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Admiral Ray posted:Embrace being shallow, being shallow will keep you from many bad relationships. Oh man. Boy is that true.
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maskenfreiheit posted:edit: Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. Aaaand back to grateful. So sorry this person did this to you. 
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Oct 31, 2017 04:09
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Gonna say though, figure out where the shallow needs to stop. Do not declare that men who play darts in amateur leagues are the only man you'll date.
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Oct 31, 2017 04:13
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The cool thing about going to grad school in the arts is that you get the power combo of the healthy environment that is academia and the stable functional lifestyle of being in the arts
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Oct 31, 2017 04:14
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Penguissimo posted:The cool thing about going to grad school in the arts is that you get the power combo of the healthy environment that is academia and the stable functional lifestyle of being in the arts haha
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Penguissimo posted:The cool thing about going to grad school in the arts is that you get the power combo of the healthy environment that is academia and the stable functional lifestyle of being in the arts it's a nice split of crazies and rich people who can afford an unpaid vice internship
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Oct 31, 2017 04:15
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Pick posted:haha 5 years removed from the doctorate and I touch computers for a living now and play music for fun and it's loving awesome
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Oct 31, 2017 04:16
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Penguissimo posted:The cool thing about going to grad school in the arts is that you get the power combo of the healthy environment that is academia and the stable functional lifestyle of being in the arts You're giving me cold sweats just reading this sentence
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Oct 31, 2017 04:17
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maskenfreiheit posted:it's a nice split of crazies and rich people who can afford an unpaid vice internship I dunno about calling it a "split", the Venn diagram there is pretty lunar eclipse-y
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Each department is its own cult, with about the same incidence of mental illness, tho jonestown still has to catch up on total suicides
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Oct 31, 2017 04:22
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Penguissimo posted:I dunno about calling it a "split", the Venn diagram there is pretty lunar eclipse-y no i mean, i met plenty of well adjusted folks in both the arts and sciences who simply enjoyed a topic and were otherwise relatively normal. they all came from pretty affluent families though. (or worked for a while and saved up money, like the guy who did infosec consulting for a decade then switched to journalism) if i was independently wealthy i'd probably do a phd in cryptography or something.
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Oct 31, 2017 04:23
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maskenfreiheit posted:no i mean, i met plenty of well adjusted folks in both the arts and sciences who simply enjoyed a topic and were otherwise relatively normal. they all came from pretty affluent families though. (or worked for a while and saved up money, like the guy who did infosec consulting for a decade then switched to journalism) Basically at this point I would be very unlikely to recommend grad school to anyone without "gently caress you" money.
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My girlfriend [25F] would like to move in with me [23M] in order to save money while in grad school, but I don't want her to.Datingquote:My girlfriend recently finished her bachelor's degree in humanities at NYU and is applying for master's degree programs. She didn't work during college and her apartment (midtown Manhattan) was paid for by her parents.
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maskenfreiheit posted:no i mean, i met plenty of well adjusted folks in both the arts and sciences who simply enjoyed a topic and were otherwise relatively normal. they all came from pretty affluent families though. (or worked for a while and saved up money, like the guy who did infosec consulting for a decade then switched to journalism) Now that you mention it, I guess I did know that one guy who met that description. Nice guy, talented, worked hard, and by far the most successful of anyone in my graduating class (he got a job selling swimming pools). Pick posted:Each department is its own cult, with about the same incidence of mental illness, tho jonestown still has to catch up on total suicides
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Oct 31, 2017 04:27
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Clark Nova posted:How's this - divorce, a hot, loving new wife/stepmom, and limited visitation for the untreated depressive sadsack? The OSU marching band spells out "Divorce" in perfect cursive
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Oct 31, 2017 04:28
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maskenfreiheit posted:My girlfriend [25F] would like to move in with me [23M] in order to save money while in grad school, but I don't want her to.Dating You don't really love her, which is a good thing. It shows good instincts. 
