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hungryhungryhipster

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  1. Whatever. I ask a question, even if it was a bit tactless, and people jump down my throat. And no, I was initially quite excited about going to the UofA, then I got that magical letter from my dream school and with my dream professor, so I no longer had any reason to consider UofA. Meanwhile, they already had booked my flight, so it would have looked bad to turn them down and make them eat a non-refundable plane ticket. Do you think I enjoy missing a full week of school and then having to pretend for the whole time that I'm interested in them? It hardly matters, though, as I can see I'm not welcome on this forum, so adios.
  2. WTF do my dietary preferences have to do with you? I simply don't like them, and I get by just fine without. Would you call out a vegetarian like that? I hope not.
  3. It's the government after all. Is anyone really surprised? Just out of curiosity, since I'm already going to get a stipend from UofT for $25k per year, would this be on top of that?
  4. Honestly, I wouldn't feel too bad about backing out later even if you accepted before their arbitrary deadline. This is a very common tactic among lower-ranked schools to try and trap students they wouldn't otherwise have much of a shot at getting. When they see people like you, who are probably overqualified to some degree for their school, they figure they'll give you a really tight deadline, knowing that there's no way you'll hear from the bigger schools by then, and try to get you to hurry up and sign on the dotted line before the big boys come and scoop you up. Personally, if I got even one other acceptance, that would be one of the deciding factors in favour of the other school.
  5. I don't see why it matters if you've already been admitted. Of course, don't look like a slob, but I can't see them revoking an already-offered admission for anything short of blatantly lying about your qualifications. Luckily enough, my first visit is in Edmonton, so my coat and several layers of sweaters will conceal anything nice I wear anyway.
  6. Just saw an admit for my program (computer science), but not sure if troll. These troll posts tend to pop up shortly after someone posts a thread about X school. Of course, most of the results survey is about Ph.D. applicants. There's hardly anything on MSc.
  7. Nope, but I had an interview on 01/27. Didn't go very well though.
  8. And I sure hope you brush up on your english skills if you want to get into just about any university here.
  9. I just wore my black Reeboks, especially since it was snowing. If they're gonna reject you because of your choice of shoes, why did they even waste their time inviting you for an interview in the first place?
  10. No problem! I know I can be a little... harsh with my opinions, but sometimes that's what's needed. Trust me when I say that there will be plenty more startups to jump into later on. They're like locusts in the CS world lol. If you like, I'd recommend this paper I just finished reading (written by my current advisor) on linear dimensionality reduction. Between LDR and SVM methods, you should have most of the machine learning covered, as well as HMMs. Neural networks are also very interesting, but have fallen out of favor lately, as most people use HMMs instead. There's also a book called Pattern Classification by Peter Duda (sp?) that gives a good overview. http://janus.newcs.uwindsor.ca/~lrueda/papers/ChernoffLDATwoJnl.pdf
  11. Well, you did have a choice in the matter at some point along the line. You can't really expect a history degree to leave you swimming in cash. No offense, of course.
  12. I've gotten that before. Then I happily remind them that I'll make more than they do while I'm in school.
  13. But the thing is I can't stand Windsor, lol. I long for the hustle and bustle of downtown TO. Alas, time will tell.
  14. You may be better off just getting a head start on your masters research. That way, you can graduate in less time.
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