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I’m an incoming freshman and I just checked my financial account and it says I have a “Wisconsin Merit Scholarship” of 5k that wasn’t there last week. For context I’m in state and I had a 4.6 GPA and 36 ACT in hs so it’s not insanely surprising but I was never informed about this award. And UW already gave me 10k/yr of a different merit scholarship which I was informed about well before I enrolled.

I’m not sure if this is actually something new or if they’re mixing up the award I already have. My tuition balance and my “accepted awards” section show that the award will be applied with my other merit scholarship later this month. If this is legit, does anyone know what this award is for and if it’s for all four years or not? I’m paying for college on my own and an extra 5k per year (or even just this year) is insanely helpful but I don’t want to get my hopes up if this is a mistake. Thanks for any help

I’m an incoming freshman who is currently on a cut. I’m in the dorms and have the go10 meal plan. My merit scholarship covers tuition but I pay for everything else myself and I can’t afford to be buying too much stuff to eat outside of my meal plan. So I want to make sure I still have access to healthy food from the dining halls. Nearly everyday I have a fish rice bowl (tuna or salmon) and it’s genuinely my favorite meal and I don’t want to give it up 😭 I plan on bringing some tuna and salmon packets with me and maybe also soy sauce and mayo for my fridge. Does four lakes always have plain white rice and basic veg like cucumber and carrots? What low cal meal options do they have? Do they have sauce packets of mayo and soy sauce? I have Asperger’s which might explain my hyper fixation lol. I appreciate any help!

I’m an incoming freshman at UW and am starting my new job at UW Health as an inpatient pharm tech specialist soon. What do the pharm techs wear? Does anyone have reqs on what scrubs to wear (color/brand)? My old job was at a smaller hospital and some people wore black scrubs, others blue, or a random color like pink. Some people also dressed it down with a hoodie or t shirt too. I just wore business casual stuff but I want to start wearing scrubs and want to know which ones to get. For reference I think I’m starting off with delivering and then I’ll switch to IVs. I might also work at Children’s so maybe I could get a patterned scrub shirt too? I just want to fit in lol. I plan on doing two 8 hr shifts a week so I want something comfortable. I appreciate any help!

I’m an incoming freshman at UW and am starting my new job at UW Health as an inpatient pharm tech specialist soon. What do the pharm techs wear? Does anyone have reqs on what scrubs to wear (color/brand)? My old job was at a smaller hospital and some people wore black scrubs, others blue, or a random color like pink. Some people also dressed it down with a hoodie or t shirt too. I just wore business casual stuff but I want to start wearing scrubs and want to know which ones to get. For reference I think I’m starting off with delivering and then I’ll switch to IVs. I might also work at Children’s so maybe I could get a patterned scrub shirt too? I just want to fit in lol. I plan on doing two 8 hr shifts a week so I want something comfortable. I appreciate any help!

I (F18) plan on cutting my entire family off once I leave for college. I have a full tuition merit scholarship, large savings, and a high paying job set up in my new city to easily cover all of my expenses for school and winter and summer breaks. I will graduate debt free and I have realistic academic and career goals. I do extremely well academically. When I leave for college, I will be completely financially independent, aside from being on my parents’ insurance (I don’t know how to remove myself or if it’s even worth the hassle). I plan on never returning to my childhood home and not engaging with any of my immediate family for at least a few years. Below are some of my reasons for doing so.

\- physically beaten by brother #1 last year, who was arrested and released soon after. I went to the hospital for a concussion, had a nasty egg on my head (literally looked like my brains were slipping out of my head). My parents begged me to downplay everything for the police so he wouldn’t get anything serious on his record. All I got was a lock on my door. He threatens to do it again monthly

\- brother #1 keeps me up all night by screaming and talking on the phone, I get very little sleep and my parents have not done anything about it despite me constantly asking them to take his phone at night. This has been happening for over a year. My mental health is terrible because of this and I sometimes sleep in class (luckily my grades haven’t been affected by this).

