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ellie | they/she | impure math phd student

[kovalevskayasgf]

How do I tell whether it's imposter syndrome or I'm actually bad at math?

[kovalevskayasgf]

Btw this was a dumb jokey vent. No one is “bad at math”. Even my phd advisor often talks about how he has imposter syndrome. And there are seemingly endless wildly different fields of math — it’s normal to barely/not know most math anyways!

[kovalevskayasgf]

Oof I totally forgot tumblr existed for a while!! Is anyone still here lmao 👀

[kovalevskayasgf]

At this point, thinking about math and getting any kind of school email sends me spiraling into a full blown nervous breakdown this shit is not sustainable

[kovalevskayasgf]

Yeeaah I think it's time for me to drop out of grad school lmao. Just gotta figure out how to tell my advisor after all the effort he put into this

[kovalevskayasgf]

And I guess i need to figure out what to do instead since I need money smh

[kovalevskayasgf]

Yeeaah I think it's time for me to drop out of grad school lmao. Just gotta figure out how to tell my advisor after all the effort he put into this

[everythingisterrible]

[thyrell]

"ooh you hate cops but who are you gonna call when you get robbed?" uhhhhh your moms house? a great tragedy has befallen me and i need to have sex immediately

[kineticpenguin]

Every time someone’s like “who are you gonna call when you get robbed?”

1. Know how I know you’ve never been robbed?

2. I am going to call my insurance company and file a claim, the only usefulness a cop has at this point is generating a report number for said insurance company to refer to

3. Seriously all a cop’s gonna do after establishing that the robber/burglar/whoever isn’t there anymore is say “what do you want me to do about it?” and leave

[fandomsandfeminism]

Also:

Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year

Federal asset forfeitures topped burglary losses for the first time in 2014.

So, ya know.

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

my nephew, who is like 11 or 12, is playing “5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel”, which is exactly what it says on the tin, and I have never been more terrified of the youth of today

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

here’s a sample picture from the Steam page:

what the hell is this

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[wetorturedsomefolks]

time to relax and have some me time! *spends five hours clenching my jaw, chewing my lip, sweating, and shivering slightly while laying in bed compulsively refreshing websites* 

[chthonic-isabelleadjani-deactiv]

Bro İ hate being an academic they're making me write shit 😭 İ thought İ was just supposed to sit in an old chair smoke & say something french every now and then 😢

[xantchaslegacy]

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

[midiport]

i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good

[midiport]

yea lol

ADHD Medication information sheet

[brazenautomaton]

I have been struggling

For a long fucking time

with why my adderall was having such uneven effects and varying efficacy

and the weird pattern of what made it work and not work and if it was building up in my system or not

and fucking nobody told me I shouldn’t drink a glass of Kool-Aid to take the pills with

or eat fucking Pop-Tarts or Life cereal

this is the most useful information I have ever received from tubr and it seems to be confirmed by several other places upon searching

so this actually should be spread like wildfire like actually

[firebirdscratches]

Me reading this realizing tunglr dawt kom gave me more information about my medication than MYDOCTORRRRRSSSSSS MYYYYYYYY FUCKENNNNN DOCTORSSSSS PLURAL MULTIPLE DOCTORSSSSSSSS

[perpetualanachronisms]

Reblogging to spread this ridiculously important info

[whoisme-iisme]

Also if you are ANEMIC and take IRON SUPPLEMENTS DO NOT TAKE WITH CAFFEINE. No coffee, caffeinated tea, etc. The caffeine will block iron absorption and you won’t actually get any of that iron that you just took!!

[grrspit]

Same with thyroid meds. I had my dose upped like three times before stumbling across the info that I shouldn’t be taking it with my morning coffee.

[marxistprincess]

The real reason for U.S. attacks on China: global class struggle - Struggle - La Lucha

As the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign wound down, there was a perception held by many that a Biden win would mean a more diplomatic interna

Bc im tired of arguing with people I’m adding this.

[kovalevskayasgf]

ok have face

[clusterb-itch]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[apas-95]

As much as I do love the ‘SpaceX is just burning money for no reason, Elon Musk is personally designing these rockets badly, the whole company is a joke, Elon’s going to blow up on his way to Mars’ banter, I think it’s important to reckon with the actual reality of SpaceX as a military contractor.

Their ‘Starship’ is not, and never was designed to fly to Mars - that’s a marketing scheme, and it makes no sense if you actually look at the vehicle. SpaceX is able to throw money at this project because they’ve got a military contract to produce it as a military cargo drone. Their ‘Starship’ is designed to deliver a C-130′s load of US military cargo to anywhere in the world within an hour.

SpaceX, from before its first ever launch, has been partnered with the US military - as noted in the incident where the company stranded its workers without food on an island owned by the US Army. SpaceX’s constant failures with their rocket come from a simple calculation - cost versus time. To slowly and methodically design a rocket such that, by your first test flight, you’re confident in it, is just that: slow. Blowing up rocket after rocket and iterating is fast, but expensive - but when you have military contractor money, it’s worth it.

This is far from SpaceX’s only time contracting for the military, having launched military payloads with their Falcon rockets, and even designed satellites for the military. There’s a reason only USAmerican citizens are allowed to work at SpaceX.

The image of SpaceX as an eccentric billionaire’s quest to colonise Mars serves as a marketing ploy which distracts from the company’s real existence as part of the US military industrial complex, beholden not to the Reddit-fueled whims of an egocentric moron, but to the massive economic and structural forces of modern capitalism.

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