Yep, in my area insurance is dropping fire coverage from homes in areas with high fire risk. It’s also kinda valid on the part of the insurance companies (there are areas ripe for disaster) so policies (like requiring them to provide coverage) aren’t enough—some people are going to need to move and it will be much more equitable if it is planned.
If it sounds interesting and other things just don’t I say go for it if you can get a funded position. Definitely ask other students before choosing an advisor so that you don’t get someone who is completely unavailable or a dick
4.5 Spinoza gets shadowbanned
Yeah it’s not the best path for everyone, and some subject areas just don’t have enough teaching positions to reasonably expect to get one
Getting a. PhD isn’t super competitive (speaking from the US), but if you aim to get a professorship at an R1 it’s somewhat competitive across the board. The program coursework vs undergrad depends on the program too— I would say most differ somewhat substantially though. For most humanities degrees you’re doing coursework for 2-3 years and teaching undergrads while you prepare for qualifying exams, then you teach and write your thesis for a few more. The graduate courses are often in seminar (circle discussion) format rather than lecture.
This just confirms what every young person in academia knows: gotta get on uppers to be competitive.
My partner is a PhD candidate and at a recent party a postdoc was telling us how he acquired a giant crack rock at the beginning of his grad career and whenever he needed to finish a big assignment or something he would lick it.
B looks v profesh if he stands up straight and speaks with diction
It’s especially annoying in public funded jobs because they’re often required to interview a bunch of people even if they’re already intending to give it to someone internal
Yeah it’s always annoying to find it:(
The bot did not refund me, I talked to a real person via the chat and they said the carrier team didn’t mark it received and that they would “disarm the retro charge” and refund me. We’ll see if it goes through.
I mean I dropped it off at an amazon store so they definitely received it
They often do the whole “we’ll refund immediately as a courtesy but you need to return it by x or you’ll be charged” thing— in this case for whatever (infuriating) reason they charged me even though it’s clear their own system (their chat bot) knew the item had been marked as received on their end. I dropped it off at a brick and mortar store too!
Aww getting him to fly to you really is a badge of honor! Crazy that birds live so long that he’d have probably been moved out by now if he was a person.
What a cutie. I suppose you probably work from home, but I’m enjoying imagining you commuting to the office with him daily!
Do you call them Archie?
I really hope all the rich people betting on AI lose a bunch of money soon
The Wheaton College swim team did something similar in the 80’s— built a VW beatle inside of the coach’s office
Hmm I wonder if he bought his crypto via binance
Okay but if they really built a hydraulic lift elevator that’s so cool