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Hey all, has anybody been around town today and noticed that it smells like manure/a stable almost everywhere? I'm sort of new to the area, is this just a thing that happens?

Hey r/GradSchool! I have just recently enrolled in a PhD program and this is my first post here. I'm currently in a pretty serious relationship, and we are planning on moving out together (my program is halfway across the country from where we currently live and have grown up). Would anybody care to share if they've had a similar experience and how it went? I'm not so much looking for direct advice, but more just what you guys did that worked or didn't work, how it effected your career, etc. Thanks all!

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When I started using a French press, I found that I was getting some really weak coffee. I tried everything from adjusting the grind size to the amount of coffee, until finally I decided to go from a 4-5 minute steep time, to a full 9 minutes. Currently I add my water to my grinds, stir things up for a first bloom, wait 4 minutes, re-submerge the crust and then scrape off the second bloom/some of the crust grinds (I've found this cuts down on bitterness), and then do another 5 minutes of steeping. This has been giving me really flavorful coffee, that I enjoy quite a lot. Has anybody else had success with this brewing scheme? Everybody else seems to swear by a <5 minute brew time. Is

Hey r/feminisms! I'm an RA at a university trying to do a program for students on women's issues. I wanted to show some kind of documentary about modern women's issues and break at key points for discussion, but unfortunately because of licensing problems we can't show anything off of Netflix or that we might right from a video store or buy online. Does anybody here have/know of any good, medium-length (on the order of a 30-60 minutes) documentaries or videos that I could find published on a website like Vimeo or download directly from the creator's website that are explicitly listed as open to public use?

I was thinking about getting some dinner and then hitting some bars/clubs tonight, but am alas only a party of one (with one friend possibly interested). Is anybody around and down to join?

So apparently the subways here shut down at midnight. How do you all get around after hours?

Back when I was a kid my friends and I would play it in groups of about 10. You need at least one person who knows the rule. Everyone sits in a circle and one person starts with two pens or sticks or whatever. They can do whatever they want with them and then they have to pass it to their left in any configuration and proclaim "crossed" or "uncrossed". The receiver can either agree or disagree, then those who know the rule proclaim which, if either of the pair, is correct. The trick is that the "crossed" and "uncrossed" refers to the passers legs, not the pens. It was one of the most amusing and frustrating games to play with the uninitiated.

I'm trying to make the jump into boxing from some other martial arts, but the training schedule/style seems really different than what I'm used to. I found a gym (Ramalho's West End in Lowell, MA, if anybody's been there/goes there) and want to poke my head in, but I'd like to know what to expect. Does one usually pay a monthly fee and then just goes there like any other gym and hope to pick up the basics by watching? Should I expect classes or 1 on 1 training time or nothing?

I'm a student in the US, and for Christmas my parents are going to give me around $300 to buy myself some travel somewhere for spring break. For whatever reason my school has their break in March. I don't travel a lot because I typically can't afford it, but I've heard great things about Reykjavik. Does anybody have any experience there? I'm not really sure if March is a good time to go there, does it have an 'off/on' season or a best time to be there?

And I'm not sure, but I suspect that I had Tourettes when I was younger, still have some vestiges. Up until I was about 18 I would occasionally become overpowered by this incredible 'pressure' building up inside of me that I would have to release by tightening every muscle in my body or by thrashing around or doing some such bizarre thing. Beyond that I would occasionally feel a tickling pressure in my throat that I could only deal with by saying words or phrases with a hard 'k' sound, or make rasping throat noises. There were a few others, but those are the ones that stick with me.

Most of these (for lack of a better word) compulsions have faded away with time, but I still have some biz