What is your biggest *Reddit* Pet Peeve?

whosjellisnow · 4 months

Pointless arguments from people who instead of bringing up any valid points, choose to argue their shitty opinions to the end. I don't want to read that shit in the comments, nor do I want you to start it with me.

Anytime I see someone doing this I immediately read all of their other posts, and 99% of the time it seems to be a 14 year old girl/boy. Who also has posted a picture of themselves.

ShadowFluffy · 4 months

I'm a postdoc. Going back to school for medicine next year.

I'm not exceptionally smart either. Maybe part of the memory thing just has to do with how different things are year to year. If you spend four years in a high school or two years in a high school, you're walking around full time on one campus with pretty much the same group of people. If you go to a different school every 2 - 3 years, you remember every one of those, and it's easy to remember how old you were based on grade (or if there was something distinguished about your age at the time).

ShadowFluffy · 4 months

I can remember the majority of my life, but I'm also not very old and I'm not sure how much of it has to do with just having a big memory.

When I was a kid I ended up on this chain of events that pushed me a few grades up in school. I could read at a faster level than all of the other kids in the third grade, so they pushed me to the fourth (where I was that weird young kid). Then after transferring to another school, got pushed to the fifth. I learned to push past the social stigma of being that little kid in all of my early classes by being extremely gregarious and getting the best grades I could so the teachers wouldn't be as condescending.

I ended up finishing high school in 2 years and college in 3 so I better remember every second of it.

carlyyysue · 4 months

I finished my Ph.d at MIT at age 23. And I'm fabulous looking.

redrumredrumredrumer · 4 months

Yes because Sarah Chalke is in this: http://imgur.com/a/S8ZRW#Gkiev ?

Maybe you forgot that Elizabeth Banks' character had JD's baby. Yeah not an important detail for the last few seasons AT ALL...

sailormooncake · 4 months

Yeah point is don't worry about it. Can you salvage your invalid data? Or publish something silly from it? if it's like you failed to mention temperature of the water or time of the day, you can maybe say "oh but I also see a relationship between this parameter and this parameter" (pulling something else from your data) and publish to show how it works, or publish to show how it doesn't work.

sailormooncake · 4 months

Do NOT pursue the Ph.d if it's not what you absolutely want to do with your life. I went to an overseas high school and graduated college a year early so I started the doctorate only because I had no idea what the hell else to do with my life. (and I had met a guy/ wanted to follow him because I was a 17 year old dimwit at the time)

The biology degree is general enough that you can pursue pretty much any degree/field you want after. Can go into journals (as in the editorial side of ones like Science or Nature), comp bio (programming, whoop whoop), mathey stuff, consulting, environmental stuff, park ranger stuff, vet school, zookeeping, nonprofits, conservation, marine bio or sea world related stuff, helping out with movies, etc. I chose medicine because I'm money hungry and find disease interesting. Good luck.

sailormooncake · 4 months

Fourth year bio project, I had been basing my results off of a paper that claimed only two proteins were involved in this one developmental process. I had been working on this project for four years, had established the stable cell lines, done a huge KO project, created my own reporter genes, etc. and found out that the original cell lines we had used didn't have the correct insert all along. (But we couldn't tell this until we tried to obtain results at the end)

My PI was ready to kill me while my "advisor" (a Postdoc) was just like "oops, forgot to tell you to test for that." By all accounts, my fault, but still I was swimming in feelings of Shiiiiiittttt.

I decided to salvage it by basing a thesis off of some preliminary tests and everything I had received for my Wild Type samples. I managed to scrounge two papers off of it too. Now 23, working a 40k/ year postdoc after working my ass off to graduate life early, I'm going back to school for medicine next Fall.

The real shitty graduate student horror story is realizing you can do all the work, get the Ph.d, and yet still don't find a good job at the end...

Jesstyp · 4 months

Not terrible. I'm a 23 year old female and I've had the same fears. I've been in a near 5 year relationship with an emotionally abusive man who I still sort of on and off see. When we started going out he was my best friend and the best boyfriend I'd ever had, but that quickly degraded to something awful.

I know if I stay, we'll keep sticking together because I'm not over him (and I'm afraid I'll never find another "him"). I also know that if I stay he'll only get worse. I've decided to head off to grad school 2,000 miles away next fall and figure hell, I'll focus on a career instead. Everyone has those fears, probably because it's been forced on us that we must get married and that breaking up with men that aren't right is ok because there are "plenty of fish" in the sea.

There aren't plenty of fish. There's a lot of really stinky ones. It's ok to not want to marry any of them at 22...

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