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Never heard of it. I'll give it a try. I like archestudent's description of postrock as it is close to mine. I usually describe post-rock as some sort of fusion between minimalist/modern classic (Glass, Cage, Riley), ambient (reminiscent of Helios and the such) and progressive rock. Helios:

That style is generally referred to as post-rock. It's quite amazing. Here's a short list of bands to get you started: God Speed You! Black Emperor Caspian Cloudkicker Do Make Say Think The Evpatoria Report Explosions in the Sky From Monument to Masses Grails Hammock Joy Wants Eternity Maserati Mono Red Sparowes Sigur Ros Them the Sky This Will Destroy you Tortoise Yndi Halda

Folk Death 95 - Mogwai:

My goal in life is to become pinkster. In about 36 hours she managed to get more down-votes than Loric. That is quite an accomplishment, albeit a negative one.

I vote we ban Pinkster12. Or, since this is not a democracy, just throw some games where she gets eaten by lions to appease the plebs. Back on topic, Congrats Mr. Pootawn. My parents had me when they were both graduate students. To this day, despite the lack of sleep and being tight on money, they still refer to that time as the best time of their life. ps. I'll chip in for the lions.

Loric and Pinkster are totally racing for the most down-votes. The bets are open.

I checked with my previous roommie and he only got his forward email late in January last year. What a bummer.

RA 35 hours a week for 12 weeks, iirc the salary is around 20$ and hour. Other than that, I'll be spending 4 weeks at the ICPSR.

Somebody please throw a bowling ball at that pinkster troll.

I have a very hard time sleeping.

Still no official email or winds from the grad studies. Only good words regarding my dep. ranking. /stressed.

That's a very bad poll. Especially coming from a guy majoring in political science.

My previous roommate had no problem.

My bad.

Every Canadian university with a quota as to proceed to departmental evaluations (A: recommended or B:not recommended). They also need to communicate the results of those evaluations as per the SSHRC's rules. The applications which are A-listed by the department are entered in the national competition and then evaluated by one of the five committees.

Submitted mine two weeks ago. I was A-listed by the dep. I currently hold a M.A. SSHRC and I'm fast-tracking to a Ph.D. program. It's a long wait indeed.

The deadline here was the 15th. I unofficially heard back from the dep. they met and I was A-listed. We'll see how it goes.

Find your to-be advisor and have him critisize your "Program of Study".