\- I am constantly exposed to inappropriate sexual comments, gestures and behaviors from older brother (#2) and brother #1 including: pretending to masturbate in front of me, pulling pants down to show underwear and bare butt, licking lips at me, blowing on me, opening eyes wide and cocking head towards me, walking in nothing but underwear and pretending to have sex with couch, door, refrigerator, ect. When I was younger brother #2 would pull his pants down in front of me to show his erection, ask me to pull my underwear down, and force me to watch porn. I told my parents, they have also seen some of this behavior and have done nothing. Brother #2 denies that it ever happened and just smiles and laughs

\- brother #1 and #2 have said multiple times that they have or will rape women, including in front of my parents. They also claim they will only date teens when they are older. They openly talk about using girls for sex in front of me. Brother #1 was suspended because multiple girls felt uncomfortable around him after sexual advances.

\- my household feels very unstable at times and I can never relax. Brother #1 screams (at the top of lungs) and it is so unpredictable. He’s punched multiple holes in the wall. There is so much yelling in my house. My parents installed cameras all over the house bc brothers kept sneaking out at night. This has done nothing to stop their behavior and just makes me uncomfortable. At 3AM I am woken up by yelling (if I have somehow fallen asleep by then). During the day/evenjng I can’t do a college/work/internship interview or study or take an online test without yelling in the background. Parents brush it off and tell me to go to the library.

\- brother #2 has no regard for anyone but himself. Genuinely. He is extremely racist and misogynistic. Just a generally mean person. I had an internship last year after school and he would purposely steal the car my siblings and I share so that I couldn’t go. When he left for college I never had problems with transportation. Now that he’s back he ruins all of my transportation just for fun, even if I have something really important like work or an internship. If he knows that I’m planning on hanging out with friends he will take the car and DoorDash all night (my parents originally said he can’t DoorDash, then gave in and let him go every time)

\- brother #1 and #2 terrorize my younger sibling. This sibling does not feel safe with either of them. Parents don’t do shit about it. Everyday there is screaming because of this.

\- my family CONSTANTLY bullies me. Every vacation or college visit I’ve been on in the last four years is ruined because of this. Mostly pushing me, doing weird sexual shit to get me upset, and constantly making fun of my appearance. I absolutely hate going on trips because of this. At least at home I can stay in my room. My mom is also extremely unkind to me, calling me a bitch, saying that she hates me and can’t wait for me to leave, yelling at me for “complaining” when I’m just asking a simple question (she doesn’t do this when my other siblings ask). Then she acts normal and like she’s never done any of this.

\- general lack of support in my life from my parents. They care so much more about my other siblings. Anytime I do really well it’s just expected. They don’t care about my mental health at all. They don’t help me with anything.

I genuinely hate my family. Some of my siblings are fine but ik that if I want to be free from all of them I need to cut myself completely off. They’re just not good people. And they’re been terrible to me for almost as long as I can remember. I’ve said multiple times to my parents that I’ll rarely visit or don’t want to see them again. After they drop me off, I’m not saying anything, and am blocking them all and never visiting. Sometimes I feel like it’s not a big deal and I’m overreacting, but then they do XYZ again and I remember why I need to get away. Does this seem like too harsh of a reaction?

Edit: also I feel bad for my mom because sometimes she is pretty nice and I’m worried that cutting her off would cause her to spiral. But at the same time I never want to see my brothers again and she and my dad completely enable them :/

Harm reduction post (?) For the past month I’ve been taking zero sugar liquid IV pretty regularly, between 3-5 times a week (no more than once a day). For context I am a female, my height is >!5’6!< and I weigh >!98lbs!<. I eat under >!500cals!< per day including my iron gummies and multivitamins. I decided to start liquid iv since it’s low in cals and I want to make sure I have enough electrolytes especially since I work at a hospital and being unfocused or dizzy could have drastic consequences. However, is it bad that I take liquid IV? Considering my current intake, do I even need it? Most days I feel fine and can probably go without it, but I’m also going to college soon and will be walking much more so I need to figure out if I should at least stock up for later. Thanks for any help.

