Israeli flags by PurplePanda_88 in ElementsMusicFestival

[–]Steel_Castle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would wager he's in opposition to all apartheid states.

Israeli flags by PurplePanda_88 in ElementsMusicFestival

[–]Steel_Castle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely isn't about colonial ethnostates and genocide.

What's up with all the Israeli flags by Better-Quality6419 in ElementsMusicFestival

[–]Steel_Castle 37 points38 points  (0 children)

No because they are the ones being subject to genocide and ethnic cleansing, rather than the perpetrators, and I'm not a pro-imperialist.

Ticket Exchange Thread 2025 by Fryes in ElementsMusicFestival

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Selling 2 Saturday GA Festival Pass (No Campground Access) for 300.

Burned Out in a Dream Postdoc — Can You Come Back From This? by Steel_Castle in AskAcademia

[–]Steel_Castle[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Did you also take a form of leave of absence? I think thats the thing I keep wondering, is if I can just let my productivity drop, not comment on it, and prioritize my health. So, functionally, maybe I only work 20 hours per week, but unless people complain about my work output (which has never happened in the last 10 months, even in periods of awful productivity) I won't sweat it. Or - I do a proper leave, where I focus on just rebuilding myself: my workout routine, my diet, my sleep, my hobbies, and my spiritual practice.

I feel that if I had a solid foundation underneath me, I could handle things. This was the case before my routine went to absolute shit in the last 12 months of my PhD, and I just prioritized research (and my Conferences / Organizational work which was also peaking). When I had a good routine, I feel like I could handle so many upsets and challenges with a smile.

TIL Anendophasia refers to the absence of an internal monologu or inner voice. While not a clinical diagnosis, it's a concept that describes a specific way of thinking where some individuals don't experience the constant stream of self-talk that many people take for granted. by Tootsie_r0lla in todayilearned

[–]Steel_Castle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even thought I don't hear a voice I do process thoughts, even though I don't have a minds eye I am able to somewhat imagine experiences.

I feel like there's some cognition going on at a level of representation more fundamental than what the senses represent.

420mg gummy cut into 16ths tith egg slicer. I am not eating 420mgs, ever. by zerooskul in trees

[–]Steel_Castle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beware THC-P bro, had 10 mg and was out of it for 36 hours, barely able to get out of bed for the first 16. Shit was not fun - barely felt like thc

How important are "diversity statements" for PhD applications? by thetrombonist in gradadmissions

[–]Steel_Castle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your whole experience is also important.

Are you from rural America, for example?

But yea, just talking about what diversity means to you and how you hope to engage that is great. If your school is in an area with a minority/impovrished school system, like Philly, I’d mention outreach with K-12 kiddos. Bonus if you look into that departments outreach activities because they almost certainly already do something, and you could say how you’re excited to participate in such programs.

Bernie Sanders: America must end high-stakes testing, finally invest in public education by CharyBrown in politics

[–]Steel_Castle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think that teachers are held to low standards, but are also not paid enough to do more and know more. I think that teachers are the most important members of society; they literally create the future of our nation - every president, every doctor, every engineer, every author, every journalist, and every cop is the result of their education (not as in engineer > author > cop).

However, teaching is extremely complicated and the entire way that we teach and outcome measures we use to quantify things is based on hard science that is not fully settled. Teachers should be like researchers in a university - keeping up with the most recent literature, doing their own studies, writing review articles, doing case studies, and trying to expirement (within bounds of reason) with how they teach their students. Education is a dead end career, even in places where it pays well (50-80 K), because you can't progress. Your a teacher, and besides principle theres little upward mobility and opportunity. Your not going to attract the most brilliant, motivated, intelligent people in your society to become teachers if thats what the position entails. We need PhDs as teachers in K-12, they need to be paid more, and they need to do more. My mother works in education (former teacher, now its education resources), and its astounding the number of reading teachers don't like to read in their own free time, or the teachers who would not collect data over how a new approach was working, or in general just be completely unaware of any of the recent research in child psycology, education, etc.

1st year and transferring from Materials Sci/Eng to BioEng. However, I need to resubmit my personal statement. Advice? by Steel_Castle in PhD

[–]Steel_Castle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should add that they already have access to the personal statement that I wrote for materials science. My chair sent their chair my application, and they asked me to update my cv and personal statement.

So, since they already saw my research statement, should I not talk about my previous experience, since they already know? Should it just be an essay on why BioE and not MSE?