roguesenna
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You also have to remember the PhD movie was made by graduate student volunteers over a few weekends in their spare time! I agree that it is nowhere near the quality of e.g. a made for profit movie, I think it captured the true spirit of PhD Comics by having graduate students make the movie about graduate student life! But perhaps I am biased since many of my friends were involved in it
I wanted to say The Pelican Brief to this question but I guess med/law students are not exactly the same as grad students. It's funny--I did a Google search for "movies about grad students", found a "top 7 list" and all of them are actually about law/med students!
haven't seen it, but I'm curious, did they have any theatre/film studies/performing arts PhD students involved? I kind of stopped reading PhD comics because they rarely ever talked about anything related to my major and it was so science focused.
and as far as the topic goes, only thing I can think of is Grey's Anatomy's first few seasons, but that's all med students.
hmmmm.... maybe I should write something.
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Ah I was lucky to have an undergrad advisor like that too. She believes in me so much I just couldn't believe it. She told me to apply since my senior year, and it took me almost a year to make up my mind about it. She absolutely believed that I will get in and I will finish my Ph.D and I will get a job upon graduation, and she already started giving me career advice! When I came and told her all the good news, all super excited and bewildered, she said plainly: "I'm not surprised." That was really one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me.
I had two professors that were basically the opposite sides of the coin on this. It was so weird. When I was applying to MFAs, one talked me out of applying to some of the harder schools basically suggesting that I wouldn't get in and should aim more middle of the road. Another asked me why wasn't I applying to Yale and NYU, etc? Unfortunately, I listened to the first one. Now that I'm applying to PhDs though, both are much more supportive and second prof is now on sabbatical in the city where I live and she's like "just wait until you get to do sabbatical! You will love it!" I love that she's taken for granted that I will get in and get my PhD and become a prof like her and be enjoying my sabbatical just like she is.
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Anyone have plans for what they'll do if they get shut out this year?
I am actually going out of my mind.
Yes, but I am so hoping that I don't have to use them.
but basically in a nutshell it's 1.) do more theatre 2.) try to get published 3.) retake the GREs. 4.) help my SO figure out if he's going to change careers.
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NYU was supposed to inform me by yesterday. No email. >:[
how long do I wait before emailing them?
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I have no clue, but you might try cross-posting to your specific department thread. They might be more familiar with the schools and be able to give you better answers.
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Thoughts on living in the Bronx? I've been accepted to Fordham and I'm seriously considering it, and I see a lot of discussion of Manhattan and Brooklyn, but not much for the Bronx. There's no way I could afford to live in Manhattan, but how do Brooklyn and the Bronx compare as to cost of living, safety, etc. As a twenty-two year old woman who isn't really "tough" looking or anything like that, is the Bronx less safe of a place for me? Most of my experience is living in relatively small towns with not much NYC experience, although I'm used to living alone/walking alone/traveling alone.
Have you considered Northern Manhattan? i.e. Inwood, Washington Heights, etc.? It's pretty cheap compared to the rest of Manhattan and is closer to the center of the city than the Bronx if you ever want to socialize and stuff. I'm not sure where Fordham is in the Bronx, but it might be slightly safer. A lot of the nicer places in the Bronx can be much like expensive suburbs (i.e. Riverdale, etc.)
Would it be ridiculous to commute to NYU from New Jersey? Would the rent savings be cancelled out by the cost of commuting? Any recommendations for areas worth considering commuting from in order to save on rent?
Kind of, yeah. I am looking at commuting from Wash. Heights to NYU and am already considering moving closer. From Wash Heights, it takes me 40m to get to midtown. About an hour to NYU. If you're coming from Jersey, add at least 30m. It's not that it's impossible, but it will make you much more reluctant to socialize and participate in anything more than the bare minimum requirements. I have considered moving to Jersey but my SO and I decided the savings weren't worth the commute.
The MacCracken housing in Stuyvesant Town costs ~$13,000 for 11.5 months
I have not researched on the tax rate in NYC yet, but if I set 10% as the deducted amount of the total income,
then I have (31*0.9-13)/12~$1250 to spend per month, not including the expenses for moving in summer as you mentioned.
