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    RunnerGrad reacted to Loric in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    The Kings Men wrote/published the first folio. Otherwise all there was were the foul papers which were used to produce the cue scripting.
     
    What you read today as "Shakespeare" in literature is a complete fabrication. No such written thing existed when the plays were performed.. and they were created to be performed. Acting as if the literary analysis divorced from the performance has any validity is just academic masturbation.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to Loric in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'll hand you tubes of paint.
     
    Now go on, tell me how you know ALL ABOUT Picasso and Monet and Manet.
     
    C'mon, from the tubes of paint. Or better yet, an account of seeing their paintings in a museum from several centuries ago that tries to explain the experience to you. C'mon, tell me how you're an expert.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to fuzzylogician in Relationships in Academia   
    CorruptedInnocence, please oh please stop dumping on this thread. 
     
    Everyone, PLEASE don't feed the troll. Just ignore and move on. No one needs to defend their life choices to anyone else. 
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    RunnerGrad reacted to LittleDarlings in Moving to graduate school with significant other   
    ... You didn't have to address me. I do it for the same reason I'm sure you made that comment.. Because I FELT like it. at least I said good luck. People just deserve to have their parade rained on. That's life. Just as easily as you could have ignored it so could these other people.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to LittleDarlings in Moving to graduate school with significant other   
    .... Yeah ha good luck with that.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to LittleDarlings in Relationships in Academia   
    Well for your info I have been in a long distance relationship and if actually went on for a while so I do know what I am talking about. Guess what?? It didn't last because most LDR don't... Just saying. If a relationship was important to some people I just couldn't see them willingly embarking on something so difficult that could ruin it. Simple as that.
    BUT it's whatever it doesn't even remotely matter to me so good luck with whatever happens in your relationships or whatever.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to LittleDarlings in Relationships in Academia   
    Exactly... Why put yourself in that position.
    I know this guy who moved from Kentucky to Ohio for his girlfriends PhD program. If you love someone why wouldn't you make the sacrifice and effort. Seems dumb to let something like that complicate a relationship.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to dstock in Relationships in Academia   
    For those of you who aren't yet doing long distance but are considering it (ie in the school/job application stage): why not work your career around your relationship instead of the other way around?
     
    If you're committed enough to not want to break up, then don't even go into a long distance relationship.  If you're going to be apart for multiple years, what is the point of the relationship?   (If it's a short set of time apart with a defined end, then I can see it being worth it).  Find a way to make it work in the same location.  If not now, you two will have to figure this out down the line.  I doubt it gets easier for these things to work themselves out. 
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    RunnerGrad reacted to LittleDarlings in Relationships in Academia   
    Doing a long distance relationship in school would suck... Just saying.

    I'm sure if you really try you could make it work though. Goodluck
     
    ... Umm so many many down votes for honest.  How familiar. Since I am being fully honest. Long distance relationships hardly last which is why I said it would suck.  Because it would. 
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    RunnerGrad reacted to LittleDarlings in grad dating undergrad   
    I don't see how any aspect of this is acceptable?? I mean 20 year age gap ok whatever.. Weird to me but hey. However the person who is giving her tests and grading her papers is also sleeping with her, how is that not a conflict of interest? REPORT IT REPORT IT!! At least see what happens
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    RunnerGrad got a reaction from tanooki in Official Canadian University Thread 2014   
    My husband, sister-in-law and brother-in-law all studied at MUN, but for their undergraduate degrees.  They all enjoyed their time there.  Newfoundlanders tend to be very friendly, and with the oil and gas industry, St. John's is expanding and is no longer the sleepy little town it used to be.
     
    Being stuck on the island can be a pain at times - you need to take the ferry to fly if you want to go anywhere outside of Newfoundland.   Some things are expensive due to the cost of transport to get things to the island.
     
    If you enjoy the outdoors and/or history, Newfoundland is a great place to be.  I've visted Terra Nova and Gross Morne National Parks, visited Cape Spear, Signal Hill, and a bunch of other historic sites.  Been whale watching and saw a whole pod with some baby whales.
     
    St. John's is obviously not a big city like Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver, so if you like big city life, than St. John's might not be for you.  Otherwise, I think MUN is a great choice.
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    RunnerGrad got a reaction from MoJuiced in Intellectual interests outside of/completely unrelated to your field?   
    I have a wide variety of interests.  I wish I could just be a university student forever and continue to study new and interesting subjects.  I just love learning.
     
    I'm definitely interested in food science and food technology, which are close to nutrition, but certainly not the same.  The science behind the making of beer, wine, cheese, etc. is very cool.
     
    I also enjoy studying kinesiology and exercise science.  Biomechanics is fascinating. 
     
    I've taken numerous Classics courses and I'm fascinated by the Roman Republic and Empire, and Ancient Egypt.
     
    I enjoy learning languages.  I've studied French and German and wish I had time to learn more languages, or to further develop my competencies in French and/or German.
     
    I enjoy learing about astronomy and astrophysics, up to a certain point.  String theory makes me head hurt.  I did take one astronomy elective that I greatly enjoyed, and I like watching "The Universe" and similar types of shows on History/Discovery/National Geographic/Science.
     
    The history of science.  How discoveries were made.
     
    Psychology.  Especially health behaviour theories.  Why do people continue to do things they know are bad for them, and why don't they do things that they know are good for them?
     
