Random Win: The irl Fuck Ya thread

[Obev]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academ...United_Kingdom

Been around a bit. Gonna change next year iirc.

Yeah the students who start in September are going to get graded in numbers because fuck knows why. My A-level students (last years of high school) are still graded on letters. How much sense does it make? Not a jot! Were teachers consulted on the changes? Hell no!

And yes, we have (or had in the case of 14-16 qualifications) stars instead of plusses. It's because we're fabulous.

[BerenTebogo]

Update!

Was able to make contact briefly. Will be longer discussion tomorrow. This is still very early in the process and as much as I know I am awesome I do have a very hard time believing I'll actually make it to the end of this with the job.

Anyway, since I now am sure about nature of their wanting to talk to me, I can be less vague. About a month ago I applied, mostly as a "lolwhynot" joke, to a job opening for an Astrophysicist (actual job title) at the Chandra X-Ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. The opening was for a post-masters level astrophysics research student with essentially the qualifications of someone with a computer science degree.

Over the past few weeks I've seen a couple emails to the effect of "you passed automated screening #1", "...#2", etc, but I figured that was just all riding the fact that I do actually have undergrad degrees specifically in astrophysics and computational math + a masters (soon) and thus wasn't getting auto-bounced until a human looked at my app.

Anyway, that brings us to here. As I sat, hungover, in my early AM adv. QM class I got the call and now everything from here on out is just making me really happy. When I was a lowly retail employee with a GED sitting on a couch going "oooh" and "ahhh" at episodes of BBC Horizon and Discovery specials, being part of a project like this has always sorta been the unattainable goal that I set just to keep myself working. I've had the privilege of working in relativity in a department attached to LIGO for the discovery of GWs, but I was never passionate about the LIGO end of things. Calibrating lasers to account for quantum noise was never really big with me, and random grad students in the theory dept only have so much interaction with the actual project itself. The Chandra project is much more my speed in terms of being able to actually feel like I'm contributing.

So I'm excited, nervous, in disbelief, and still expecting to absolutely fucking torpedo the entire process at some point - but the fact that I even got this far has made me a lot happier than I would have ever guessed.

[Zetanio]

Get your ass back up to the Northeast. good job!

[Moss]

Update!

Was able to make contact briefly. Will be longer discussion tomorrow. This is still very early in the process and as much as I know I am awesome I do have a very hard time believing I'll actually make it to the end of this with the job.

Anyway, since I now am sure about nature of their wanting to talk to me, I can be less vague. About a month ago I applied, mostly as a "lolwhynot" joke, to a job opening for an Astrophysicist (actual job title) at the Chandra X-Ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. The opening was for a post-masters level astrophysics research student with essentially the qualifications of someone with a computer science degree.

Over the past few weeks I've seen a couple emails to the effect of "you passed automated screening #1", "...#2", etc, but I figured that was just all riding the fact that I do actually have undergrad degrees specifically in astrophysics and computational math + a masters (soon) and thus wasn't getting auto-bounced until a human looked at my app.

Anyway, that brings us to here. As I sat, hungover, in my early AM adv. QM class I got the call and now everything from here on out is just making me really happy. When I was a lowly retail employee with a GED sitting on a couch going "oooh" and "ahhh" at episodes of BBC Horizon and Discovery specials, being part of a project like this has always sorta been the unattainable goal that I set just to keep myself working. I've had the privilege of working in relativity in a department attached to LIGO for the discovery of GWs, but I was never passionate about the LIGO end of things. Calibrating lasers to account for quantum noise was never really big with me, and random grad students in the theory dept only have so much interaction with the actual project itself. The Chandra project is much more my speed in terms of being able to actually feel like I'm contributing.

So I'm excited, nervous, in disbelief, and still expecting to absolutely fucking torpedo the entire process at some point - but the fact that I even got this far has made me a lot happier than I would have ever guessed.

Good luck dude. LSU #1 school in the world

[Airenn]

Yay Sath yay! Good luck!

[BaneTheBrawler]

awwww yisss grats man

[vagus]

Shit son! Make yo dreams come true! Man tears.

[BerenTebogo]

Thanks guys! Very much appreciate the support. I meant to respond a bit earlier but fuck, finally hit my stride for the first time in a decent amount of time writing final talk for M.S.. Forgot to look away from screen, lost about 9 hours there.

Also now having serious doubts about being able to fit the talk fully into the time, which either means cutting out some of the material that is required to keep 95% of the audience from being lost after 5 minutes, or cutting off fairly important details later in the talk that literally nobody but my adviser will understand. More of random fail, but fuck, I'm tired.

[Gabai]

Update!

Was able to make contact briefly. Will be longer discussion tomorrow. This is still very early in the process and as much as I know I am awesome I do have a very hard time believing I'll actually make it to the end of this with the job.

Anyway, since I now am sure about nature of their wanting to talk to me, I can be less vague. About a month ago I applied, mostly as a "lolwhynot" joke, to a job opening for an Astrophysicist (actual job title) at the Chandra X-Ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. The opening was for a post-masters level astrophysics research student with essentially the qualifications of someone with a computer science degree.

Over the past few weeks I've seen a couple emails to the effect of "you passed automated screening #1", "...#2", etc, but I figured that was just all riding the fact that I do actually have undergrad degrees specifically in astrophysics and computational math + a masters (soon) and thus wasn't getting auto-bounced until a human looked at my app.