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maskenfreiheit posted:My girlfriend [25F] would like to move in with me [23M] in order to save money while in grad school, but I don't want her to.Dating She sounds like a spoiled, entitled brat and a manipulative mooch. Then again, he hates a cat. I'm torn.
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My (23m) wife (23f) is in grad school right now and is struggling with a Physics class. And it's putting strain on our relationship.Relationshipsquote:My wife and I have been together for 7 years married one. Right now she is in grad school to get her master's of education. She wants to be a Biology teacher and in order for her to be as broad as possible she has to take a Physics course in order to be certified to teach physics and chemistry.
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Oct 31, 2017 04:31
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She should date the homeless guy. There's no reason the whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" thing can't be extended to romantic partners.
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Oct 31, 2017 04:33
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maskenfreiheit posted:My (23m) wife (23f) is in grad school right now and is struggling with a Physics class. And it's putting strain on our relationship.Relationships Reminds me of that time I canceled a date last minute because I couldn't get through grading fast enough. Don't date grad students. 
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Me [23F] with a grad school classmate [28?F] whose behavior is consistently totally inappropriate in the past 3 monthsNon-Romanticquote:I am one semester in to a science PhD program, and am one of 4 women in a cohort of 25. Classes are going well, and everyone has been getting along really nicely, with the exception of one student.
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Oct 31, 2017 04:38
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maskenfreiheit posted:Me [23F] with a grad school classmate [28?F] whose behavior is consistently totally inappropriate in the past 3 monthsNon-Romantic Befriend her, you will soon find that she is the least crazy, entitled, and cruel person there. You just don't know it yet.
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maskenfreiheit posted:My (23m) wife (23f) is in grad school right now and is struggling with a Physics class. And it's putting strain on our relationship.Relationships It'll all get fixed once she makes her husband help her on the chapter about Escape Velocity. Maybe I don't get grad school but like, why is she in a Physics class if she sucks this bad at it?
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Barudak posted:It'll all get fixed once she makes her husband help her on the chapter about Escape Velocity. It's important to make everyone as crazy and suicidal as possible with only the vaguest justification.
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Oct 31, 2017 04:44
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Barudak posted:It'll all get fixed once she makes her husband help her on the chapter about Escape Velocity. Unlike functioning democracies where a physics teacher would have an MS in physics American teachers do a smattering of  ”education” classes and a solitary physics classHaving not taken math since HS this leads to much ennui
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maskenfreiheit posted:Unlike functioning democracies where a physics teacher would have an MS in physics American teachers do a smattering of Yeah you can go into mechanical engineering woohoo. *farts*
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Oct 31, 2017 05:03
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To be somewhat fair if you can't handle the basic courses in a variety in STEM fields you probably shouldn't be teaching any of them because they all relate to each other and plenty of students seeking real world examples of the applications of any of the individual fields would be served well by a teacher who has at least rudimentary knowledge of other STEM subjects as they relate to their own topic. Intro level physics is just like the bare bones of applying math to the real world.
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maskenfreiheit posted:Me [23F] with a grad school classmate [28?F] whose behavior is consistently totally inappropriate in the past 3 monthsNon-Romantic quote:tl;dr: Struggling but incredibly unpleasant fellow student is reaching out to me, and I don't know how to respond Shut her down; hard. A lot of us tried to be cordial with a few of the unpleasant students in my MA cohort. They were the nastiest, gossipy, self-centered people and were a total drain to be around. Also everyone learned fast to not share anything remotely personal with them, because they would immediately turn around and poo poo-talk about it to everyone else. But they always wondered/bitched why they were never invited to lunch study sessions or happy hour.
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Oct 31, 2017 05:46
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Pick posted:It's ok for kids to watch stuff they don't totally get. Hell it's fine for anyone to do this. I bet most people who see great art don't really "get" it but good on them for trying. I haven't done anything artistic in a few years, but this is always how I felt. Honest emotional reactions were always better than anything else. One child's genuine laughter--even if totally inappropriate--is easily worth ten people jacking off about the mise en scene or whatever.
