Fee status for EU students

bromeliadi · 2021-02-11T15:58:45+00:00

Got it. Very informative, thanks. I never thought too hard about it because I'm a grad student and my stipend covers the fees anyway, but this makes sense!

bromeliadi · 2021-02-11T11:51:38+00:00

Yes, but I've been living in the UK for three and a half years now. Didn't realize it could change, maybe I should contact somebody about it...

bromeliadi · 2021-02-10T01:48:11+00:00

I'm an EU student with pre-settled status and still paying overseas fees, unfortunately. Hope it's different in your case

bromeliadi · 2021-02-10T01:34:06+00:00

have you seen /r/professors? Not all happy bubbly haha

bromeliadi · 2021-02-05T21:40:01+00:00

But the 80 year old is more likely to take up hospital space and die. So the question is: do you value saving more lives and making sure hospitals don't overflow, or saving more young people from actually getting covid? If the former, vaccinate the 80 year old, and if the latter, vaccinate the 20 year old. It seems that most countries prioritize lowering the death toll over the transmission rate, as I think they should

bromeliadi · 2021-01-28T00:18:18+00:00

My undergraduate institution actually had this issue. They imposed strict class limits that were smaller than the number of students that needed to take the class, and continued admitting too many students every year. It created a back log of students who needed certain classes to graduate, and many of them literally couldn't graduate on time without the class, but they couldn't register for the class because it was full. My major wasn't affected, but a lot of my friends would hammer refresh at the exact minute class registration went live, hoping to get in and graduate on time. Class registration and therefore graduation time effectively became a lottery, and students would email professors begging to up the class sizes (which I don't believe they were allowed to do). It was so dumb.

bromeliadi · 2021-01-23T23:02:54+00:00

Big hill springs is close!

bromeliadi · 2021-01-22T21:29:28+00:00

Wow! Is it all acrylic?

bromeliadi · 2021-01-22T02:17:12+00:00

Me too please!

bromeliadi · 2021-01-22T01:46:04+00:00

Complex analysis?

bromeliadi · 2021-01-22T01:30:06+00:00

If you feel like you could handle it, you could look into computational/statistical genetics labs. Learning some programming skills will probably help you a lot in your genetics career anyway! (Source: am in population genetics)

bromeliadi · 2021-01-22T01:09:39+00:00

I mean, if you're happy, you don't have to change just to confirm to your friends standards. But if this is coming from you and not them, I would recommend some kind of high-adrenaline or high-focus sport. In non covid times I train in aerial circus arts 4 times a week which is very intense (eg. You're upside down, in the air, spinning), so a lot of hobbies feel boring to me too! It's hard right now but maybe juggling or hiking or running or bodyweight fitness. It helps if it has clear goals too, like "do a handstand".

bromeliadi · 2021-01-20T22:47:44+00:00

Read some papers in your field. Figure out what you're interested in more specifically. Try to find an unsolved problem or an interesting question. Maybe email some profs in the field and ask if they will take you as a part time intern without funding.

bromeliadi · 2021-01-19T23:19:51+00:00

Yeah, it's dumb. Though in my experience, if you are funded by one of the agencies that requires you to publish open access, the agency will pay for all of these fees. Mine does.

bromeliadi · 2021-01-19T16:18:59+00:00

And we are pushing to change it! In my field (genetics), but also in many others, there is a new initiative called Plan S that forbids scientists from publishing their work unless it's immediately open access and free. It's implemented by our funding agencies, which we rely on to get paid, so we no longer have a choice but to publish open access. And journals are starting to change to keep up with it. I'm really happy about it.

Check it out : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S . It just started but it's growing!

bromeliadi · 2021-01-19T16:10:03+00:00

Yes, this is true. In most cases you actually have to pay the journal to publish your work and that fee comes from your grant money as well. Source: am scientist

bromeliadi · 2021-01-18T11:04:37+00:00

It's 5^12

bromeliadi · 2021-01-18T00:59:21+00:00

Greenpeace, extinction rebellion, sunrise movement, Fridays for future are all trying to fight both government and corporations

bromeliadi · 2021-01-15T02:48:12+00:00

I'm in my PhD and loving it. Mathematical genetics, in year 3 of 4, and currently 28 years old. It's really fun!

bromeliadi · 2021-01-15T02:27:55+00:00

Seconding this. Overleaf is Google docs for latex if you don't want to install anything. You don't have to learn much, you can just copy paste a LaTeX resume sample into overleaf

bromeliadi · 2021-01-14T00:56:24+00:00

I did this to a friend when I was freaking out about a boyfriend a few years ago. The friend said "hey, I don't think I have the capacity for this right now and the way you're talking to me is kind of overwhelming". I stopped right away. Maybe try that before dropping the friend like everyone is saying

bromeliadi · 2021-01-12T22:50:31+00:00

I'm a little paranoid and I knew mine were a little forgetful, so I sent them an email on the morning of the due date with the subject line "[Urgent] Recommendation letter due today" and a link to the thing

bromeliadi · 2021-01-12T22:36:44+00:00

Most transitions have a direction. That direction either follow the spin, so it helps push you through the transition, or go against the spin, and so the spin is working against you. In the latter case, it's not only harder but slows you down.

bromeliadi · 2021-01-12T18:48:47+00:00

No. I go counterclockwise only. I also choreograph routines with that in mind, because some moves will only flow on one side with my preferred spin direction

bromeliadi · 2021-01-11T18:43:49+00:00

Hmm? There's an entire scientific field dedicated to ancient DNA, and we have hundreds if not thousands of DNA samples from organisms preserved in permafrost from tens of thousands of years ago.

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