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/jp/, the past year or so I have been pushing myself very hard to do well in school and do my phd applications so that I wouldn't be a NEET forever.

I kept telling myself, that once they are over, I will kick back, relax and find time to myself. But now that they have ended, I just can't do it. I feel trapped. There's this expression where I live, "like a squirrel in a wheel". That's still how I feel.

I just can't take it easy anymore /jp/. What do I do?

>> No.10226687

an hero

>> No.10226686

>>10226668
>I have been pushing myself very hard to do well in school and do my phd applications
>once they are over, I will kick back, relax and find time to myself.
*farts*

>> No.10226699

>There's this expression where I live, "like a squirrel in a wheel"

What the fuck?

>> No.10226704

>>10226699

I think OP means "hamster".

>> No.10226709

>>10226699
>>10226704
Well, it's supposed to be a squirrel. I guess those have a more restless appearance. I guess I should've just said "restless".

>> No.10226711
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10226711

will neomeido delete this thread? take your bets

>> No.10226712

>>10226699
The Finnish version has a squirrel.

>> No.10226713

>>10226709

well anyway either kill yourself or be a NEET again.

>>10226711

it's ok, since i've posted ITT he will leave it a while longer as we're bros.

>> No.10226722

W-what's the phd in?

>> No.10226766
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10226766

Enjoy your current life.
It only gets worse from here on.

>> No.10226773

>>10226668
Don't say these things! I'm on the same boat and hearing all these stories on /jp/ is so demoralizing!

>> No.10226784

>>10226722
Probably bio-something. Honestly I just want to leave everything and run away to Japan and become a JET teacher.

>> No.10226788

>>10226784
Also I apologize for forgetting my sage.

>> No.10226793

>>10226784
"Probably"? Weren't you supposed to be doing well in college? How can you not even know the course name?

>>10226788
Oh. I got it. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

>> No.10226794

>>10226711
I hope not. /jp/ is the only place that makes me forget my troubles, and if I get a week-long ban or something like that, I shall be very saddened and upset.

>> No.10226804

Why would a squirrel ever be in a wheel? If the expression is supposed to say you've taken something and trapped it somewhere, why not something that actually belongs there? A hamster is just as trapped as a squirrel, and it belongs in a wheel. Alternatively, why not "like a bear in a cage"? Bears live in cages. Squirrels do not live in wheels.

>> No.10226810

>>10226793
I applied to several different programs, they're all flavors of biology. I don't know which one I'll be accepted to.

You're supposed to know in advance what you will study and research and so on, but I don't know shit. I don't care. I don't want to do more of what I have done up to now, it's boring. I want to dive in to something completely new, make my own contribution or two over a few years, then move on since I'll probably get bored of that, too.

And in any case I'd prefer to just take it easy anyway.

>> No.10226819

>>10226712
The Hungarian version also has a squirrel.
>That non-Indoeuropean feel

>> No.10226828

>>10226804
Well because hamsters and squirrels and other rodents, are often put in a cage with a wheel and they will run in it like crazy. So it has to be a rodent.

I guess hamsters are puffy, lazy animals, so people think squirrels are a better image of hectic restlessness. Westerners say "rat"-race: I guess to rural Russians caged squirrels were a more familiar thing (since many caught and kept them as pets) than rats forced to race for people to gamble on.

Besides, squirrels are just so... Squirrelly.

>> No.10226865

How To Spot A Finn
• "I live in a..."
• "...where I live..."
• "...in a Nordic country..."
• writes Jap-like, oddly rigid sentences
• doesn't understand Anglo-Saxon pleasantries
• believes that all social conflicts can be solved through mockery or mutism

>> No.10226917

>>10226865
Thank you for the list, anon. I'll be saving it for future reference.

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10226921

>>10226865
>Finn

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