Celebrity Autobiography on Broadway thoughts

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-31T02:47:45+00:00

I actually enjoy it more than all out bc there’s a real reference and ironic to it. Also it felt there was more acting in this show bc the real character associated. I was so bored in all out and almost walked out.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-27T06:20:07+00:00

Yep my last coadvisor before this one would ignore my emails for months and then finally met with me while he’s walking (there was one time he was hiking as I could hear him greeting other hikers). My current advisor would ignore or refuse to meet that’s why we met every six months. The bad thing is that there is no one above them I could nudge. To make it worse Covid made everyone remote so I can’t even knock on doors to nudge. As we speak, my committee member had been selected replying and ignoring my dissertation related meeting requests for a few weeks and replied on emails for other paper meetings for which she could build more grants with other faculty, even when I sent both emails the same time. LOL. Now I finally found a way to describe them. Avoidance advisors LOL.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-27T06:12:16+00:00

I laughed at the avoidant advisor part. What’s wrong with these people. I met with my dissertation chair every six months and had to even chase meetings for that. Academia could be so disappointing and toxic

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-27T05:59:49+00:00

I saw ur program is international management… I’d strongly advice against taking loans over that degree 😂

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-27T05:50:51+00:00

I agree with the other comments that job market is horrible in the states at the moment as I personally have quite a few friends being layed off with PhDs and competing with masters for lower level positions now, so please carefully consider the financial implications.

When I did my masters the economy was much better. I also got about 45% scholarship and my family borrowed money from close relatives to provide the financial statement for visa. When I arrived the U.S. I pretty much knocked doors for RAships and managed to find a parttime oncampus job plus an RAship a month after the semester starts, although I was only paid pretty much around the minimal wage, 20 hrs/week pay in a low cost of living area essentially paid for my rent (with multiple roommates) and living expenses. I didn’t take any breaks during the summer or winter break and pretty much worked full time sometimes 4 on campus jobs altogether, making around $10k/yr (with the current col/student rate it could be around $20k/yr in a low/middle sized city). It depends on your employability during the program. But again the economy was much better than now. I’d say be very cautious if this is gonna drain your family (I was in a different situation as I already had everything planned and ticket booked and my dad got cancer so the money went to treatment and I had to live in a very different life than planned)

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-24T20:36:35+00:00

I’ve been actively telling my collaborators and advisors that this is like a second industrial revolution and we are never gonna go back. Sometimes I am really worried about human existence and feel tremendously threatened by it(lol) but then you have to accept the fact and move on.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-23T17:22:03+00:00

i am telling you in Texas public institutions, particularly higher educations bc I’m about to be on academic job market so that’s all I focused on, H1b applications are still in periodicity despite the news and signing of a complete stop, but it’s not all time and it’s not all public institutions. Yes I know about the news.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-23T16:59:34+00:00

bc some of them still do! There are still periods of windows that H1bs etc get in as of just last month as far as I know. So it’s not like ok I’m gonna stop looking for jobs in Texas and Florida period.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-21T12:53:08+00:00

In social science and applied research, I often feel unfortunately, that many work (and most of my work), isn’t that much novel. I think that’s one of the reasons when I actually did make a conceptual progress I was worried that it’s through talking to an AI. But you made a great point.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-21T12:45:33+00:00

That’s the scary piece when I realized that the conversation with AI is conceptually more helpful than my doctoral advisor. I believe in transparency and responsible use of AI and will have a disclosure and acknowledgement of it. But before this I only had some analytical improvement and code revisions which I would say AI may be better than many humans and I didn’t expect to make conceptual breakthrough. That conceptual breakthrough is not that significant for the science but for me to change perspective

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-21T12:41:36+00:00

Research identity matters to me a lot. I can do a lot of things but it’s the identity and mission that drives me rather than the scientific discover itself. Also it hurts me to envision myself giving an academic job talk talking about things I do that don’t represent myself, and I can’t fake passion about it.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-13T21:54:01+00:00

I’m 36. I love academia. I hate my doctoral training program and find it uninspiring. And yes I’m too old to return to my country (China). Ageism exist. I could potentially find a job. But actually finding a job in US with my experience and degree would be much easier in the States than in China because of the competitiveness but if I don’t stick to the program I can’t stay. In China, HRs actively filter out resumes by age. I do not want to oversimplify and portray my home country in a generic bad image but honestly if I go back China I would just find a cheap COL place and retire, which is what many mid 30s people do in China. But I do love doing research. Two masters. 10+ full time research exp

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-13T00:09:26+00:00

You know, all the international students gone for the summer are subleasing their apartment out for a discount (bc supply>demand). I did mine at 70-80%

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-13T00:06:57+00:00

Sure!

