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I went grocery shopping today and bought milk. I can resume my oatmeal eating.
 
Vent away. I'm youtubing that video of the girl addicted to duster inhalants.
 
Sorry, I'm also here too. I just like to do 10 things at once.
 
Let me list my litany of ****ed up **** in my life.

1. I voided an MCAT I studied by balls off for one year ago, haven't retaken yet.
2. In september my girlfriend of 5.5 years broke up with me.
3. I found out last week that my old P.I. left me off a paper she said I would be second author on. She told me I'd be a second author on it numerous times over a 1.5 year span.
4. I now live with that ex-girlfriend and it is making my life unbearable.
5. I am having trouble with my hardass P.I. and getting my senior thesis stuff ready....

jesus ****ing christ
 
tiedyeddog said:
Alright. The past six months of my life have been horrible. Sometimes I just think it's too much for me t handle, for serious.
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You don't have to get into details, but does it involved other people or just you? If it's other people, sometimes you just need to take a break from them.
 
Sorry to hear that tiedye. What's wrong?

Edit: oh, you just said.

That's crappy. Why do you still live with your ex?

Also - your wording of you don't know if you can handle it anymore worries me. You ok?
 
for ****ing serious, how much **** does one person have to handle. I am positive, I am going to seek counseling after I graduate (2 weeks). Its becoming hard to function.
 
FloatOn said:
You don't have to get into details, but does it involved other people or just you? If it's other people, sometimes you just need to take a break from them.
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I think my quality of life would improve one million percent if I didn't live with my ex. We're both bound by the lease until May so I don't see an easy solution to this. To top it off, my brother lives with us so I can't just move it and sublet somewhere else....
 
I think you should just cry it out right now, in all honesty. It should ease up the tension inside. Once you get it all out, look at each thing and ask yourself how you can make it better, even if it is just a little bit or for a little while.
 
tiedyeddog said:
I think I'll be better tomorrow but right now I just want to cry.
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🙁

Last summer we had some good conversations, man. Things will turn out better, especially once you get away from your ex - May isn't that far away.

Go find yourself a nice craft brew and just let it out. Things can be a lot better tomorrow if you do that. 👍
 
tiedyeddog said:
Is it ok for dudes to cry?
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In your situation, yes. Sometimes it's hard to verbally communicate your feelings, although you did a good job at this, so crying is a way of letting it all out without having to really explain it to anyone or talk about in detail.

(In some cases, people shouldn't be crying at all, regardless of gender.)
 
FloatOn said:
In your situation, yes. Sometimes it's hard to verbally communicate your feelings, although you did a good job at this, so crying is a way of letting it all out without having to explain it to anyone.

(In some cases, people shouldn't be crying at all, regardless of gender.)
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I don't think it's ever bad to cry if it's what you need/want/feel compelled to do
 
brooklynblunder said:
how about going back home for a weekend/seeing childhood friends?
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I think this is a great idea, I think I'm going to try to go home next weekend.

I think I've been trying to work to cover up my problems, trying to keep my mind off things I didn't want to think about. I haven't been to my hometown in three months and all I do is ****ing work, I need to change this
 
Sammich117 said:
I don't think it's ever bad to cry if it's what you need/want/feel compelled to do
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I've noticed some people just get upset over really petty things, but that's a conversation for another day. tiedye needs our attention and support right now.
 
FloatOn said:
I've noticed some people just get upset over really petty things, but that's a conversation for another day. tiedye needs our attention and support right now.
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Fair enough. I wasn't trying to come off rude. Looking back I think it seems that way. Sorry floaty!
 
I'm just under so much stress right now, I guess I'm not handling it right now and everything is making it so much ****ier

I have my senior thesis exam on tuesday and a huge virology exam and hour after that and my boss sent me an e-mail today about how he was disappointed in the work I've done on my senior thesis paper. I feel I've put my heart and soul in that piece of ****.

I'm seriously usually such an optimistic person, I don't get whats wrong

edit: I mean I've been stressed before and had relationship problems, I usually don't let anything get me down
 
tiedyeddog said:
I'm just under so much stress right now, I guess I'm not handling it right now and everything is making it so much ****ier

I have my senior thesis exam on tuesday and a huge virology exam and hour after that and my boss sent me an e-mail today about how he was disappointed in the work I've done on my senior thesis paper. I feel I've put my heart and soul in that piece of ****.

