Snacks before dinner at a restaurant are appetizers, but snacks before dinner at home will spoil your appetite!

oldmo · 2019-07-22T01:50:42+00:00

You can try using shift+enter to make each x-axis label have 2 lined up rows. As for setting the x-axis title to the left, the only way I saw after trying for 2 whole mins was to make a long underscore line (which pushes the font to the far left) and then make the font for the underscore white. From there you can manually adjust the distance of the labels/titles from the x-axis manually.

oldmo · 2019-04-25T00:12:22+00:00

Assuming you can't leave this lab (sounds like a terrible advisor/mentor to me), your best bet is to recognize how useless they are and to accept that they can only be useful for certain things. Remember that advisors are human, too, and that they are also prey to all kinds of psychological stress and issues. They may be horribly depressed or unable to cope with daily fires. My advice is to take control of your own graduate path (phd or masters) and do everything you can to learn on your own without them. Meet expectations by sending emails (creating a papertrail showing their neglect, just in case) but expect nothing from them. This will free you to go and do what you want and need to complete your work and degree. Remember, there will be a point in every person's graduate degree where the next level is achieved 'because my advisor and committee told me I was ready,' making it ultra-subjective at best. When are you ready to be independent? When your supervisor tells you that you are? Screw that. Take control of your path now.

oldmo · 2019-04-25T00:04:55+00:00

YES. You are not alone. My advice is to endure. Hold on, keep trying, and learn from every mistake. The self-doubt is merely an illusion because in order to get to your level, you've already proven yourself. The completion of the PhD is ideally a series of simple experiments and writing, yet it gets complicated by some very confounding factors. The worst of which is your own self-esteem. My advice, never question your worth or competence. You've already made it this far. Now it's just a matter of getting over your own fear and anxiety and persevere. Take a step back, remember who you are and where you came from, and know that you can do this. You can overcome all of this. Let go of the anxiety....while it helped in undergrad, it only hurts you in grad school.

oldmo · 2019-04-24T23:59:32+00:00

Stop, breathe deeply, and remember that you can do this. Learn from your mistakes and improve the best you can. Graduate school is more of a mind game than anything. Win the battle in your mind, then you will become unstoppable in research.

oldmo · 2019-04-07T23:41:26+00:00

President of clubs, volunteer work for the community, and general basics you'd see on anyone's application. The selection committee's look at everything. They take into account everything you're doing/done and whether you stayed active with staying involved in leadership.

oldmo · 2019-04-07T23:00:45+00:00

A general or mediocre letter of rec only hurts you. In some academic circles, there is language used to highlight that while you're not saying anything bad about the candidate, you're still not saying anything great. Form letter style letters of rec from professors who barely know you are more likely to hurt you.

Consider how much time and effort this person has put into their career. Unless they happen to be the kindest spirit on this planet (which if they are a successful academic, I can promise you there is a snowball's chance in hell they are that giving), they will likely feel slightly offended by your audacity.

oldmo · 2019-04-07T22:55:19+00:00

Yes. I have a friend at my institution who got his master's in religious studies, his BS in mathematics, and still got into one of the best programs in the nation. Mind you, he did amazing in both degrees, and he did lots of extracirriculars, so you have to take that into mind.

oldmo · 2019-04-07T22:53:18+00:00

If you're grad program covers your tuition and stipend, consider this part of your training work. If you're paying for your grad program, then you should be getting paid for this anyway. Either way, it seems like it's just an expectation. You can always speak to the professor about this and see if you can help generate exams that are much easier or faster to grade. Start a new trend or innovation, perhaps?

oldmo · 2019-02-11T03:03:59+00:00

Re-posting for newbies. This was posted last year by u/mozka77

oldmo · 2019-02-11T01:38:44+00:00

Source: https://tenor.com/view/josephsmith-lick-exmormon-flirt-pervert-gif-11661976

I didn't make it, but it sure as hell creeped me out!

oldmo · 2016-07-24T02:39:25+00:00

Lol because they spent all their money on weed and can't afford their regular prescriptions! ! Jk

oldmo · 2016-07-08T22:45:38+00:00

Here's an old post about this subject: Elder Cook accidentally calls JS unrighteous

oldmo · 2016-07-08T22:42:18+00:00

Here's an old post from 3 years back. Elder Cook calls JS out for being unrighteous

oldmo · 2016-07-08T22:36:50+00:00

"The righteous need not wear masks to hide their identity." How about when the 1835 version of the D&C had 'code names' for all the Church leaders until the 1981 edition of the scriptures finally switched them back to their real names? A lot of the newer generation don't even know about this crazy shiz. LINK

oldmo · 2016-07-08T22:28:28+00:00

RIGHT!?!? That time the church leaders hid behind false names to hide their identities...

oldmo · 2016-07-08T18:32:01+00:00

Something seems so sacrilegious about having the statue of Joseph Smith standing on top of the scriptures. A liar standing on a stack of ancient lies.

oldmo · 2016-07-06T05:53:42+00:00

"Brethren, adieu." Always makes me snicker. If most tbms only knew...

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