aparente001

United States

Bachelor of Music (Performance), Indiana University

Master of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison

ABD in Applied Math

I enjoy helping people and giving back what I can on the internet, having been helped many times by kind strangers.

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Is Stack Exchange in violation of New York labor law, in using volunteer moderators?

discussion moderators legal asked Oct 30, 2019 at 4:45

meta.stackexchange.com

259 votes

Summing up the main issues (The Story So Far)

discussion stack-exchange moderators code-of-conduct asked Oct 4, 2019 at 17:05

meta.stackexchange.com

158 votes

Allow Monica to have a structured conversation (à la mediation) with SE leadership

discussion moderators code-of-conduct asked Oct 4, 2019 at 3:56

meta.stackexchange.com

80 votes

How to degender "separate the men from the boys"?

phrase-requests idiom-requests gender-neutral asked Mar 8, 2017 at 18:47

english.stackexchange.com

63 votes

Has anyone tried approaching any of the investors to improve community-company communication?

support company board-of-directors asked Dec 19, 2019 at 15:30

meta.stackexchange.com

58 votes

What can professors do to encourage properly written email messages from students?

teaching etiquette email writing-style communication asked Sep 27, 2015 at 17:35

academia.stackexchange.com

58 votes

If you're black, how do you answer "Oh you're a professor? So you teach African Studies?"

ethics gender social-skills diversity ethnicity asked Sep 17, 2016 at 21:05

academia.stackexchange.com

52 votes

Is "act like a mensch" too localized for ELU readers (U.S. and/or British English)?

american-english british-english dialects loan-words yiddish asked Sep 6, 2015 at 12:19

english.stackexchange.com

34 votes

My credit card was unexpectedly charged 1$, the merchant wants my SSN and personal data to tell me why, do I risk identity theft?

credit-card fraud identity-theft asked Aug 7, 2019 at 4:57

money.stackexchange.com

29 votes

Does the fruit label get put on a bad spot, or does the bad spot develop as a result of the label?

fruit asked Jul 10, 2018 at 17:39

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How do you answer "Oh, you're a professor? What do you teach?"

academia.stackexchange.com

182

Change in roles for Jon Ericson (leaving SE)

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145

Is Stack Exchange in violation of New York labor law, in using volunteer moderators?

meta.stackexchange.com

108

Is it an insult to my university to not walk in graduation?

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103

What should I do after advisor got upset when I expressed "belief in evolution" and then said he couldn't add me to his research team?

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Is there a place in academia for someone who compulsively solves every problem on their own?

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My advisor said that I should be more modest, and we should meet more often. Should I tell him about my impostor syndrome? If yes, mail or personal?

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My professor is not teaching his online course himself, but uses publicly available videos instead. Is this appropriate?

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How to react when a team of colleagues obviously made up some results?

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Summing up the main issues (The Story So Far)

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Monica's situation continues unresolved. Is SE hoping the problem just goes away?

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Am I being a "mean" instructor, denying an extension on a take home exam?

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How can a TA help a student who is certain she sucks at programming?

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How to tell speakers that their English is terrible?

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How can I try to have my mom help me understand why she won't accept a sincere apology?

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How is extra exam time for disability accommodation perceived by professors, especially potential reference letter writers?

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Should I explain that I cannot finish my current master due to religious discrimination when applying for another graduate program?

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Should I report a PhD student’s incompetence to their supervisor?

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4 Years in PhD. No publications and adviser keep changing my research

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My 21-year-old adult son hates me

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I don't understand how the notes in this picture are to be played

music.stackexchange.com

How to answer questions *honestly* about some professors from Visit Days students?

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Why is SE gutting the CM team?

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What can I do when a TA asks me to marry her so that she can obtain a green card?

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Can't prepare lesson material. Should I cancel class?

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Reasons for an academic to need administrator rights on work computer

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How to write side-note reviews on assignments without sounding testy?

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How to deal with arrogant e-mail of a student

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How can our department solicit more (good) PhD applications?

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May a man attend a workshop entitled “Young women in [domain]”?

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