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Mark Bittman is a lifesaver! I really love the organization of his books (or, at least, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, but I'd bet it is similar for all of them). He organizes it by type of ingredient - grains, say, or eggs - rather than meal. I use the index to navigate and browse if I'm looking for ideas about what to do with something I have, and I love all the ways he suggests to change a recipe. If you are new to cooking, Mark Bittman is strongly recommended! Here is a good recipe for breakfast or dinner if you have a cast-iron skillet (or any skillet with high sides). 1-3 potatoes, cubed (depending on how many people you are serving) 1-2 fresh tomatoes or 1 small can diced tomatoes 1 bunch spinach, chopped 1 bunch asparagus, chopped 1-3 eggs shredded cheese to sprinkle on top - cheddar, Parmesan, or other sharp cheeses work well here salt, pepper to taste Cube the potatoes into small bite-sized pieces and fry in olive oil in the skillet until they are done (when you put a fork through them, they will not be hard in the middle). Add the asparagus, tomato and spinach. The spinach will wilt and the asparagus turn bright green which is how you will know they are done. The tomato will make this dish a bit more wet so if you like drier potatoes omit it. While the potatoes are frying, in another skillet cook the eggs - I like over easy, but sunny-side up works as well and if you want scrambled you can just add them to the potatoes along with the vegetables. Season the veggies with salt and pepper - I have also used spice mixes with some success. Place the eggs on top of the veggies and sprinkle the cheese on top. Put a lid on top to help melt the cheese, and eat! Other veggies to substitute in: peas, corn, carrots, eggplant, sweet potatoes instead of potatoes (or along with them), leek, artichoke heart, bok choy, kale or other leafy greens, onion, and so forth. Keep in mind that some vegetables are less delicate than others, so you will want to add them earlier in the cooking process.

I feel awkward about making an Academia.edu profile. I will wait until I get to grad school, even if I don't do anything noteworthy for a while!

...I am speechless. It isn't surprising that you don't recognize this as unethical behavior, considering your resentment about higher ed. But presenting the work of others as your own is wrong, and what you did was wrong, too. I'm glad you didn't get paid.

Generally, your work is first read by an/the editor of the journal, who has to sort through dozens of entries at any given time. The editor decides whether to outright reject a paper, to send it back with suggestions to resubmit, or to send it to outside experts in that subfield (anywhere between two to five outside readers). Those readers comment on the paper, which can take a while for them to do, and send it back to the editor, who will screen the comments (Female Science Professor talked a bit about how some readers make inappropriate comments - sexist things, etc.). Then you get to see the comments, revise and resubmit. The editor makes sure you do all the little things to conform with the journal's format and such. Am I missing anything? Oh, and everyone who does this - the editor, the reviewers, you - all do full-time work as professors too. Editing a journal is considered one of the service positions that tenured profs have to do along with sitting on committees and other things like that.

Were you allowed to punish the cheaters?

It is twisted. It is like a moral emperor-has-no-clothes where the people are engaging in an unambiguously unethical practice and yet pretending they have a legit service. Why bother to pretend? Are they deluding themselves, or are these disclaimers coming from some (poorly understood) concern about legal liability? ETA: As for the Rapture Pet Service, I think people who sell healing crystals or any other product/service which hinges on belief (and belief alone - no verifiable facts involved) are also scammers. Some would argue that they are just answering demand for certain belief-based goods and services, and while I can see where this is coming from I still think it is a scam. Demand for goods, and beliefs for that matter, can often be created out of nothing by marketers. As you say, though, that is rather off-topic.

Just yesterday there was a student in my local area asking for science students on Craigslist to do her labs (for a summer course, presumably). How stupid can you get? Like people from the university wouldn't spot it. I suppose some students really don't think professors exist outside of the classroom. This also reminds me of the people who scam apocalyptic Christians who think the end is nigh by promising to take care of their pets after the righteous are lifted up to heaven. Since that time is uncertain, the services charge a small monthly fee! Like cheaters and plagiarists, it is difficult for me to feel sorry for the apocalyptic Christians here, who are technically the victims of such scams.

So is it mutually exclusive to both have a +/- feature and list the users who pushed the + button? I'm just wondering - if I had to choose I'd keep the +/- over the other, but both are nice.

Taking a look back at my SOP for history, here is my general formula: P1: Brief overview of my academic interests - the grand "this is my region, time and subtopics" summary P2: More details on my first subtopic, including why X University fits my interests well P3: More details on my second subtopic, again with the fit P4: Why it is nifty that I'm into both of these subtopics (e.g., this is where I show I can ask insightful questions which unite my interests - this may not be relevant for you if you are interested in obviously related things) P5: Scholarly works which influenced me - this demonstrated a grasp of current historiography and where my work would fit in with that, but I don't know that most people include this and it may not be relevant for other fields P6: Thesis proposal - this should be well-conceived, reasonable, and focused. You don't necessarily have to do this exact project but you should demonstrate that you know how to create a proposal P7: Conclusion, restating why I fit so well with X University All of this was slightly more than 1000 words. I moved the sections around a lot and in my earlier drafts I had an intro and conclusion which emphasized why I fit into X University. But the structure above is the one I sent to the one school which accepted me. Make of that what you will - my advisor told me that, at least in my case, my writing sample was what really impressed the adcomm.

