TenaciousBushLeaper
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The real question is what exactly will you use the computer for? What type of analysis? For example if you're using it for machine learning or brain imaging data processing then you'll want more computing power, else you're probably more than fine with 8GB RAM.
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I don't think they can be an equivalent/replacement to courses part of an accredited degree program.
Care to share why? I'm rather interested in this line of thought.
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Imagine the situation where an applicant doesn't do so great ( letter grade of C ) in an important class ( important in the sense that graduate admissions committees may weight ones performance in this class more heavily ), so instead of retaking the course, the student signs up for an equivalent course on coursera, pays for the certificate of completion, mentions this in the SOP, and attaches a copy of the certificate along with the application (whether this is possible or not, just imagine! lol).
Has anyone ever heard of someone do this? What do you think about it? Also, maybe we can discuss the implications it brings along for online learning in general to academia.
A few things to consider, a good number of the courses on coursera are taught by individuals belonging to "elite" or "brand name" institutions.
Coursera does not provide a letter grade (at least I think not, please correct me if I'm wrong).
There is always the very real possibility that one or a number of the professors on the admissions committee(s) has/have taught a course there themselves! -
Here's what you do.... you program a bot to search the dark corners of the interwebs, looking for key words you've already pre - specified. Make it a point system (you'll have to specific how these points are distributed), and tell it to return the matches in hierarchal class types (best fit, a little less - best, ect..). Be sure to factor in your GPA, GRE, (potential) institution rank....
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Do you have any research experience? If you expect to get into ivy league schools or any reputable program to work towards a PhD in psychology, you'll need some research experience. A program director at Yale had told me that a year of research experience is enough so long as everything else is in order (GRE, GPA, SOP, LORs)
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I really sort don't because I wasn't actually accepted. I just asked to be in it and they let me hahaha.
At my school, I think you know by early May. They get a lot of applicants (I cannot remember the number my program director told me of the top of my head), and they are about 15 spots (it varies, of course, depending on funds). So it is competitive, but they'll be looking mostly at letters of recommendation and research experience/interest ...but also career goals. Not everyone has taken the GRE so they don't care and you're GPA doesn't haven't to be super high, just not super low (so if you have a 3.3 that is okay). What helps the most is talking to professors who you can work with. Most things/decisions depends on your future professor for the PREP.
Well that's good to hear. I had assumed I wasn't chosen on the basis of not hearing from anyone from the PREP program.
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I have been up for over 24 hours, now I have to go fail an exam, then interact with some a holes. Side note; did not know I could be this kranky
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To add to my fellow online friend-"what if" experience (which had already included a sizable amount of "sexting" before the first meet-up), the physical chemistry was definitely there--hands down, strongest attraction I've felt for someone and the feelings were reciprocated in full. Personality-wise we are fairly opposite, but it's not to the point where it ruins the rest of the package, so to speak; we agree on enough things and don't get into arguments over our differences.
But now it's a matter of keeping the physical contact going, since we're about 2.5 hours separated by vehicle. Not too bad of a distance for me, but planning visits has come to a stand still and that's starting to annoy me.
It sounds like he/she has found another D/V
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Thesis advisor and lab manager are both getting on my last nerve.
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There are some people who will never accept "soft" sciences or social sciences for the simple reason that it is very difficult to come up with any laws or properties from them(as opposed to say physics or mathematics). At the start of my thesis (my undergraduate background is in psychology) I realized just how difficult it would be to have a sound experiment that I was satisfied with. Why? because there are just so many possibilities for things to go wrong when you're dealing with people, you can't control everything on the same level as you would be able to, if you were a biologist or chemist or a physicist. So naturally, mathematicians or physicist or what have you may come up and say "do you know how difficult it is to really prove something? and we have so much more control over our experiments", personally, I can clearly see why people may be skeptical about social sciences.
That being said, I do think the social sciences are in fact a science unlike our friend Richard Feynman here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZaw0KVMl-o
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At my university at the graduate level, women dominate (speaking in terms of the number of graduate students) every area of study(social,neuroscience,developmental,cognitive)
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Something to maybe think about here, it seems the country (USA) as a whole is leaning more towards 2 year colleges and, "technical skill" jobs. If more students out of high school decide this to be their path then 4 year institutions will suffer and will begin to adapt. Part of that adaptation may be not having nearly as many or maybe at some point any TT positions.
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Magic the Gathering, EDH
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My tip is to find an activity that helps you maintain your health that you enjoy and stick to it. I weight train for strength & I genuinely enjoy lifting heavy (on the bench press, deadlift, and squat). This helps in that I don't have to say to myself "have to go to the gym to look good" but rather I say "I want to really hit this personal record on this lift today", and as a consequence it helps me look good/stay healthy. In terms of diet, I've always used discipline here to help me get along.
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I agree that being attracted to someone is very important, and relationships where I've tried to overlook a low attraction level have not gone well;
I wonder about this. It's sorta like attempting to reconcile an explicit decision and thought with another decision we've already made, where the two aren't in line with one another. Kinda of like when I try to start writing a paper way before it's due but I know in the back of my head that I can get it done within a few hours so I end up not taking action on the good advice I've tried to give myself.
I care about how I feel about the person, not how other people feel about that person or if other people think we're a couple matched in attractiveness. I would say that's something I cared more about in my teens and early 20s but now it's really about me and what I want, not what others think.
Good point! I hadn't considered how the opinions of others may interact with these decision.
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Side note, moving forward can we not down vote people who are willing to admit physical attraction is important to them.
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It's an interesting question, though. Was there a subconscious difference? Maybe, who knows.
