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So I work for a large tech company. I really like everyone I work with and feel a little guilty for leaving because I will be leaving my small team with even more work (we already lost one member recently). They are about to start a huge new project and are determining the teams. I want to tell them that I will be going to grad school and not to plan on me being a large contributor to this new project (which is likely what they'll end up doing) and maybe they'll need to hire someone new to replace me, doing so now would give me enough time to bring them up to speed on what I've worked on. However, I don't want to risk being let go early as I do not get to keep my signing bonus / relocation if I do not work for a full year and I would sill like to be paid up through July. I'm 95% confident they would not let me go because I told them, but there is still that 5% I cannot shake. So any thoughts or opinions?

I got a Stanford rejection as well, though they were not my top choice so it was much less upsetting than Washington.

*Sigh*, a U of Washington slaughter fest today. Unfortunately, I am a casualty. My first rejection and for my top choice no less. Oh well........

Thank you for putting my life on hold for two days and counting. Sure, I COULD sleep or do my job, or I could read another five pages of Admissions Problems...

If you are talking about a Purdue POI, yes, yes it is that hard to keep the time zone correct. Up until like four years ago Indiana was EST for half the year and CST the other half, so if the POI had lived there long enough it's understandable that they may have confused it. I know I confused it once or twice while I lived there.

There have been a few people on the results search that have heard back from UWashington, they all look to be in Machine Learning. I have not heard anything back yet for Computer Architecture....

And it was a wrong number....of all the area codes that wrong number could come from. *sigh* back to staring at my email.

I do not think I can bring myself to do that, I always find it strange calling someone back if they do not leave a message. If they wanted me to I feel like they would leave a message saying "This is so and so from Princeton, I would like to talk to you about ...... please call me back at xxx-xxx-xxxx at your earliest convenience". Or something along those lines.

I just got a call from a Princeton area code, but was in the middle of a meeting so I could not answer. They did not leave a message.....WHO DOES NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE! Now for the rest of the day I'll be staring at my phone hoping it rings again...this is worse than hitting refresh on my email, I can not refresh my phone.

So I had an interview with U of Michigan Professor in my area two weeks ago. He said that they would make their decision by the end of the next week (so last Friday). Still have not heard anything from them, but another Professor in a tangentially related field wants to interview me now (Her area is focused on verifying large-scale processor designs rather than designing them in the first place, you know make sure they do what the design says they do) and I do not know how to feel about that. I guess the first guy passed on me so now the next Professor in line gets a chance? The only problem is her area of research is basically what I'm doing for a job right now...there is a reason I want to go to grad school and not stay here Oh well, I guess we'll wait and see, and in the meantime I'll sit idly by waiting for those other schools to either admit me or give me funding (I'm looking at you Purdue ).

I went to Purdue, and she is kind of like an administrator who knows nothing about ECE. She teaches seminars and stuff on networking and presentation skills and such. I would say it is a good sign, though I do not know why she would be the one to talk to you. Not to be rude but I hated this woman while I was there (but to be fair it was likely because she was often on panels grading presentations and would only ever comment on things like "well you said umm once, you need to work on that" and as a student who only cared about the subject matter, these kinds of comments always annoyed me). Anyone showing interest is a good thing, and I would not be surprised to find out that she refuses to sign off on any student she has not personally talked to.