I use OO, because my new computer cost enough without buying MS Office and because I don't like the changes they made to the organization of the menus. However, I am hoping (I'm sure I will, actually) that I have access to computers with MS Office on campus, because my roommate (who is currently in graduate school) wasted about 5 hair-pulling hours on some formatting. She had OO and the formatting wouldn't display correctly when the file was opened with Excel.

Also, I like that we can see now who pushed the like button for each post.

Honestly, the only reason I read the Chronicle forum is for horror stories like this.

Ooh, lots of great changes here - I like the new subforums, and the ability to organize threads by things other than recently updated. However, is it possible to add back the little button by the thread title which brings you straight to the posts you haven't read yet? That was a useful feature.

I love email. We, the random denizens of the internet, get to see juicy stuff like this, whereas in the past we would only have half-remembered rumor of this guy's arrogance if we knew it at all. Getting kicked out didn't seem to faze him at all though. Unfortunately that will probably be one of the few real consequences he will ever have in his life.

Unless your writing score is, like, 2, you will be fine with these scores. Your energy (and money) is better spent polishing your writing sample rather than studying for the GRE at this point. Good job, and good luck!

Rocky Mountain National Park is an excellent day trip. Or a nice activity in the fall is to go up to Estes Park and listen to the elk mating calls. Horsetooth Rock (or the reservoir, if you have a boat) is literally a half hour drive away and it only takes an hour to hike to the top of the rock, plus there are some easy trails for kids as well. As for culture, there's pretty much everything in Denver. You should take a tour of the Celestial Seasonings tea factory just outside of Boulder - it's free, and the store sells some varieties of herbal tea you can't find in stores. There's also the Dushanbe teahouse in Boulder, which was imported from Tajikstan and is gorgeous. It is possible to have formal afternoon tea if you make reservations, which is totally worth it. Dinner is a bit expensive though.

Well, obviously the failure in communication is mostly mine, since I assumed continuity between my two posts and did not realize I implied I believed it was true for everyone. I apologize as well.

Well, now you are putting words in my mouth. I never said they never happen. I have no idea how frequently they happen or not, but that wasn't the discussion; the OP asked why some people choose to stay inside their expatriate communities, and I was offering ideas about that particular subset of immigrants. Perhaps I was not as careful with my language as I should have been but there's no need to assume the worst.

I didn't mean to imply that immigrants don't want to form relationships with people from different backgrounds. I was just offering reasons why some end up not doing so, and you must admit that it is more work to have romantic relationships with both parties from different cultures.

Well, yes, it is a generalization. But I was speculating about why some people choose to stay inside their own expatriate communities. Obviously, then, their experience will be different than those of immigrants who choose to socialize more in their new culture.

Yes, that's it. You share the strange, not the fox.

There's another fox user running around, right? I get that person mixed up with you, Strangefox, but never the other way around, because your avatar is so distinctive. It was like that with my freshman year roommate: she was a twin, and while I never mistook her for her sister, sometimes I thought her sister looked like my roommate and I was embarrassed.

And for the draining discussion: think about dating outside your own culture! All the little assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, how you talk about money, how you talk about the future, etc really adds up. And this is in addition to the basic personality fit, which is hard enough to figure out! No wonder people don't want to jump outside their own culture when they date.

No, not offensive. I think, first and foremost, that people make the choice initially to stay with others out of comfort during the stressful settling-in period, and then because they are comfortable they stay. Inertia! As for the locals, it really depends on the part of the country. Rural Minnesota (or anywhere in the midwest, I don't want to pick on Minnesota), for instance, will have lots of friendly, helpful folks around who stare at you with really big eyes (and smiles!) if your skin is dark and you have an accent. This can be off-putting. The northeast, for another example, has a reputation for aloofness - it is difficult to break through people's social reserve and develop truly intimate friendships. (Or so I've heard from my western friends who have gone there.) There's a grain of truth to regional stereotypes because they govern a lot of impersonal interactions between strangers. Of course once you move anywhere and become familiar with how things work people are basically the same, but it is draining to always fit yourself into the mold of another cultural mode. Service culture is a good example, one that most tourists have had to deal with. As an American, we've got 'the customer is always right" culture, so if I travel to, say, Greece or Russia where this is not the case then every interaction with a salesperson I will be tensed up, ready for them to be what I consider rude. This is draining.

Okay, I have bookmarked this thread. Along with the "what do you take notes on" thread, I think I'm going to benefit a lot from this! I came to coffee rather late, and due to my perception that making good coffee requires lots (read: more than I wanted to give) initial investment in time and money, I haven't bothered to learn. Plus, I live with non-coffee drinkers, and they pay for all the food, so I'd feel bad making them buy something they don't like. We drink tea, but it is nice to have a change and go to a decent coffee shop sometimes. That said, this cold brewing method sounds easy and delicious. Also I eventually want to make my own, extremely strong Vietnamese-style coffee (every cafe in the US adds way too much sweetened condensed milk), for which I have filters. Now is the time to start!