Catria
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Sometimes I wish I could just trade in my ability to do research for perfect grades in any course for the rest of my life...
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The pains of my grad school experience are just too much for me to bear anymore... I'm leaving at semester's end
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Although US News is amusing at best, at what frequency are US News rankings updated for PhD programs? (If the answer is field-dependent, physics)
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Usually November I believe, but it doesn't matter as the rankings don't change drastically throughout each year (a professor at CMU wrote about getting into PhD CS, he said when speaking about USNews ranks... "Note that the top 4 schools in this list have been fixed since the time I applied for graduate school, over 20 years ago.") .
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Now submitted my thesis!
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Who is better placed to advertise a PhD program, a current student or a professor?
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The primary question is: what would cuts to science funding push students to do: undertake graduate studies abroad or leave science altogether?
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Rejected by WUSTL off the waitlist on the deadline day...
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I am worried that my choice of a destination may prove questionable to the people I leave behind at home, even though the program I will attend is still a respectable one for my field
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Anyone who doesn't understand that anyone with the ability to attend a top 20 university in the US for their Ph.D. is better off doing that than studying at a Canadian university isn't worth your time. U of Minnesota isn't Princeton or Stanford but you will undeniably get better training there, and have a better shot at the academic market, than if you attend any Canadian university.
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The impression I have: go to any of the following for physics and you may pass it off as normal: Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, UChicago, Princeton, Berkeley, UCSB, UIUC (for CM), Yale (for HEP-EX), UCLA, Columbia, Michigan, UPenn - other schools have regional reputations (Minnesota, NWU are best known in the Prairies, Washington in AB and BC)
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Just committed to Minnesota!
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On my last visit, some quantum computing guy asked why there never were any applications to that school from my undergrad prior to this cycle...
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Looks like I'm going to attend Minnesota...
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Looks like my safeties all rejected me...
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Now co-advising an undergraduate capstone thesis...
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Rejected from the school closest to home on my list...
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2 waitlists in 2 days... I have explanations for both of them though
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Here's a second offer!
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Even though one school with clear, cheap real estate opportunities rejected me, I still have 3 such schools left to hear from!
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I won't be able to carry out this cheap real estate plan personally
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Bye-bye top-10 schools, now that Princeton and UChicago rejected me...