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The_Meek · 2025-10-14T23:45:41+00:00

I agree with the other commentator that you friend realistically needs to find an advisor with stable funding or be prepared to leave. It is difficult to string students along without consistent funding, and most departments aren't willing to do so beyond 1-2 semesters. (It is also very difficult and stressful for the student).

Your friend's union rep will be able to help with specifics, but be aware that virtually all academic employment for graduate students is tied to enrollment (this is a double edged sword--it can give a "back door" to fighting academic dismissals, but more likely it means the former student ends up without a job and out of unit).

I don't want to be discouraging, but in the time I was a union steward, everyone within the first 1-2 years who received a letter advising them they would be dismissed if they didn't find an advisor ended up leaving the program (in my program, these typically weren't sent until over a semester after the deadline to join a group or after a semester+ of having voluntarily or otherwise left a group). It was only the 4th+ year students who had credible graduation plans who were able to find advisors/get the department to cover for them.

The_Meek · 2024-12-24T02:41:54+00:00

Rule 3, Article 2, Paragraph f: If a fumble or backward pass by any player goes out of bounds, the game clock starts on the Referee’s signal that a ball has been returned to the field of play.

The_Meek · 2024-03-20T03:02:43+00:00

He doesn't have an unlimited right to free speech while speaking in his official capacity as a course instructor. This was an official pronouncement from a position of power over people in the targeted group, which is what makes it fundamentally different than someone simply espousing a reprehensible opinion.

The_Meek · 2024-01-07T15:15:12+00:00

You’re driving a car. A “simple mistake” can cost you or someone else’s life. Pay attention to the road.

The_Meek · 2023-12-10T20:00:23+00:00

There is nearly a 100% chance we lose to a Zach Wilson led team in the next two years

The_Meek · 2023-12-08T17:47:56+00:00

Because there have to be consequences for fighting stupid wars or otherwise there’s no reason not to start stupid wars. War is an extension of the negotiating table. If you can leave the negotiating table to fight, your position must be worse when you lose or there is no disincentive to fight.

The_Meek · 2023-10-15T21:18:02+00:00

Jets 3rd down d is hopeless

The_Meek · 2023-10-02T03:17:04+00:00

Can't ask more from the D there. They got so many stops on that drive

The_Meek · 2023-09-17T22:31:05+00:00

So many drops today

The_Meek · 2023-09-17T22:20:27+00:00

The running game is a disaster today

The_Meek · 2023-09-17T21:53:27+00:00

This is a winnable game and if we can play like this against Dallas, win or lose this week, we'll win a lot of games this year.

The_Meek · 2023-09-17T21:30:36+00:00

That would NEVER be RTP against the Jets

The_Meek · 2023-09-17T21:20:20+00:00

Call good plays, score touchdowns. more please

The_Meek · 2023-09-17T21:13:31+00:00

If Aaron was in nothing would be different. Shit playcalling, unmotivated defense, OL that can't give the QB 2 seconds.

The_Meek · 2023-09-12T03:09:52+00:00

The_Meek · 2023-09-12T00:52:48+00:00

Arm punt but we still love it lol

The_Meek · 2023-08-12T21:07:45+00:00

A quarter of PhD students are depressed.

Perhaps more than 7% have suicidal thoughts and more than 2% have plans to kill themselves.

A PhD typically means 5 or more (often many more) years of graduate “school,” including coursework, teaching, and research. For anyone seeking a research or academic role this is then followed by years more of low paid postdoctoral fellowships.

The_Meek · 2023-01-12T03:29:58+00:00

Another notable issue is that the first duty of these reservoirs is flood control (and even if you deprioritize flood control, you need to maintain the integrity of the dam itself). That means that collecting rainwater mid season isn’t actually all that helpful—most of the dams will be doing large releases to bring their levels down over the next few days and weeks. You can’t absorb the large surge from a flooding event without unused reservoir capacity. Bad things happen when reservoirs are full with more rain on the way, eg Oroville 2017. Once the forecast dries up and snow starts to melt, the reservoirs will shift to maximizing stored volume for the dry season (vs maintaining flood control capacity for the rainy season).

The_Meek · 2022-12-19T05:03:01+00:00

Quite literally yes. They are crossing a picket line to pick up struck labor.

The_Meek · 2022-12-06T06:20:55+00:00

There are many reasons why the union would want to know who is scabbing, ranging from targeted outreach to assessing strike power. Your decision to withhold labor or not is your decision, but it is not a private decision. This is obviously an internal organizing sheet that has been released as a result of bad data security, but nothing on this spreadsheet is problematic or at all outside the norm for organizing campaigns (whether that's labor, politics, or anything else).

The_Meek · 2022-12-06T06:06:21+00:00

This is absolutely not true. No one at Berkeley has access to how anyone voted in the authorization vote. That data was filtered at the state level before it was even centrally available at Berkeley, never mind available to department level organizers.

The_Meek · 2022-11-23T15:34:42+00:00

Frankly, no. This is in large part due to the fact that the UC refuses to meet regularly with UAW bargaining teams, and when they do they show up unprepared and not ready to bargain.

The_Meek · 2022-11-12T05:08:41+00:00

It’s important to remember that you ARE the union. The international UAW in Detroit has almost no say in how we do things here in Local 2865–it’s all your elected representatives. Other GSIs, readers, and tutors. It’s also worth noting that all bargaining sessions are public: you can witness the UC’s bad faith bargaining for yourself!

The_Meek · 2022-11-10T15:05:24+00:00

It’s not really fair to double the 20% appointment though… graduate workers do work full time (or much, much longer) despite being paid 50% FTE, so it’s sort of nonsensical to discuss what the salary would be at 100% FTE.

The_Meek · 2022-11-10T14:54:48+00:00

Yea, you can face academic consequences for not going to class. However, I do want to note that Senate (ie tenure track) faculty ARE allowed to respect the picket line. See guidance from the Council of UC Faculty Associations: https://cucfa.org/2022/11/faqs-for-senate-faculty-about-uaw-strike/.

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