I used to think I’m not a real Ana because I don’t do this to cope, I just want to be skinny. There is so little in my life that I can control. I feel so much anxiety about stuff like getting into X research program or getting Y scholarship so I can actually do well in my freshman year of college. I’ve gotten pretty much everything I’ve wanted in terms of my academic and career goals so far, or at least everything that’s actually realistic. I got a 36 ACT, I kept straight A’s, I got a full tuition scholarship, I have my “dream” college job at the hospital, and I have everything set up to succeed as a premed. But I have so much left to go. The anxiety never goes away. And nothing has fulfilled me more than watching myself shrink. There is nothing I can do once my app is submitted. There’s nothing I can do after I turn in that test. But I absolutely can control my weight, how thin I am, ect. I know exactly what I put in my body and I know more or less what the outcome will be. If everything fails at least I’ll be skinny. I’ve finally realized that I am using my disorder to cope.

I used to think I’m not a real Ana because I don’t do this to cope, I just want to be skinny. There is so little in my life that I can control. I feel so much anxiety about stuff like getting into X research program or getting Y scholarship so I can actually do well in my freshman year of college. I’ve gotten pretty much everything I’ve wanted in terms of my academic and career goals so far, or at least everything that’s actually realistic. I got a 36 ACT, I kept straight A’s, I got a full tuition scholarship, I have my “dream” college job at the hospital, and I have everything set up to succeed as a premed. But I have so much left to go. The anxiety never goes away. And nothing has fulfilled me more than watching myself shrink. There is nothing I can do once my app is submitted. There’s nothing I can do after I turn in that test. But I absolutely can control my weight, how thin I am, ect. I know exactly what I put in my body and I know more or less what the outcome will be. If everything fails at least I’ll be skinny. I’ve finally realized that I am using my disorder to cope.

General question. Just curious

I’m an incoming freshman and I want to graduate in three years to save money and spend my fourth year as a gap year to travel, work, and apply to med school. I’m a chemistry major and I’m coming in with 40 credits from a CAPP course through UW-Oshkosh and the following APs: human geo, us history, calc ab, calc bc, bio, chem, physics 1, French, lang, and sem. Is this a reasonable goal and does anyone have any recommendations on doing this, especially as a premed? Any courses that I should get out of the way first (planning on doing chem 109, stats 301, psych 202, an honors seminar and maybe URS program for first semester). Thanks for any help. I also want to say this sub is super helpful as a freshman and I really appreciate all of the advice on here!!

I procrastinated and didn’t register for my placement tests until today. My SOAR registration date is August 4th. I’m taking English today and Math B on Sunday (hopefully, my account has to be reset for eligibility before I register), which gives 8-10 days for my results to be processed. Am I screwed since it’s not 2 weeks? Will my advisors have access to my results by my SOAR date? Lastly, does it even matter (for registration purposes) if they’re a bit late since I have 5s on AP Calculus BC and AP Lang?

I got a traffic citation for inattentive driving when I was 17 in my senior year of hs. It was in WI and the statue number is 346.89(1). I was not required to show up to court and just paid the fee. I am planning on getting my EMT certification next summer when I am 19. Will this violation negatively impact my ability to be hired as an EMT during my sophomore year of college? I have not received any violations since the first incident.

I’m an incoming freshman and I recently got a job offer at UW Health for $27/hr at a min of 16hrs/wk. I will definitely be taking it but I’m also wondering if I should do a university job as well. This is because I really want to be a house fellow and I’ve heard that previously having a job through the university helps. Is it worth it to take another job? I would only work like 6 hours per week preferably. Also, does the job itself matter for making a competitive house fellow job? Like is working in culinary valued the same as working in a library (which I would prefer)? I’m premed so I don’t want to fill up my schedule too much but I need to make a lot of money anyway as a backup if I have to pay for housing next year. I have a merit scholarship that covers tuition but I don’t want to have to stress abt money next year and off campus housing is much more expensive than the dorms.

Edit: thank you everybody for the advice I really appreciate it! I will just stick with the UW Health job for now and try to stay active in my dorm community :)

Does anyone have advice for answering the URS questions? Also what type of stuff should I include in the “is there anything else you think would be important for us to know about you?” Could I talk about like personal limitations, and what type of stuff would be relevant for them to know?

