It's great for the first few weeks , maybe a month or two.
I graduated in September, job searched through December, finally signed a contract, but I don't start until April. I am counting down the fucking days, my dude.
Having finished graduate school in September, I will be starting my new job soon, and pitching in (voluntarily) at the workplace until then is a refreshing change. It's nice having something to do.
That is true and I had not fully taken the perspective of enlistment as the sole way out into account. Which was rather shortsighted of me since it was the only way out for 3 of my siblings and, were I not hearing-impaired, would have been the only avenue for myself as well.
I confess I posted this without really thinking it through, but I'm not gonna dirty-delete.
Eh, I have a pixel 7 that I upgraded to from a Galaxy S10 in early 2024 and I dunno, it doesn't feel that great.
Hard to get hype for yet another phone model.
Supposing an invasion does happen, to address the question of what you can do, just look at America's losing streak of wars that has been ongoing for 50+ years.
If you take a view of America as it truly is and truly has been, rather than an idealized view of what it could be or says it is, it's hard to say that America is the superior option, especially considering the direction that America has been going over the last 30-50 years.
At least Chinese investments in renewable energy and sciences and general human development are actually underway, unlike the United States, which seems hell bent on halting or reversing all of the above.
And this is not even a trump thing, that has been the trend for most of my adult life, at least as far as I can tell: Rising anti-intellectualism, gutting the arts, science denial, and doubling or tripling down on non-renewable energy sources have been the milieu in the USA as long as I can remember, having been born there in 1990.
Jesus, man. I don't know what it's worth to you but I at least read the whole thing.
You seem like an alright person who's just been punted around by the failures of the US to care for its own: hiding carcinogen information, making unhealthy food the economical/convenient choice, not to mention I'm sure that navigating the health care system was a nightmare.
During the course of my first graduate degree, I was surrounded by support, great professors, a cohort of other students who were driven, passionate, and colorful, even though we disagreed on several things (and one of them was an actual shitheel), and most importantly of all, a sense that I was learning, growing, and progressing along some kind of meaningful continuum of personal development... As well as being equipped to make some kind of difference in the world, as much of one as I made for myself (went from an uneducated, bigoted farm kid, someone who was already neck deep in neo Nazi stuff and bought into it into, well, pretty much the opposite).
I took that master's degree and went professional for a few years, but found myself missing graduate school and so I went back for a second Masters. That just wrapped up last September, but the experience wasn't the same at all.
I felt like I was just being pushed through machinery, going down a checklist, ticking boxes and moving on to the next. I kept thinking that eventually as I went through the motions I would find that an experience similar to the first round of graduate school would develop organically, but it never did. Once I finished the degree, that was kind of it.
Have to put up my hands and say that this could well be just because I was really going through a hard time in my life concurrent to that second master's degree, and that very likely colored my experience quite a bit, but it did just wrap up last year, so I will need some time and distance to be able to reflect on it more objectively and untangle the raw emotional impression from the objective fact.
I'm still wanting to go and get a PhD as an ultimate feather in my cap, but that will not be for a few years. For now, I need some time to work professionally to both save up money and meet some other personal life goals of mine, which I won't get into too much detail about here.
Remember that mobile game that was popular a while ago, Neko Atsume? It's that, but with Etna from Disgaea, because at the time I first made this username (years ago) Neko Atsume was taken and I was playing through Disgaea D2.
It's great for the first few weeks , maybe a month or two.
I graduated in September, job searched through December, finally signed a contract, but I don't start until April. I am counting down the fucking days, my dude.