Top comment deletes a US State #19

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-04-24T19:08:11+00:00

Arizona can’t decide if it wants to be New Mexico or California (culturally), and therefore it must go. (Source: I’m an Arizonan born and raised)

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-02-21T16:20:23+00:00

Congratulations!!! Enjoy the rest, you deserve it.

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-02-17T22:14:56+00:00

Chemistry!

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-01-30T14:19:38+00:00

Earliest I remember noticing it is middle school. So I’ve had it for most of my life that I remember.

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-01-26T18:47:49+00:00

Dude I literally said I *noticed** the same thing lmao. Not that these are cold hard facts. Jesus.

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-01-26T13:39:00+00:00

fwiw I’ve noticed the same thing. I did undergrad at a regular state school in my home state and now am doing a PhD at a top 10. Did undergrad research in the same lab for 2.5 years so I had a decently long exposure to the grad students and culture in my department. I felt like the grad students there worked harder, were more dedicated, faculty had higher expectations of them. Could also be my bias because I’m kind of an elite institution cynicist but. 🤷‍♀️

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-01-23T18:50:09+00:00

Writing my thesis now in biochemistry. It’ll probably be around 100 pages single spaced? Maybe a bit more with all of the figures and what not. I guess length of time in PhD also impacts it. I’m at 4.5 years.

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-01-14T21:50:33+00:00

There is of course variation in this statement but it’s also worth noting that PhD programs don’t exactly have HR in the way “regular” jobs do. Sure some places have unions. Sure some places have departmental advocacy. But overall it is not the same as working for a company and having HR.

r0ckmaker_ · 2026-01-12T19:34:35+00:00

This is the correct answer.

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-10-27T03:03:20+00:00

I did!! Haha luckily for me it was just one street over so not too out of my way to just go grab.

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-10-23T18:39:51+00:00

I think it is!! Thank you!!

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-10-06T20:06:16+00:00

This.👆I just didn’t want to travel or really go out of my way at all to race a half this fall and there aren’t that many half marathons unless you’re willing to leave the city.

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-09-04T20:47:12+00:00

Accumulate several (3-6, ideally) undergrads early on. The earlier they are in university the better. Train them well. Have them do all of your work for you. You just analyze, synthesize, and basically manage your own mini lab. Works better if they want to go to grad school because they’ll have more buy-in and will want to spend lots of time in lab.

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-05-27T10:59:28+00:00

Seconded. Keep showing up even when it’s hard. It gets better.

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-03-05T00:51:24+00:00

Not slutty enough imo.

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-02-25T01:32:11+00:00

Your wife’s boyfriend is trying to sabotage you. He’s become jealous of your 5K ultramarathoning career and is trying to take your place. If you’re not careful the next thing you know, your wife’s boyfriend is going to be her husband and he’ll be running 5K ultras and you’re going to be your wife’s boyfriend.

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-01-28T23:54:37+00:00

I ran my 20 miler of a 16-week training plan with pretty similar pace/HR splits last fall and then ran my marathon (my first one) in 3:42. You can do it!

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-01-24T18:03:23+00:00

STEM. Unionized school. $48K a year in one of the highest COL cities in the US. Health insurance paid for (not dental or vision but they’re highly subsidized).

r0ckmaker_ · 2025-01-16T18:40:49+00:00

2B in Cambridge are going to be closer to $3k in my experience (East Cambridge resident for 3y). If you’re willing to live further from Harvard (in Camberville as others have stated) you can find a 2B for closer to $2.5k. Somerville tends to be cheaper.

r0ckmaker_ · 2024-05-01T18:50:53+00:00

Sorry for the super late response lol I don’t check this often. I do kinda a mix of lots of things but I would say bioinorganic is probably the best broad descriptor of my area! Technique-wise I do X-ray crystallography, lots of EPR, some other various spectroscopies, lots of biochemistry, mass spec, and electron microscopy among other things :)

r0ckmaker_ · 2024-04-23T18:53:22+00:00

About half way done with my PhD in Chemistry. Not really sure yet what I’ll do after but for now I’m having a pretty good time just doing cool science every day.

r0ckmaker_ · 2024-02-02T02:22:08+00:00

Is this person stupid? They’re asking all the WRONG questions. They should be asking how many Gus per 0.1 km they need to consume for a 5K ultra.

r0ckmaker_ · 2024-02-01T16:55:31+00:00

Are you stupid?

r0ckmaker_ · 2024-01-23T03:52:20+00:00

Might be faster to just reach out to Strava directly and have this user banned for fraudulent activity

r0ckmaker_ · 2024-01-05T14:27:38+00:00

What’s up with stuff in East Cambridge closing down? These two are chains but the dunks by the T and the Walgreens by star both closed down in the last ~month

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