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  1. This was my reason, too (so if you're a snob I must be one also ). It's important, someone has to do it, you honestly probably get more recognition for doing it, but the regular engineering career path isn't that interesting to me either.
  2. Background- I'll be starting a combined masters/Ph.D. program this August, in electrical engineering (solid state electronics). I'm finishing up a summer internship at Well-Known Engineering Company. The senior fellow in charge of my team has been hinting that he'd like me to stay on with the company and complete a masters degree part-time (and ditch my current full time Ph.D. plans). This morning, he sat me down and very seriously asked me why I want the Ph.D. so much. Now honestly, I don't have a good answer to that question. I struggled with that in my personal statement too. I know that I want to work on something that will be significant to lots of people, that will be a "game changer" or whatever the super-cliche word in the semiconductor industry is right now. But I know that for people to actually use my research results, they'll have to be picked up by a company, and pushed forward by them. And my supervisor's argument is that you don't need a Ph.D. to do that. A masters degree + the 4 years of work experience that you gain by not doing the Ph.D. is more useful for that purpose than the actual Ph.D. would be. Do you guys agree? How did you decide between Ph.D. and masters? Does my lack of a good answer to this question mean I'm screwed? Note- I'm still going for the Ph.D.... just curious about what other people think
  3. My move in date is August 18, and the orientation for my department is August 20 Luckily I'm already in Texas for an internship...
  4. Does anyone have advice about how to find a roommate? I don't know anyone from my undergrad school who's going to my graduate school, and I feel uncomfortable using craigslist or something else similarly random. I would also like a more social roommate experience, but I'm not sure how to start looking for it.
  5. Does anyone have suggestions about how to find a roommate? I'm having trouble finding other female grad students in my program (I was the only girl on my tour for visiting day...), but I feel weird about looking on craigslist or something similar.
  6. Cool, I let my POI know. And someone from the admissions office just to be safe. I sent my official transcripts in a while ago too, although I'm not sure if they received them, since no one ever mentioned them again. Just curious, which program are you in? I'm in electrical.
  7. I can't find the accept/deny button on the website All the other schools had one. Am I missing something here? Thank you!
  8. I think that the areas a little farther from campus probably have less expensive housing than the places near Guadalupe street / downtown. But then you'd probably need a car, since the public transportation doesn't seem to be excellent.
  9. My b turned into a smiley face with sunglasses. Interesting.
  10. I started having this feeling when visiting graduate schools too! I think for me it's a combination of unsure research interests (like you said), and suddenly being surrounded by other future graduate students who seem to know exactly what their plan is. I talked to one of the graduate students at my university about how everyone else seems sure of their research interests already, and his response was, "Yeah, but 90% of them are wrong." Making a 5-year commitment to a certain project is a big deal, and it's ok to take some time with that. Especially if their undergrad research is not in the same area as their grad research. That's my plan, anyway Also, there's a guy in electrical engineering at my university who's one of the smartest people that I know. I figured out how he learns so quickly when he asked me to teach him some materials science concepts for one of his projects. He asked lots of really simple questions. I didn't know the answer to some of them, because they were "easy" questions that I would have been embarrassed to ask in class... which is actually why I didn't know the answer. So I also feel that being afraid to ask an "easy" question is a) very common, even among people who people think, "well I wouldn't be afraid to ask questions," and one of the biggest obstacles to actually learning things.
  11. I'm trying to figure this out too... I was thinking about possibly living alone for my first year, and then looking for a roommate the second year, when I will actually know people at the university. I do prefer to have a roommate, but I'd also like to have some idea of their personality first.
  12. Hi everyone, I'm definitely going! I'm in solid state electrical engineering. Saviya, I lived in Austin last summer, and although I don't think the public transportation is as nice as it is in Europe generally, they do have some buses and stuff. I've heard that the apartments very close to the university are more expensive and full of loud undergrads, but if you live a few blocks farther out than that, there should still be transportation things. Their funding system is weird. They didn't tell us any details until we went to the visiting weekend and all the prospective students kept bugging them about it. I was given funding for my first year (until I find a research advisor), but I'm not sure what the deal is for other departments.
  13. I was admitted to UCSB, University of Florida, CMU, and UCSD. I haven't heard from Berkeley or Northwestern yet. I was also admitted to UT Austin for electrical engineering, but they haven't told me anything about financial aid / funding yet. Best of luck to everyone
  14. I haven't heard yet either, and I'm in electrical engineering.... I don't know what's going on. I've heard from all my other schools already.
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