I agree with the earlier poster, the tax rate for this income bracket is about 20%. This year I declared myself exempt from federal taxes (this can be risky, so you have to make absolutely sure you're eligible) and my tax rate was 12.75% (state taxes, NYC taxes, plus a few things you can't exempt from, like social security). So your 10% is way too low.
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University of Toronto (Political Science Phd (F14) Comparative)
Rejected March 14
Note: "Emailed the department after seeing the posts here. Got a fully funded offer at Michigan, so I'll still be in the north! WINTER IS COMING. YOUR LOSS CANADA."
As a Canadian, this made me laugh out loud. But seriously, the north IS Canada. We ARE winter
I'm from Michigan and we are pretty much Canada Light. We even have Tim Hortons.
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TEEN GIRL SQUAD (cheerleader! so-and-so! what's-her-face! the ugly one!)
no seriously though.
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Getting into an argument with your daughter outside a movie theater and then the police come and murder your husband
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/justice/oklahoma-arrest-death-video/
(this story makes me really sad and pissed)
this makes me want to become a vigilante.
Hell nah, being stuck in the room with Joffrey and / or Ramsay Bolton for 2 weeks would hurt infinitely more.
Ramsay would be worse. It wouldn't be that hard to shut Joffrey up if it was just you and him in the room.
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Being on the missing Malaysian plane :|
Being in one of the two buildings in Harlem yesterday... (for those who have no idea what I'm talking about http://time.com/#21360/building-collapse-east-harlem/)
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I was sort of facing a similar decision -- not exactly the same, but close -- and I eventually settled on option 2 because:
a.) option 1 is really difficult. What are you going to do to improve your application besides the GREs? GREs are a realtively small piece of the application. You can try to make your SOP and letters better, but they are ultimately pretty subjective and you won't be able to quantitatively measure whether that has made your application any better. Your GPA isn't going to change between now and then so the only concretely measurable difference will be your GRE scores which, alone, probably won't be enough to swing you from second tier applicant to first tier applicant. IMHO, the best way to improve an application is to add more experience.
b.) option 3 is tempting. You get to start your PhD now and you get to be comfortable for a while without worrying that you're going to have to pay all this back later. But you can't take option 3 as an isolated situation. You have to compare it to the alternative which is option 2.
c.) comparison. what matters most here is how strong of a resume you will need when you come out. Obviously, the stronger the better, so the "safe" option is option 2 (go to prestigious MA with the understanding that it will significantly improve your chances of prestigious PhD). If your field is small and oversaturated (like mine), you put a lot at risk by going to an average or mediocre program. On the plus side, minimal loans to pay back, on the other hand, your job prospects will be limited. You also have to investigate what your expected salary would be once you graduated. In my field I can expect between 70K and 115K as a tenured professor. For me, that is worth the exhorbitant cost of an NYU MA, especially if it gets me into the NYU, Columbia, Northwestern or UCSD PhD, since those schools will undoubtedly correspond with at least a small bump in prospects/salary.
This is how I looked at the decision. Hope it helps.
TLDR: Think about risk v. reward and return on investment. Try to look at least 10 years down the road for each option. Imagine best & worst case scenario.
[ETA:] Alternative way to beef up app: publishing or presenting. difficult outside of academia, but if you think you can then option 1 might be worth reconsidering.
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getting asked a zillion times what's gonna happen with your relationship with your boyfriend when you move to another continent for grad school.
reminds me:
getting asked by your mother how much time she has to save up for your wedding... ... ... when you're not even engaged.
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I'm sort of just tired of not being able to write my work, get it up extremely easily, get it published, write screenplays, write novels in my free time, live in the Northeast Kingdom with an apartment in the city, drink top-shelf scotch, play scrabble with Chris Durang, play golf with David Mamet, play hardball with Scott Rudin, and play footsie with Arthur Miller's cryogenically preserved techno-exo-skeleton.
actually *just* found a job posting to work as an assistant for Scott Rudin productions...
and as far as NYU goes, it looks like a few of the Performance Studies MAs were notified, but I did the split app (apply to both PhD and MA) and haven't been notified yet. Noel Rubinton told me Mar 16th was the outside date for PhD review. I don't know if this is helpful for MFAs, but tha's where I'm at.
