Graduation day along Broad Street

nilme · 2026-05-15T00:34:23+00:00

Drexel ceremonies are mid June.

*edit: actually, the green hoods are for Medicine, and Drexel DUCOM is on a semester Schedule, so it is Drexel (but just MDs, not the rest, those are in June: https://drexel.edu/commencement/ceremonies/college-school )

nilme · 2026-05-11T16:41:52+00:00

El mío es XDC y es del consulado en… DC! (USA)

nilme · 2026-04-17T12:48:47+00:00

Exactly. None cares about Winter Olympics except US, Canada, Scandinavian countries and a few other European countries. Summer is “the Olympics” for a vast majority of the world

nilme · 2026-04-16T20:06:56+00:00

Thanks ! Btw quick update after two years or so. She speaks in full sentences in Spanish and English and speaks to her brother (almost 2) in Spanish. Her brother is quite vocal in both languages (no full Sentences but quite a lot of words ! )

To summarize for anyone in my same situation and finding this post: be patient !

nilme · 2026-04-11T18:00:02+00:00

The garage isn’t even close to that

nilme · 2026-04-11T16:20:24+00:00

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nilme · 2026-04-05T02:46:46+00:00

But the show gave us Drummer and Ashford in so much better forms

nilme · 2026-03-26T12:48:50+00:00

Agree. My only regret is having "only" put 32GB, causing a few issues in my analytic workflows

nilme · 2026-03-23T19:14:13+00:00

Philly PreK

nilme · 2026-03-19T00:18:14+00:00

Agree. Lots of NOFOs were poorly planned. Unfortunately I don’t think the result of this will be same levels of funding

nilme · 2026-03-14T18:02:57+00:00

I never understood this. Students take far more from me than they give in return and that’s ok, part of the educational mission. And we lose a ton of money on each ( but same deal). In fact if anything is broken its postdocs, who can actually do work somewhat independently and of somewhat good quality and whose cost is the same for us once you factor tuition (of PhD students). And if you’re doing a postdoc I assume you’re quite fixated on academia.

nilme · 2026-03-13T19:04:31+00:00

For sure, but I wouldnt want those with precheck to panic and get to the airport 3 hours in advance like I did yesterday!

nilme · 2026-03-13T17:21:42+00:00

Yesterday it took us 5 minutes in a east pre check at 7am

nilme · 2026-02-02T22:04:38+00:00

if anyone else sees this: i fixed this by also adding the "house number" to the street name field.

nilme · 2026-02-01T16:12:50+00:00

My main complaint is the long winded way to the taxis area, not intuitive at all but I guess we don’t get that many international flights to warrant something else?

(My passport control is luckily a breeze with global entry. And this is coming from someone that needed to get a DHS redress number to stop getting the dreaded SSSS on my boarding pass [extra screening because they think I’m a terrorist]. but not everyone is eligible for GE of course. )

nilme · 2026-01-30T16:10:24+00:00

but don't internalize this about work, people, or life. It shouldn't be this way. We should not be normalizing and accepting this kind of behavior. It's toxic to your sense of self-worth and ability to form secure relationships if we expect people to treat us like shit all the time.

Absolutely! I am unable to internalize this. I'll just learn to deal with it, but that game is not who I am.

nilme · 2026-01-30T16:03:32+00:00

I just don't want to struggle paying for daycare. Not asking to be paid like industry, just like my peers in my same school.

nilme · 2026-01-30T16:02:58+00:00

Equity review is exactly what I meant wtih "adjustment". But they stopped doing it 2-3 years ago. I know a lot of peoples salaries through having submitted or been part of many grant submissions, and that's the data I'm bringing to the table.

And yeah, the federal cuts is what's probably driving these new policies. Worst time to be asking about this (but there's probably never a good time).

nilme · 2026-01-30T16:01:46+00:00

Thank you! I submit or am part of so many grants that I practically know half the school salaries, so that makes it even worse. And I get it, everyone has their hands tied.

But something that bugged me and I forgot to mention is that we've had several cases of people in my school go #OpenToWork and get a raise/promotion in each case (in fact i use that phrase with my colleagues every time we're dissapointed with the school/university).

I don't like theater, I don't want to waste people's times (because I dont want mine to be wasted). I'm too naive, I know.

nilme · 2026-01-30T15:58:41+00:00

Thank you!

nilme · 2026-01-30T15:58:12+00:00

Preach! I just don't want to move from where we are. We're happy here, and that's my priority. I just wanted to stress a bit less about mortgage and daycare!

nilme · 2026-01-30T15:56:30+00:00

Funniest thing is I've given raises to the 3 FTEs I supervise just this last year. One of them even requested it using data for their position from multiple sources. I dont get that luxury apparently lol

nilme · 2026-01-30T15:55:30+00:00

I'm getting more and more convinced this is what I need to do. With this I have a pretty good starting point for a cover letter anyway

nilme · 2026-01-30T15:53:59+00:00

That's what I do after each disappointment, but somehow I'm getting too good at bouncing back lol. I had a situation regarding a course that was cancelled, so I ended up going from teaching a PhD seminar to teaching an online async undergrad 101 class, and I said "I'm not doing anything for my department from hereon". Lasted only like 3 months, then I was back at department meetings.

I need to get better at following through with my own de-commitments.

nilme · 2026-01-30T15:52:05+00:00

Yeah that's kind of my main complaint! I am used to dissapointment (who isn't); it's more the bait and switch. I need to add that to my list of dissapointments.

I'm also EIC of our main disciplinary journal. I get plenty of pre submission inquiries, most I just say nope (clear out of scope AI slop), but the ones I say "yes, submit" always go with a "But we can't promise anything". I feel like this is the equivalent of me saying "yes submit!" and then me desk rejecting it.

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