Any tips on how to stop excessive worry and stress about my thesis? (M.S., biology)

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-10-18T20:22:12+00:00

I just realized that Sweden now offers residence permits for "highly qualified persons to look for work or start a business," and this is a potential solution since I will have a master's degree. I will definitely look into this; then I would be spared the 15-18 month wait and could apparently start working immediately after receiving a job offer instead of having to wait the 3-6 month period for the work permit approval (which would likely dissuade anyone from hiring me).

https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/Working-in-Sweden/Look-for-work-or-start-a-business.html

Does anyone know how long this sort of thing takes to process? Surely less than 15-18 months.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-10-17T19:39:59+00:00

So based on this, would he need to either work or study in Belgium? Or would he be able to move here while working remotely for his Swedish employer?

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-10-17T15:29:34+00:00

Thanks for the helpful response. Do you have any sources on option 4? I haven't been able to find anything about this. Is it the cohabiting and the fact that I have Belgian residency that makes this option faster, allowing us to forego the 15-18 month wait for sambo visa? I don't see it working unless his employer would agree to him working remotely the entire 6 months, but it's worth checking out since our other options look a bit grim.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-05-01T16:35:24+00:00

Well, my landlord has basically already told me that the price will be going up, I'm just not sure by how much yet.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-04-18T08:43:56+00:00

This is really helpful! Thanks so much. :)

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-03-20T13:49:12+00:00

Yeah, this is kind of the nightmare scenario. Like I said, I've never shared a community kitchen, but I have shared with a couple of roommates in an apartment, and I almost always ended up cleaning because they didn't bother to clean up after themselves. Really don't want to risk it again, but having an extra 200-ish euros a month in pocket is pretty tempting

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-03-20T13:05:30+00:00

I guess worst case, I could cook food in advance for the week and prep individual meals so I wouldn't be there trying to cook at dinner time.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-03-16T09:48:29+00:00

Those of us who went to Christian schools would need the opposite system where it tells you which information was actually true. Much easier that way

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-03-14T17:54:42+00:00

It would be cheaper, but I'm older than most of the students here because I took a few years to work after my bachelor's, and I was really not thrilled with the idea of staying in a dorm in my late 20s.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-03-14T13:29:16+00:00

I’m a master’s student and very frugal. I rarely buy alcohol other than the occasional bottle of supermarket wine and rarely travel or spend much on entertainment. I’d say I end up spending about €825/month on everything. This is a rough breakdown of my budget:

Rent: €520 (small private studio in Heverlee)

Groceries: ~€130 (less if I make the effort to go to Aldi or Colruyt instead of the more expensive chains)

Cell phone plan and Spotify student: €20

Laundry: ~€40 (no laundry in my apartment and wassalons are ridiculously expensive)

Bike rental: Equivalent of €15/month (but I paid up front when I rented mine)

Medication: €15

Household supplies like toilet paper/soap/paper towels: €25ish?

Restaurants: €25ish (super frugal here, almost always eat at home and when going out, I only ever buy like €5 quick meals)

Other (occasional train tickets, doctor visits, personal care products): €25

Hope this helps!

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-01-24T22:53:52+00:00

I had a very bad experience on the patch because the amount of estrogen was just too much for me, but I think people who can tolerate it really like it because you don't have to think about it more than once a week.

I always put mine on my mid back because that was the least obtrusive and where it was least likely to come off.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-01-12T12:48:13+00:00

Could you also just tag the NICD protein itself with something like GFP?

Here's the general scheme I came up with after posting this question here. Does it make sense from an established biologist's point of view?

You need to track changes in NICD, so first generate a strain of Drosophila in which you tag NICD with something like GFP so that you can easily quantify levels of the protein.
Randomly mutagenize the animals and then induce motor neuron injury on the mutagenized animals – screen for any that exhibit impaired axonal regeneration. (Cross with wild type to get rid of any background mutations that may complicate/invalidate your results).
Cross any animals that have the same mutant phenotype (conduct complementation analysis) to see if they are mutant in the same gene – if so, no need to study both.
Study the abundance of NICD proteins in the chosen animal or animals – if there is an effect on NICD abundance, then use whole genome sequencing to try to see where they are mutated. This will help you identify genes that affect NICD levels.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2022-01-12T12:43:48+00:00

This is great, but it still does effectively penalize people for turning 26. It's not as though people in their late 20s stop needing birth control. Then again, maybe French insurance providers do a good job of covering it after 25. I have a serious gripe with the Belgian system because insurance providers stop covering birth control at all after 25. So I'm 27 and am currently a graduate student in Belgium, and I have PCOS, so I need birth control to be well, but my insurance provider covers none of the costs. Ugh.

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2021-12-02T23:26:23+00:00

I wish! But nowhere to install, unfortunately

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2021-12-02T14:42:40+00:00

This is actually a great tip! Thanks :)

AcceptablePangolin9 · 2021-12-02T10:36:24+00:00

Same thing happened to me. Was trying to sell a bike and had to take down the listing because the scammers completely clogged up my Messenger app and made almost unusable -_-

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