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Hello GradCafe,In this somewhat chilly afternoon, I am trying to produce some progress before I head home for thanksgiving. I haven't visited this site (and the blog) for a while, it's a good time to take a moment and write something.After my journey with numerous rotations (let's say, more than 3, to remain anonymous on the internet), I settl...
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Tall Chai Latte's blog
First year of grad school is almost over. Although I don't like the class I'm taking (ugh what a passive aggressive prof... whatev just let me pass), things are alright. Comparing to the first semester, It seems we are more on track. Rotation project accomplished, boss man has no complaints, looks like we are good for the next 3-4 years (I hope)....
So I'm writing once again to vent. One more month until the end of this semester, our program already sent out information regarding declare a thesis lab and a home department.Things did improve a lot compared to the last semester, which I'm glad. While fully engaged into science, what's lacking this time is the human interaction. A brand new...
The first semester as a grad student has come and gone. Seeing another round of application season coming upon us just made me realize how fast time flies, I was just in these applicants' shoes last year!Honestly, I didn't like my experience this semester at all. I followed the recommendation of our program director to sign up for 3 courses, w...
10/7 marks the first month of my grad school career. Over the past month, I saw a lot of things and experienced a lot of things. One of those is speed in research progress. My fellow scientists on this forum probably understand well that research is never a speedy process. Rather, it's an iterative process of observation, hypothesis, trial and error....
So school has started for two weeks. Settled into my apt, getting familiar with bus routine, talked to perspective rotation mentor... ok, sounds like we are moving along. This is my first rotation. First day in the new lab, I was asked to do a 5 minute presentation on what my project will be, given short notice. Within the following four days, I found tha...
It has nothing to do with graduate school admission, but that tension accumulates to a point that I can't hold it in anymore.The trigger of this emotional day was a scenario happened last Friday. I don't want to revisit the scene, but what happened was I took the ironic humor of my boss personal. It hurt.This is a lesson: how to take work as work...
I know people in my immediate surrounding are nice and wanting to help me with this decision of which school to attend. But it's getting too much, it really is. Can you guys just give me a break? I really haven't made up my mind yet, okay? I wish April is here.
It's been a while since I heard anything from schools. I've begun a series of emailing to different PIs, engaged in different conversations with PIs from my two admits so far. One reject but no big deal, the rest is... silence. On the result page, I did see someone posting interview notices to the places I'm still waiting to hear back. I wonde...
A little summary of events so far... and many thanks.
Posted by Tall Chai Latte,
22 January 2010
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Grad school application process has been a roller coaster ride for me. Before I began filling out the apps, I had a huge fear that I might got rejected across the board because of my close-to-minimum-requirement GPA. I was totally aiming at my safety school, nevertheless, I picked a couple ambitious choices and notified my recommenders in mid september.Th...
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