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I hope someone here can help me with this.
I want to apply for a PhD scholarship and I was asked to write a research plan.
Where do I start ? How do I find a research theme ?
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>>16782261
No offence bro but this is the kinda question a PHD student shouldn't need to ask...
Same principle as your research plan for diss / MA diss. Topic > question > how to answer > methodology > predictions > potential problems / considerations
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>>16782269
I'm lost in finding a theme that's all. I'm looking for some inspiration
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>>16782261
Professor writing here
I second the previous comment. If you're in grad school and have no ideas for research in your field, you have no business going for a PhD.
You don't have to commit yourself to something that you may with further study move away from. But you do have to show that you are thinking on the road-to-PhD level.
Is there absolutely nothing that you've studied and want to study further? Is there any area in which you spot a hole that needs filling in?
If not, why do you want a PhD?
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I swear I'm doing something wrong 2016-02-08 10:58:43 Post No.16782255
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I swear I'm doing something wrong
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I don't understand how to have a regular conversation, what am I supposed to talk about? I can only hold a conversation for a few minutes at a time with close friends and almost not at all with anyone else. Please help.
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What you don't understand is that 90% of all casual conversations are about nothing at all - or, rather, whatever they're about is not their main point.
Follow this digression: monkeys and chimps like to sit together and pick nits off each other's fur. Now, getting rid of nits is good, but money followers have discovered that it's really just an excuse to sit together and enjoy being friendly.
People generally don't pick nits off each other. What we do is sit around talking about nothing at all - the weather, sports, last night's TV, girls, whatever. But sociologists have shown that a half-hour later very few can remember what the conversation was about, because it was just an excuse to hang out together.
Don't worry about being interesting, just be part of the bonding. An occasional "Yeah" or "That's right" will hold up your part of the conversation, and just about anything you add to it will be accepted because WHAT anyone says is less important than THAT they're being part of the fur-cleaning group.
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>>16782300
this is interesting. keep posting anon
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Sounds to me like you don't have much to talk about, or interesting people to talk with. Try taking up a wholesome hobby like carpentry - soon you'll be nattering away all afternoon with woodworking friends, discussing the latest lumber, tools, and techniques you've come across!
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So, when did /adv/ fill up with SJWs and BPs?
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>>16782233
Shortly after it filled up with redpillers and MGTOWs.
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Always existed, but they've increased in number over the years. It certainly got worse when moot tried shutting them down when they found out he'd been made a cuckold though.
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lol
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>>16782280
>lol
Well, OK, so maybe not SHORTLY after; this place was full of redpiller filth for quite some time. But surely you haven't forgotten the times when they had whole generals dedicated to them?
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A Japanese toddler learning English or a monolingual American adult learning French?
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Hang on, just need to go find the results of the research I did on this topic.
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>>16782224
Depends on the specific people, but children have it easy picking up a new language.
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>>16782237
That's because the child usually has hours and hours of instruction (living with mommy who talks to the child in that language).
If adults also immerse themselves that way, they learn faster because they're smarter. Unfortunate, unless OP moves to France, he'll at most get 2 hours of instruction per day.
Yet another, 'woe is me' post, but...
I'm almost 21 years old. Everyone that I am acquainted with seems to have something going, as in, a reason to wake up.
For the past 4 years, I've been living the neetlyfe, and here's the thing, despite everyone telling me eventually it leads to depression, I'm so content.
And it makes me wonder, will I ever want more? For a relationship, to move out, to get a job, give birth and nurture, and be wed?
Is there a magic age I reach to want normality? Or am I doomed to eventually rot away and lead the hikki life?
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what will you do when your mom doesn't want you to live in your childhood bedroom anymore?
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The way you live does not matter. You will regret the options you did not take, regardless of which ones you have taken.
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>>16782219
i have this lack of ambition problem
however i live in my own place, feed myself, and have my own car, phone, internets...
i just want to be a pizza delivery driver and screw around on the internet after work
Will I ever want more? not OP
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I'm schizophrenic so I can't trust my instincts on anything. Did these women like me? 2016-02-08 10:24:27 Post No.16782216
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I'm schizophrenic so I can't trust my instincts on anything. Did these women like me?
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I'm in college. I genuinely think they at least had some interest or pretended to for attention, but I'm clinically diagnosed as insane, so yeah.
1. She talks to me about how she lets her partners cum in her because she's on birth control. She tells me about how she's a dancer after I advise my friend to keep the dancer side bitch because they're flexible (I said it in a blatantly pervy way). She tells me about how she's a B cup and sometimes doesn't even wear bras after I tell my friend about how I think women can turn B cups into Cs with bench press. She playfully slaps my arm and giggles when I say outrageously offensive funny shit. Before all this she once came up with a lame excuse to talk to me after we met; she asks if I have a broomstick, I ask (in a pervy tone) for what, she says for brooming and kind of rolls her eyes. I think she likes me because girls don't just laugh at lame jokes, talk about sexual shit, and repeatedly plausible deniably touch with guys they're not into at least a bit.
