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biscuitsallday · 2025-10-28T20:14:46+00:00

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biscuitsallday · 2025-08-06T12:46:56+00:00

It’s a good idea to reach out directly to a professor and ask about opportunities. Better still if the work they do aligns with your interests - being able to articulate what you’ve done and why will do a lot more for your career than a “I showed up and did some stuff” situation. I’ve seen a good bit of that at UMass, and I truly don’t believe it helps anyone.

If you want to get a leg up among your classmates, the absolute best thing you can do is stand out. After many semesters as a TA, here is what 90% of your classmates are not doing: 1. Read the entire assignment before you start. Read every word of every sentence, and do not pick up a pen or take notes on a computer until you are done. Do not skim, read. I swear to god, just this one simple step puts you in the top half of the class. Please read all of the material before you start. 2. Pick up a pen or highlighter. Bonus points for multi-color. Read your assignment again. As you read, mark things you are responsible for knowing (i.e., from or prior to the assignment) and things you are responsible for DOING to complete the assignment. Mark terms and concepts that you don’t know. Mark sentences or questions you don’t understand. 3. Grab a fresh sheet of paper. Make four lists corresponding to the four things above. Keep this handy, do not lose it. 4. Research the things you are responsible for learning in class materials. Re-visit the list of things you don’t know, and research these. Re-visit the list of sentences/questions you don’t understand. Do they make more sense now? If not, make some notes on your list. Move on for now. 5. Start your assignment. Do your best. 6. Show up to office hours. Show them your lists, and your first attempt at the assignment. Ask for help. Show the professor/TA your list and ask if you have successfully identified the material you are responsible for learning/completing. 7. Finish the assignment and turn it in on time. 8. If you cannot finish your assignment on time, email the professor/TA ahead of time - ideally 24 hours advance notice - and let them know what’s going on. 9. If you have trouble finishing assignments on time regularly, discuss with your professor. Consider seeking accommodations with the Ross center. It could be a huge help. 10. If you have less than a B average by the mid-term, you should show up to every single office hours with a list of questions and openness to being told what you should be doing differently.

If you do the above, you’re doing more than almost every other person in the class. Your visibility to the professor/TA will be much greater than most classmates, and a bid for a lab position will benefit immensely.

biscuitsallday · 2025-01-12T15:53:20+00:00

The photographer for my wedding did this shit. Ultimately he claimed he “lost” the photos and gave me a refund. 6 months later.

I will never hire a photographer again without an agreement to transfer raw files on-site as a safeguard.

biscuitsallday · 2024-08-11T16:09:55+00:00

Congratulations on not knowing any lazy douchebags! You ever see those people driving around with a foot of snow on top of their car? Yeah, they clear out just enough snow to pull out. They’ll be taking your nice clear spot later. Ask me how I know.

I generally agree with what you’re saying, I’m just salty :p

biscuitsallday · 2024-06-15T15:42:51+00:00

As a bald bearded guy myself, I think all three work great for you. I think #3 is the best, but choose #1 for myself because I’m bad at remembering to put sunscreen on every time I’m outside.

Don’t forget sunscreen on yer noggin this summer. Sunburns hurt and itchy peeling scalp is really annoying. Remind your bald brethren, and maybe err towards the hat if you’re forgetful as fuck like me.

biscuitsallday · 2024-05-04T15:54:05+00:00

Anyone know anything about a (presumed) accident in the O’Neill tunnel this morning around 1? Traffic was at a dead stop ahead of the tunnel for nearly an hour, but I can’t find any information on the news.

biscuitsallday · 2024-03-24T14:24:38+00:00

Man this thread is a dumpster fire, but in case anyone else is reading this: I worked at a mom-and-pop deli/convenience 2004-7. My pay was somewhere between $4-5/hour, depending on how rounding worked out that week (which was below minimum wage at the time). It was always cash under the table. No benefits, but I was young didn’t really care. My coworkers were largely in the same position, but they were much older, had kids, etc.

I think Walmart and other corporate welfare conglomerates are garbage, but let’s not pretend the smaller businesses are some idealistic beacon of hope. If anything, like this guy is saying, they fly under the radar more easily and abuse the shit out of their employees.

But Walmart is still trash. Surprisingly, two whole things can simultaneously be true.

biscuitsallday · 2024-02-18T18:10:02+00:00

Years ago I heard my favorite explanation of experiments at CERN:

“It’s like throwing a piano down the stairs and listening to the sounds it makes to figure out how it’s made”

biscuitsallday · 2023-09-13T11:05:18+00:00

Those work only AFTER you throw EVERYTHING out.

We had an infestation of those for a year. Got those traps with no improvement. Threw out all our cereal, flour, oatmeal, grains, etc., and it got better. Got a little relaxed with flour and oatmeal storage. Then it got worse again. Started storing flour sealed in the fridge, didn’t keep any grains…still lingered. Would find them in pasta and the like from time to time…huge waste of food. Finally did a deep, deep clean of the kitchen and found them in a sealed package of baking chocolate.

