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  1. I'm also working part time at my old company. Telecommuting is much more viable now. It doesn't hurt to ask...especially when compared to the $7 supplemental jobs on campus.
  2. <bump> some else probably needs this tonight.
  3. **Bump** Reviving this great thread and I'll tell you what I did. 1. Obsessed as to the meaning of being accepted into a program but not the graduate school. 2. Jumped through every administrative hoop they could find. 3. Texted the word "in" to my wife and walked back to my desk vibrating. 4. Nodded incoherently at my coworker who knew what was going on. 5. Called my big LoR writer, left message. 6. Skipped out of work at lunch. 7. The LoR writer called back. 8. Informed everyone using most methods of communication known to man, ordered from least understanding to most understanding while I propagated war crimes on a bottle of absynthe. 9. Attended (was driven to) a nice meal with my wife and kids. 10. Had a huge backyard party complete with inflatable bouncy house that weekend. 11. Phoned it in at the office for the next four months. ;-b
  4. If you are worried about the money, don't be. I commend you for being pragmatic. I've never heard of a grad student starving to death. You can survive with a change in lifestyle. It will suck financially and continue to suck for years, but you get by. From what I've heard and seen, being broke is not the hard part, heck some people wear 'being a broke grad student' like a badge of honor. Look on the bright side, if you have been debating with yourself every day and really have no clear feelings about the merit of of your pursuit of a PhD these guys will torpedo you on the interview and you will be able to keep your cool job.
  5. This is the one I just got to celebrate. (just the imagen not the text). http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Musashi_ts_pic.jpg/220px-Musashi_ts_pic.jpg
  6. I took this from another post and hopefully you can give me an estimate of what schools I should apply to. I'm in my first semester of a masters program and I changed the area I want to pursue my PhD (based on a long talk with my advisor and colleagues). I've been doing research in computer science. Since I make/evaluate educational technology and my Masters will be in education, I thought a PhD in Education, concentration on technology in the classroom would be a better fit. GRE Score: 1200 (retaking and shooting for 1300 to 1350) GPA: 3.36 undergrad 4.0 so far in Masters Work Experience: at the time of application one to two years as a parapro or as a researcher Undergrad Institution(Public, Private, Ivy, etc..): private (tiny) Research Experience: (at time of application) 3 years, multiple publications (conferences) in another field first author 3rd tier 2nd author 1st tier and potentially a first author in Education Applying for PhD or Masters: PhD Program: Educational technology What Schools Are You Applying To: Top 10? Top 25? Top 50? UTexas? Rutgers? UC Irvine? George Washington? UFlorida? Syracuse? Acceptances:
  7. Probably not to an R1, but yes. This was the test year, next year the family can move.
  8. (bump) http://www.scribd.com/doc/45763160/Worldwide-Masters-Programs-in-HCI-IxD I'm not sure how old it is.
  9. I got a no today. But it was delivered in person and then time was blocked out to work on my future plans. If you get into Georgia Tech there is one professor with a lot of class. I hope you get a chance to do some research in that lab.
  10. The truth of the matter is I attended 4 different undergraduate universities. If someone looks at every grade (and they asked for the transcripts) in 1990, I partied enough to get on academic probation. Grades from this millennia are much better, but still not straight As (I got 2 Cs but it was in religion). This year is an attempt at the big time. GT (and CMU and U-Dub) will get $50 in application fees next year, if I don't get in this time. This thread opened a great discussion with my wife (thank you ). Here is the new plan, I will spend more effort learning about and meeting folks at top 11-35 universities. I will probably end up leaning more toward Education than CS (although any bridges/cross disciplinary programs you folks are aware of, please let me know). The down side is I'll be hanging out on Gradcafe less .
  11. Just an FYI, I graduated in 2010 after 15 years off and I'm first author on my paper but I completely agree about retaking the GRE. With one valid positive response and one valid negative response, it's funny, I'm back where I was before I joined gradcafe. The original advice I received was that they seem to admit a few weird choices every year. Let's hope you are one of them.
  12. Ujjawal, I'm going to step on your post a little because I'm not brave enough to start my own "what do you think about me?" Plus if I hide this here, it is less likely someone who knows me in RL will just happen to stumble by (and I can easily be identified by the following) and mildly abuse me for worrying. Negatives... Non-CS undergrad 3.36 from a top 1200 (?) school - taking into account grades from the 80s, it drops just below 3 600 Quan 610 Verb Positives I'm published at a minor conference for the work below. Letter of recommendations from two local rock star professors (one especially shiny letter) and a rock star post-doc I've worked in a lab at this school for about a year (as a volunteer) for one of these rock star professors who knows everything that follows. I've developed a solution that is currently registering at about four times better than anything that's been published (if I tell the metric, then it will really be clear who I am). We are running experiments that are leading me to believe it is closer to ten times better. I've recently been a finalist in a contest comparing solutions from all over campus (physics, chemistry, psychology, etc) and all of the finalist (except me of course) were senior PhD students. Much of it was their thesis work. I'm in the process of having a patent awarded for this work. Whadda you think?
  13. Dang Closetgeek, you are just plain good people. thank you
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