2. We make eye contact for 3.5-4 seconds as we're walking in opposite directions, then she looks down and I think (or hope) she blushed. Next day, she's in the cafeteria and getting some shit. As she's getting some berries she notices I'm sitting at the counter checking her out (on one side there's a counter for eating and on the other there's a counter for cooking utensils), we make eye contact again for 3.5-4 seconds, and she walks over to the counter right ahead of me and grabs a spatula or spoon or something and walks back to the place. In my head I was like "fuck why didn't I say anything?" because I think she was giving me an opportunity to open when she walked over to literally right ahead of me.
3. She lets me spot her on an exercise where she knows that I will be staring at her TNA pants huge fertile ass the entire time. I think it's called back extension or something but I forgot.
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>>16782216
1st one wants to fuck.
2nd and 3rd could go either way, but there's no clear answer from the situations you described.
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>>16782216
1 probably talks like that because she has already written you off as "safe" with no likelihood of romantic involvement.
2. doesn't even know you exist. Minimal eye contact in a public place is merely crash-avoidance. Or she might be thinking "Who is that creep staring at me?"
3 asked the nearest person for a standard gym assist. If someone else had been handier she would have asked them.
I'm afraid you're grasping at straws, my friend.
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I work for this employer that sucks ass, they pay good though but I'm sick of this chaos that is my current place of employment, so I've been looking for other options recently and it payed out the other day when I got offered the probobly coolest job in the world!! (Rollercoaster technician)
Allthough they only want to offer me a 6 month-tryout contract at first.
During those 6 months my paycheck will be barely enough to keep things together.
After that they mentioned, at the interview that my monthly salary would be around 2800€, wich is still slightly less then my current salary but no matter.
Anyways I'm having some cold feet here, what if I don't get the tryout contract upgraded?
Then I'll have to get the "unemployed thingy salary" wich is like 1300€ wich is nowhere near what my monthly expenses are.. hell my rent alone is 700€.
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>>16782211
So in there try out they want free work?
Sounds like bs
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>>16782217
No, not free..
I get payed by the hour though..
11€ per hour... Wich means I'll get around 1300€ monthly
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Septum piercing or nah? 2016-02-08 10:15:49 Post No.16782207
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>soon to be 23
>going though some emotional shit
>been in the mood for changes lately
>growing out my hair for the first time too (8 months)
What do you think of the septum piercing? I've been thinking of getting a thin ring, nothing flashy or bulky, I reckon it's less expensive and permanent than a tattoo and less 2002 than the eyebrow piercing. If I don't like it or get bored of it, I can always take it out, right?
Y/N?
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piercings are for homosexuals and vegans
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Do it if you really want to, not because someone on an anonymous chinese woodcarving board validated your desires. Also, all piercings look like shit imo. Whatever floats your boat.
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Okay, so I've been dating this girl for 5 year. Been engaged for a year on V-Day. Toward the end of last year, things got rocky. She was constantly a cunt for literally no reason. Said she hated my friends. She said just my presence made her angry. She was just always angry or upset with no catalyst. Her excuses for this were always bullshit too when I'd ask why. All I would do s try to make her happy or calm her down to no avail. Fast forward a bit later, and I'm a depressed wreck and want out, but I'm a giant pansy, and can't just break up with her so I'm venting to everyone I can all the time and hiding it around her. An old friend of mine goes through a breakup around this time and comes to me for advice and comforting. This ends up turning into a romantic relationship. My fiancé eventually found out. But rather than being angry, she's just wailing for me not to go. She talks about how everything will change. Of course, I folded. I said we'd give it a go. And I cut things off with the other girl. But my fiance runs with this and immediately tries to act like everything's okay, but at the same time, gives me 0 privacy. She checks my phone every 15 minutes when she can, and questions everything I do now. I mean, she's great otherwise now, but I can't live like this. And I'm still depressed and confused about everything. I love my fiance, but I just can't go back after everything that has happened. I want to break up, but I don't have the heart. She's fragile and self conscious. And I worry for her mental health. I don't know how I can get out. I've had so much stress as of late because of this, and my body literally can't take it anymore.
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>>16782196
You cheated on your girlfriend. Stop trying to make shitty excuses as to why you were "driven" to cheating by her behaviour. You weren't driven to anything. Step up and take some responsibility. Also, stop saying you won't break up with her for fear of her mental health. You didn't give a shit about her mental health and the consequences if she found out you cheated on her, so don't act like suddenly you're the adoring caring soul. If you don't want to be with her, dont be with her. If you do, then try make amends and understand that right now she'll be extremely paranoid because of your actions.
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You would be surprised as to how depression and self loathing can affect decision making. I realize it was fucking wrong and I've dealt with that. It's not something I would normally do or condone. It just happened. I don't know what to tell you. And yes, I still very much care about my fiance. I wouldn't have spent 5 years of my life with someone I didn't have feelings for. That's why this shit is hard. I am consumed with fucking mixed emotions and if I felt like I could actually be the boyfriend I should be, I would probably stay with her. But after all this, I'm just a little too fucked in the head to just carry on with what feels like a facade.
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>>>16782203
>You would be surprised as to how depression and self loathing can affect decision making
What a surprise. Everyone goes through this. You're no different and this doesn't excuse you.
