Your point of "perhaps you might be the type who likes all options opened forever" is insightful - I really hadn't thought of that, but I am exactly that kind of person. The option of being just in a long-term relationship instead of relationship or marriage is hard because I always have to be the decision maker. Him…

Just cried. Blah!

Here's a genuine question for everyone: I've been with my boyfriend for nearly 10 years. We've lived together for about 5 years throughout a lot of different locations and different lifestyles. Because of this length of time, people, both casual and familial, ask when we are going to get married. I wouldn't mind…

Wow. I just submitted a paper to a small journal for a side project I worked on that was unrelated research to my dissertation and didn't want to pay - it has an impact factor of 2.7!

I'm a biologist so who knows?! One of my professors here has a paper with nearly 1000 citations - anytime someone writes anything about about x topic, they cite his paper. The Nature paper from my lab (before my time though) has 320+ citations. Maybe it's different with Engineering?!

100 papers, 435 citations overall? That's 4.35 citations per paper. If my department was hiring, they wouldn't take her because that's a horrid number. In my relatively small field, we average 20-50 citations per paper. And that's REALLY goddamn specific.

You must not publish if you don't understand what "metrics" means for a publication. If she has 100 publications and only 435 citations of ALL her papers, that's an average of 4.35 citations per paper. This is likely NOT accurate, as someone who writes an influential paper in a field like hers can have 200-600…

I remember one of my profs had to pollinate the entire Intro Bio class while dressed as a bee. Hilarity...and also not offensive at all.

I totally 100% agree with you...however this story happened near me, and his team gave him playing time and passed him the ball repeatedly but he kept missing. After five missed shots and minimal time left, the other player inbounded the ball to him and he made a shot. The individual at hand did have his team get him…

I also genuinely wanted to see Liz win. Yes, Rousey is good at what she does (armbars) but I did want to see a victory that was different. At least that rear-naked choke that Liz did was pretty damn fun to watch.

I helped teach the SCUBA class at BMC, and that was a fantastic PE requirement. I got all sorts of people, like those who genuinely wanted to get certified and go diving, along with others who just wanted to learn to put their head under water.

Spleens are secondary lymphoid organs, meaning that important immune-related cells like B cells (make antibodies to pathogens) and T cells (recognize and destroy infected cells) mature there. Because of the loss of a spleen where these can mature, he has a "reduced" immune system, but because he's an adult and likely…

Here's how to incorporate cheesy Twilight into a discussion about why you should say UTERUS instead of womb...

No, I would literally kill for an hour where dumb meat-heads in cut-off tanks with protein shakes don't suggest "hey, maybe you should increase your weight and decrease your reps, girl." I'm not a precious flower or a fragile creature, I'm just FUCKING sick of men staring through the door as I do my step class. If…

I live in Albuquerque and I am always happy to know there is a clinic here that will perform whatever procedures necessary in the case of late-term pregnancy issues. I will also note, whenever I drive by the clinic(s) they protest at, I always honk and flip them off. It's little, yes...but it makes me feel a little…

Yeah...Green belt should be interesting. Apparently we get our back leg tied to an 80lb weight in the middle of the floor and then get to spar everyone...without dying. Woohoo!

Are you seriously calling me ignorant? Because I said he should respond more skillfully? Yes, situation are always chaotic, BUT ISN'T THAT WHY YOU TRAIN?! TO RESPOND TO THOSE SITUATIONS? Idiot.

I do American Kenpo Karate and I'm a Blue Belt training for my green. My sparring partners tend to either be the others at my belt or higher (brown, black). Maybe it's a female mentality that we often need to be soft and delicate, but I can assure if I'm sparring and not completely wiped out from 4 previous hours of…

I tell them that a lot, and most of them have gotten better, but I've recently had shoulder surgery on both shoulders, so people are a little more delicate now while I'm healing.

I'm a female who does martial arts, and for myself, I see many men struggle to "control" themselves when they work with me in contact drills. While I applaud their control and efforts to not harm me, it hinders my own personal training when I don't get hit like I would if some guy was grabbing me on the street. I've…