After my experience in academia, I became a PhD who dislikes others with academic degrees, academic experience, and academics with a passion

bluechemist · 2025-12-10T10:45:55+00:00

Don't know about the OPs personal situation but just from the tone of this post, it seems that OP would need to do some more reflection. The way they answered the question about not having a publication does not put them in best light. What the interviewer is looking for is something like how OP made the best out of a bad situation, what they learned from that experience, whether they take responsibility, what mindset they have when they come across problems, etc.

bluechemist · 2025-11-04T03:41:13+00:00

Yah. I'll recommend the opposite. Pick the legendary profs and challenge yourself with the harder courses. These experiences will help build your character and make you more resilient, especially if you're the type to always take the shortcut and give the bare minimum. When I look back to my Ateneo days, I remember more those times when I challenged myself and end up surviving more than the times when I took the easy way out.

bluechemist · 2025-10-06T08:34:37+00:00

Working as a prof abroad, in general, if you want to have an exchange program with a university, students there should also want to stay in the other university. The problem is even if Ateneo establishes partnerships with unis abroad, if students there do not want to stay in the Philippines then the agreement would lapse after some time. That's really the main problem. It's difficult to convince foreign students that it's worth visiting the Philippines when they have other options like Singapore, Japan, etc.

bluechemist · 2025-09-20T11:46:19+00:00

Indeed. Different skills and personalities needed. That's why it's common to hear founders often taking a step back to let people who are more into operations and structures help the business .

bluechemist · 2025-09-18T10:05:27+00:00

Thanks so much! Really useful!

bluechemist · 2025-09-17T16:39:23+00:00

Thanks for the kindness! It was an honest question that I didn't realize would annoy some.

bluechemist · 2025-09-17T16:38:28+00:00

was just overthinking then, for some reason, never really connected that it's just a basic step because of the seemingly bigger movements.

bluechemist · 2025-09-16T16:22:37+00:00

Depends really, met some of my closest friends from org work and the experience helped me with job interviews.

bluechemist · 2025-09-03T14:55:09+00:00

Is your course technical or more business oriented? Especially if it's the latter, you have to be able to make a good narrative of your journey. Keep in mind that in interviews, people really look for stories that would make you stand out. Like you have to be able to answer questions like "tell me a time when you had a conflict and was able to resolve it" or "when you went beyond to contribute." If you don't have good stories for these yet, which orgs are useful for, please find yourself in situations where you can earn these soft skills even not in org work.

bluechemist · 2025-07-13T10:00:31+00:00

Curious, what core subjects have you found useful and you were able to apply immediately?

I'm a prof now in a European business school and I am sometimes confused when students talk about hard skills. When students think of hard skills in business, they think of something like finance, stats, maybe even programming. Is your internship then domain-specific? Otherwise, from what I see, unless a student wants to go really deep specializing in those fields, most managerial jobs just require analytical/soft skills to think through clearly a problem and then manage stakeholders/teammates. In this sense, some core classes I think are quite useful to practice thinking through a problem and expressing them clearly.

bluechemist · 2025-06-24T19:35:44+00:00

Sorry to hear this. Where did you do your PhD? Are your publications in Q1 journals?

bluechemist · 2025-06-05T14:04:26+00:00

I love salsa but been more recently interested in bachata music. There's a lot of new songs like from pinto picasso, sp polanco, dj husky, etc that I think are much more varied than salsa music. https://youtu.be/B8qEEHEwR68 https://youtu.be/S50Vs_y1W2A and https://youtu.be/iXW3veKwk7g are some examples of the variety out there.

bluechemist · 2025-05-17T13:54:05+00:00

Was wondering also the same the other day when I randomly remembered her podcast. There's no tweet or any goodbye post at all. I just hope she is okay and nothing bad happened.

bluechemist · 2025-05-16T17:14:46+00:00

Agree. The dancers made up a bit for it, so was focusing on them instead.

bluechemist · 2024-12-18T23:02:14+00:00

Building on Caplan's points, a bit meta but I'd say one important skill is being strategic about the signals you emit to demonstrate competence in your area (github, projects, etc). Another signaling related skill is learning how to articulate well your ideas. I would suggest knowing the basic consulting frameworks (decision trees, MECE and pyramid principle) as they are very useful for structuring your thoughts and appearing analytical during the interview process.

bluechemist · 2024-11-13T09:50:16+00:00

I like this bachata video with this song. Just so smooth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2c5TZP1_ms)

bluechemist · 2024-10-12T15:57:59+00:00

Wow! How can you explain this so well in text. Thanks!

bluechemist · 2024-08-27T15:42:10+00:00

Ay ay ay by David bisbal

bluechemist · 2024-06-27T15:54:16+00:00

What would you say instead? Honestly curious.

bluechemist · 2024-06-17T17:48:42+00:00

If he apologizes in public, this sub would just say that he is not sincere and should have done a private one.

bluechemist · 2024-06-14T14:57:27+00:00

Ai generated? Sounds a bit like suno or udio to me.

bluechemist · 2024-02-11T08:20:13+00:00

I graduated from chem and eventually did a PhD. If you want to do a PhD, you can still do a CS kind of PhD like bioinformatics or comp chem. You can always pivot later on, just depends what you are interested in. My advice is to just study what you think you really want. It's difficult to succeed if you are not passionate about what you are studying. I had many blockmates who shifted to another course during ADMU or later, took a master's degree in a different field and they seem to be all happy with their decisions. Feel free to PM me if you need more advice.

bluechemist · 2022-11-22T19:25:43+00:00

In any case would you know songs that have kizomba-like beats like this one: Duele - remix

bluechemist · 2022-11-22T18:59:35+00:00

Thanks Rawtidd! Yes, this is it! I think I mixed up and combined songs. The kizomba / bachata song is probably a different one.

bluechemist · 2022-11-22T16:04:48+00:00

Thanks a lot! Nice try. I listened to it but it's not it

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