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Hmmm.... I'm currently in a humanity field with a STEM background, and my research interest is related to my background, wanting to apply it to the current field. If this makes any sense. And theya re interested in my idea of doing interdisciplinary research. But the funding, oh the funding.... Should I look for extramural funding? Would NSF even look into an application as mine, interdisciplinary but based on humanities?
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I was thinking the entire package. And I do think you should try and get as much information as possible before applying (including doing some legwork on cost of living). I think it's okay not to talk too much about the money prior to getting an acceptance, but once you have it absolutely ask for details. I don't know how everyone else does it, but I had the contact information of a couple of graduate students given to me for if I had questions.
And although I can say that I'd be happy to talk about the financial details during the interview stage with any prospectives, I can understand being hesitant at the time.
All I can offer here is my program is that way. I don't pay fees or for my health insurance premiums (which is really damn nice). The downside is that our stipend is a little on the low side for this region of the country.
Too late, I'm already done with my first year. While they cover all tuition and health insurance, also all kind of other perks in campus (which I don't really use because I live off campus), the stipend is rather small, and I had to take a part time job off campus. Second year stipend is only a bit larger but still not enough for survival. I too met with grad students before but the financial details were not discussed. I felt like they were avoiding that kind of conversation.
Second offer I had was having a nicer stipend but the cost of living there is much higher. Tough choice.
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You're talking about stipends here, or the entire stipend + tuition + health insurance and other fees? That looks like my stipend is really, I mean really low.... That's why I need to work outside the university too, making studying so much more difficult. And I didn't discuss financial aspect with grad students before making my choice because I thought it will make me look like an extremely financing-oriented person. That's tough though, to try getting through the program while working (almost) full time too.
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Peanut butter, tater tots, everything cherry-flavored, and Robert Downey Jr.
Oh yeah! For all of them except the cherry flavor (sometimes) and especially RD Jr. I cannot even stand his "precious" faces in any of his recent movies. That's why I don't enjoy watching Ironman or other movies where he's the main character.
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I've been called a couple of years ago and I completely forgot about it. I found the invitation when cleaning my desk, approx. a week after the date. Nothing happened, thankfully. Idk to this day what the repercussions might be. Hope not to find out.
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Being born and having lived for 30+ years in Europe (Romania), I am overwhelmed by how many European countries most of you here have visited. Not living in the EU! I guess having all places close I was always thinking of visiting them "at a later time", with a kinda work that was taking almost all my life.
I visited Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Nederland, Syria (on my way to Africa, and on my way back, each time 10 days). Lived and worked for NGOs in Sudan. That was the most exciting experience I have ever had in my life. At night, laying down on the red Saharan sand, you could see the sky as a dome above the Earth. Never saw it like this anywhere else in the world.
Moved to the US. Currently living in CA. Also visited NV and AZ and almost all CA. Again, spare time is very tight. Hope for more once i'll finish my PhD program. Or am I dreaming?
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I've been using for many years dealoz.com. It's a search website for books and it will find you the cheapest books available on the market online. Even books for rent.
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Lucky! Winter quarter already started here and we have a full week.
Good luck in your new quarter/semester!
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Oh and to quote another user: I'm so anxious, I could eat my own arm! ACCEPT ME, SOMEONE. ANYONE. haha. I know I won't hear back until mid March and the wait is killing me...
I know this post is almost one year old, but to make others' wait easier: last year I've had my first invitation to an interview in early February, and it was to the university that had the latest deadline, at the beginning of January. Lucky me, it was my first choice (together with another one), but because the interview went so well., I chose them over the others. And I love it here.
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Oh, and do new graduate students at UCR have to pay $100 when submitting their Statement of Intent to Register? Thanks!
That's for undergrads.
Sorry I cannot answer the questions regarding the different on-campus apartments, I live off campus.
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I just don't understand how coffee can smell so good yet taste so bad. I could never wrap my mind around that and thus could never join team "coffee" (sometimes I wish I could - it seems like a popular team
)I feel exactly the same about the taste of... beer. It's like a terrible medicine taste, and the smell is no better. I just can't stand beer.
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I hate that I actually cannot drink coffee or coco, which I love. Does this count?
I meant cocoa but on the phone it's too small for me to see details
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I hate that I actually cannot drink coffee or coco, which I love. Does this count?
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I've had 4 classes in Fall, 14 credits total. One of the courses was a professional seminar without actual grades, only C/NC but we still needed to prepare the assignments for it to get credit.
For Winter quarter I am enrolled in only 3 classes, 12 credits, two of them I really wanted to take, one was mandatory.
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That's the reason why I always submit close to the deadline. I always find things to change, even after proofreading carefully. I always change my mind here and there, so after a few mishaps like yours, I decided that's better to submit it very close to the deadline. Better for me anyway.
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I checked the grades system and I got As in all courses! I wasn't so sure about one of them but I got 4.0 overall. I am glad but i know somewhere along the way I'll get an A- somehow. No matter how hard I tried in the past (my master's, etc), I always had an A- there. Although a GPA of 3.97 is not that bad though as a grad student.
Congrats for a first semester/quarter to all of us! We survived!
And happy holidays!
- Threeboysmom and maelia8
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A few hours ago i just turned in the last paper of the first quarter. Now I can relax for a day or two. Or maybe for half a day...
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I've had 2 presentations this week plus a lab to submit. For next week: one final (stats) and 2 papers, out of which one is difficult... and big... and I hope I'll survive all these....... A fourth course I've taken was done since last week, to give us more time for the other 3.
Congrats to all of you that finished this first quarter!
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As a person who probably has undiagnosed ADD, research alone has been hell. No structure, lack of built in socialization, less in common with a group of people, these things have made it more difficult now. Plus, there is not the excuse of coursework to put off research.
So I can expect hard times to come... ADD symptoms here too... ugggh.
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I think you have very high chances to succeed. I have a Bio background too but I got 2 teaching credentials after ten years in that field, one of them being in special ed. While working on that one, I wanted to supplement it with something that would work in speced but not a masters degree in that field as usually people do. Instead, I got my MA in education with an emphasis in Educational Multimedia. A lot of work with coding but in authoring programs used in instructional design, not in what you learned/use. Plus research in e-learning, etc. Very interesting and I enjoyed it a lot. I hope I'll be able to use this further as I'm working towards my PhD in speced.
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Yeah, I'm really not enjoying the quarter system. I have way too many papers to write in the next three weeks, and I feel like the quarter just started...
Same here. And the day still has only 24 hours.......
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We have a quarter system, so everything happens very fast and concentrated, in only 10 weeks. Killer, IMO.
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Where I am now, TAs are paid a bit better than GSR/RAs. About $300/ month more... Which counts when you also have a family on tow. But I'm still a GSR. Too interesting to give it up for now.