I'm seriously usually such an optimistic person, I don't get whats wrong

edit: I mean I've been stressed before and had relationship problems, I usually don't let anything get me down
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oh man, sounds like you just need a couple of days off and then start over again. how was your weekend?
 
brooklynblunder said:
oh man, sounds like you just need a couple of days off and then start over again. how was your weekend?
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For real, I've hardly slept for two weeks. Last sunday I didn't sleep at all and everyday after that I've gotten 5-6 hours of sleep. Today I worked on my thesis for seven ****ing hours than then studied viro for 5 hours.

I think I was doing ok today until my boss sent me that e-mail. My senior thesis is twice as long as any other undergrad who has gone before me. I work harder than almost all the grad students and post docs in my lab, like WHAT THE ****!!!
 
tiedyeddog said:
For real, I've hardly slept for two weeks. Last sunday I didn't sleep at all and everyday after that I've gotten 5-6 hours of sleep. Today I worked on my thesis for seven ****ing hours than then studied viro for 5 hours.

I think I was doing ok today until my boss sent me that e-mail. My senior thesis is twice as long as any other undergrad who has gone before me. I work harder than almost all the grad students and post docs in my lab, like WHAT THE ****!!!
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wow, what didn't the PI like about it
 
Sammich117 said:
Fair enough. I wasn't trying to come off rude. Looking back I think it seems that way. Sorry floaty!
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No worries!

tiedyeddog said:
I'm just under so much stress right now, I guess I'm not handling it right now and everything is making it so much ****ier

I have my senior thesis exam on tuesday and a huge virology exam and hour after that and my boss sent me an e-mail today about how he was disappointed in the work I've done on my senior thesis paper. I feel I've put my heart and soul in that piece of ****.

I'm seriously usually such an optimistic person, I don't get whats wrong

edit: I mean I've been stressed before and had relationship problems, I usually don't let anything get me down
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🙁 I wish we could all give you a group hug right now. Is there anyone that can help you out in person, like help keep you on track and sane on a regular basis? Your brother maybe? Sometimes you need that tangible person there.
 
honestly, most PIs are egotistical douchebags. don't let it get to you, i would just bang it out - i'm sure you will pass, don't let your PI get to you
 
FloatOn said:
Your brother maybe? Sometimes you need that tangible person there.
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Its hard talking to family about these things, I'm supposed to be the big brother who never has problems, you know?

I think there are two or three grad students at work who can calm me down, they've cried in front of me so I figure I can do this same with them
 
tiedyeddog said:
Basically, I forgot to add the table of contents and add page numbers. I had to send it to my commitee tonight so they got a copy without the table of contents and the page numbers. I'm sure it totally ****ed up the readability of it.....wait, no.
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Sounds like a jackass or a jackassy moment to me. "Disappointed" is a pretty strong word. That was completely unnecessary.
 
brooklynblunder said:
honestly, most PIs are egotistical douchebags. don't let it get to you, i would just bang it out - i'm sure you will pass, don't let your PI get to you
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+1, my PI talks crap to me everyday. He makes fun of me by saying "oh you want to be a doctor but you can't even get any data". I'm having a really really unproductive semester. I mean it's been two months and I haven't gotten any data what-so-ever. The PI put a freshman on the same project as me and she is getting amazing data and is finding tons of new results while I can't even run a gel. That is how research goes. You have your up times and your downtime. It just sucks that you're PI is treating you like that, but there really isn't anything you can do other than to just man up and bang out these next 2-3 months until graduation.
 
oaklandguy said:
+1, my PI talks crap to me everyday. He makes fun of me by saying "oh you want to be a doctor but you can't even get any data". I'm having a really really unproductive semester. I mean it's been two months and I haven't gotten any data what-so-ever. The PI put a freshman on the same project as me and she is getting amazing data and is finding tons of new results while I can't even run a gel. That is how research goes. You have your up times and your downtime. It just sucks that you're PI is treating you like that, but there really isn't anything you can do other than to just man up and bang out these next 2-3 months until graduation.
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its a lot of luck in addition to the time commitment
 
brooklynblunder said:
its a lot of luck in addition to the time commitment
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It really is. My first two weeks of research I got soo much done it was unbelievable. I had no idea what I was doing, yet I fixed the mistakes of 3 other undergraduate students. The next 8 months have just been a **** show.
 
tiedyeddog said:
Its hard talking to family about these things, I'm supposed to be the big brother who never has problems, you know?

I think there are two or three grad students at work who can calm me down, they've cried in front of me so I figure I can do this same with them
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Actually, I do know. :laugh: I was just hoping your sibling relationship would be different.
 
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