    There are more.  I could go on and on.  I just love learning new things.
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    RunnerGrad reacted in hating grad school   
    You're just trying to gain back your reputation after you made such a good first impression on this board with your obsessions and judgments. Why else would 90% of a person's likes come from themself?
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    RunnerGrad reacted to hashslinger in Cellphones in Class! ARGHH!   
    I think this is the main issue for me--cell phones and other devices are distracting to other students. So as much as I'd like to take a "screw 'em, it's their responsibility to know the material!" attitude, I have to think about the class as a whole.
     
    I actually don't allow laptops in my classes unless we have some special task that requires a laptop. When there are no electronic distractions around, I find that the class discussion is much better and that students actually perform better.
     
    TBH, I don't really understand why it's so much to ask to have people put their personal phones or devices away when they're in class. It's really very little to expect of people. There are a variety of rude things that I could do when I'm in a seminar or job talk, but I don't do them.
     
    And I attended college before the cell phone craze hit, but professors back then were not tolerant of other distracting behaviors--reading the newspaper or a magazine in class, or sleeping all over your desk. Doing any of those things would get you kicked out of class. I didn't think my professors were insecure for enforcing those rules.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to Karajan in Cellphones in Class! ARGHH!   
    Some professors certainly care. 
     
    "...cell phones that go off in your class tend to be confiscated, stomped on, and/or thrown out the window." 
     
    http://chicagomaroon.com/2009/06/02/q-and-a-with-paul-sally/
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    RunnerGrad reacted to gingin6789 in Cellphones in Class! ARGHH!   
    Since they're not listening to you, I would start docking points from their participation grade like some others have suggested here!
     
    Granted, I don't have TA experience yet ... I'm just one of those undergrad students who would get REALLY irritated when I saw folks play on their phones during class because it was an aggravating distraction to have a glowing screen and clicking noises nearby.
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    RunnerGrad reacted in Cellphones in Class! ARGHH!   
    It's only 28 year old TAs who get bothered by cell phones. None of my professors care. 
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    RunnerGrad reacted to Fun_Cookie in hating grad school   
    OP sounds like a megab1tch.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to Vejas in hating grad school   
    Yes, you are a result of your past, whether you want to admit it or not. What kind of past that was and how you choose to deal with it is another matter. 
     
    There is no need to attack every person who mentions having a hard childhood. Nobody's using their upbringing as an excuse. But if they manage to see how certain things in their past have influenced their current personality/behaviour, good for them. It helps to move on and change things you don't like about yourself. 
     
    If those things really did happen to you, I applaud you for overcoming them and succeeding in life. But there is no need to act like a tough guy and belittle other people. 
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    RunnerGrad reacted to ohgoodness in hating grad school   
    I try not to attack people personally but I had a bad day and I need to work it out so just know that that high horse of yours is actually a donkey and your comments just bring attention to your own lack of sense.   I hope I get banned for this because wow those replies..... lowest low
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    RunnerGrad reacted in hating grad school   
    I had a rough upbringing too, if you didn't happen to catch it, and it doesn't "mess with my self-esteem, coping skills, and decision-making". And I am not a "result of my past" and I can just "get over it." So your facts don't apply to all of "us" apparently. My point is, don't use generalizations. It might have messed you up but that doesn't mean everyone who had a rough upbringing has an excuse for being messed up. 
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    RunnerGrad reacted to themmases in Unreasonable decisions and lack of transparency   
    Based on his discussion of his research, I would not want to work with the OP. IMO listing a bunch of publications that are still in review comes across as resume padding at best. At worst, sharing information about an unpublished discovery with another lab would probably disqualify someone from collaborating with me forever. It's terrible, but my department has had projects we were never able to publish because a naive fellow shared data or signed over the PI role to someone they shouldn't have. If someone shared our results or that we had successfully invented something before we had even written the paper, I would see that as a huge betrayal.
     
    I also don't find it credible to claim to have been the first individual to do something-- ever, but especially if your project has co-contributors. I am also publishing with just a BA (and overseeing subspecialty medical fellows, so I must be the real genius, right? ), and IMO in that position you need to be especially clear about what you contributed and why your work specifically was needed. The OP comes off like it's just a feather in his cap to have these PhD-level contributors, rather than actually needing their contribution. That is almost never true of anyone, let alone someone like the OP.
     
    The OP just really comes across as someone I wouldn't trust to be a collaborator in research. I can't really tell if that's because of naivete or actual dishonesty, but as a researcher I wouldn't personally care to find out.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to eddotman in Unreasonable decisions and lack of transparency   
    This is more common than you think. I know plenty of people (well, "plenty" is a relative word here) who did many (or all) the things you did + more while maintaining a higher GPA. Don't sit on too high of a horse. All that said, remember that admissions committees are simply made of people, and people are subject to all kinds of biases. Not getting in somewhere doesn't reflect anything on you. As an example, I got into the top 1 and 2 ranked programs in my field, but was rejected from another school that was top 20 or so. Sometimes, there are variables that are out of your control.
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    RunnerGrad reacted to gingin6789 in Favorite Rejection Quotes from the Results Page   
    NOT a funny rejection, but one that is absolutely heartbreaking.  This is a student with excellent GRE scores and a killer GPA who wrote:
     
     
    Whoever you are, just know that I wanted to reach through my screen and give you the biggest hug ever.  This process is a killer, but please remember that this school's rejection does not determine your worth!  
     
    That statement may have sounded cliche or cheesy to the point where it needed nachos to go with it, but EVERYONE should remember it!  Just because you didn't fit a program's standards does not mean you're worthless.
     
    Now, this person's statement could have been completely sarcastic.  If so, then I'm sorry for getting all sappy!
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