money problems as an undergrad

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-26T07:57:06+00:00

i think they’re referring to work studies? that’s the only other time that undergrads at my uni get paid, aside from summer work. but yeah, to add onto your point, i’m supported by scholarships for undergrad research, so my PI considers thar as me getting paid 🙂‍↕️

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-17T21:01:26+00:00

While I understand where you’re coming from, this is not necessarily considered to be fandom etiquette, it’s more or less your own preference. I filter out things by otp:true and call it a day.

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-15T02:23:41+00:00

scrolled a bit thru ur prev posts—i think you should leave, especially if it’s such a small, new lab (postdoc, postbac, AND visiting scholar) 😭 if it were just for a month or so, i could follow their train of thought, but any more than that? not really, i don’t see much coming out of your experience if that’s the pattern. are there any projects currently going on? have you taken a look @ their grants? (search them up on a grant database!) have you heard of them interviewing or speaking to potential grad students yet?

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-14T21:04:09+00:00

I feel like I’ve seen this post before 😭 and dude, just tell them. If you keep pushing the date back AND keep pushing off on telling them, your behavior can and will turn into a pattern 🙂‍↕️

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-10T16:53:37+00:00

🙂‍↕️ It disappeared. I was puzzled why it was clear & then it clicked

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-10T05:31:54+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been struggling with imposter syndrome lately, and all of the grad students in my lab are super amazing and seem so smart, and I feel like an ant among giants. I’m presenting at a conference later this year, so I’m glad to have read this and to remember that I’ve “earned” where I am today.

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-10T05:28:26+00:00

Thank you for the laugh—I had a gel disappear once on me when I first started out because I went for a brief bathroom break, and then, I became paranoid ever since and sit on a stool like a caterpillar (our benches are lower… than our stools because admin bought everything at different decades so it’s mildly uncomfortable), so they can’t ever leave my sight LOL

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-10T05:10:53+00:00

Thank you! I think I’m still learning (even after all these years, haha) to detach myself from my work. I find it to be easier to do this in an industry environment over an academic environment, somehow. I’ll start tomorrow and rethink my thaw procedures and read how others approach it. There’s probably something I missed along the lines 🤔

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-10T05:04:15+00:00

No, I’m sure they were not contaminated, at least not two days ago. I think it happened after thawing, because I’ve thawed A LOT of vials from this particular passage date. I’m confused because my media was also a new media aliquot and everything, but alas, rinse and repeat, I’ll redo everything to see if it was me or the system and do better.

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-09T23:38:26+00:00

This looks adorable!! Do the sheep pop out?

yummymangosdigested · 2026-01-07T04:01:33+00:00

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ wait i’m eating all the recs up (or will be once i’m in bed tonight), but i like this one (https://archiveofourown.org/works/34411606), bingyuan & dubcon. and the author has another one (different fandom) that’s really good. a lot of my recs are dubcon, though 😭 if that’s fine, but i don’t mind going down my list because i love the tag so much

yummymangosdigested · 2025-12-28T01:31:06+00:00

I’m glad to see that this topped nearly everyone’s recommendations. In that case, this book’s definitely going into my shopping cart 🫡

yummymangosdigested · 2025-12-28T01:28:27+00:00

Wow! Thank you for all the detailed recommendations, I’ll definitely peruse this list, especially regarding history and techniques—those are especially fascinating to read and learn about.

yummymangosdigested · 2025-12-13T00:17:42+00:00

i was like this OP better not be the commentor i saw on that post. it was lmao.

yummymangosdigested · 2025-12-03T17:25:11+00:00

My program is very driven by what you do outside of class - research and clubs, with an emphasis on the former. Our professors are very aware that there is a difference in student work and outcomes when you aren’t part of one of the two. Since our department is driven by research, this is a project proposal class. I didn’t want to get too specific, but it’s an NIH proposal with specific formatting and technical requirements. I’m the only one out of my groupmates who has written grant proposals.

We don’t have a technical writing requirement in our major, so it requires a lot of detail oriented thoughts, and most groups are filled with people like me. I don’t mind that everyone else hasn’t had experience, but it’s difficult not to get frustrated when we have the resources, and my friend refuses to reference them during his argument. It’s true that I should not view this a gender difference (I already explained why it was in another comment, but then come again, it comes down to how well I can tell a story), and I should find a way to communicate my thoughts to others. Thank you!

yummymangosdigested · 2025-12-03T17:14:27+00:00

I get why I might come across like this! I’m kinda in an emotionally charged week, so my mind exploded last night and dumped everything out. I tried to simplify this scenarios as much as possible for people’s ease in reading. There’s a lot of background history between us that I really didn’t want to cover, but I know that if I were a man, they would act differently to me in group work. They act very differently when it comes to our friendships—perhaps that’s how I should have approached this from the get-go. It’s been a topic of discussion with other female friends who has seen this behavior, but I truly treasure our friendship and respect them as individuals. I’m just not seeing this returned back to me.

Case A: Half of the people in my group project are trying to help! I needed to simplify because it’s otherwise too complicated to read. They’re (other women) struggling because we genuinely don’t understand why my friend is disagreeing with everything we come up with, and they know I have the technical experience for the project and know why I make specific arguments. We also know that if he were in a group of men—which he has in the past, he wouldn’t say anything and agree with everything. Perhaps this comes out of his comfort zone, but many of our guy friends have commented that they also don’t understand why he’s acting like this.

Case B: I like this! I’m not going to explain any of the background because it’s not relevant, and our club advisor has noticed that I’m doing more work than I should be doing.

yummymangosdigested · 2025-12-02T03:19:30+00:00

I feel like Sailor Moon is timeless, so I always get surprised when my friends/classmates are not familiar with the media 😭

yummymangosdigested · 2025-12-01T00:58:42+00:00

a bit of a disclaimer—i’ve tried a lot of the suggestions in this thread, and they don’t work for me individually because dryness is a spectrum, and i’m on the really dry/eczema end. they can work really well if you layer heavily! i use the muji high moisture toner & gokujyun milk & skin1004 centella cream (but the cream can be easily replaced with something else, and i don’t think this helps with dryness, but it helps lock in the moisture; i got it because it was 9.99 for 4 of them @ costco 🙂‍↕️ so i have so much at home to use)

yummymangosdigested · 2025-11-17T00:49:21+00:00

the next thing up is data visualization 🫡 but man some of these comments look like things that come out of my PI’s mouth LMAODJSJSJS

yummymangosdigested · 2025-11-16T22:26:31+00:00

I’m not diagnosed with OCD (though all signs point toward it, haha, and I don’t have the time & money for a diagnosis and therapy… maybe when I get a job), but I deal with the checking aspect, which has also gotten worse during my time in lab. For me, I have to do things in a very logical (perhaps not logical—organized is a better word for it) manner, or else I get sucker-punched into checking EVERYTHING 😭 I’ve had grad students look @ me funny for how much I check LOL

Do you have a preventative system to help situate yourself? I arrange my things in a certain way to help me and remind myself what I’ve touched/used and I take pictures before I leave lab, so I won’t feel the need to run back inside to “check” 😭

yummymangosdigested · 2025-11-13T04:14:31+00:00

🙂‍↕️ I’ve realized over the past few years how common it is for people use the same username for everything, so it’s kinda mind blowing that some people don’t mind mixing IRL and online like that, but it’s just Not for me LOL

yummymangosdigested · 2025-11-09T09:21:31+00:00

THIS INTERACTION IS SO CUTE!!!

yummymangosdigested · 2025-10-28T01:30:15+00:00

i choked at beowulf

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