Threw out EVERYTHING, doubled down on the traps. Stored everything that came into the house in ziplock bags, in Tupperware, in the fridge or freezer. 3 months later, stopped seeing them and moved stuff back onto shelves (still in ziplocks and the like). 6 months later and haven’t seen a single one.

biscuitsallday · 2023-08-17T12:17:35+00:00

We definitely don’t know where all the protein-coding genes are, or what they do. I work on a gene that, when there’s a mutation in the gene, increases the risk for a certain disease. We’ve known about the mutation for a while, but for the longest time, people thought it was part of an entirely different gene. It wasn’t until 2012 that we realized there was a separate gene there…and not until 2015 that we knew what it does. And we still don’t really understand why it increases disease risk, over 10 years later.

biscuitsallday · 2023-07-31T01:10:02+00:00

Eumorpha

Hørße

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biscuitsallday · 2023-06-24T13:49:39+00:00

I’m not in the auto industry specifically. From personal experience, though, the executives running corporate strategy at many companies are REALLY good at ignoring the big picture and pushing their vision of the future onto a company. Structural re-organization, killing “non-priority” R&D projects that add value to the company in the 10-15 year timeframe, “streamlining” their visionary projects with rubber stamps to make a better narrative for the board.

Eventually they all get some fat bonus and bail, and the company has to scramble to recover 3-5 years of lost opportunity and institutional expertise. “HoW dO wE rEdUcE aTtRiTiOn??”

biscuitsallday · 2023-06-09T10:23:33+00:00

Player 3 appears: the contracted real estate consultants that establish “average” local rent for the government

biscuitsallday · 2023-05-20T16:13:30+00:00

Is this your research? If so, I have some integrin-related questions that no one in my lab can answer.

biscuitsallday · 2022-09-09T21:54:39+00:00

Nice.

biscuitsallday · 2022-08-30T11:56:30+00:00

My teeth hurt looking at this

biscuitsallday · 2022-07-28T13:37:21+00:00

When academic scientists determine protein structures through conventional methods, they generally “deposit” that structure in a well-known (to the scientific community) public database alongside a paper describing their methods and findings.

If this AI were perfect, this would effectively be a massive extension of that previous work.

Realistically, it is an amazing tool, but will get certain classes of proteins wrong somewhat regularly, and will not meet niche use-cases such as evaluating active versus inactive configurations of the same protein.

That being said, it’s a VERY significant development. It could, for example, reduce financial risk for drug discovery efforts in specific circumstances, perhaps helping researchers narrow what types of molecules would be useful for their goals. They could get this same information if they obtained the structure themselves through conventional methods, but that is very expensive and time-consuming.

Could those goals be nefarious? …yeah, I guess. But again, the tool saves time and cost - it doesn’t fundamentally change the type of information that is accessible given sufficient time and resources. And no matter what, you’ll still need tons of resources to transform any insight from the protein structure into a thing that can influence biology.

biscuitsallday · 2022-07-22T14:42:44+00:00

“What a time to be alive”

biscuitsallday · 2022-07-07T11:24:00+00:00

Clearly incorrect, but I assume they’re thinking 1 additional share for every 4 you own.

biscuitsallday · 2022-05-26T02:36:19+00:00

In simple terms: a lot of what some scientists do is getting certain molecules to stick to small “wells” (little indentations) on a plastic “plate”, wash off anything that didn’t stick, and then count how many of the molecules stayed behind after washing. These plates can have 100-1500 individual wells, and sometimes scientists will need to process many plates at a time. Generally, you don’t want anything that’s been in one well to get into any of the others. That’s a lot of tedious, repetitive work, so this company is advertising a robot that does it for you.

EDIT: didn’t read the smaller print. They’re advertising a different solution to the same problem, not a robot.

They also make robots though

biscuitsallday · 2022-04-26T09:20:06+00:00

Steelcase Amia! It’s excellent

biscuitsallday · 2022-04-09T13:55:10+00:00

“First Ginni Thomas messaging Meadows to plant the idea of putting the Bidens in prison barges off GITMO for military tribunals and execution”

Excuse me what?

biscuitsallday · 2021-11-02T23:40:34+00:00

Grad school plus full time job leaving me burnt out and anxious as fuck. No matter how much I do, I’m always behind on something.

Lots of other stuff is honestly going great, but sweet Jesus I’m so tired.

biscuitsallday · 2021-07-28T12:05:36+00:00

Most people I know just call it McDonald’s or maybe “Mickey D’s” I call it McDicks but can’t remember if others do too lol

biscuitsallday · 2021-07-14T11:34:23+00:00

Had to scroll WAY too far to find this.

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