I’m a girl back in town for college, and I got a job around the Lake Cliff Park area. I was wondering if it’s safe. I’m from a little bit farther outside the downtown area, but everyone always tells me how dangerous the areas under I-30 are, and I was wondering if that’s true. Should I worry about my safety if I take the job?
When you click this link and go to “Layoffs by Year,” it looks like we are about to have the worst year of layoffs since the 2023 post-COVID bust. Why is that?
A lot of people discussing layoffs usually say they are due to overhiring, but I don’t see how that can still be used as an excuse anymore. I also don’t think it is purely economic, since many of these companies have reported huge earnings beats over the past few months but are still laying off thousands of employees.
Is it time to accept that AI will take many jobs?
Edit: However, when I look deeper, these companies still have a lot of open tech roles, and those openings have continued to rise even since the release of tools like Claude and Codex. My current theory is that the goal of these layoffs may be to start lowering salaries.
For example, instead of paying $170K for one senior engineer, a company may prefer to hire a junior engineer for $90K and give them AI tools. Even if that junior engineer burns through a lot of tokens, at the current stage of AI, they might still be more cost-effective than the senior engineer.
Major: Biology with a CS minor at a T30 Undergrad
First Gen - ORM - Middle Eastern
TX resident, but have a lot of family in LA, NC, and FL, and have been to the states many times. (I understand this is a very weak tie, I'm just applying to these schools to try and stay close to family).
GPA: 3.95 (One Drop, a CS class)
Science GPA: 4.0
MCAT: 518
Shadowing: 80 hrs
Clinical Paid: 600 hrs ER Scribe
Clinical Volunteer: 200 hrs going around the local community taking blood pressures for the homeless
Non-Clinical: 300 total, 150 from teaching refugee kids in underserved communities, and 150 volunteering at a tech-based nonprofit, helping other nonprofits (Mostly Veterans) get grants by both helping them write and making tools using coding (a large part of my application will focus on utilizing technology in medicine).
Research: 1000 hours total. 600 hours through a private company, so unfortunately, I did not get any publications, but I still feel like it will be a very interesting experience to talk about. The remaining 400 hours come from a traditional lab. Both are tech-based as well. Have two presentations/Posters
Leadership: Smaller roles in my non-clinical volunteering clubs and a consulting club
One Institutional action where I was given a written warning, but it wasn't related to academics or the law at all; it was an ID issue with the school. I do have to report this to Med schools. Link to a post I made about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/1t6qaem/is_it_still_possible_to_get_in_with_an_academic/
I have attached my school list below. Please let me know how it looks. I’m just worried that my IA and dropped course are going to affect my application. I know a lot of my schools are not very out-of-state friendly, but I really want to stay close to family, so I chose the most in-state-friendly schools in those states. If I’m being unrealistic, please let me know. Thank you so much!
Major: Biology with a CS + Stats minor at a T30 Undergrad
First Gen - ORM - Middle Eastern
TX resident, but have a lot of family in LA, NC, and FL, and have been to the states many times. (I understand this is a very weak tie, I'm just applying to these schools to try and stay close to family).
GPA: 3.95 (One Drop, a CS class)
Science GPA: 4.0
MCAT: 518
Shadowing: 80 hrs
Clinical Paid: 600 hrs ER Scribe
Clinical Volunteer: 200 hrs going around the local community taking blood pressures for the homeless
Non-Clinical: 300 total, 150 from teaching refugee kids in underserved communities, and 150 volunteering at a tech-based nonprofit, helping other nonprofits (Mostly Veterans) get grants by both helping them write and making tools using coding (a large part of my application will focus on utilizing technology in medicine).
Research: 1000 hours total. 600 hours through a private company, so unfortunately, I did not get any publications, but I still feel like it will be a very interesting experience to talk about. The remaining 400 hours come from a traditional lab. Both are tech-based as well. Have two presentations/Posters
Leadership: Smaller roles in my non-clinical volunteering clubs and a consulting club
One Institutional action where I was given a written warning, but it wasn't related to academics or the law at all; it was an ID issue with the school. I do have to report this to Med schools. Link to a post I made about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/1t6qaem/is_it_still_possible_to_get_in_with_an_academic/
I have attached my school list below. Please let me know how it looks. I’m just worried that my IA and dropped course are going to affect my application. I know a lot of my schools are not very out-of-state friendly, but I really want to stay close to family, so I chose the most in-state-friendly schools in those states. If I’m being unrealistic, please let me know. Thank you so much!
Major: Biology with a CS minor at a T30 Undergrad
First Gen - ORM - Middle Eastern
TX resident, but have a lot of family in LA, NC, and FL, and have been to the states many times. (I understand this is a very weak tie, I'm just applying to these schools to try and stay close to family).
GPA: 3.95 (One Drop, a CS class)
Science GPA: 4.0
MCAT: 518
Shadowing: 80 hrs
Clinical Paid: 600 hrs ER Scribe
Clinical Volunteer: 200 hrs going around the local community taking blood pressures for the homeless
Non-Clinical: 300 total, 150 from teaching refugee kids in underserved communities, and 150 volunteering at a tech-based nonprofit, helping other nonprofits (Mostly Veterans) get grants by both helping them write and making tools using coding (a large part of my application will focus on utilizing technology in medicine).
Research: 1000 hours total. 600 hours through a private company, so unfortunately, I did not get any publications, but I still feel like it will be a very interesting experience to talk about. The remaining 400 hours come from a traditional lab. Both are tech-based as well. Have two presentations/Posters
Leadership: Smaller roles in my non-clinical volunteering clubs and a consulting club
One Institutional action where I was given a written warning, but it wasn't related to academics or the law at all; it was an ID issue with the school. I do have to report this to Med schools. Link to a post I made about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/1t6qaem/is_it_still_possible_to_get_in_with_an_academic/
I have attached my school list below. Please let me know how it looks. I’m just worried that my IA and dropped course are going to affect my application. I know a lot of my schools are not very out-of-state friendly, but I really want to stay close to family, so I chose the most in-state-friendly schools in those states. If I’m being unrealistic, please let me know. Thank you so much!
I just realized that a stupid mistake I made during my freshman year is still on my academic record as a “written warning.” I gave another girl my ID to use at the dining hall, and she got caught. Afterward, I was sent to the Dean of Students. I admitted to everything, and all I received was a warning and an assigned essay, which I completed.
I had completely forgotten about it until today, and I am about to apply. How much will this affect me? I am truly sorry about what happened, and if I could go back, I would never do it again. However, I genuinely feel that it was not as serious a violation as cheating or breaking the law, so I was wondering how much it might affect my chances.
Link: https://healthcareers.unt.edu/pathways/2025untmedadmissions.pdf
Everyone in this sub says that around 500 clinical hours is good, but these stats kind of scared me. The average is almost 1300 clinical hours, and the average research hours are around 700, which seems pretty high for applicants with no gap years.
I think when I compare myself to the median, I’m above average in most categories, but when I compare myself to the mean, the numbers seem insane. Could someone explain whether these stats are realistic and whether they are a good benchmark to compare myself to?
For context, I’ll have around 900 clinical hours: 600 paid and 300 volunteer. I’ll also have around 900–1,000 research hours and 300 non-clinical volunteering hours. So I’m not doing terribly compared to these numbers, but I am a little below in most categories. I also have a pretty decent GPA and MCAT, but I’m just scared it won’t be enough. I'm in TX as well.
