Ziz
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One of the "foundations" courses - the political philosophy/theory course.
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I hope you enjoy your course at Oxford - I was involved with creating the reading list for one of the courses so I hope it's interesting!
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Congratulations!
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Sure, I'm nothing special though. Degrees: BA from Queen's (overall average around 82% maybe; politics average 84%) MSc from the London School of Economics (distinction) MSc Oxford (distinction) DPhil Oxford (currently in 1st year) Other stuff: 3 years policy experience in the government of Ontario (between the two masters degrees) No publications 3 conferences (2 grad, 1 'normal') Convenor of a conference at Oxford Editor of an Oxford-based student journal Research assistant for an Oxford prof handful of college and department scholarships over the years
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I just got my letter! Successful! In Politics, score 21.7, direct applicant from the UK.
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Let me know if they tell you anythingl!!
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No I haven't. I checked my pidge at 12:15 and then again just now (1:45) and there was nothing. I'm not sure if the mail had arrived yet or not though. Going to check again at 4pm. I keep coming up with excuses to go to college!! The porters must think I'm crazy...
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Oxforddphil did you get anything today?
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A friend of mine was told she won the Commonwealth about a week and a half or two weeks ago. She's from South Africa so unless people are nominated by the central UK office, timing could vary.
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Fellow Oxonians - if it arrived in France today, maybe tomorrow will be the day for us!! I really feel like all this anticipation is just setting me up for even worse disappointment if it's bad news...
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Same here...nothing
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Ya I find that you mail something in the uK and it arrives the next day.
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Every day since Wednesday I've had an intuition that "today is the day." And yet every day it hasn't been the day. I'd really like to have hope for tomorrow but I can't seem to muster it. Canada Post says it takes 4-7 business days to post something internationally. Somewhere like the UK should be on the bottom of that average since it's not, you know, Timbuktu. So if it takes 4 days to get to the UK and then 1 day once in the UK (since Royal Mail is super quick) it should be 5 business days total which, even if you don't include the day it was mailed, means it should have arrived today or tomorrow at the latest. Yes...I've been thinking about this too much.
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This is getting REALLY annoying.
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Mail has come and gone in Oxford with nothing for me .
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If it's not today or tomorrow it will be a 2 day wait due to Monday's bank holiday in the UK :'(
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It has to come tomorrow. I don't think I can handle another weekend of agony.
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No mail for me today either . I guess it's only SSHRC's fault to the extent that they mail them instead of emailing...aaaaaaaaaaaargh.
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If only the mail would come today and stop this madness...
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Phew okay panic averted.
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No Michael Smith application visible...*panicking*
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Still nothing in the UK .
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I keep my hopes up for tomorrow. Last year people in Toronto got them on April 26 and the UK received theirs April 28. So if people in Toronto got theirs on Monday, then maybe us UK-ers will get news tomorrow?
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I think it's worth it to me, though you won't find that everyone agrees. When I looked at my options, I had 1 fully funded offer in Canada and 3 unfunded UK offers. This was partly my own doing for not applying more extensively in North America. So the real comparison for me was between the Oxford DPhil and the Canadian school. When I looked at it, I realized that if I came here my supervisor would be a top name in the field, was my number 1 choice, and that many of the other political theorists and philosophers here were interested in the same stuff I was. Since I've got here I've developed a great relationship with my supervisor, got a research assistant position with one of my academic idols and have had the opportunity to meet counltess 'big names' taht I would never have had the chance to do in Canada. Now, in my situation it was clear that I woudl get more academically out of Oxford and would be a much better fit for me than the other school so that ended up outweighing some of my financial worries. On the other hand, i think if the two schools you're comparing are closer together academically, you should take a funded offer over Oxford.