Anyway, that brings us to here. As I sat, hungover, in my early AM adv. QM class I got the call and now everything from here on out is just making me really happy. When I was a lowly retail employee with a GED sitting on a couch going "oooh" and "ahhh" at episodes of BBC Horizon and Discovery specials, being part of a project like this has always sorta been the unattainable goal that I set just to keep myself working. I've had the privilege of working in relativity in a department attached to LIGO for the discovery of GWs, but I was never passionate about the LIGO end of things. Calibrating lasers to account for quantum noise was never really big with me, and random grad students in the theory dept only have so much interaction with the actual project itself. The Chandra project is much more my speed in terms of being able to actually feel like I'm contributing.

So I'm excited, nervous, in disbelief, and still expecting to absolutely fucking torpedo the entire process at some point - but the fact that I even got this far has made me a lot happier than I would have ever guessed.

That is huge man, seriously, congratulations. Even getting to that point where you are actively considered for work in exactly what you have been preparing for all this time must give a sense of satisfaction beyond measure.

I can draw many parallels to my own story from what you've shared of yours and am a couple of years behind where you currently are, so it is encouraging to see you reach the goals you set for yourself. Congratulations again.

[bluefan]

Phone is finally charging again, after I tried like 6 different USB charging boards. Amazon seller kept sending me the European version instead of the international one I needed.

I was about to lay down big money to break my current contract and sign up with the corporate earlier than I wanted to, phew.

[Jefe]

I purchased something from amazon over the weekend and got it on Tuesday. Today I get an email asking me to choose a product from their store for free + give em an 'unbiased' review. Sign me up lol, these fucking guys kickass anyway.

[Ksandra]

Grats, Sath!

[dasva]

Looked online and saw a bunch of stuff I wanted was on sale at Costco get there and even more stuff I wanted was on sale that wasn't listed online including some grand marnier

[Boyiee]

Resuscitated a guy the other day at work, no problem I'm a hero w/e happens sometimes.

Turns out I also saved him last year lol. I'm this guy's fucking savior.

[BerenTebogo]

Only have black suits / formal suits and wanted something navy / charcoal for upcoming interview (very soon) so went out today to find one. Expected to just hit men's warehouse and get something workable cuz i didnt want to spend more than like $500 max but last second I decided to check j crew website after a bit of googling around. Shit's expensive and I'm looking at stuff I like running $650 with possible tailoring needed, whatever, cant hurt to look.

Get to jcrew in BR and start checking stuff out. They dont have the suits I was looking at online but have similar in same style / fits so I try some on. Absolutely fall in love with them. Off the rack they are a better fit than any suit I've ever worn (I'm in between sizes in really weird ways). May need a small adjustment to pant leg length but ultimately, shit fits fantastically and I love how it all looks - except it's all like super light blue light cotton LA summer shit that I can't possibly wear.

Dude is super cool and starts looking into what he can do for me. I look through all the catalog options and find the one I really like and GF signs off on, but I don't want to order cuz idfk if the color is going to be right in person. Guy goes out back for like 15 minutes, comes back with a swatch of the actual fabric in the color - it's perfect AND tells me he can comp me 2-3 day shipping. Awesome. But it's still right around $600 with a shirt included. But wait, there's more, suits and dress shirts are 30% off across the board for no fucking reason.

Just too much good all at once. As soon as he said I could bring it to store no questions asked if color is wrong or doesnt fit right I pulled the trigger. It's still a thin fabric, I could never dream about wearing it in Boston in the winter, but for a job interview in the spring and then having an awesome suit in back pocket? Probably best money (assuming it fits and everything) I've spent this year. So pumped.

[vagus]

$600 ain't bad if it fits nicely! No places that offer custom? $600 is about how much you would pay around here.

[BerenTebogo]

$600 ain't bad if it fits nicely! No places that offer custom? $600 is about how much you would pay around here.

More that I don't have time for custom. I had phone interview Thursday, wasn't expecting actual in person interview period, least of all not til I moved back to MA (because job posting closing date goes on for a while) in June. Get told they want me for an interview, will handle all the travel, am I available for one day between the 27th and the 3rd. Today was the earliest I could even get out to look at my options and I have ZERO idea what all the options are for me around here. Basically had to come home with the matter settled today. Still like a 5-10% chance they get back to me and say they want me Wed the 27th and my stuff doesn't get here on Tuesday and I have to make due with a black suit. I'm REALLY not used to stuff moving this quickly, lol.

Have to give a 45 minute talk Tuesday afternoon also which has dominated like 90% of my life for a while and still isn't 100% done.

Suit: fabric is a bit darker in person than in the picture which is good for me, it was a bit too much on the light side in the picture I think.

Spoiler: show

[BaneTheBrawler]

Awesome! I wish I got to wear my suit more often. Makes me feel cool.


Also as far as warmth, you can always layer a bit. Can't do TOO much with a suit on, but you could wear underarmor, T shirt, suit-shirt, sweater vest, suit-jacket, and a trenchcoat, with maybe a winter coat over that if necessary.

[BerenTebogo]

Awesome! I wish I got to wear my suit more often. Makes me feel cool.


Also as far as warmth, you can always layer a bit. Can't do TOO much with a suit on, but you could wear underarmor, T shirt, suit-shirt, sweater vest, suit-jacket, and a trenchcoat, with maybe a winter coat over that if necessary.

Yeah. Thankfully it's gonna be high 50s low 60s when I go up and I'm basically flying in -> being taken to interview -> being taken back to airport. Won't really have time to be cold.

Buttons are a dark brown. Probably means I should get a dark brown-ish pair of shoes and belt, huh?

[mallister]

good luck!