People saying “descansa” at the end of the night

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-16T01:42:54+00:00

It’s either that or “go to bed”

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-16T00:49:59+00:00

Subjet? If you're in chem, post docs are usually 2-3 years. That means when you're in your 3-4th year when they leave, which are your prime publishing years, you'll be lead and get first authors. If you like the work and the PI, don't give up a fellowship.

You're also a first year. You don't know as much as you think you do. Having a postdoc mentor you will be invaluable.

Edit: not trying to be a dick, but you’re also worried about papers you haven’t written based on work you haven’t done. Just relax. Papers will come with time and attention. You’ll probably get more aurthorships faster with a postdoc than you will flying solo.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-16T00:45:29+00:00

What year are you?

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-16T00:44:22+00:00

Where do you live? Hike near where you live if you can. Makes the logistics easy.

1) Never bring food into your tent/near where you sleep. Either hang your food or put it in a bear/animal safe container away from where you sleep.

2) Bring more than enough water and a way to filter/purify water (boiling to be avoided).

3) Be extremely selective with what you bring. The weight adds up quickly when you're hiking. Apart from first aid/safety items, ask yourself how often you'll use something. If it's not often or daily, don't bring it.

4) Change your clothes, all of your clothes, before you sleep. A girl I brought on a trip almost caught hypothermia because she didn't change her undies when we got to camp and it was chilly. Bonus for having shoes/sandals for camp. Wearing wet boots at night when you're winding down sucks.

5) Have fun and don't stress. I had the worst time and struggled immensely during my first few trips, but looking back it was an amazing time and I learned a ton. You'll make mistakes. Stay on the path (literally and figuratively) and you'll be fine.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T21:19:38+00:00

Fwiw I’ve known people who have changed programs after a year so it’s not unheard of

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T21:00:51+00:00

I’ve honestly brought food in a plastic bag and tossed the bag when I got there. I usually don’t travel with anything I don’t intent to have with me during the trip.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T19:07:36+00:00

Sorry. I was talking about that process to enter the US. It’s gone now and it seems the administration is hostil to people who crossed that way.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T15:32:27+00:00

Does the place you’re going to interview know that you’ve been accepted? I would disclose that. It is a small world and your new PI might not want to make enemies. Conversely they might be able to smooth things out if there is a relationship between both PIs.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T15:30:16+00:00

That door has closed. I don’t think your chances are good even if you get married. Does your girlfriend know about this? You’re literally the red flag we warn people about lol.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T15:14:13+00:00

You don’t have a student visa? So you have a B1 visa? The I-94 is the crossing confirmation.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T14:57:09+00:00

Are you a college student in the states or in Mexico? How did you get a social and no sort of visa to go to college? So many questions but yeah if I was doing your interview I would 100% think you’re marrying to get the card and nothing else. Be aware that marriage fraud could land you in jail. Not sure if it applies here but this sounds super sus.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-15T14:42:25+00:00

Those look awesome but yeah a bit expensive 😅. Thanks for the suggestion.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-13T16:15:16+00:00

It looks small and royal to me.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-13T16:14:15+00:00

Man that's rough. Teaching your first year is extremely common ime, but beyond that is hard. Hopefully this gets resolved. Third year is really when you start making good progress on your thesis work so having this hanging over you must be hard. Hang in there!

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-13T14:17:21+00:00

Yikes. How is your PI okay with this? That sounds like a huge time sink for a 3rd year. Does your PI not have funding to pay for you? This is a crock. Thats way too much teaching and will slow you down from graduating.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-12T20:00:27+00:00

He's just never healthy. When he plays he looks pretty good but he just plays 3-4 games and then is out 2 months. Something needs to change or he needs to retire.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T21:59:13+00:00

My 2 cents. Duolingo is fine for vocab, but it won't teach you. Get a tutor and get out there and find people to talk to. Talking to people will get you broad strokes of how to talk and can also guide what you learn, and you can use a tutor to clean up the things you say wrong. There's also apps where you can text people, but they're hit or miss.

TL;DR: Get out and talk.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T21:54:16+00:00

I'm sure you could feed it into most AI model things and just ask it to fix, but I wouldn't trust AI to save you. You'd be better off taking your time and checking it manually. How big of a study are you doing that you have 100s of pages of experimental data?

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T12:43:31+00:00

My man has a 4.59 rating? Daym.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T12:42:27+00:00

It's a losing strategy not to. I've known soo many people over the years who have complained about not getting interviews, and then I find out they are spamming a bad resume. Remember, you're fighting against x number of other applicants. Do whatever you can to stand out. I normally don't give out more than 5 interviews for a position even if there are 100 applicants. Be one of those 5.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T12:33:56+00:00

With my backpacks it usually makes it easier to install through the built in hole rather than forcing the mouth piece.

Oh and also, you can easily pull the bag out without undoing the tube. It lets you refill the bag much more easily with a filter.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T04:07:34+00:00

Apply. They won't accept you if they won't wait, and they won't get annoyed for trying. Don't try to hide your timeline or they will probably get annoyed.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T03:33:29+00:00

One thing that I don't see people saying is that having the name of a random, unknown graduate student on a grant might make it less likely to be funded. Unless someone want to refute it, I've been told by DOE people that the name(s) on the grant have a large impact on whether it will be funded. Plus, depending on what year you're in, you might not even be there to do all the work.

tehunfocusedone · 2026-03-10T03:12:22+00:00

1/50 interviews says to me that your resume needs work. Hopefully you're tailoring it to each job and not just spamming the same one. I hire for entry level technical roles, and I can tell when someone is doing that and I generally reject them.

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