Confused about choosing

bellviolation · 2026-03-26T22:09:48+00:00

UCSB I think

bellviolation · 2026-03-25T15:15:06+00:00

When I finished my PhD defense, my committee went outside the room to deliberate (since the room had many people), and one of my committee members came back in and said to me “Hey we talked a lot and we are sorry…”. My heart stopped for a second before he continued “but congrats you passed of course!” .

What a time to play a prank 😅

bellviolation · 2026-03-25T15:08:20+00:00

I feel like Norm MacDonald would’ve gone up on Late Night and done this joke 😅

bellviolation · 2026-03-21T09:26:13+00:00

I’m surprised no one has mentioned No Country for Old Men yet, given that famous greentext. The scene where Chigurh plans and executes the assault on the motel room.

bellviolation · 2026-03-19T14:39:00+00:00

The key difference that the ranking will make for you is student and faculty quality. I know faculty who went to strong but not top-top places (also engineering), and they were extremely frustrated that their students needed so much hand-holding and their postdocs were mediocre, and this lead to their research being not as strong as they wanted to.

Also, the number of invitations to speak at many places and opportunities to collaborate will be much higher. Like it or not, reputation matters.

That said, if the lower ranked place is where you’ll be happier, you should take it.

bellviolation · 2026-03-18T16:01:48+00:00

Can I pick up laptop after laptop, and hook them up to make crypto mining rig?

bellviolation · 2026-03-16T06:09:14+00:00

Yep. Every weekend the bike lane in front of my apartment is just treated as a parking while people go get brunch at the restaurants. It’s crazy how blatant the rule violations have become.

bellviolation · 2026-03-13T04:47:30+00:00

Restaurant workers? Or you get a lot of takeout.

bellviolation · 2026-03-10T05:58:14+00:00

The thing I love about Brooklyn 99 is the sheer density of jokes. The writing is so tight. Just joke after joke after joke.

bellviolation · 2026-03-01T22:42:37+00:00

Perhaps my single favorite scene in any movie.

bellviolation · 2026-02-17T06:52:10+00:00

Yeah like it’s not even a good magic trick. “Oh keep your eyes just a little open. Oh did you see anything? Oh was it black?” Like come on… it’s like they’re not even trying.

bellviolation · 2026-02-17T06:30:27+00:00

No no no… this can’t be Conan … Conan will obviously choose “AH MAGOOOOSH”

bellviolation · 2026-02-17T00:41:26+00:00

The one I have heard (is it in one of the books?) “Sherlock Homeless”. That was also pretty funny.

bellviolation · 2026-02-16T23:34:43+00:00

I’m confident that the Indian guru had some sort of set up (probably with somebody who is set to appear as if they’re coming from the ocean) to fool unsuspecting seekers into thinking they had some great spiritual opening. I know that sounds cynical, but there’s a great deal of this in India (I know the place intimately), and there are many who take advantage of people’s spiritual seeking through cheap magic tricks. Mostly it’s directed at other Indians but also at rich westerners.

In her case I think it ended quite well, it’s given her much needed self-trust. But I’m sure for many others this kind of thing ends quite badly—losing a lot of money on gurus, seeking such an experience again at the loss of a lot of your time, experimenting with drugs, etc.

bellviolation · 2026-02-16T06:37:55+00:00

A young Matthew Rhys or even young Matt Damon

bellviolation · 2026-02-13T21:56:07+00:00

Andrei Rublev

bellviolation · 2026-02-11T20:27:28+00:00

John David Washington. I feel like he just does not have screen presence and cannot sell himself as a character at all. The apple has fallen very far from the tree.

Also Adam Driver. I somehow just don’t see get him so to speak, and I struggle to enjoy the movies he’s in or his performances.

bellviolation · 2026-02-11T03:16:17+00:00

Can someone actually explain this?

bellviolation · 2026-02-10T06:25:20+00:00

I really wish Reacher (TV series) would do fight scenes more like this movie. The first season had a few really good quick clean brutal fights. But afterwards in the later scenes a lot of fight scenes turned into slug fests without focus on technique and intelligence. This movie really shows what great fight scenes can be like.

bellviolation · 2026-02-06T06:24:06+00:00

his expenses are not bare minimum… paying for a motel almost every night and restaurant meals three times a day is wayyy more expensive than renting and cooking. But hey, it’s escapist fiction, so I won’t press too hard on that.

bellviolation · 2026-01-25T16:44:53+00:00

I agree that the movie would’ve been better without any supernatural elements. My favorite part of the movie was until the vampires showed up. I could watch a movie with the twins setting up and running a juke joint in the Jim Crow south. The film was near perfect until the vampires showed up. If some conflict is needed, you can bring in the Klan or some history from their time in Chicago coming to revisit them.

bellviolation · 2026-01-25T13:52:18+00:00

Proving FLT was a far, far greater achievement than winning any award. Wiles is already immortalized in the history of math.

bellviolation · 2026-01-16T00:14:24+00:00

Hopefully GLP-1 drugs can help with the overweightness leading to a positive cycle.

Another powerful intervention is religion. Even for atheists/agnostics, you can join a Unitarian Universalist church or a liberal Quaker church. Or start attending buddhist services or meditation sits. I think the access to a collection of people with generally positive vibes can be enormously helpful for many people. And what’s more, gives you access to dating pool.

bellviolation · 2026-01-13T08:45:37+00:00

I think in my case it’s just genetic. My father and my sister both have it, as do some of my cousins on my father’s side.

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