stephchristine0

better than no rejection emails and still living in obsolete reality

@Greentree interviewed mid feb

I practice every day, I speak with my family. Of course I can't help you if your family doesn't speak German. Buena suerte!

Applied: ODU, URI, UNH, UF, NJIT, MSU (UG) Admitted: NJIT Attending: will not accept a position next year until September when the positions for funding become available OR will wait until calculus 2 is finished and reapply to top 1 and 2 choice schools and try again

Not at all. I'm taking calculus 1 at the moment and my POI said sometimes they can pinch it so if that's what this is about then cool. If not, I expect a rejection by early May How about you? Did you interview?

anything is possible.

Omg I hate those. I used to get all emails from UW and Scripps Oceanography. I think I kept Scripps but UW was pissing me off big time. Just unsubscribe until you get the real email. I'm still being considered by my number 1 school. I guess we're not there yet!

I decided to do this since I got an interview and they are really really interested in me. My application is still in review and my GRE scores are less than 40%. They are also waiting for a grade in my class I'm in now.

Oh god, I was wrong. Where's the article by the way? Lol, I don't like to be caught without the source! For science!

There was 54 MILLION cut from funded research. Unless you are working for Bama's brain project, or going into an IT field, you gotta shape up a game plan.

This will be my third internship in one full academic year and summer. one fall, two summer. I've had to turn down a mote internship before. I just declined an unpaid summer one because I got mote. The unpaid one rarely interviews people. I've become a pro at sifting out fall, spring and summer internships. If you'd like to reply here or PM me your personal research strong points, I can suggest a few to you : )

I asked myself that too. Especially considering I found out someone else got in back in February. It just depends on how many spots there are and how well they think they'll mold you in graduate school.

Wooohoooo internship at Mote Marine this summer. Next summer, Scripps??!?!

lmfao

very helpful in the waiting process. Thank you for our tiny slivers of hope!

Take the position. You can always leave the job for school. You can't postpone another opportunity for a graduation position especially one that comes with a decent offer.

I feel like they need to fill up all the spots. So the deadline is somewhere around April for those accepted to accept the school's offer, ask all of their endless questions, talk to their POIs and weigh their PROs and CONs before they give the school their official decision. So we are the waiting. Not the waitlisted, not the rejected. Just a state of waiting.

I think you want my career, and I want yours. I can't answer all of your questions but I would suggest researching Oceanography, Environmental Management, Ecology, Marine Biology, Geology, any science related field. They are all mentally stimulating when it comes to research and you don't work 8-5. However, you will not as an engineer be required to use your tools you acquired in your undergraduate career. You will only be required to research, understand, and explain. I, as a recent graduate from the environmental sciences, would like to go into environmental engineering as 1) the job field for ecologists/oceanographers/marine biologists is not as placeable 2) I will only be required to "understand" and not fix. I want to fix, or use the skills I acquire in school to SOLVE PROBLEMS! This is not required in the sciences I am describing. I would like to research, link clues, gather information and use this information to come up with a solution. This is what I am best at. It is debilitating to not be able to do something when reading about an invasive species tearing up the ecosystem. As an ecologist, you're not inventing anything to prevent this invasive species. As an engineer, you can design, draft, create the ballast machinery to insert into a ship. And put your label on it! 3) Engineering an interesting field because it is applicable. You can apply your skills and do hard work. The other sciences are about knowledge, understanding, and researching a tiny small part of the puzzle. Often, thousands of other scientists have already done so and published what you wanted to publish.