u/someonesomwhere_

Hey everyone,

I’m a Moroccan student finishing my first year of a master’s in finance at a low-mid tier business school in France. Got grades between 14-16/20 this year and my master's thesis is planned for 2027. I want to apply for fully funded PhD programs in Finance/Financial Economics in Europe, I am open to Germany, Portugal, UK, Spain, basically anywhere with funding.

A few questions: Is my profile realistic for these kinds of programs. and how do I up my chances in the coming academic year? Also, how important is it to have a supervisor confirm before applying? Should I wait or just apply? What actually makes a research proposal stand out when you don’t have publications?
For anyone who got a fully funded PhD in Europe as a non-EU student, what made the difference?

Thanks for any advice.

Hello so I've been seeing this chill homless guy for the past week, doesnt even bother anybody, doesnt ask for money he just sleeps kind of near our house, today the police took him, and I was wondering, where to? And why? We dont have homless shelter so i am just confused, my friend from another smaller city told me that sometimes they used to take mentally ill people or homless people or generally anyone who could be considered a "annoyance" from the streets of rabat and ship them off to the smaller cities, does this claim have any merit to it and has anyone else seen it before?

(Btw for context I live in agadir)

Hii, I am a moroccan ENCG student I am in my first year and everytime I have to go through exam period the stress feels so pointless seeing as my final goal in life is to live in a mountain, have some books practice hobbies nd grow my own food, (I can be okay surviving off of beans and lentilles and veggies as I cut off meat and dairy and eggs two months ago and i feel completly fine), I have decent english skills and feel like the most fulfilled I can be is if i live somwhere with good nature and soil, I speak tachl7it (I am from the haha region, but where my parents are originally from I cant really go back seeing as its dry and hot, and not really fit for living or growing food), Id prefer a place that has cold weather, if there is a way for me to try that kind of living this summer as a english teaching volounteer I would really love to do that, nd maybe if things are like I imagine them to be i can stay there indefinetly, I also dont wanna get married btw.

Do you guys think this is unrealistic, if not what would u reccomend me to do?

I know nobody will read this again probably, I just feel like a super clingy gf to my long distance bf, i get upset over the smallest thing nd i feel like the guy i love sm will eventually get sick of it, an hour ago he wanted to go to sleep nd I told him I still wanna talk some more nd than i got upset that he wanted to go to sleep but like 5 minutes later I apologized abt that and told him ik ur busy, when he was explaining himself, he sounded so exhaused nd depressed, that I cried a lot after, I dont like having this kind of impact on the life of someone I love, but when I dont tell him this stuff and bottle it up I just feel such an urge to break up with him to stop feeling that level of anxiety and sadness, but than I remember that that will hurt him, but than again i already feel like I am causing him stress too even tho he denies it, I just dont know what to do or how to get that sick feeling out of my stomach everytime he isnt answering