@flappinit
Pot roast for my little bro
Beef chuck with homemade tomato sauce
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Are you going to start?
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The last thing I need is more numbers… differential equations is enough…
Joking aside, I’m kind of dying rn with school/research stuff.
I’ve been tasked with editing 340 photos for my advisor’s project. It’s very, very important that the photos are perfect (priming, bias…). Here’s the problem: I’m not particularly detail oriented or good with photoshop so what should be a mindless task is very mentally draining. I FINALLY finished round 3 yesterday.
When I’m not editing photos, I have to worry about math- which has gotten exponentially harder (although more interesting too). As much as I love watching math videos, they are very mentally draining too??? Also, I somehow need to find time to work on my own project. Luckily, other schoolwork isn’t too much
Sorry for the rant…
Differential equations can be daunting, however they happen to be my favorite discipline in math. Are you working with ODEs or PDEs and transforms? Also, is differential equations required for behavioral science (your degree if I remember right)? Seems a bit deep into math for something pretty well based in statistics.
Back to training:
Reiterating again the need to seriously up the calorie counts. Should’ve definitely had a large helping of that pot roast you posed for your brother. Going by pics you have posted, you have backslid and now are starting to look malnourished again (IMO). Stressors from school I am sure are not helping.
Oh, the course content is fascinating and the professor is AMAZING. I’m just far more verbally inclined (ie reading Dickens in 3rd grade)
Nope, but I want to get into grad school for Econ, which means I have to compete with those Macro/game theory ppl who actually need this stuff. Also, I’ve been getting a weird inclination to eventually try and develop quantitative/formal models for behavioural stuff (ie ethical decision making) if that isn’t already done by the time I have the skill set
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This sounds a lot like game theory - where decisions are based on sets of “rules”.
A quick Google Scholar search yields
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706811
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950705120304007
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UChicago…
good point. My econ professor last semester (also amazing) started in behavioural and has since switched to game theory.
The thing is, I’m also interested in the psych aspect
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Not saying to not give your best effort, but your GPA isn’t as important as you think for graduate school. Especially if you want a PhD.
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I’ve heard that…the problem is that my track record in math courses hasn’t been the best (b’s in linear algebra and multi) and I have 3 more to go… each one increasing in difficulty
I’m banking on rec letters from Professor Loewenstein and my advisor… Still haven’t met enough ppl to come up with a third one and this remote situation isn’t helping
BTW, my advisor is the best. We meet every week and at least 1/2 of the meeting turns into a conversation about cats and China
My undergraduate GPA was abysmal. B’s aren’t terrible. Though I had an upward trend, I performed poorly in several courses relevant to my area of study. In addition to myself, I know several others – whose GPAs lacked relatively compared to other applicants – who found themselves in desirable PhD programs directly after college.
I just made up for it in the other areas of the application that are already more important than course performance. You’re still pretty young, no? You have no reason to meticulously plan your recommendation letters at this point.
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I was browsing BBC and came across this article:
- in your opinion, is this anti- Brexit bias on BBC’s part or a sign that Brexit was probably not a very good idea
I’m not very familiar w/ British politics
Likely both, my 2c.
Unfortunately, once the democratic vote happened, “whether Brexit is a good idea” becomes a moot point.
I’m trying to be unbiased here because my opinion is that Brexit was an unquestionably awful idea from the get go, however I know plenty of smarter and more reasonable people on both sides.
It’s also a non-story because it was pretty clear from the speedy resignation, among other things, that David Cameron didn’t think Brexit was a smart idea when he proposed the vote. I got the distinct impression at the time that he didn’t seriously consider the possibility that Leave might win.
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The best thing about Brexit in my opinion is all the comedy fodder
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I’ll respectfully disagree. However this in not the forum (the internet as a whole) to discuss. Politically conversation and the internet do not mix.
I know what you are referencing. My opinion on BBC bias by omition.
And yes. Over reporting and prominence to a story that fits their narrative.
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I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that you’re trying to lightly shrug off that you haven’t gained weight since May. And it’s mid-September now.
I’d say there’s more that’s killing you than school and research.
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Agree 100% Plenty of smart and well informed people on both sides.
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Yeah, I probably need to increase calories a bit. When I’m stressed, hunger goes away. It used to be hard to “stick to” 1600-1700, it’s been hard to get that much in
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Week 7: day1
Pistols: 2x(6kbs-45lbs+6cossack squats/side-45lbs), 2x(6kbs-45lbs+14cossack squats/side-25lbs)
1arm push-ups: 4x(5/side+7renegade rows/side-25lbs)
- slept amazing,woke up feeling absolute shit- entire lower body on strike, sprints weren’t happening, felt a lot better after kbs and Cossack squats not the worst, very disappointed with backslide on push-ups
@Voxel
I feel like shit again, and am unusually hungry even though I ate 300kcal more (family friend brought over ribs) and slept amazing???
How you feel is contingent on more than just the preceding day. 300 calories is a drop in the water and one good night of sleep doesn’t undo lengthier stints of poor sleep. You haven’t gained any substantial weight in months despite continuing to work hard. How, exactly, do you expect to recover?
The crap feeling is your body trying to tell you to ease of.
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