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  1. Well, if you're getting support from your parents, step back and compare the two programs. Who would you be working with? Are there differences in what you would be working on? What is your opinion of brutalist architecture? Do you prefer commuting primarily by train or by bus? Which academic culture fits best with your own beliefs and values? (UBC is more traditional and surprisingly conservative, SFU has a strong history of radicalism, though it has moved away from that of late, for anyone who was wondering.) Think about which school you would pick if they both offered you the same amount of money. The fact that you're considering this makes me think you're leaning towards UBC, because if it really was a toss up between the two, you'd just follow the money. Have you spoken to any professors or current MA students in either program? Is all the SFU money in TA-ships? 17k is a lot of money for a masters student in the social sciences, so if part of it is in the form of some fellowship or award, that could be a potential CV booster.
  2. It's just a matter of you getting used to the stiffer set up of a fixed gear bike. Eventually your ass will become immune to the pain, and you'll be all set. Spend a few months on a road bike and pretty soon mountain bikes will feel like they're made out pool noodles. I would be wary of riding on the sidewalk, I don't know the rules in Seattle but in a lot of places you get fined for doing so.
  3. Wow, that's pretty quick getting all the college stuff sorted out. Nicely done. I still haven't heard anything yet, hoping I'll find out sometime this week.
  4. No, it isn't stupid. Why should the prof or the TA do more work because you screwed up an earlier test? Unless you have unusual circumstances (death in the family, severe illness or injury) there is no reason for the professor to go out of his or her way to help you go to graduate school. If the school puts conditions on you, and you can't meet them, that's on you, not your professor. Sucks, but that is what it is.
  5. Yep, I've had the same thing. I attended a graduate student fair that they were at, but I didn't speak to anyone from the school, or give them any information, but yet they started emailing me very frequently, and phoned me at least once. I think they've adopted a carpet bombing strategy for student recruitment, contacting anyone they can who seems interested in any sort of graduate program. I can't imagine it is particularly effective.
  6. I find this claim to be highly dubious. NBA players, for example, tend to come from two parent households with slightly above average income. At the 2012 Olympics, 37% of British medalists attended private schools (the bastions of the upper and upper-middle classes), compared to 7% of the general population. Elite athletics is, and always has been, dominated by people from middle or high income backgrounds.
  7. I'd have loved to have attended Quest, and I think it would be pretty cool to teach at, but the alternative schools tend to also be very expensive. Quest is something like $25000 a year, compared to the $3000-$6000 it costs to attend most universities in Canada. Quest is the first, and I think still the only school like this in Canada, and it gets a fair amount of attention as a result. I worry as well that these alternative universities will lack many of the resources that are essential to a university education. I attended a rather small school for the bulk of my undergrad, and the library was beyond useless for resources, and the school didn't have access to many of the databases I needed to get articles from, so I was forced to convince my friends at bigger schools to give me their login information. The mentoring of students and personal curriculum design is something I saw at my traditional, small undergrad school. I think that is more a matter of size than of structure.
  8. Absolutely this. ADHD is really hard to recognize, and can also be mis-diagnosed pretty easily. I was diagnosed after multiple doctors, therapists and even a psychiatrist thought I had Bipolar Disorder or some sort of personality disorder. It's also pretty common for more high achieving people to be diagnosed later in life, one of the more notable ADHD researchers around today wasn't diagnosed until partway through medical school, for example. Plus, it is pretty easy to think that everyone struggles to read more then a page at a time, and doesn't start writing papers until the night before they are due.
  9. I don't know how the legacy thing works. We do have different last names, so that might impede things.
  10. I understand hating How I Met Your Mother (I hate myself for having previously liked it), but what's so awful about ice cream? Jeans suck. I will never understand people who wear them day in, day out.
  11. My sister is angry at me for deciding to attend a school that she claims she has always dreamed about going to (the first I've heard of this dream). Apparently she thinks I only applied so I could spite her, and my having attended there will forever taint the place, and make it impossible for her to go in the future.
  12. Many of the University of London schools do rolling admissions, and will be open until June, though there will probably be very few spots available by then.
  13. I'm going tree planting. One last season, only two months (thank god), and my wallet likes it.
  14. Geneva certainly looks the better option for work prospects after graduation. Plus, full scholarship, and you've got what, five months to work on your French? Geneva, to me, looks like your best option.
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