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  1. Update: I found an advisor! I actually feel very fortunate because I like him and his research area better than any of the other people I worked with. He just joined the university this year so I wouldn't have gotten to work with him if the other three people hadn't turned me down.
  2. So I'm in a bit of trouble with my PhD, and I might not be able to continue, but if I'm proactive about it there's a good chance I'll be able to graduate. However, the department offered me the opportunity to do a coursework-based MS in lieu of a PhD. It wouldn't be funded but I could apply for TAships and stuff. I'm legitimately torn between these options because 1) I won't get to do a lot of coursework during my PhD, and will probably not learn as much. I don't think I know a lot about my field (not enough to get a good job), which is why I went to grad school in the first place. 2) The MS would take another two years, but the PhD would take much longer, and I'm kind of sick of this place honestly. 3) I kind of just wanted to get an MS in the first place, but my dad was like "no you should apply for PhD programs, and then if you want you can drop out later" However, 1) If I got a PhD, I would have a PhD 2) which would give me more access to interesting work in the future 3) and during the PhD itself I would be working on interesting problems What do you think I should do? Thanks
  3. I did the same experiment on 60 different datasets. A few of them worked, most of them were meh. I'm giving a talk about my work, and my supervisor wanted me to make a slide about the one that worked, even though I had to dig through like 20 experiments to find it. I didn't want to and she was cool with that, but I was wondering, do most scientists consider this ethical? I was also going to put another chart in my talk, and interpret it a certain way (the interpretation was very nice, and supported our hypothesis). But the day before the talk I realized there was another way to present the data, that lended itself to the exact opposite interpretation. My supervisor wanted me to tell the first story anyway and I'm wondering if she is unscrupulous or if people in experimental fields just generally do this.
  4. It seems like your search criteria should be based on job placement statistics of some sort. Current students may have a rough idea of these. Maybe an easier thing to do would be to find a list of companies coming to each school's career fair and see if you're satisfied with the companies on the list.
  5. I asked the director of something or other, and he basically told me to email people. I don't think he can tell anyone to take me or anything because really the professors are in charge. I don't really know how this works though. Anyway apparently I can't RA at the same time that I'm TAing because I applied for a 50% TAship, not a 25% TAship. So I guess I'll just chill this term. Thanks for your help everyone!
  6. I proposed to A at the end of fall quarter. He said he'd like to take me on as a student but I should rotate with other people first. I kind of slacked off during B's rotation. At the end of spring quarter I proposed to C first. He said he didn't have funding (and hadn't applied for any grants), but he was optimistic about getting money from the department so he could support me. So I waited for a few weeks, and he still didn't have money, so I proposed to A. By that time A had already taken three other students, so he said no. I also proposed to B, who said he ran into funding issues and couldn't commit for the next few months.
  7. I'm an (incoming) second year PhD student in a department that does rotations (i.e. there's a semi-structured system where students work with professors for a term and then choose one). I rotated with three professors last year and all of them turned me down. I don't have a rotation for fall quarter yet, and I have no idea who I'd want to rotate with. Also, the first year students have already submitted their fall rotation choices (whoops), so a lot of professors may not have spots. However 1) I do have a rotation lined up for winter quarter, with a professor whose research I like. 2) I also have a TA position lined up for fall quarter, which would give me full funding. I will probably accept the TA position regardless of whether I do a rotation this fall, if only because the offer acceptance deadline is in like two days (well, they didn't actually give me a deadline, but they said they would release TA decisions next week). Should I still try to find an advisor for fall quarter, or should I just TA and take classes? Thanks.
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