u/eak76

I have been a tutor for physics (~150 hours), specifically focusing on large group sessions. I've now been given the opportunity to TA for the class. This would be a significant time investment, and I was wondering if this might be a little redundant in the eyes of adcoms (it's another teaching activity doing basically the same thing but with slightly more responsibilities), and if it would really be a worthwhile use of my time?

I've heard horror stories about the hilltop apartments (from people who don't actually live there), and the lawsuit against them happening right now, but when I speak to people I know who do actually live there, they all tell me that it's normal and that they haven't had any problems. Wondering if the whole thing about sewage, mold, etc. problems they were having is overblown? I don't know what to think and I'm really considering signing the lease with my roommate. We've done the application and everything.

You've heard the usual story, ~500 clinical hours, ~200-300 volunteer hours, so and so for research, yada yada to be competitive. However, I just saw the offical AAMC data that for 2025 matriculants, the average number of volunteer hours was 717. This is vastly different from what people recommend to be "competitive", and it is making me doubt whether the conventional knowledge and what it takes to be competitive is actually wrong.

You can say that these numbers may be inflated by outliers such as non-trad students who had time to rack up hours, but I doubt those cases could have such a huge effect.

I know there's something really simple I must be missing, but no matter where I look or how long I talk to ChatGPT I just don't get it. The kinetic energy of the box is constant, but it is gaining gravitational potential energy. How could the net work done by both gravity and the pushing be equal to 0, when it is gaining energy? This is assuming there's no friction.