dunkleology

oh hai

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This time of year in 2016, the grocery store ice cream had gone on sale so it was 2 pounds/giant tub, and I spent two weeks stress-eating half a tub of ice cream each time I dutifully watched the Cavs in the NBA finals at 2 AM in the morning. 

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Kept awake by people washing dishes until 11:30 PM.... then woken up by someone using the coffee grinder at 6 AM. Pls send help. 

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When the weather is a useful study tool: Currently afraid to go home because it’s 90F outside and I have no air conditioning at home, so it’s probably just better to stay put in my office and read on.

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I’ve always been very proud of responding to my emails almost as soon as I get them (unless I need some time to think), but lately I’ve been struggling to keep up and feel like I’m emailing ALL DAY.

It all came to a crux today when I was going for a jog to de-stress, only to keep on hearing my email app PING! notifications to me through my music. It was so terrible.

An older grad student recommended only checking my email at certain timepoints during the day, or only within a timeframe, but I’m not sure how I would actually pull that off?? Like how do I resist the urge to check my inbox and then respond to stuff immediately?

Thoughts? What do you guys do?

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Two hiring seasons and 112 applications.

*screams into the abyss*

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One terrible epiphany that I just had about a PhD:

This sounds obvious, but now you’re truly just trying to best.... yourself. Like in undergrad (and even my Master’s program), you were constantly being compared to your classmates. So, I could always scrape by and throw in less than my best because I always knew that there would be lots of lazy fuckers who would be giving even less effort. 

But here, when I slack, there’s no one to really compete with. I’m just being evaluated on whether I’m producing something good and worthy, and the faculty don’t have their expectations lowered by other lazy people. Instead I just receive lots of “you can do better than that”s whenever I turn in something awful... and that’s terrifying to me because I am deeeeefinitely one lazy mothafucka.

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“And we watch for ways to actively engage them even during lecture components of the course. We scored with a fork and spoon symbol, for example, the particular branch tip taxa the instructor has consumed and in the final offering, with our entire TOL in view, asked for the smallest inclusive taxon for his Lifetime Phylogenetic Dietary Diversity (LPDD)—immediately yielding a resounding “Eukaryotes!” from the class (Fig 5). He next proposed right then to expand his LPDD in front of them, pulled out a water bottle and swallowed a huge blue-green Spirulina capsule, added a fork and spoon symbol to cyanobacteria on the TOL and asked, “now what is the smallest taxon for all the marked branch tips?”—at which point the class thundered, “LUCA!” (the Last Universal Common Ancestor) and broke into applause.“

That’s Cornell intro bio for you...

Source (open access): http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.2001630

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*gulps as I gently criticize some old work of the person who is reading my essay*

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Wishlist: electric burner so I can cook in my office and never go home

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> Staying in the office overnight to work on my paper

> Plotting to make Shin Ramyun with the leftover rotisserie chicken and frozen peas I snagged at the grocery store today, feeling rich

> Sees photos of my mom feasting at a family reunion in Taiwan

> Sobs intensely

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RIP me

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“I don’t understand why you would romanticize an entire race as being submissive or weak or docile or delicate or fragile or whatever the fuck is the allure of asian women” (x)

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Current life goals

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*googles photos of crabs for a presentation*

*compulsively feels the need to listen to Shiny*

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Visit Original Link

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“Consider the coconut-

THE WHAT!”

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*searches my room endlessly for my stylus, assuming that I threw it behind my bed or something*

*weeks go by*

*finally finds my pen carefully placed in a desk organizer DAMMIT*

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*tries not to puke all over the place while revisiting old Science Olympiad @ Cornell documents*

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Spent the entire morning and early afternoon rolling around in bed and feeling sorry for myself. It was not as fun as I thought it’d be, so I guess I should strive to have a life now...