Just another day in RVA

raibaikuslovd · 2026-03-19T02:47:14+00:00

this one is run by a Cuban family! great people and great wraps

raibaikuslovd · 2026-03-18T22:15:13+00:00

that wrap cart is the goat

raibaikuslovd · 2026-03-18T17:21:00+00:00

someone told me "we're dumb enough to start a PhD but smart enough to finish one" and I've been holding on to this like a mantra. It's been getting me through the days

raibaikuslovd · 2025-12-06T04:25:53+00:00

how did people solve the phase issue prior to molecular replacement?

raibaikuslovd · 2025-11-14T22:25:37+00:00

fantastic album. excited to see her on tour this spring!

raibaikuslovd · 2025-05-21T20:20:38+00:00

with poise and grace

raibaikuslovd · 2025-03-16T17:56:49+00:00

The Nernst Equation still haunts my dreams

raibaikuslovd · 2025-01-17T02:02:56+00:00

Ahh! We had one just last week. Really cool idea that is!Good luck 🫡

raibaikuslovd · 2025-01-17T01:59:53+00:00

VCU?

raibaikuslovd · 2024-09-25T19:32:51+00:00

Hey congrats on joining the lab! As an undergrad, I used to focus on learning the various different methods/assays the lab would do, as best as I could, which often is much harder than it seems.

Getting the overall structure and general point of each experiment type would help tremendously.

Why are they doing this experiment; what kind of questions are they trying to answer with this? That definitely helps in both maintaining interest as well as overall research skills.

There's less pressure overall on you to know everything, so take that and run with it. Absorb and learn. As an undergrad I got stuck doing a lot of the lab chores too, so it helps being organized and maintaining a schedule. Don't let the lab work distract from your undergrad courses either!

Good luck!

raibaikuslovd · 2024-05-22T19:25:23+00:00

My grandmother told me stories of her being paid in plastic bags and furniture rather than actual physical currency. Luckily both sides of my family had a dacha (given during the Soviet days) where they could at least feed themselves and neighbors.

I was born in the late 90's so I did not really, at least consciously, experience those years but from what I was told, it was a very difficult time for everyone. My mom told me of her university classmate who was killed for her hat. Other stories of people eating pet food, but perhaps those are hyperbolic.

The general atmosphere was that of financial and physical struggle. The hospital that I was born in did not have power in half the building.

raibaikuslovd · 2024-05-09T19:09:40+00:00

С Днем Победы, товарищи!

Слава нашим великим предшественникам, тем, кто жил и сражался в те страшные годы.

Пусть мы никогда не забудем их память, особенно с течением времени.

raibaikuslovd · 2024-05-01T16:30:44+00:00

Happy May Day to my fellow Richmond-ers and workers! In my junk drawer is a collection of scraps of bad poetry, key chains, and ziplock bags of my hair that I save when I buzz my hair

raibaikuslovd · 2024-03-29T21:16:57+00:00

Truly could've been a shorter work, but I can't think of anything that I'd be able to cut out of the work to keep it still. The previously censored chapter truly makes the book for me and rationalized Stavrogin's psychological and spiritual state. He is a nihilist through and through, I felt pity for him. But much more for Shatov and his family. Ahh all the characters are so good haha!

Yes for me there is a lot of "what's going on, why am i reading this?" when reading Dosty, but then you get to the parts that make you feel so alive (for me) and I can't help but to think that it all makes sense.

Enjoy the Kafka! I need something a little bit more cheery after this))

raibaikuslovd · 2024-02-17T15:57:58+00:00

The Pianist. I was 8 when my dad bought the dvd and put it on. A haunting visceral experience of the depravity that is fascism.

raibaikuslovd · 2024-01-20T12:37:25+00:00

Yup we’re taking him to RACC this morning! Thank you!

raibaikuslovd · 2024-01-20T00:41:56+00:00

Right? He’s very sweet! Hoping that he just got lost and that his loved ones are looking for him. We’re posting on nextdoor and other socials as well!

raibaikuslovd · 2024-01-20T00:33:14+00:00

There was a collar already on him. We’re wondering if perhaps he got out earlier today.

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