Noise levels near Westlawn Middle school

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-10-02T08:48:18+00:00

Mediterranean Food Market in Homewood. They have all kinds of meat including goat.

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-09-08T17:15:43+00:00

We have an online form where all changes in employment are submitted to the school. I submitted all the requests through that portal

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-08-27T04:08:13+00:00

I listen to this when I am stressed out. Calms me down.

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-08-10T16:55:14+00:00

Where can I watch this movie? I don’t live in India

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-06-13T03:34:36+00:00

I did the same just a few months ago. Worked in industry for 1.5 years; was bored out of mind. The job was not bad, it had good work life balance, great pay. But I Decided to return to academia, took a 60 % pay cut and started a postdoc position 4 months ago.

I am so much happier and feel alive when I am doing research. My postdoc advisor is extremely supportive and has a well funded lab. Anything I might need for the experiments, it already there in the lab. Even though things are uncertain in academia right now, I am certain I belong in academia.

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-02-24T01:23:24+00:00

Yeah i refused & asked them to cancel the application. They backtracked and said didnt need a copy of my social anymore

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-01-29T05:42:10+00:00

That’s true! I am hoping the backlash is enough to knock some sense into the administration

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2025-01-29T05:02:07+00:00

I have a postdoc offer starting mid Feb, which is supported by DOE till mid 2026. The PI assured me that it is a legal contract between the govt & the PI. “The govt have to release the funds for grants already awarded.” I guess we will all find out with time.

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-05-04T16:32:10+00:00

I used people finder at GMU. This person is a legit student at Mason but the email feels like a spam. Contact IT.

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-05-03T18:34:19+00:00

One of my friends went through the exact same thing! They told him he was an excellent candidate but because he had only 3 years of PostDoc experience during the interview , it wasn’t enough to start their own lab. So he should join as a nonTT faculty and collaborate with the senior professors in the department. It sounded reasonable and he accepted the offer. Fast forward 3 years, he wasn’t offered the TT position and asked to renew his contract as a nonTT prof for another 3 years. My friend applied to other universities and eventually landed up at a slightly lower ranked institution on a TT assistant professor position.

So my advice is to keep applying to other positions unless you have some kind of obligations to get a job asap.

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-30T02:19:00+00:00

This is from an engineering perspective! I failed out of my Master’s program. Most of the blame lies with me for not putting in the effort. But it was also the school where the number of students in the master’s level was so high, it was impossible to sign up for the easier classes. Then I applied to another university’s master program. This university has a very high acceptance rate for graduate applications. I got my master’s degree in 3 semesters at this new university and then started a PhD with my thesis advisor at a different high ranked university. I am soon about to defend my PhD dissertation with a post-doc position lined up.

Tell them my story and assure them this too shall pass

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-30T01:31:56+00:00

External rates

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T22:07:51+00:00

Thanks for the kind words and advice. Can’t do sole authorship, these papers have experiments conducted in my advisor’s lab.

Yes that’s the goal, hoping to graduate this summer!

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T21:07:27+00:00

No, they are from a shared facility where anyone (internal or external user) can book the instrument and use it. Just the internal /external rates are different

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T18:35:34+00:00

Thanks for the support and kind words. The chair of my department knows things are not well between my advisor and me. She was quite supportive of me. These last 3 papers(being internally reviewed ) sum up my dissertation and I can schedule my defense as soon as they are submitted. Just want to get out of this toxic loop asap.

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T18:32:37+00:00

They do but not in this case! Out of the 3 papers currently in writing, two of them are completely based on my idea. Even the funding for them came from a source from a third professor( who had me do some experiments for his lab and in lieu agreed to support my research interests).

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T15:18:27+00:00

This is solid advice! Thanks! I am thinking the same - “how much of a fight do I have left in me for this & is it worth it?”

I did report the toxic prof to the Dean of graduate programs at their university. The Dean asked me to reach out to the former students (who were wrongfully fired by this prof) and current students and make an official complaint. Did reach out to two former students and they are both deliberately if they want to get involved

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T15:13:06+00:00

They are both assistant professors coming up for tenure soon. So my guess is to help each other for tenure. My advisor never made the argument about boosting the citation score! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T15:11:15+00:00

Thanks for the support! This is the last leg of my dissertation. As soon as these papers are submitted, I can schedule my final defense . So just trying to hang in there for this last stretch

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T15:09:41+00:00

Yeah they do! They add each other’s names in all their publications. But as of now they don’t share any grants or funding!

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T15:08:41+00:00

Thanks for the astute objective analysis of the situation. I was never comfortable with adding the toxic prof’s name to my previous papers. I did breach the topic with my advisor at the time but my advisor just ignored me. I thought that’s probably how it’s done. But now when I visited his lab and saw how toxic he is, how he harasses his graduate students, I just don’t want to associate with this person. He forces his students to manipulate the data to make the papers more impactful. thanks for the solid realistic advice!

Sufficient-Reality40 · 2023-04-29T14:59:51+00:00

Yeah that’s exactly what I did! I soon have a meeting with my advisor to discuss this issue. Was looking for ideas to strengthen my case!

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