and am working on the third (physics is my favorite subject ever, so it's been going by relatively quickly)

Also been doing UW questions for physics and acing those B)

Haven't touched chem or orgo yet,,, scared to...

CARS

my best section

did JW, did UW, did well enough on those that I realized they were a waste of time

I need to really learn and internalize AAMC logic, so I have switched over to official material for CARS

Am currently working through the CARS Diagnotic Tool, have finished 62/179 questions and am currently at 82% accuracy. These passages are SO HARD. Definitely harder than JW or UW (where I ranged between 90-95%). I am hoping that by the end I can have around 90% accuracy and really understand AAMC logic better

B/B

my weakest section by far.

haven't taken bio since AP Bio, have never taken Biochem, and being a neuro major means the content I know is only tangentially related at best

I'm working the most on this section right now, especially since I'm in the beginning of studying

I've finished 1 chapter of Biochem and am kinda in the weeds with both Ch 1 for Bio and Ch 2 for Biochem

As in, I've completed content videos and am partway through the textbooks, but need to finish the textbooks and complete my anki so I have it all memorized

I've also been doing UW questions on amino acids since I have those memorized. But, I haven't been performing too well lol... I think I'm learning a lot though

P/S

oooh boy. I don't like this section.

Went into it kinda overconfident cause I'm a neuro major and should (theoretically) know psych, right? WRONG!

Idk anything and the stuff I do know isn't nearly enough

It doesn't help that I SUCK at memorizing and this whole section is just memorization

ughhhhhHhhHhH every day P/S is a struggle cause it's just like brute force feeding information into my brain without really understanding it or caring for it.

I'm using KA vids and Pankow deck, and I'm literally only on Sight.... I lowkey might skip sensory crap and move on to more interesting subjects cause I CANNOT with this T-T

Anyways... that's where I'm at right now. I'm trying to finish Ch 2 of biochem (enzymes) and ch 3 of physics (thermodynamics). Wish me luck, void.

[briteenystudy]

some reflections from today

I’m writing this note today to celebrate how far we’ve come and all the wonderful things in the future that we don’t know yet - the beautiful surprises that the terrifying uncertainty holds.

3 years ago on this day I was stressing over orgo (taking it accelerated over the summer), worried I wouldn’t do well on what many said to be the hardest stem course in undergrad. Worried how my cousin said this grade was most important for med school academic record. That summer, I had also been doing research for credit full-time.

3 years later, I just graduated from … and indeed, got an A in orgo! Also presented at national conferences, numerous other symposiums, and am a published author now for my research!

2 years ago on this day, I was studying for my MCAT and potentially-romantically texting a boy for the first time. I’m worried about self-learning physics in particular, having zero prior knowledge or background in it.

2 years later, I had gotten a 99th percentile score in the chem/physics section. The boy and I don’t work out, but he showed me that unconditional love and emotional vulnerability and safety exist, and I hold firm to this to never settle for anything less.

1 year ago, I was deeeeeply anxious about (a) long distancing with my then-partner and (b) applying to 35+ MD med schools, the uncertainty of the whole process, the imposter syndrome.

1 year later on this day, I write this from a post-grad trip. I broke up with him and have never been happier. I have learned so much about myself and taken the time to truly nurture my friendships and mental health. I end up getting multiple acceptances and am so excited to start med school! I’m still figuring out how to deal with uncertainty and imposter syndrome - not sure if that ever fully goes away, but it certainly gets better.

Anyways, this all goes to say that I write this as a reminder that we are capable of anything and have already overcome so much, and that the future may seem scary but holds amazing things ahead.

ft / a pic from my trip!

to any anxious premed out there, I promise you you’re doing amazing and that you’re not behind, you’re exactly where you need to be and am taking this one step at a time!!

[tiredacedemia]

Its been almost a year so here's the updates lol:

Got a 509 on my MCAT

Decided to reatake (still waiting on score)

After my Freshman year I got all As except Orgo 2 (I got a C)

Currently applying to medical schools!

Im gonna try to be more active now lmaooo

[puckandgossip]

orgo girl hereee, idk if ur pre med but take algebra based physics, whatever u do for biochem just make sure you understand that class. sooo MCAT heavy. also figure out your study habits during college so that when it’s time to study for the MCAT you know what works for you! sorry if ur not pre med and read all this for nothing 😭😭😭

im pre dental girl hahah but honestly its almost the same track as pre med, I also have to take all of the same sciences. but for my degree I have to take general physics 1 and 2. and I thankfully dont have to take biochem, I have to take organic chemistry 1 and 2. Im legit a bio major and I have to take more chemistry courses than bio its insane.

[springstick]

100 days of productivity !! - Day #017

Wednesday, Nov 27th, 2024 : I had another very refreshing day today!! I love hanging out with friends. My friend bought me groceries (I paid, but I didn't go) and hung out for 9 hours today. Socializing is very healing.

I did all of the orgo extra credit available besides the MCAT practice because I'm not going to med school. I might do it still because I need the points. I did some orgo notes too, and finished some eval stuff for a project I'm part of. I estimate around 5 hours of study time. I feel like I've been very productive for being on break, which is the goal. I also set up my binder for my med lab practical next Thursday. I could have been more productive, but I am happy with what I've done.

Yap session section (new addition because I talk a lot):

People are surprised when I say I'm an extrovert, but I just love people so much. Having someone yap in my direction for hours just gives me energy to do things. My left sternocleidomastoid is killing me from talking so much, though.

I started considering doing an Immunology PhD, or maybe Microbiology. I love both subjects so much I could talk about them for literal hours. Like I want to discover something about γδ T Cells so bad. I could be a masochist and research basophils. I won't. But.... I should talk to my Immunology professor about it. The only thing that would get me to stay at this school for a PhD is if he could be my advisor. He's actually the best professor I've ever had, and the most invested in the topic he professes that I've ever seen. He's also just incredibly smart. The way he can identify a fruit fly species by looking at it ON THE FIELD (not microscope) is literally insane and probably magic.

It needs to snow again. I can see the snow on the ground starting to thin out and it was supposed to be a blizzard this week. I have been swindled and lied to. Snow does scare me, though, because I've never walked in it with my prosthetic. I might practice before people come back to campus so I fall less when I start walking to classes. My forearm crutches have a spike attachment for ice, though, which is awesome.

Also, I love my cat so much. He has a tiny little body with tiny little organs. I love laying on him like a pillow and feeling his tiny little lungs. He is such a wonderful little creature and I just want to hold him and admire him and give him little forehead kisses.

[er-cryptid]

Chiral or Achiral [Ex. 2]

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[thestarsshone]

me when im premed and im suffering <3

[drawittoknowitmedical]

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If you like the tutorial, try it on our site where you can actually draw along and then quiz yourself!

[mednerdblr]

reviewing some organic chemistry :(

if you’d like to see more of my notes or study from them, check out my blog!

[1dnatural]

i want someone to buy me Dr. Scrubz if i ever get into medical school

[tahdashi]

all i did today was nap <3