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Yeah I'm not familiar with how things work in the US, can she really teach physics (at a high school level I assume) just by taking a course in grad school? Why does she even want to teach physics if she hates it and sucks at it? I've been teaching advanced orgo for a couple of years now, and it still amazes me how every semester at least like a third of the students have a high school level understanding of organic chemistry and inevitably flunk out of grad school. But at least these are people who actually thought they were somewhat competent and wanted to pursue a career in organic chemistry I guess?
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Oct 31, 2017 06:02
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Read again, she doesn't want to teach physics, she wants to teach biology.
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Some schools will give out emergency credentials to people with BS's and then provide on-the-job training. A lot of schools are desperate because most people who go into STEM do not want to teach children. My buddy got his teaching job at a high school with a BS in physics. He never had to go through a credential program but he did have to do BTSA.
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Pick posted:Read again, she doesn't want to teach physics, she wants to teach biology. Yeah, you're right. I guess I misread the "she has to take a Physics course in order to be certified to teach physics and chemistry" part as her wanting to actually teach physics and chemistry as well as biology. Still, from what I can tell she's only taking this class because she wants to be certified to teach physics and chemistry? Which is kinda sad
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failing forward posted:Some schools will give out emergency credentials to people with BS's and then provide on-the-job training. A lot of schools are desperate because most people who go into STEM do not want to teach children. My buddy got his teaching job at a high school with a BS in physics. He never had to go through a credential program but he did have to do BTSA.
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Hi, me again, from page 1917 this time. I miss the maskenfreit mirthless comedy hour, it was somehow preferable to this.
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my mum married her lecturer when she was doing her PhD and then they went and had Socialist shenanigans in 1980s Britain (helping striking miners, fighting Nazis, getting arrested etc) they are no longer together but are still friends anyway that's my story Whorelord fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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Sounds like the world could use nazi-punching mom again.
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Incoherence posted:There's kind of a death spiral here, too. American schools don't want to pay teachers more than the bare minimum, and their idea of performance measurement is standardized testing (which is probably the worst possible way to measure teaching effectiveness, but it's "objective" and doesn't require the administration to do anything). So smart people who aren't complete martyrs won't go into teaching, because it pays garbage. And then the quality of teaching is low enough that the school district can't justify paying the teachers more. This even extends to universities, where an increasing percentage of undergraduate classes are taught by grad students on minuscule stipends or by non-tenure-track "lecturers". Before I was committed to a major in college I briefly considered becoming a teacher. Then I just kind of thought "wait, teachers get paid poo poo in this country and also nobody respects them." And that was the end of that.
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Chomp8645 posted:Before I was committed to a major in college I briefly considered becoming a teacher. Then I just kind of thought "wait, teachers get paid poo poo in this country and also nobody respects them." I had this internal struggle in 2007 and was like "gently caress it, I'll just go into IT". Turns out your liver is going to fail no matter what career you take.
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Incoherence posted:There's kind of a death spiral here, too. American schools don't want to pay teachers more than the bare minimum, and their idea of performance measurement is standardized testing (which is probably the worst possible way to measure teaching effectiveness, but it's "objective" and doesn't require the administration to do anything). So smart people who aren't complete martyrs won't go into teaching, because it pays garbage. And then the quality of teaching is low enough that the school district can't justify paying the teachers more. This even extends to universities, where an increasing percentage of undergraduate classes are taught by grad students on minuscule stipends or by non-tenure-track "lecturers". Or alternatively, the professor simply gives the lectures (aka reads the slides that came with the teaching copy of the textbook) and then the grad students hold labs, lectures etc. But technically it's not taught by a grad student, we're Commited To A Strong Liberal Arts Education
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