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Every time I make Limeade, it comes out tasting good but with a bitter taste along with it. I hand-squeeze my limes, so is it because I squeeze the pith as well? Or does anyone else's limeade just come out like this? I want to make frozen limeade for a party tomorrow but I don't want it to be bitter! Thanks!

I kind of feel bad about it but its not going to stop me. I have a friend, a good one actually, with whom I think that it's just time to stop being "best friends" with. She can be very co-dependent on me and it's just too much. She hasn't done anything wrong but I just don't want to be good friends with her, civil yes, even hanging out occasionally even though she would never forgive me. We talk on the phone ALL the time, she has even compared me to a significant other before. She is closer to me than I think I am to her and she thinks that she can make me finally use the term "best friend" even though I haven't since I was in like 5th grade. God, I feel like a boy with a woman that is trying to change me. She just gets on my nerves nowadays, I want out. How do I without hurting her?

It's a rock song, don't know how old it is but its somewhere in the last 10 years. It talks about this girl being so contagious..i dunno, it used a lot of disease imagery. The singers voice was a little Yellowcard sounding, not deep but distinct. Heavy on the guitars but not dark rock or heavy metal. Any ideas?

Do you pay for everything thing up front? How crowded are they usually? Are the Caribbean Cruises oriented towards family or young and single crowds? What kind of fun do they have on the boat? Are you just doing your own thing the whole time?

I don't look my weight. In fact, when I gain weight, it doesn't show up nearly as much as it seems like it should. I have a hourglass shape, busty and big hipped/butt, with a much smaller waist. Well, now that I think about it, that makes sense. What kind of work-outs should I do? do thin down/tone up all over.

Is it really a science? Or crap? Or somewhere in the middle?

I moisturize daily (more than once when needed) but for some reason the skin on my palms and in between my fingers and on the soles of my feet and in between my toes is peeling off. It's not ashy skin either, but thick layers of skin are peeling off in both places. Nowhere else, and also, I live in the South, its 70 degrees outside. I've never had this happen before and more than it being unsightly, I'm just curious. The skin peeling off looks a little like blisters (on my feet) and like patches on my hands but are completely painless.

I know the basic differences, I want to know how much harder residencies are to get for D.O. compared to M.D.'s Thanks

I am currently a senior graduating this summer with my Bachelor's in Biology and applying to Medical School for 2010 (and 2011 or however long it takes to get in :)) but I am pretty sure I am going to need some post-bacc work to get in. My GPA is abysmal, lingering around a 3.0 so I am willing to do whatever it takes to change that. I am taking the MCAT's in April and I tend to be a MUCH better test taker ( I have previous experience with the PCAT's and Kaplan run timed practice MCAT's) and I am dedicating time to my MCAT studies daily. I am pretty positive I can do well in the Biology and Verbal sections (provided I do the work) and with the Physical Sciences, just a little more elbow grease hopefully. I spend most of my undergrad as a Pre-Pharmacy student but upon volunteering in the pharmacy as a tech, I decided that it was not meant for me. I worked for an Optometrist for 6 months as well and currently, I am starting to do research for a professor I took a Genetics course with. Sorry for my life story, on with the point. How do I go about getting my Post-Bac done? I've taken MANY biology classes and there really aren't many others I have left to take at my university. My Organic Chemistry base isn't very strong as I took that when I was 18 i think and was so much more interested in extra-curricular activities, per se. What would be my best plan of action from here? And please, don't offer criticism without help. Do you really I would still be awake at 4 AM thinking about this if I hadn't already considered it?

the integral of x/(9-3x squared) dx.

I know the answer is -1/6 ln(abs9-9+3x2)) + C but i need help working through it. Thank you!

I'm 21, active and in relatively good shape but my heart rate is pretty high. Always been this way. Any ideas?

I am a generally calm person but as I'm approaching graduation, I find myself really panicking about getting into the graduate program I want to get into. I have too much to focus on in the here and now, how do I stop myself from freaking out about the future? I'm having trouble sleeping and it just keeps hitting me over and over again, this anxiety. I'm not looking for a way to get rid or it, just to manage it better. Thanks!

My friends have all been accusing me of being totally anti-social as of late. I'm not really doing the party scene anymore and so I don't go out clubbing or drinking anymore. And all the big social events can get to be such a snooze. Bunch of people being fake nice and wasting their time talking about pointless things (or getting drunk.) I love my friends but I'm just not digging it anymore. I want to get on with my life rather than being stuck in this college bubble. But my friends feel like I'm never around. It's not like I don't do the things I dig, I mean, outdoor stuff, anything that will get my blood pumping, I'm game. But, I just feel like all the social niceties are getting be a pain and its hard to find people that are into what I dig. So do I go along with my friends or just do my own thing and risk losing contact with the human world?

So, I'm a total night owl. I thought I was a reformed night owl but, alas, no. My eyes are begging me to sleep. But my mind (and my to-do list) are keeping me from it. The only thing that has seemed to work was going camping and being forced to sleep at sundown and wake up at 4 AM. Otherwise, regardless of how much I need to sleep, I'm too mentally wired. Help me! :(

I'm pretty good about respecting peoples religious and social views. Their lives, not mine. But I'm not going to sit here and lie. I can't wrap my mind around ignorant people. Willfully Stupid people piss me off. And I feel like it DOES affect me because it's ignorance that propagates the cycle of more ignorance, and hatred and bigotry, etc. etc. Does this make me intolerant?

I'm one of those people that when I see a dead animal on the road or a terrible accident photo, My stomach is perfectly fine and I'm not grossed out or anything, but I get upset at the indignity of death, being sprawled out, completely exposed. But I'll still look. Even though, I don't really want to, It's a compulsion. Why are we like this? And what is your response to this sort of thing?

I am in this position of leadership that I really don't care for but I am waiting for someone capable to replace me. At the same time, there IS someone else that wants it much more than I do but they are much to immature and quite frankly, incapable to do the job. They keep overstepping their bounds and I am getting incredibly tired of the "power struggle" that I refuse to participate in. I would give in and let him have his way with the group, but everyone else HATES it and it would start a big mess. What do I do with this pesky little bug?

It starts something like " I heard your (something) on the (phone?) and then possibly something about all night long. I think it has to do with infidelity. Its a strong female voice, earthy, and sexy not too much musical accompaniment at the beginning...It was kind of popular maybe 3-4 months ago. Any ideas? It's bugging the hell out of me!

Hmm..I could just wait until tomorrow morning to find out..But here goes, so I have an very stuffy nose..cough, not terribly..but I have had a fever on and off all day. This morning when I woke up, I was really tired and dragging my heels. I definitely had a fever when I woke up but I was late so I didn't have time to stop and do anything. Headache, yes, but I get them often. Normally, I would have grabbed my gym bag but I was pretty certain I was too tired to make it through the whole day. Haven't been very hungry all day, couldn't even finish half my lunch today and that had been the only food I have from last night to right now. Now that I have eaten, I feel a little nauseous..but I don't feel that bad in this moment. Very heavy-lidded and a tiny bit nauseous and stuffed up but that's it. What do you think?

I am graduating in the summer and I'm applying to medical schools for 2010 but my GPA is less than perfect. Would it be better to start my masters in Biology or retake some of my pre-med requirements that I would like to brush up on AND do better in? I wanted to also go the masters route in case Medical school somehow no longer was an option.