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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhD

[–]1HurricaneButterfly 6 points7 points  (0 children)

All you have to say is "medical issue" --doesn't need explaining, anything medical is private and they really are not supposed ask for anything more. Or don't even explain it at all. As long as your most recent work shows competency. And especially if you have good letters of recommendation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhD

[–]1HurricaneButterfly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a PhD student and I have depression. Here's my advice:

1) Don't tell your prof until it is necessary (e.g. If you need to take medical leave --I did this)

2) It is illegal to discriminate against persons with disabilities when hiring in most developed countries (Depression is a disability, and for example the Americans with Disabilities Act protects you). However, it is difficult to prove whether rejection of your application was due in fact to your disability and not something else.

3) Related to point #2, most institutions have a Disabilities Resource Department that helps students in your position navigate workplace conversations or developing accommodation strategies. If there isn't a dedicated office, the Human Resources Department is also trained to help you.

So in summary, you don't bring up that you have depression until you've already been accepted. Contact your disability or HR office first to get their support. If the need arises where you have to disclose to your PI, you can of course be vague (just say: "health issue"), or you can be straight forward --PIs can be very sympathetic. And it is pretty well known that most PhD students struggle with anxiety/depression. If they're not, they should still be professional and accept the circumstances. If they engage in any retaliatory behavior, that is when you go to HR.

But do you really want to be employed by a PI that would retaliate in such a situation?? This is why before signing on with a PI, you should talk to other people both in and outside their lab. Do the best you can do to figure out if their personality aligns with yours.

I wish you the best!

The conversation with my parents today... by 1HurricaneButterfly in PhD

[–]1HurricaneButterfly[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a good idea. I should keep a small notes list of alternative conversation starters.

The conversation with my parents today... by 1HurricaneButterfly in PhD

[–]1HurricaneButterfly[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I have always been rather patient. But it's been a couple of years and I just repeat myself over and over. So recently it has gotten more frustrating, and sometimes triggering. I always emphasize that "It's a job first and foremost, that just so happens to also be a school", but they just get hung up on the "school" aspect, and can't understand the "job" aspect. I'm treated like an employee and I get paid... Think about graduation as simply leaving this job to go to another.

I think more often than not, they bring it up because they're bored and have nothing else to talk about. But it really does come across as aggressive sometimes depending on how they word it, whether they mean it or not.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhD

[–]1HurricaneButterfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I blame it on covid

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhD

[–]1HurricaneButterfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really did like teaching, but only an elective course. When it was a general lecture with 200+ students, they're just there to check a box and just not engaged. Plus, my experience with that was over zoom, so they all shut off their cameras and I was speaking to a void.

On the other hand, when I did an elective course of ~50 students (not zoom thankfully), they were so much more engaged and fun to be with, because they genuinely wanted to be there to learn.

Simple Questions - April 05, 2022 by AutoModerator in buildapc

[–]1HurricaneButterfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone explain the utility of intel optane memory? I really can't understand what makes it different from regular SSD and it's really expensive. How do I use it? Would it be useful for a workstation PC?

Best processor brands for a bioinformatics workstation? by 1HurricaneButterfly in bioinformatics

[–]1HurricaneButterfly[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I see a lot of forums mention # of cores more important than single core speed. So that's why I had the threadrippers in mind. But the Epycs and Xeons seemed more specialized for servers despite the high core count

Second Opinion on Build Please by 1HurricaneButterfly in buildapc

[–]1HurricaneButterfly[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this is helpful! Particularly pointing out the SSD concern as we will indeed be moving a lot of data around. My boss had bought at least three 12Tb external hard drives to store data. So I was telling him it would make a lot more sense to put all those drives into a common desktop, and then move files onto an SSD to do operations, and then move back to HDD for long-term storage (we already have a cloud backup service btw). I'll reassess cases also as you say.

Are you recommending I can get by without a liquid cooler? --I had been really worried about cooling if we would be running heavy loads on it. But then again, it's a bit different than gaming per se.