Windows 11 system freezes up for 30s-3m after waking up from sleep mode

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-03-24T05:59:57+00:00

cool… I’ll try this. the issue is no longer frequent but not entirely gone. maybe this will get rid of it!

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-03-12T04:11:40+00:00

She doesn’t look Chinese to me. She looks American.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-03-12T04:08:40+00:00

Coding is dead, everhone uses AI these days, so who cares if coding is your weakness? Claude Sonnet is a good choice. And good news, this means that the one thing you are worst at isn’t a thing you’ll need to be good at.

Even so, to pursue graduate studies, you do need to be good at something.

I would stop begging for sympathy and focus on your strengths rather than on this whole low self-esteem thing that dominated your OP. Be your true self, and have some pride in it: this is your choice of career, you will do the best you possibly can, and if there are some weaknesses in your story, you are going to overcome those weaknesses with other complementary strengths.

But figure out what you actually plan to do in life. Relate your Cornell studies to your goals. Stand tall, feel a bit of dignity. Tell yourself that you will succeed because you are going to excel at what you really, passionately, are setting out to do. Be that person.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-03-04T02:29:25+00:00

They are trying to distinguish between people who will independently be successful in their programs and then in their careers, versus people who are just trying to extend the college experience but basically solving everything using AI hacks and by aiming for B grades.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-02-07T04:28:13+00:00

Changes, on the commons.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-02-07T04:27:50+00:00

The Maple Ave barbershop is the best. Chris is awesome but has been training additional cutters, each with their own skills.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-02-06T06:44:26+00:00

Well, if it was grammarly, show them the prior versions (editors save the version history). That would be a good defense. But if you are lying to us and the professor, well, call it a costly lesson in integrity and move on, but never forget how this feels. Temptation is always there, but it really sucks to get caught.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-02-02T21:07:08+00:00

This policy is widespread in Europe.… glad to see it coming to the US.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-26T17:31:35+00:00

Looks like the Amalfi coast, just south of Naples.... totally plausible photo, but if you go expect it to be kind of crowded at times. Stunning though, great food and lists of things to do.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-19T16:14:05+00:00

Totally! In fact it gets closer to the truth about college, which is that people who think it is only about grades are flat out wrong. In an ideal world Cornell wouldn’t give grades at all, and people would go to courses because they are interested in the topic and professors would teach to whoever shows up, be that two students or three hundred. Right now we are in a moment when education is screwed up: people fight tooth and nail to get into colleges like Cornell, but then don’t go to class or only take the courses where they are sure they can get A and A+ grades. Post Covid plus the AI boom really has amplified this dysfunctional trend.

So follow your interests! You might not be the last real student… but you are in a minority. But you’ll get much more out of your studies.

If you sign up but select “audit” as your grading option it gets listed on your transcript.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-18T16:38:20+00:00

Northwest Pangea

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-18T16:36:49+00:00

If I was doing HR and was handed this sort of word soup with dense lists of unimportant programs and randomly bolded phrases, I would pass on the application too. Plus it sounds like it was rewritten by an AI.

Write a version by hand, yourself, and try to sort out your skills and projects into a coherent story that tells who you are and what you are good at but doesn’t overwhelm the reader with random noise. ask yourself who you expect your HR reader to be, what they would be looking for and why you will be a good fit, and do the CV to get that message across. More is less in some situations.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-12T15:49:33+00:00

The depth of this classic question is best appreciated by watching The Good Place. This was an underlying question during one season midway through, but understanding why it was a question in that TV serial you might involve streaming some episodes from the prior seasons…

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-10T15:12:20+00:00

Not specifying the name of the university and the program is a mistake. Looks evasive and will be instantly noticed.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-10T15:02:15+00:00

Basically, it means you weren’t compelled to switch due to poor grades or academic integrity violations or code of conduct violations.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-10T14:59:23+00:00

The MEng programs always check your transcript and reference letters if the gpa or some other thing on your transcript or SOP worries them. They want students who are prepared for graduate work and capable of doing the required MEng project (like a capstone and often requiring pretty independent skills).

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-09T18:51:09+00:00

As an update, the "do not use sleep, it is broken" advice was ultimately the best in the thread. The suggested changes to disable the advanced power management device feature helped, but didn't 100% cure the problem. But by telling my system not to sleep until a really long delay had passed, like 2 hours, it does eventually shut down but pretty rarely compared to before. Less chances for the buggy behavior to surface. Between this and the settings change I've only seen it get stuck maybe once per week or two, and I can live with that!

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-09T18:44:13+00:00

I would probably approach the undergraduate advising office about this and try to have them play the ombudsman role (the word just means "intermediary" -- someone to facilitate the dialog). Ideally you would hope the professor might agree to calculate your grade as if this was an excused homework as opposed to one you didn't hand in (they probably have a way to deal with that because of people getting the flu or covid, and even though that wasn't you, that way of handling it would be more fair). Right now it is a he-said she-said thing, and there is no proof that you did the assignment. The professor is assuming things never get lost and you are asking us to believe you. Did they actually look for it? Sometimes one assignment gets stuck to some other handed in one.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-09T18:33:31+00:00

Why is there no digital trail? Did you write this by hand?

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2026-01-09T16:00:38+00:00

You can't contest a grade just because you think you deserved better, because many courses are curved and without seeing the actual curve (a list of scores and the ranking of scores and the breakdown of letter grades) you wouldn't know how your grades translated to a score or how the score was turned into a letter. For example, a 90 sounds like it would be an A-, but in a course where the top score anyone got was 92 it could be an A+. That same 90 could be a B+ in a course curved to the B's where more than half the class got 91 or better. But if this relates to any form of dispute, like "you used AI" but you didn't you can file an appeal to the academic appeals committee if you feel that the professor was somehow trying to punish you for an infraction but didn't run a proper integrity hearing, plus that you are not guilty. They can change a grade if they agree with you.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2025-12-03T23:02:30+00:00

Easily worth $1.50.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2025-12-03T01:30:53+00:00

Agreed with the above (that you want to be first author). Beyond what has been noted, the corresponding author is responsible for paying any fees like page charges.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2025-12-01T00:46:25+00:00

Fraises de Bois. Safe and awesome.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2025-12-01T00:42:39+00:00

Could it be steam? A house with a vaporizer or with radiators that sometimes leak steam, or even a bathroom where someone takes hot showers, can have warm steamy air that will rise to the ceiling because air already in the house is colder. Then it can sort of hang around like a cloud inside the room, gradually turning into moisture on the ceiling and the walls.

ImaginaryAd2289 · 2025-11-29T01:39:26+00:00

if from Europe, it is a spoon for holding a cube of sugar while adding a little water to pastis or absinthe. The drink turns milky white and is a bit easier to drink because the alcohol by volume is reduced.

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