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Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?
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My Advice: 1) Accept the person that you are, and learn to love that person. If you don't accept who you are and love yourself, others will have a hard time following suit. 2) Do the things you love. In doing so, you're likely to meet others who share the same interests. 3) Stop worrying about whether you'll ever find someone. When you do this, you project a sense of desperation, and others can pick up on this.
Great advice, and totally agree. On a more practical level, try OkCupid.com. Seriously, I've been so impressed with that site. If match.com is like myspace, okcupid.com is like facebook. High quality, smart people. The girls actually write you back. I'm averaging about 2 dates a month from OkCupid right now. Also, the site is just a well designed and fun web app, so I can appreciate it on that level.
OkCupid is great because the women are super easy.
But I'm not sure those are the ones you want to marry. However, I guess given the marriage choice between frigid and easy I would pick easy. Just be sure to get tested, and maybe don't ask about things you don't really want to know.
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank You. All help/advice appreciated. It is the middle of the night here (India). So I'll probably reply when I wake up.
I am Indian (student) as well! I did my undergrad in chemical engineering and had 8 K.T.s yet I could mange to get wait listed at MIT Media Lab (my group didn't take anyone that year due to lack of funds). Currently I am at Cornell.
Dude, Are you doing a Ph.D or MS ?
I am looking to apply to a PhD for coming Fall. Can't afford a unfunded MS.
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#294I'm preparing to start the application process to the United States Air Force Officer Training School to be commissioned as a 17D - Cyber Operations officer.
Roadblocks are the back log to even talk to a recruiter, and the extremely long and thorough application process. Someone help!
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#295I want to start my own private equity firm, and then my own Fortune 500 company.
Sky's the limit, right?
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#296I'm trying to figure out: (1) how much time a newborn will actually demand from me and my wife, and (2) how we will fit in all the things we have decided must continue to happen (e.g. me still having a fulltime job, both of us getting regular exercise and a bit of downtime, etc).
Wait, if you're abstractbill, does that make the kid AbstractBillImpl?
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#297Get admitted to a PhD in CS at Stanford next cycle. Bottleneck: At my age and with no formal education in CS and poor academic records, getting an admission is next to impossible by conventional wisdom. But the challenge is what makes it interesting :-). PS: If anyone has any data/anecdotes/advice on "impossible" PhD admissions, I'd be glad to hear it (either here or my email is in the profile).
You might find the blog post linked below encouraging. It was written by a professor at UIUC.
http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2005/03/re_phd_with_low....
My advice is think about what you really want to do, and why you want to do it. If you want to do good research then it makes sense to apply to highly ranked PhD programs because they will give you a support system to help you learn. If you just want to own a PhD from a specific school, then it will be harder to get in, harder to finish, and less meaningful when you're done.
My advice for your specific goal is to somehow get involved with a professor's research. Preferably someone who will be recognized by admission committees. Their letter will help a lot. This might involve getting an MS at the highest-ranked school you can get admitted to. Sadly, those programs are not usually funded (as opposed to American PhD programs).
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#298To be a racecar driver--professionally or not. Sounds crazy, but something about watching Formula 1 for the last few years has driven (haha) me to really want to get involved some kind of way. Saving up for lessons at the Skip Barber Racing School for next summer. Current bottleneck: no time right now to dedicate to it. I just satisfy race longings now thru occasionally karting and flying around the backroads here in…
There is nothing like professional instruction. On my first run I overheated my breaks and flew across the chicane. Second run, with professional instructor, was chasing down cars with +150 hp. This was at the annual Shelby bash in Vegas - cost of entry is a Shelby, so pretty high. A few weeks ago I spent a Saturday with a Porsche-owning friend at a PCA autocross day. So much fun. These are people who own Porsches because they are genuinely great race cars. The fastest car was a beat-up-but-loved 914. Plenty of people had 924's and 944's. As has been said here, $1500 will get you a fun track car, and if its a Porsche you have access to a solid community of racers who are more than happy to instruct: in fact newbies have to have instructors.
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#299I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.
choose as much exotic race as possible with highest possible iq + looks Such as if you are White I suggest a good looking Indian girl who is pursuing PhD in CS or some such
From personal experience, let's just say dating an Indian girl as a white man is non-trivial. (Assuming Indian means from-India, not just Indian descent.)