>I realize it was fucking wrong and I've dealt with that.
But this isn't about you. It's about the person you cheated on.
Look OP, cheating makes you a pussy. You could have just been a man and ended things, but instead you went "hur dur i sad and chestig make better."
Whether you admit it or not, you've lost interest in this woman. Regardless of who's fault it is, you've chosen to show her you don't value her enough to be monogamous. Just end it before you ruin things more.
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Okay,so this seller has my name and address, after I did not receive the product I payed for, I filed a dispute, he then went on to threaten me saying I have your address blah blah.
What do I do?
>pic related
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Also, I have started a Dox on him, should i stop that or continue with it?
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maintain dispute save messages as evidence submit them if possible, through customer support or whatever
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Keep everything as evidence and if it gets to the point where he damages your property of shows up at your door then call the police
I am 32 years old. My mother has been married to my step father since I was... Say 13 years old. My teen years were rough, but he is the only active grandfather for my children (and an exceptional one)
He as two daughters older than I from his previous marriage they both have children and ave limited contact with him as a direct result of their mother (bitter mother employed by court system. Step dad is STILL PAYING OUT for both daughters who are in their mid to late 30s)
ANYWAY:one of his daughters has contacted media FB asking me to give him her #. He has started 3 FB accounts and always ends up forgetting his info and starting a new one. It's just as likely he is ignoring her as he just doesn't care about FB. He is going through a real hated time right now and I think this would only fuck his blood pressure and stress level more.
Ignore, pass on, or inquire.
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The modern day broken family, everyone!
No more of that "stay married until death" shit. Let's have step-children and children from previous marriage drama
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>>16782170
This is how shit is. I believe that my mothers mistakes have helped me in my choices. I have been married for 14 years and I am happy as can be. My mothers third marriage, although somewhat sudden is still going strong, lasting longer than her first two together and they courted for less than 6 months to boot.
This goes to sho, imo, that you never can tell
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>>16782174
If you're 32, your mother should have been married for >32 years. Instead it's 19 years. Hardly anything to be bragging about.
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Help to make a decision 2016-02-08 09:29:23 Post No.16782148
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So theres this girl that might be coming over my place tonight.
Thing is I have a little bit of a history with her. I lost my virginity to her, then realised how big of a slut she was and we stopped talking. I let myself catch feelings for this girl at that time stupidly but I learned my lesson and moved on.
Forward to now, a year and a bit later, we've seen each other a few times since then but not much at all. I got a phone call from her on Saturday at 2am over some stupid shit then she said she's coming over Monday night (tonight). I'm torn between what I should think.
Part of me still kind of cares about her, and thinks that this is all a very bad idea, that I should tell her she's not coming over and to forget about me. Nothing good can come of this.
The other part thinks I should stop being such a little bitch and just let her come over and maybe fuck her. But she's literally with a new boy every weekend and I'm always hearing stories about her (yes these stories are true, I can give you details if you want). I don't want to be associated with the low quality scummy boys she's been sleeping with. And I don't want to catch anything nasty either.
What do you guys think, should I man up and tell her to get lost or should I forgo my pride and self respect, and let her come over?
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Any other prospects on the horizon? If so, man up and put her out. If not, bag your dick and put it in her.
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>>16782163
If you mean do I have any other girls on the cards, no I don't.
But I am working on my future. I just passed my driving test and have a car coming. I'm hitting the gym. About to get a new job. Hopefully going to move house this year.
Those are all prospects.
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I like this girl at work but I barely talk to her enough to be her friend. We have had small talks but just simple convos. My question is, would be okay if I ask her if she would like to hang out with me anytime she is available? Is it wrong or what?
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>>16782133
That's how it's done,meathead.
The next time you're chatting, close with something like "It's fun talking with you but we have to get back to work. Would you like to get a drink/coffee/snack after work so we can talk some more?"
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I feel like I will never fall in love again, and I will be alone for the rest of my life. the depression from those thoughts just about completely drain me. really trying to change how I think but I can't stop these hopeless feelings I have. I try to have faith that the universe will bring her in my life at the right time, but still, the hopelessness.
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i was in the same situation as you, feeling the same until literally yesterday
go for a walk, preferably when its night and cold out, listen to some angry music and just let it all out in a park or something, it'll help
theres not too much to really do, try to fill time with hobbies and friends, it'll take time but it'll stop hurting eventually, maybe you'll get lucky and find someone else special
it'll get better anon, dont worry about it, live your life and be the best you can
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>>16782142
yeah, im trying. thanks for replying
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>>16782144
also, if you dont, try smoking some pot every now and again, it really takes the edge off. extra points if you have some buddies to do it with, put on some comedy and just laugh
What does "put yourself out there" mean?
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doing things that you wouldnt normally do or are used to doing it.
Getting outside of your comfort zone; taking risks; exposing yourself to situations that made you uncomfortable, hurt you; etc etc etc
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>>16782118
It means get off your computer, take a shower, shave your neckbeard, put in clean clothes, go outside and go interact with others IRL
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>>16782128
this
wherever you're at just get out of your comfort zone, and keep pushing it until you're completely comfortable, being uncomfortable