3.4 cGPA, 4.0 postbacc, 520 MCAT. CA resident. 1000 hours non clinical volunteering, 1000 hours clinical volunteering/shadowing, 500 hours med-related research, multiple published first-author research outside of medicine in top tech conferences. 5 years employment at Amazon. Advice on school list? I'd prefer a CA med school, but can apply widely. Do I even have a decent shot at MD school, or only DO?
Graduated from a T5 undergrad to work in tech 3 years ago, have worked for Amazon ever since. I had a 3.4 GPA in undergrad (my field cares about your GitHub repo, not your GPA).
I can't shake going to medical school and I really want to see if I have a shot. I grew up around doctors, and I didn't want to pursue it as an undergrad due to being an international student, but my circumstances have changed and I'm now a California resident and a permanent USA resident. I have the savings to graduate debt-free from medical school.
I've volunteered with at-risk populations for the last two years working on healthcare and homelessness policy and facilitating a support group. I did this just out of interest; I wasn't thinking about med school, so it's not particularly targeted.
I'd consider a postbacc if I could get in, but I don't know if I could with my GPA. And also, I don't know if I can get research and shadowing opportunities at my stage in life. I'm 25 if it matters.
I gave up on this dream a long time ago but rising dissatisfaction from my job and my new residency made me wonder if it was possible again.
3.4 from MIT (4.4/5.0), FAANG for 5 years, want to go premed, I was thinking Scripps postbacc, but I'm really worried because my GPA is terrible for med school. I just didn't care in college because Comp Sci never looks at transcripts and I just focused on projects. Any advice on ECs to make me stand out, or if I even have a chance at Scripps and med school after that?
Just failed my last class for my masters so I won't be getting it. It was a 3+1 so I have a BS from the same school. I have a FAANG job starting in September. Will anyone care? Just extreme burnout- I have a good undergrad GPA but couldn't convince myself to care this year. Partied too hard
Graduated T5, worked in FAANG for two years, want to pivot to finance, but I partied like crazy in college and have a 3.4. Am I cooked, will they even ask for my transcript or care
Is this a good property to consider? New to real estate
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I'm interested in HVAC work, but cannot work at all during the day due to childcare. Any options for evening apprenticeships? I live in the Bay Area, but struggling recently because of extremely high rising costs. I'm thinking of starting here: https://www.jobtrainworks.org/career-training/building-maintenance/
Is this a typical path? Ideally I eventually want to do contract work as a side hustle; can anyone help me map out a prospective path to made this work. Feeling really lost and down right now; any sort of other evening jobs (non-hvac works) would be great as well, thought I'd prefer not to work actual night shifts. The goal is to eventually make enough money to live in the bay without loads of debt.
Appreciate the help lots.
I know I'll get hate for this question. I grew up clipping coupons and not allowed to eat out, even for special occasions like birthdays. If I wanted something in the grocery store, I could only have it if it was on sale. We'd drive several towns over to a Costco. I did only free extracurriculars growing up, and ended up playing sports (which were free in my school). We grew up in a rented 2 bedroom apartment and my two siblings and I shared a room. We often had mice and cockroaches in our apartment, but it was a safe area in a surburb, and had decent public schools. I once had a health scare and saw a hospital bill in the mail for about $12K, but I don't know how to interpret that (I think we've always been insured) and it was never discussed.
Only one parent worked, and we never seemed to be in debt or anything, but I was never allowed iphones or other luxuries, and I once had to turn down a school trip because it was expensive, but I could go on some local ones. We never vacationed.
I'm very fortunate and got into an elite private college (top 5 in USA) and had it fully paid for through a merit scholarship, so my parents didn't pay a dime (I have no idea if they would have or not). They didn't give me an allowance, though I had a credit card connected to their account that I could use, but I fortunately landed a job after high school and extremely well paying internships after, and I paid for everything myself and have never used their card.
Because of my college, I truly have no clue what low income looks like. Everyone that I know here pays the full cost or is on a full scholarship due to a tax loophole or some sort; it's the unfortunate reality of a top school, and everyone I know vacations internationally atleast 1-2x a year and domestically maybe 3-4x a year, and I think the average family income here is maybe $400K if I had to estimate...?
Until literally last week, I thought my family was dirt poor, but recently I found out that my family makes about $250K a year and has > 1M in brokerage accounts, which is much much lower than my friends' family incomes, but seems high according to statistics. I don't think I grew up with anything beyond the absolute bare necessities though, and I feel incredibly insulated and dumb for not knowing this.
What are the lives of people who make genuinely low salaries like? Were my parents just extremely frugal?
I know this sounds super privileged and I'm so glad I grew up healthy and safe, but I'm just confused and out of touch with reality, and I genuinely feel like I'm always turning down plans because I don't have the money to afford them. I just want to broaden my world view, even if it's over the internet.
I don't really see how AI companies can become massively profitable because their path to massive profit requires that they replace human workers, therefore destroying the economy and the very consumer base they rely on.
So my understanding is that AI inference right now is extremely profitable, so once the models get good enough and R&D costs become minimal, OpenAI will make tremendous amounts of money. However, the enterprises using OpenAI's models will need to do massive layoffs to use AI instead, which will eventually lead to a significant unemployment rate. And when unemployment goes up, consumerism goes down, which will eventually lower the value of the enterprises themselves and shut down many smaller businesses, therefore reducing OpenAI's profit. Because fewer consumers = less revenue for businesses.
This is not even considering the fact that open source models will someday catch up, and inference providers can at that point give the same service as OpenAI/Anthropic with only a fraction of the cost because they haven't burnt all this money.
I guess the leaders and employees of AI companies can cash out, and I definitely see them skyrocketing for a bit (I believe that AI will replace most jobs), but I don't see insane profit from AI in the long run. What am I missing? I'm really confused why people support AI at all, given that its very profitability relies on the destruction of the economy.
Any experiences from Hive Coliving or other colliding communities in SF? Need a room for an internship this summer and looking to meet new people who are social, ideally in their twenties, and down to do fun things.