I just turned 18 and I’ve decided I want to get back into skating. I started around 11 and stopped at around 15/16. However I had a pretty bad coach (would talk for half the lesson) and didn’t skate much outside of synchro practices and competitions. So I’m great at all of the basic skating skills (three turns, brackets, twizzles, crossovers, ect) but am not very good at jumps or spins. I plan to start skating again throughout all of college. I a, pretty sure I can get back all of my single jumps in a few months besides axel (which I’ve never tried). Is it realistic to try to land all of my doubles and all of the basic-ish spins throughout college? I will be getting a new coach and I have an ice rink that’s like a 5 min walk from my dorm, plus I have a high paying job so I should be able to get a good amount of practice in. Is this a realistic goal? I don’t want to compete I just want to have a new hobby and get pretty decent.

I am in desperate need of a safe, non painful laxative. I’ve never used one before but it’s been quite a while since I last pooped and I can tell I’m getting backed up. I just bought dulcolax but after looking online it seems to be very painful? I haven’t been eating much but tonight I had a “normal” meal to hopefully make up for it. If I drink lots of water will one pill of dulcolax not be too bad? Otherwise what can I use I hate being constipated. I think I have a sensitive stomach as eating one protein bar literally made me have diarrhea (I’m going to have one tonight but I need a better solution).

I’m an incoming freshman and I’m trying to figure out a potential schedule before SOAR (my friend recommended it as it’ll be easier to get the classes I want).

For context, I’m majoring in chemistry and I have full AP Credit for chem, bio, calculus bc, physics 1, human geo, us history, seminar, French and lang. I’m interested in getting a certificate in French as well, and I want to build up a good foundation since I’m a bit rusty.

So far I’m definitely taking chem 109 honors and probably an art class (lol), but I’m not sure what else to look into. I will have a busy schedule as I’ll be working at UW hospital and hopefully I’ll be doing URS as well. So I want an easier schedule. Does anyone have any advice? I’m also in the honors program and want smaller classes if it’s possible.

Thanks for any advice!

Under the right conditions, do you think that everyone can develop an ED? I don’t understand how anyone could not have thoughts about doing this, unless they were naturally underweight maybe? Or like, when someone wants to lose weight, I don’t know how you could consider losing it the “right” way through small caloric deficits instead of just putting all your eggs in one basket to get rid of it as fast as possible. I think sometimes I have an all or nothing mindset. I’ll either be “normal” one day and just make it a cheat day, or I’ll eat disordered for the whole day. Once a day is ruined to the point of no return (my family makes me eat something high cal) I kind of just give up. But at the same time I don’t have fear foods. If I knew a plate of spaghetti was a certain amount of cals, I could 100% eat it as long as it was under my budget for the day. I’m “afraid” of anything that goes over my budget, but I could eat a plate of lasagna if I had saved for it. I guess I became a bit more relaxed once I hit BMI >!14.5!< But I feel like most anorexics don’t think that way. So I feel like I’m not a “normal” anorexic, even though I look that way stereotypically. Because in my mind, having disordered thinking just feels natural. It seems like something that anyone who is desperate enough would engage in. At the same time, I feel like it *has* to have something to do with the brain, where only some people are predisposed to developing X ED. Because I’ve never felt the urge to binge, or felt uncontrollable like that. It’s more like I plan a cheat day in advance, but I never eat until I physically can’t or anything. Anyone else feel this way?

I’m an incoming first year undergrad and for my senior year of hs I worked as an inpatient pharmacy tech through a youth apprenticeship program. I only have around 600 hrs but it was pretty easy and I liked the pay (though boring since it was a very small hospital). Is it a beige/red flag to continue working as a pharm tech at my university hospital? What I really want is to become an EMT, but I’m paying for my own college and the program is like $1600 so I need to save up for it anyway. Ik it won’t count as clinical experience but I feel like it’s better than a typical uni job (?). I’m also really interested in anesthesiology and I enjoy pharmacology but Im wondering if med schools will wonder why I didn’t just become a pharmacist. I would probably only do this job for my first year and then switch to EMT or MA afterwards. Thanks for any advice or info about this 🙏