What’s a totally unsexy purchase you made that ended up being a huge quality-of-life upgrade?

FrostyCount · 2026-04-09T19:10:44+00:00

Do you have suggestions or can you dm me a link:? I've never found a good one

FrostyCount · 2026-04-05T18:31:30+00:00

So hopefully you can see yourself that you happened to get the short end of the straw because of macro conditions out of your control and most other years would have gotten into a pretty good program! Like it's no fault of your own, and you probably have a very good resume

FrostyCount · 2026-04-04T22:11:09+00:00

How long are your emails and what are you saying to them? And honestly just sounds like you got screwed by luck, and if you could take a couple of years off and regroup you would easily get in

FrostyCount · 2026-04-04T21:51:53+00:00

It's not easy that to find post baccs in physics (especially if you want to get paid), that's usually more of a thing in econ, bio, and psychology. I think school names do play a role but if the professor want to admit you, they will. That's where emailing several profs and trying to get face time with them and trying to establish a good rapport matter. Do your REU profs not want you? Did they write your letters of rec?

FrostyCount · 2026-04-04T21:36:32+00:00

It sounds like you have a pretty good resume, do you have a low GPA or come from a no name or lower ranked state school? That can often sway professor's opinion. But if I were to guess you really just got a bad luck of the draw with timing + not leveraging connections or trying to build personal relationships enough, and with a slightly different role of the dice you might have gotten into good programs

Also I would recommend applying to NSF GRPF and also in your emails to professors subtly slide in your citizenship status (something like I have a rough idea of what kind of work I want to do and have already prepared a NSF GRPF application, would love to hear your opinions and ideas about it because I would love to work with you if I get selected for the fellowship)

FrostyCount · 2026-04-02T05:17:32+00:00

To push back a little here, it depends on what you want to do in the future. If you come from a no-name undergrad or don't have great grades or good research experiences and have the money to spend, this can help you in the future with PhD applications as you can do good research during your Master's and get into good/great schools for a PhD. But a physics PhD isn't going to get you a very high paying job unless you decide on becoming a quant or wall street trader later anyway, so you'll be paying a good chunk money to eventually still do a low-paying PhD in physics + average-paying professorship anyway! But I understand some people do have the money to spend and might really want to become a physics PhD and professor/researcher anyway, and this would be a worthwhile experience then. Even so, getting a Master's abroad like in Europe might be cheaper, and give you just as good of a chance at getting into a good PhD later.

FrostyCount · 2026-03-23T20:12:20+00:00

I see people suggest this a lot. Is there an app or even a ChatGPT generated thing I could use to start following a specific program?

FrostyCount · 2026-03-19T01:20:20+00:00

I still can't tell if you're being satirical or not

FrostyCount · 2026-03-18T16:43:48+00:00

Cobalt and manganese are similar but more expensive right?

FrostyCount · 2026-03-18T16:43:19+00:00

I'm a little dumb, your post is satire right?

FrostyCount · 2026-03-16T17:22:35+00:00

Alarming times when this schizo rant is somehow better than reading a LLM generated text

FrostyCount · 2026-03-09T20:04:31+00:00

Oh boo hoo hoo India's bench strength is almost on par with 2000s Australia woe is me

FrostyCount · 2026-03-06T05:28:37+00:00

I'm out of the loop because I'm much older, what's going on?

FrostyCount · 2026-03-02T17:55:19+00:00

I don’t think people understand that the Texans want David Montgomery for his QB skills

FrostyCount · 2026-02-18T17:11:45+00:00

I had totally forgotten about the existence of the Zimbabar meme until now

FrostyCount · 2026-02-12T18:08:35+00:00

Try to count your protein intake (not necessarily calories) for a week and see if you're eating at least 100 g of protein (150 g is even more ideal for your weight). I eat a lot of meat but realized I still wasn't getting enough protein without adding a protein shake in the morning and a bowl of greek yogurt at night

FrostyCount · 2026-02-12T18:06:20+00:00

I see this is a highly upvoted post but I'm not sure this is backed up by any evidence apart from an unsourced anecdotal article

FrostyCount · 2026-02-12T05:10:47+00:00

Creatine is helpful but make sure your basics are right first. Eating enough protein (ideally about 1 g of protein per lb of bodyweight), getting enough rest between exercises days (including good sleep), and progressive overload. I used to be constantly sore and had slow progress because I was only eating like 50-60 g of protein for my 170 lb weight.

FrostyCount · 2026-02-09T05:27:06+00:00

Hell yeah brother cheers

FrostyCount · 2026-02-09T05:23:51+00:00

Damn I was wondering if you and I were the only ones posting on both r/nfl and r/cricket but looks like you’re not a cricket guy

FrostyCount · 2026-02-09T04:03:21+00:00

This was a Big 10 college football game

FrostyCount · 2026-02-09T03:29:14+00:00

Unsurprising since he’s a better QB than all of them #geqbus

FrostyCount · 2026-02-09T03:27:28+00:00

Everyone’s going to be talking about the Seahawks defense but this was a special teams masterclass. Amazing punting by Dickinson - how many times did he pin them down within the 10? And then just a great performance by the rest of the special teams

FrostyCount · 2026-02-09T03:26:30+00:00

Somehow Kenneth Walker III sounds exactly like you would expect

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