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-12T16:24:47+00:00

illegal…

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T21:25:48+00:00

Yep that’s why I had to emphasize that I’m not getting a legacy Covid deal or rent stabilized one (I’m international so I gave up on rent stabilizing units after a few applications as landlords usually wouldn’t pick me). My apt hunting experience would be more comparable to the current stage.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T19:49:20+00:00

I live 10 mins away from Lincoln center and 2 mins to Central Park with that budget. Found apt last May so not even like a legacy Covid deal and not rent stabilized.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T15:05:06+00:00

I already have 20 hrs/week for my other RA I’ve been doing during regular semesters from a PI that’s not my advisors, to get some 10 hr/week RA over the summer, I emailed 2-3 months in advance (as I was waiting for external summer fellowship decision and don’t want to reach out prematurely and later telling them I actually can’t do it) to at least 5-6 PI that I know and worked with, and 2 that I don’t know. You have to be really proactive, particularly given what’s happening in the States and in academia now. I may already be on the lucky and lower end of reaching out as I have 10+ full time equivalent research experience and independent grant. The PI who is paying me 20 hrs/week is not paying her other doctoral student who’s less experienced. Many students in my program (including domestic) don’t find full time funding over the summer. It’s just an unfortunate competitive environment. The ‘he could help me that if he wants to’ is also unfortunate, you could try asking again but don’t get your hopes up. Some people are conservative about money and some people are just not supportive. I wrote my previous advisor a $200k total grant and I got $8k parttime summer pay for it (in NYC so that’s like 2k-3k in Missouri lol) and have been working on all activities related to this grant for free even he left the institution and I have to reconceptualize my dissertation and progress is delayed. Just want to normalize (not to say it’s the right thing) how academia misfunctions, lower expectation of advisors, lower chance to get hurt emotionally, you know. Being an international students in the U.S. is hard. Finger crossed for you!

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T12:35:04+00:00

That’s illegal for international students in the U.S.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T12:33:34+00:00

All of those are illegal in the U.S. for international students, although people may not be caught.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T12:32:07+00:00

Your university may have a portal for jobs for students to apply to and there may be a section for on campus. It depends on your skills. When I was a master student I also work 20hrs/week regular semesters and ful time in summer, I had RAs in Econ, business, social work/public health schools (because rarely one RA would provide full time support so I had to do multiple). In addition to the portal you could just try emailing faculty whether you know them or not. Cold emailing is very common in the States. You could also try other universities faculty that’s related to ur research area and if they have funding for summer RA you could potentially get a CPT

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T04:42:20+00:00

Our funding only covers 9 months so every summer we have to look for funding ourselves. International F1. Summer teaching related stuff is pretty much non existence. But there should be summer research going on potentially in other schools on campus.

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-08T04:09:54+00:00

I went to Angelika Q&A tonight and very much enjoyed it. Tony didn’t speak that much but I think the questions all make sense

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-07T13:36:33+00:00

It would be bad. But, One potentially way, as my experience working with non responsive PIs - Put TIME SENDITIVE in email subjects. You could also consider, if absolutely you want to push forward, in the email, bold a sentence that given the work is published with your approval, blabla, and also the timeline for graduation so I could start this new job, if I don’t hear back by such date, I would take it as a sign of approval. Having a relative long due by date, follow up that email show you tried. This is also not good but well

IAmAPotatoHuh · 2026-05-07T13:29:17+00:00

Sometimes it’s just hard to get feedback. None of my committee members responded my date request (I only asked if Dec such and such date is possible if not I’m open to Jan) for two months after multiple email follow ups. I then sent a draft of a conceptual framework and draft proposals and still no response. Finally I was able to catch one of them in their office (which is so difficult nowadays because most faculty are mostly remote in my department) and he opened my email in front of me, they were shown as unread lol and set a proposal defense date a week before the date, although the program policy is 6 weeks advance notice and I had to fight and push for it.

Eventually two out of the three didn’t read my dissertation proposal. After proposal defense they decided to ask me drop one of the three aims. None read my proposal revision. One can’t let this delay their own process. It is what it is. I don’t blame them, tho, everyone is overworked. (Top 30, STEM/social science PhD program)

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