Done and done!

Haha, I actually have their names in a list on an index card at my desk. They all asked me to keep them posted if there was a meetup, (since they couldn't make the initial date) but I got busy and never got around to coordinating it! Have you posted this on Groupthink?

I once tried to make a Chicago meetup happen forevs, but things never quite came together. I'm in — please keep me posted. Other Chicago Jezzies are: Nevergreen, Waterbaby625, RenoDakota, AllTheFunAtOnce and KABarrick. I hope they find this thread!

If it makes you feel any better, when I read such comments I think of the lack of basic geography knowledge most white/Americans have and how this must leave them with a deep inability to comprehend so much of the world's culture. It's really the only explanation for such uncritical thinking on their parts. The poor…

Perhaps you should read up about the kind of economic warfare the US engages in all over the world in the name of "development". Confessions of an Economic Hitman might be a good start. Just because a lot of the damage is done by US corporations doesn't mean you get to wash your hands of the moral weight of what is…

Sabyasachi? You have excellent taste!

Missed this article; came here from Groupthink. Your entire comment is brilliant! Especially given other conversations about how white people never have to define their culture, etc. it's ridiculous to me that double eyelids or upturned smiles or high cheek bones or any of those things would immediately be identified…

I am so impressed that in the two years you've lived in a country of literally a billion different people you've somehow managed to restrict all your interactions so that they confirm your own cultural prejudice.

I'm curious about this too, in case anyone wants to weigh in. Obviously location matters. But is there a general rule of thumb if you're a single person living with roommates/alone?

I think Kyosuke posted this on Groupthink last night with a 10x more insightful take on what was going on. For those of you struggling to interpret this, maybe take a look at that thread? http://groupthink.kinja.com/psys-new-gentl…

Not familiar with C, but I am a little familiar with Matlab. What are you trying to do for this assignment?

I started grad school a little more than a year ago and remember dealing with this exact feeling for pretty much the whole first year. It was brutal, but I survived. I just wanted to tell you that the only way to get better is to practice these problems. A lot. There is a pattern to the problems and once you've done a…