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getting let go from your job while waiting on your last chance offer? (which might very well be an across-the-board rejection)
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So, I'm not sure this will even get any responses, but I have a 15 page paper that I think *might* be worthy of polishing up for submission to a journal, but I've never published before so I'm not sure the first thing of how to go about it. I also don't know if the paper is journal quality -- honestly, I've read it so many times it might be a POS. Would anyone be willing to read it?
It's called "I Can Take a Joke:" Humor as a Tool in Lesbian Feminist Theatre.
Obviously fine-art perspectives would be appreciated. Barring that, other humanities people would be nice too. Reply or message me and I will send it to you.
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If this is totally taboo and a big gradcafe faux pas, I apologize in advance.
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I signed up for the test about two weeks before taking it because I hadn't been sure I wanted to apply to Grad school prior to that. I had been waffling on the decision and my summer before that was insanely busy (working 70ish hours a week with 12hr days on weekends).
I knew I was a good test taker since I didn't study for the ACT and scored really well on it. I also know that I'm very talented in writing and reading and that i could probably get a decent score without even trying in that section. That said, I hadn't had a math class since highschool. So I borrowed a prep book from the library and downloaded an app to my iPad with practice questions. I focused primarily on the math for practice though I did a few verbal reviews just to familiarize myself with the format. I read some questions for the AW, but didn't write any practice essays, just kind of thought about what I would write.
I got 167V/158Q/5.5AW. I'm pretty pleased with that. I'll take it again for the next round and hope to improve my QR score just so I can have a higher cumulative. Maybe I'll do really well and somehow improve the VR & AW scores, but I doubt it and I won't be disappointed if I don't.
As far as vocab goes, I have a pretty advanced vocabulary for someone my age (and always have), largely because I read A LOT and I use context clues to infer meaning. I did absolutely NO vocab study for the GRE (nor did I do any for the SATs or ACTs in highschool). There were probably less than five words on the test that I had never heard before. Maybe another five that I had only heard/read a few times and was a little iffy on. Here's the thing though. If you have a *good* vocabulary (not a great one, just a good one), you can frequently use process of elimination on the fill-in-the-blank questions. And with the pairing questions (i.e. What two words could fit into this blank?), you can usually get at least one of the two words just on knowledge and then eliminate the other words by knowing they don't match the first one.
So yeah, vocab is good, but equally good is knowing how to acquire vocab. Which will be more useful to you in the long run than memorization anyway.
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Rogue, having a more focused research area sounds like a great plan. I think that will be helpful for me too, to be able to articulate what kinds of plays I want to write - I think that was a big weakness for me this year. Is the GRE math score important for PhDs? I got a 170 V/156 Q and was very happy with that. I was a little disappointed in the 5.0 AW score, but it's hard to imagine what I could have done to improve it.
I don't think the math score is too important. I got a 167V, 148Q, 5.5AW and was pretty happy with that considering I signed up for the test about two weeks before I took it and barely studied. I just feel I could do better on the math if I actually tried and even though there's not a *ton* of room for improvement in the verbal and AW sections, there's a small chance I could improve if I worked at it. I'd like to have a higher cumulative score is all. A 170 though? WOW. I'm impressed.
Also workin on a few writing projects. You know... Moving along. What all is everyone else waiting on?
NYU. They informed their MAs, but I think my application is taking longer because they evaluated it for PhD first. Hoping I still have a chance at the MA. should find out by Sunday according to email sent out by coordinator.
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someone on the results search got an interview, but I don't know if they've been active in this thread.
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I can't help but read grad-school-related symbolism into this magnificently poetic rorschach
personally I think it's travelled a little far into the ridiculous for my tastes. it's starting to be just random words smashed together.
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I'd be down for an FB group.
And yeah, I've heard he's one of the worst bosses in the city, if not the country. TBH though, if they'd hire me, I'd at least give it a try for a while. At least I know going in. And I'm hoping that the position I'm going for is so low level that I'll have minimal interaction with him. But no use worrying about that sicne I haven't even heard back from them yet.