Anonymous
8/11/2025, 12:07:34 PM
No.82148958
>>82146577
Pomodoro timers have helped me a lot with staying focused on stuff. Maybe you could give those a try.
>>82147292
>good luck with ur supervisor, eiki!
It went well. He's done a complete 180 and is fully on board with my original proposal - barely even mentioned AI. Very odd. He also told me to "take it easy."
>truly a Chad we got here...
What can I say? Women love strange foreigners who can't maintain eye contact.
>>82148621
>i honestly can't wait for school to start again
Do you like the structure of it?
>you get paid, but why? how do they profit from whatever you're doing? surely they dont just give you money because they're nice.
Depends on the institution. Some will be funded by wealthy alumni/philanthropists and request that money be used to fund XYZ scholarships. That really is because they're nice and have higher ideals as a place of learning.
Here I think it's a case of the government wanting soft power and to attract international talent to increase the city's profile as a research destination. I am compensated shockingly well for a PhD student and after taxes I'd probably be taking a pay cut if I went back to teach in the UK... Likewise, international lecturers tend to get a huge relocation bonus and are salaried at least twice as well as they would in Europe. It's an image thing.
>good luck with the stalker
She ended up being less stalker-ish yet somehow more crazy than I expected. She just really, really likes the show that I use as a profile picture in the PhD group I'm in and was very happy to find someone else who liked it. Even showed me a tattoo she got of it.
She messaged me to say she bought a notebook for me, despite having never interacted before, so I gave her some pocky as thanks.
She said I should go to the themed cafe in Shenzhen with her, so this may all be an elaborate scheme to harvest my organs once I cross the border into the mainland...
Pomodoro timers have helped me a lot with staying focused on stuff. Maybe you could give those a try.
>>82147292
>good luck with ur supervisor, eiki!
It went well. He's done a complete 180 and is fully on board with my original proposal - barely even mentioned AI. Very odd. He also told me to "take it easy."
>truly a Chad we got here...
What can I say? Women love strange foreigners who can't maintain eye contact.
>>82148621
>i honestly can't wait for school to start again
Do you like the structure of it?
>you get paid, but why? how do they profit from whatever you're doing? surely they dont just give you money because they're nice.
Depends on the institution. Some will be funded by wealthy alumni/philanthropists and request that money be used to fund XYZ scholarships. That really is because they're nice and have higher ideals as a place of learning.
Here I think it's a case of the government wanting soft power and to attract international talent to increase the city's profile as a research destination. I am compensated shockingly well for a PhD student and after taxes I'd probably be taking a pay cut if I went back to teach in the UK... Likewise, international lecturers tend to get a huge relocation bonus and are salaried at least twice as well as they would in Europe. It's an image thing.
>good luck with the stalker
She ended up being less stalker-ish yet somehow more crazy than I expected. She just really, really likes the show that I use as a profile picture in the PhD group I'm in and was very happy to find someone else who liked it. Even showed me a tattoo she got of it.
She messaged me to say she bought a notebook for me, despite having never interacted before, so I gave her some pocky as thanks.
She said I should go to the themed cafe in Shenzhen with her, so this may all be an elaborate scheme to harvest my organs once I cross the border into the mainland...