Yea I wonder if there's some type of implicit bias that we're not fully aware of based on certain standards(which we may not be fully aware of) or maybe ideas we've continually been exposed to.
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It definitely makes a difference. Standards for physical/sexual attraction vary from person to person, but I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't find me physically attractive and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't match my own tastes.
Of course, the world has few true 10s, and personality can certainly make a person more or less attractive... But if you consider someone a 2 (ouch), I think that's bound to change your behavior. It seems much kinder to leave that person to others who might see things differently.
Yeah, let that "2" go...besides, another person may find them more attractive than you do, so it's better if they aren't stuck with someone who isn't into them. I don't think it's fair to either person if one isn't feeling it attraction-wise (or otherwise).
Another consideration: some people don't care for the physical aspect of relationships so maybe physical attractiveness isn't a priority. I have an asexual friend who says they want companionship, not sexytimes, so they don't care how their partner looks. Just a thought.
The 2 has been gone for a while, but that's the thing, in my experience I can really be into someone w/o having to feel physically attracted to them. Although, when there is a physical attraction and a strong one at that, looking back, there has definitely been a difference in my behavior. Is it then better to not give the 2's a chance(kindly say no in some way or another)? (btw I'm a male, if anyone was wondering, and if that matters(maybe idk? ))
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I think attraction is extremely important between partners. However, I think my 1-10 scale of attractiveness would be different from yours, which would be different from someone else's and on and on. We have different standards of physical beauty, for one, as well as different factors that add to or subtract from a potential partner's attractiveness that go beyond physical. For example, I get extremely turned off by people who are constantly taking selfies and putting them on snapchat (generally social media obsessed people who don't exist in the real world) but find intellectually-engaged but inappropriately funny people very attractive. Yes, there are physical characteristics that I tend to gravitate towards, but those only get me so far. Other people may value other aspects differently than I do, or you do.
Bottom line, attraction--however it is determined and felt--is quite important. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be with anyone that turns me off so much I can't have them in my personal space.
I completely agree however, I'm wondering about what role you think physical attraction and only physical attraction has played or plays in relationships for you.
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I'm wondering how everyone feels about being physically attracted to their partners and how this effects how they behave towards their partners and in the relationship in general.
I haven't been with a ton of people (only 5, I'm talking about committed relationships) but I'd say they've ranged from a 2 to a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of how attractive they were (purely physical). While at the time I did not notice this, looking back I've realized that when everything else is equal(how much I like their personalities and the way they make me feel) it seemed like I did more or did little things here and there for those partners that fell higher up on the attractiveness scale. Although I've never said no to a potential partner because of their looks and I've had great relationships with those who I didn't think were good looking at all. -
Way to pigeon-hole an entire gender (and you're working on PhD? And in education to boot???) Men often get flak for doing this to women.... like most fair-minded people, I'm all for parity of the sexes, but I don't think sexism is really what anyone has in mind.
This makes me think that maybe for guys... it doesn't matter what the girl does as long as she's happy with it. Maybe more important things are... her looks, physical attraction to her, her smile, her laugh and sense of humor, the way she makes him feel. These are all the things he's complimented me for... but since he's never asked about my work or any deep intellectual stuff, he hasn't said anything about me being smart... which is something that's very important to me.
As a male - human, here are my two cents on this. I don't necessarily care what my would be partner did, so long, as wildviolet pointed out she's happy, and really not necessarily "happy", but happy enough so that whatever the job is/would be didn't make her miserable. Other things I look for in women, let me quote or maybe paraphrase? "her looks, physical attraction,smile,laugh,sense of humor,way she makes me feel".
One other thing I'd want is, or rather this is more of a requirement, I wouldn't like/want to be with someone who I felt I was "intellectually superior" to. For whatever reason, that is the main "thing" with me and it's what could make someone who I deem a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 an 8 or 9. My would be partner would either have to be on the same level as or smarter than me.
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As others have already mentioned, make sure to apply to more programs the next go around, like, a lot more. Your stats seem to be pretty good(at least in my opinion, with my limited knowledge).
I'm not from Canada so I would caution my and any other advise you get from someone who isn't a Canadian student who has successfully entered into a PhD program in the US. That being said, I'd say yes apply to programs in the US, given you're able to find a place or places where your research fit is really really "good". -
How can you then suggest using subject GREs when it would further disenfranchise those who are already struggling to pay for the general GRE in the first place? The problem is that we live in a limited world with limited resources and many moving parts. This is life and you deal with it.
The overarching concern I have with all that I have read in this thread is this contempt for the GRE and dismissal of this validity because you don't *like* what it stands for in your minds. This constant refrain of "well grad schools need something to winnow down the list" and "it's just a way to narrow the list down." The validity of the GRE is an *empirical question* and isn't subject to your whims or values.
I too made a point similar to the upper portion of this quote, I'm biased in this because I'm perfectly happy with my GRE Q score. Coming from what I think would fit in the category of a "disenfranchised" background and having friends who also come from this background who haven't done so well on the GRE Q section(friends who I would argue are far more intelligent than I am) I see it as a bit of a cop-out.
Also, faculty from 2 universities have explicitly told me, if the applicant isn't at least at the 50% mark on either the GRE Q or V sections most of the time they aren't even considered. Usually it takes a faculty member who's championing for these students to have them considered along with everyone else who did well on the GRE sections.
Does it matter where you were/are a research assistant/lab tech at?
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I have an opportunity to be involved in research at two different universities, one is an R2 school, while the other is a well known, high ranked school in Massachusetts, what does everyone have to say about how working at one or the other might play into graduate school admissions?