Wicked_Problem

Envy. Mortal, venial or deadly?

I always appreciate New England Nat's forthrightness and insights. Very good point. When I decided early last fall my number one POI and institution, I flew out and had a sit down with him. I wasn't about to get married to someone I had only corresponded with or spoken with on the phone. Now I will be working with him in the fall and have complete confidence that we can work together well and that is based primarily on the now two meetings I have had with him in person. I know not everyone can manage to arrange this, and its not as if I only applied to that one school, but it was critical for me (and maybe for him too, as I was one of only two fully funded this year.)

She reemerges post defense! Okay, I will weigh in on this. 1. Earl Warren.......read this and you won't be surprised: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren 2. Louis I. Kahn.........my favorite architect but not my favorite person........have you seen the documentary My Architect? 3. Jimmy Carter........not high on the rankings of presidents but a man of principle and strong moral conviction 4. Richard M. Nixon........the anti-Jimmy Carter......but a true visionary domestically and internationally That list should raise some hackles...

I would suggest adding a column for Cost of Living 100% Composite Index. 100.0 is average for the U.S. This would assist in evaluating stipends vis a vis cost of living. Here is the webpage: http://www.infoplease.com/business/economy/cost-living-index-us-cities.html Maybe a small column right to the left of the funding column?

For a Ph.D. research utilizing primary sources is preferred over a policy paper.

Driving the 5 though San Diego County, Camp Pendleton, and ESPECIALLY south Orange County is a nightmare. I would suggest you buy a cheap commuter car and park it at the Santa Ana train station and take Amtrak from Santa Fe Depot to Santa Ana then drive the 22 to Long Beach. Getting to Long Beach by transit is doable from Amtrak Stations, but takes forever. 2 hours from Santa Ana via Union Station and the Red/Blue subway lines. PM me your phone number if you want to discuss it further. I have a lot of experience because my wife works in San Diego, we live in North County, and I had a major project in Long Beach.

And I'll PM you.

Nice!

I really need them because of the number of potential field sites for my research. I can't do anything about it until I have an official @ku.edu email, and I don't know when that'll happen.

QUOTE: "You shouldn't apply to a school where the person you really want to work with is an Assistant Professor. The fact is, you won't get into this situation where you're there for a few years and then your untenured advisor leaves because you are almost certainly not going to be accepted to such a program - untenured professors generally don't take on their own PhD students. They are often committee members or secondary resources for grad students, but grad schools generally don't accept students who want to work primarily with a person who is untenured and in most programs you are not even allowed to list an untenured professor as your primary advisor. When I was applying, I had been working as a research assistant for a professor at a great school whose work I really liked - I talked to her about the application process and she said outright, "You can't apply here, because I'm not tenured." At least at this school, applications to work with untenured profs are not even considered, and my understanding is that this is generally the same in most programs..." That explains UCI for me.

Too many prisons is a bad thing. For me, it is a question of as few as possible that accomplish the goals that are arrived at due to the necessity for their existence at all. Many existing facilities do a good job of warehousing (incapacitating) offenders, but that should not be enough. Many other existing facilities do a poor job of even that. What nobody needs are proposals like the one you described, which are counterproductive in almost every way. Deprivation of liberty is punishment enough. Not providing access to natural light or baseline human comfort (temperature) is simply unacceptable, even for short terms.

The answer is an odd one. First, when I was applying for the MArch, I had two things to do prior to the interview, selections off a reading list and shadowing an architect for a day. My mom knew someone from a local firm, and I ended up accompanying a PM from that firm to a project that was being punched: the local jail (a real Taj Mahal, by the way.) The four or five professors, after learning this, peppered me with questions like "What should a prison look like?" That experience definitely planted some seeds... Also, I found studio critiques highly arbitrary, so as I was winding up my program, I gravitated to the "least arbitrary" of building types. Jails/Prisons are, along with hospitals and laboratories, the most complex building types. In the other two, the users' jobs are not primarily to defeat the physical and electronic security measures incorporated into the facilities. My portfolio is primarily jails, with a few prisons, juvenile facilities and courthouses. I find them endlessly fascinating because the real challenge is to design for the staff, who are serving a "life sentence" one shift at a time, and the innocent man (because we all know that our justice system is not perfect.) As odd as it might seem, the key to excellence in detention and corrections design is empathy.

RDA ... What's your research area/interest? How did you arrive at the point of applying for PhD programs in Architecture? Good luck on your final three applications.

Milo -- the Masters or Ph.D.?

"Congratulations on your admission to Drew University's graduate program in History and Culture! Our faculty were quite impressed by your qualifications and your enthusiasm, and we very much look forward to working with you. Friday, April 19 is Admitted Students' Day, a luncheon and colloquium for everyone who has been accepted into the program. It will be an ideal opportunity to meet our faculty and current students, and we hope you can accept our invitation." ---email received today... Any lurkers out their admitted this year? Masters or Ph.D.?

KU shuts down during the summer, from what I hear. Everyone works on their research. I haven't heard anything about funding. That being said, I went to a summer "accelerated" studio prior the official start of my MArch courses, so there was (is?) at least one studio being taught...

When you are approaching comps, you will start applying for internal and external sources of funding for your first year of your dissertation research, and then you apply again for the second year. If you don't receive enough $ you may have to augment it by teaching at your university or by being an adjunct at a local college or junior college. [At least this is what I have read or heard.]

That is really interesting, and exceptionally good news in terms of funding from the department and then the university wide fellowship. How are you likely to use those summer research funds? (I only got 100% tuition remission and a modest 9 mo stipend, but it'll work.) I will have to be a "Graduate Assistant" which at KU means either RA (research assistant) or TA (teaching assistant). Don't know which yet. Do you have do anything like that as a condition of your funding?

Oops... "regarding" not "regrading" was intended...

In my case the graduate school letter was available via the website where I originally submitted. That may not apply to you, but...

It only takes one, and for you, it's the right one.

Tem-ple. Tem-ple. TEM-PLE. TEM-PLE!

I am shocked that a program would give any kind of (negative) individual feedback on any official basis, like in a letter. Generic and distant is the rule. I'm not saying that's a bad thing -- we all want the feedback -- but surprising nonetheless.

I'm a UW rejectee, but a wide-ranging GradCafe user. There is a really great thread on Seattle in the City Guide area. I would start about here: but the discussion goes back years.

I will follow you through all of these threads until I finally catch up to you. You are my James T. Kirk. Signed Kahn. ;{