Boba felt

I visited, does that count? Fairly small little town, but loved the college town vibe. Great old buildings and churches, next to good quality restaurants and things to do. Hop on the train and be in Copenhagen within 1 hour, or head up to Stockholm.

So the 2 rarest types in the overall population are the 2 most common found here so far. Very interesting!

I'm also backpacking for 5 weeks, but in Europe . So excited!

cheese platter

Jazz band

havent been there, but have been in that area a lot growing up. I looked at attending there for my MS. They have a decent engineering program from what I understand. Summers are quite warm and great for outdoor activities. I'd say May-Sept are going to be nice or warm. The housing is very cheap for the US because it's a smaller town, but limited options like you said. A lot of the off campus housing is made of modified houses that look like party houses, but there are decent places if you find roommates. Your first year it might make more sense to just live in any graduate housing they offer. Very walkable town. You wont need a car in town to get to campus and all over, especially if you get a bicycle. The hard part is that you need a car to get to the airport or to get out of town I think. Maybe there are other options? Not sure.

crawling baby

$0 after undergrad and graduate degrees, and looks to be $0 after phd too. Yay me! Scholarships plus working full time while doing grad school part time allowed me to pay all owed each semester.

Seattle has a great bus and light rail system that everyone uses. UW has student bus passes for about $100 per semester, which is a good deal. Fast bus to downtown takes less than 15 minutes. Lots of new apartments and amazing student dorms all built in last 3 years next to campus. Univ housing is less than $1000, plus they own apts near campus for about $900 for a single with hardwood floors. Lots of hiking and camping, but that's harder to get to without a car. You can take the ferry to day hikes on the islands though. City is super dog friendly, lots of dog parks and people bring their dogs to the beach to play. Food can be expensive if you're not careful where you shop. Beer is pricey too, not as many cheap student deals Never been to U Mich area, but also hear good things. Tough decisions!

Leather whip

Sluggish date

Omg it's Shia Labeouf doing another "I'm not famous" performance art

I know for Yale they told me I had to send in my official transcript before starting classes and they expected me to have roughly the same GPA upon graduation as what I submitted as part of my application. They told me there was no official cut-off but if my GPA fell by roughly 0.5 pts or more (3.8 to 3.3 for example) that could affect my admission offer. Keep up the grades!

UW = Univ of Washington or Univ of Wisconsin depending on where you live. My favorite of all time though are the "BSU Beavers" from Bemidji State University in Minnesota.

suicide attempt

I was sitting in the lobby of a hostel watching a drunk grandma get arrested. She was staying in my room (in her 60s probably and partying HARD at a hostel). I was waiting to see if the police wanted a statement from me. Figured I'd check my gmail while I waited and found a lovely email from my top choice school. I'll never forget you, black-out drunk English grandma! Retirement rager.

right angles

off topic, but i love your avatar. Gave me many lols, which were much needed

Denied justice

Stuff of nightmares, I would cry so hard if this happened

I think it's sad they waste their time and that of their teachers by not focusing more on schools instead of sports, but they're following the money. Lots of geniuses may not have gone to school, but most college sports athletes are not geniuses, so not sure how that's relevant. Like I said, it would be nice if there were more options in regards to community college for young people to learn a trade and then try the pros. I think the NCAA tries to give high schoolers a chance to mature and have some type of plan b in the form of an education before funneling into the pros for football. Many student athletes can only afford college because of their athletic skills. According to NCAA less than 4% of high school football players go on to play in college. Less than 2% of those end up in the pros, even just as a bench warmer for any time. The majority of college student athletes go on to use their college degrees to get jobs in the world not involved with pro sports.

Take a look at nearby professional classes or possibly online certificate programs in EE. You can enroll in a 1 year certificate program and get good grades there. This will help you refresh your knowledge, meet professors to be your recommendation writers, show on your resume a better GPA, and that you can apply yourself. Plus, even if you don't get into grad school, the certificate won't hurt you and could help you get a better job in the future. If you're working your employer might even help chip in. I took a certificate program for about $3,000 and it directly helped me get into the Masters program at the school because of my contacts and good grades there, even with lower than preferred undergrad. Work experience would help you get into a Masters as well, especially in EE. Join a professional membership group or get more active in events and things around town for you to build your resume. Work towards becoming licensed. Apply for or volunteer to help at any events/fundraisers even vaguely related to your area to help build up your credentials. All that will help round you out as an applicant so that it's not all based on your undergrad GPA or GRE alone.

You're killing me with this question, but here goes. There are thousands of scholarships and fellowships out there, although not nearly as many for foreign students to study in the US. Too many to really simply post in a forum. I would recommend going to a website dedicated solely to scholarship searches to get a start, although those will be targeted mostly towards US citizens. Most universities keep a nice list of scholarships available for their students too, just go their Funding pages. Also Google something like "computer science fellowship" to target specific funds for your particular major. Lastly check your home university for funding info in regards to studying overseas.

It could be just an automatic feature. At one of my schools they assigned me an "admissions advisor" right away. This person is supposed to be my contact for all questions/concerns until/if I am actually accepted. He is the person I emailed directly when my transcript wouldn't upload and he got back to me in less than 10 minutes, since that's his main job. It was great. They don't want students emailing professors and others at the school with lots of questions related to the process of admissions, but only for research/POI conversations.

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