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I would need some of that magic too! I feel so exhausted, and we still have 4 weeks ro go...

Done. Hope it helps.

Thanks, TakeruK. That's what I was thinking. I agree with the "PhD candidate" too. Not that I'd want to use that "title" myself in a couple of years, but I understand the idea behind it.

Is it wrong to name yourself a doctoral student before taking the qualifying exams and advancing to candidacy?

Ok, you can do stuff on a tablet. But I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about software that is actually used in movie industry, in instructional design, etc. You cannot run that type of software on only 1 GB RAM and 1.4 GHz processor compared to over 12 GB RAM and processors with "speeds" of over 3 GHz. Edit to thank you for matlab. I didn't know about it and it seems helpful.

Tablets do not have the power computers have, either desktops or laptops. You cannot run on tablets complicate software. The apps made specifically for them are good for what the tablets can do but let's be honest, you will not be able to do some video editing or designing an e-module on tablets as you can do on a computer. Edit to add: or run statistics software packages. Tablets simply don't have those capabilities. Re-edit to add that I am a huge fan of some tablets (iPads) but I admit they have their limits.

Be glad you have so much time left doing... well, almost nothing. Take time to make memories to take with you, as alaskagirls said. We've had less than a month to pack, organize the move, move everything then start unpacking. With 2 kids and all their school and personal stuff, plus my school stuff (that is a lot!), believe me, the time was really short. It practically was around 3 weeks if I remember correctly. And no movers, only our close few friends (many other friends were vacationing here and there) and we. I know our move was closer, only one county and a few cities away, but painful nevertheless.

You're definitely right about the logo. I could make a small stash of my own cards without any logo or anything, only the actual name of the university and the department. Then I will ask our graduate studies secretary or advisor and ask about standardized cards.

Very valuable experience, thanks for sharing, surefire. Being in my first quarter here maybe I should wait till Winter quarter? I will do some research for sure.

Would it be wrong to use anything with the name of the university on it? As doctoral students, will the university allow you, after let's say the first quarter, to have business cards with its name on them?

Hahaha. No, of course. Sorry, when I read all posts, yours being right after mine, it looked that way. Sorry if something like this happened to you. I've never cheated. I'm married and have 2 wonderful kids. Can't say the same (the wonderful part) about DH but we're working on it.

For website domain try Godaddy, it's only $12/year for your chosen domain name. And they have specials now and then, usually at the end of the year.

This was right after my post. Were you responding to me?

Good luck! At the end of the day, she seems all right.

Thanks for sharing. Already ordered a few last night.

We've had different orientations sessions last week and classes officially started last Thursday. Having classes only Mo, Tu and Wed, we'll practically start tomorrow but we've had the syllabi, suggested readings, powerpoints, handouts etc ahead of time to do lots of reading before classes even start. I'm freaking out now because we've moved last month and there were lots of stuff to take care of... and I'm already exhausted even before classes start...

I use an inkjet multi-center and the ink cartridges cost me about $10 for a set of 12 that has 3 of each color (black and the 3 main colors). They last for more than 8 months, even 10 months some of them (depends on the manufacturer) and I print a lot, and i mean a whole lot. I eat the ream of papers like nothing. I think it's a great deal. I have a Brother multi-center. But of course there are other options too, and each of us will find what works best for him/her.

I've had this happening to me last year. She was not answering my emails, then she was busy grading the finals (yes, it took her all that time to the finals week!). I ended up not being accepted at the universities she sent her recommendation at and getting offers from other universities where I've had the best idea of asking another professor for recommendation only because she was so darn late. Was this a pure coincidence or she plainly sent weak (not wanting to think about any negative) letters to those universities? The other 2 recommenders were the same for all the applications.

You're right telkanuru, and most of the documents I needed were either on a cloud somewhere or in my dropbox. But the websites I was working on were permanently on a mobile memory device besides my server, as a precaution. I don't know yet how the stats software looks like and my concern is if I could work on the computers in the school lab then on my desktop at home like I did during my Master program without having to spend my budget on a laptop now.

Very interesting topic. Would it be very difficult to work in the lab at school on SAS, SPSS or similar software, then save the work on a portable HDD or high capacity flash drive to continue the work at home? I personally have a big Alienware (did my MA degree in educational multimedia, so lots of software) with a 26" monitor and no laptop as of now. It was never an issue to work at school then take the work to continue it at home. It would be too much of an expense right now to get a laptop, even using a store credit card to pay for it. And a small one wouldn't really help, imo it'd be an useless expense.

If you are still interested in Canyon Crest Family Housing, there is the handbook online where you can find the detailed rules. They are quite a few.

Not much activity here but I want to greet all the new grad students at UCR. Glad to be part of such a wonderful family!

I wish I'd found this forum earlier, it would've helped me so much in looking around neighborhoods for rent, and all the other things we're searching for when relocating. I've chosen UCR for its great professors at GSOE and for the affordability of living in the area. My family and I have done quite a research both online and in person and Riverside won over LA. Relocating within Socal wasn't all that difficult but we had to take into consideration safer areas for our kids and doing all this all by ourselves was not too easy. We're renting a single family house around the Fairmount Park area and I'd like to know your opinion about it. For now my kids are homeschooled because it was just too much to do alll the research - house hunting - moving process and find the right schools altogether. For now they're in K12 online schooling and if this fits them, we'll keep doing it for the first year here. If not, I'm afraid of the ratings the high schools have around here... Kid1 is a freshman this year. We were hoping for I-Poly but since I chose Riverside, a commute of more than 30 miles only to get Kid1 to school is out of the question. Hubby has a 40 miles commute to his job now but oh well, he loves driving anyway and is even considering a bike soon so it's sunny on his way. My concerns remain related on my kids schools and the area we rent in now. I'm on the waiting list for the family housing on campus but those are really tiny and the waiting list doesn't seem to move at a pace we needed. Thank you for any input.