@D.Hutchinson Taipei is a depressing place because it's both mentally and physically deficient. For the mental part, I don't know anybody here who can be talked with my real concerns. For the physical part, I even have no access to a warm shower when living here.
@D.Hutchinson I hate to tell others I live in Taipei because I don't feel Taipei is an interesting place, being just a boring concrete jungle. When I hear others tell me they live in Taipei, I imagine how boring a life they have.
a friend got an offer from a good program in early March, emailed the other top program that he had waited forever for, and the next day, that other program made an offer to him, too
kind of shitty but that's how negotiation works, I guess ...
@D.Hutchinson but I don't really know which program is a top program in Europe; I feel every program having theoretical physics themes I want to be engaged with is top. Actually I prefer to work on the themes which I am more interested in than a top program if there are really criteria which judge which program is of more top.
@D.Hutchinson actually no matter how cold it is, there is still shaved ice sold here. But after eating it, I would feel freezing cold. I think it they provide a heater in their shop for me to eat there, I would be very glad to buy it.
in a recent paper I would like to point out one of the previous literature only focuses on a certain region instead of the global circumstances, and here is my original sentence :
However, the view of generosity in the world is not incorporated in the whole framework of the paper.
I use ...
Is it bad to be none-desperate in academia? A friend had two offers (lab assist) and told a prof. that he needed to think about the offer, since he had several, and then the prof. said "if you need to think about it, then you're not the right candidate". Is this normal?
@CaptainBohemian Well, I'm lucky, since I'm in the industry as a programmer so for me, it's pretty ordinary. However, I would say that many people in the industry in my field would say it sounds desperate to say yes to an offer as soon as you are given in. Normally, you would "think" about it for a few days, hence my question!
@NiclasJonsson Now I understand your point. I have never had any industrial job offer though I have applied to industry when I just graduated and couldn't find an academic position. Academic positions are sorefully scarce so that if I get any offer, it's always the only one at that time. I recall I have ever replied to an offer that I want consider and the boss indeed gave me time to consider, but I knew it's in a great chance that I would take it because I didn't have other offers.
I said I want to consider is not because I don't want to sound desperate but I want to think in more detail if there is any drawback in that job.
@NiclasJonsson normal? Academics don't really do normal. I think a lot of us feel that if you are not dying to work with us, then we don't want you. That said most of us also realize that there are sometimes practical issues and people need a chance to think about things.
@StrongBad Indeed, I said yes to my first position offer as a teaching assistant just when the assistant professor called me to tell me they admitted me without spending any time to consider because I was really so desperate that time, but it turned out it's a bad position both in physical environment and social environment. That's why I think I need to consider when I was given the second position.
in a recent paper I would like to point out one of the previous literature only focuses on a certain region instead of the global circumstances, and here is my original sentence :
However, the view of generosity in the world is not incorporated in the whole framework of the paper.
I use ...
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