Genomic Repairman
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I was forbidden to have an outside job in my MS program but I moonlighted teaching labs at another university across town. The classes I taught were at night and generally if no one met with me during office hours I did my own work then. Also I never graded while in my lab. And it was damn lucrative and helped support me beyond my meager stipend.
The whole forbidden job thing is a bit like, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" but with a little don't be dumb and get caught mixed in with it.
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Its a natural feeling, but one you have to get over. As you progress through your training, you need less and less hands on mentorship from your boss. In fact you start resembling more of a colleague than a noobish trainee by the time you are done. Your job begins to become mentoring the new student in the lab but only if you are way senior than they are.
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pee in it. And make a fresh gel damnit, it only takes minutes. I cast mine in the cold room so they set up quicker.
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So i contacted UCR and they say the offer deadline is April 15, but they want to know if I will accept their offer sooner than that. So should I accept it so that it will assured me of a spot or should I wait until April 15. I am nervous of waiting too long because this is my only admission offer out of 20 schools that I have applied. Has anyone of you accept your offer yet or will you wait out until April 15? This is only my opinion but I think all the graduate stipends for most of the schools are in the same ballpark, if not higher. So it all depend whether UC Riverside GGG is a good program or not? What is your opinions?
You know you can accept and then rescind an offer. I did, but the only thing to make sure of is you have to get permission to be let out of your offer to take another school's offer. At least etiquette-wise based on the "rules" of the CGS.
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What sort of situation leads to a two week window? Is that something that is official and stated in the agreement you sign, or is it simply explained this way over the phone or via email?
Sometimes schools are throwing out more acceptance letters than spaces that they have available sort of like how airlines will overbook flights because they know some people won't show up. So they want you to accept quickly so they can slow down offers and not run the risk of taking folks in where who might have issues with funding because all of the TA/RAships are gone by the time you accept. Usually the acceptance letter will dictate any time restrictions on the offer.
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Yes. There is something called the Council of Graduate Schools which ensures your right to take your time deciding up until April 15th. A school might contact you to encourage your acceptance, but they don't have the right to apply any actual pressure.
Somewhat of a misnomer, schools have the right to rescind an offer at any point and time. Its pretty much in the fine print of any school's application form and the CGS is a voluntary organization, not some suicide pact. A reason why you may wish to accept early is that folks that sign on early lock up institutional funding (TAships, RAships, other institutional funds) and if you wait around you may undercut your chances of getting those monies. This isn't a huge problem but some PI's may not wish to take you if they have to foot the bill for you because you strung out the decision process or they needed you to secure those funding mechanisms in order to join their labs.
That being said, I've seen offers with a two week window and that is indeed a dick move. In my experience I have found that communicating with schools that have offers on the tables with you that you are waiting for others and found them quite receptive to waiting.
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I lost funding during my MS and resorted to a variety of jobs to make ends meet (sold Christmas trees, delivered pizzas, gave handjobs underneath dark overpasses, adjuncted at a community college, tutored). See if you can get some type of on campus jobs (ask for federal work study if you can apply because as I remember, the university only has to pick up 25-30% of hourly wages, federal government pays the rest) but adjuncting at a near by community college could be an easy way to pay the bills, especially if you already have some TA experience.
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I am the reason we no longer have metal trashcans thanks to a 6 month failed project in expressing a protein.
Kgumps, what voltage and conditions are you doing your transfer at? email me, if you want help.
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Why ask when you can snoop, use the NIH reporter... See link below.
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Usually its a professor who you have had for class or met in seminar. The relationship usually begins with something as innocuous as going to ask them a question about research or class and grows from there. But as for officially being a mentor, you ask them to serve on your committee because you find their expertise to be relevant to your research. Just ask them, they are usually willing.
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Retake the GRE's, those scores will close doors to you that would have otherwise been open.
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Illustrator.
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Sounds like you get a second chance to find a program that isn't run by the incompetent or assholes.
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Is this kid a troll or really just this hapless? I pray for the former and not the latter.
- runonsentence and qbtacoma
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If you looked at my notes from when I took class in grad school, half would pertain to the lecture and the rest would be doodles, to do lists, stream of consciousness ramblings, and offensive drawings (never borrow notes from me if you have puritanical beliefs). I did quite well in class but I fade in and out of paying attention in class, most of my learning came from reviewing the notes or reading.
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Hey guys, seems there's a lot of competition, I am also applying to the same PHD program. 500 word limit is ridiculous, I will ask my PI's opinion on the word limit since he was the dean of SP&S. I really don't wanna shorten my PS.
You realize that because there is so much competition and they do get so many applications, they shorten the personal statements so they don't have to read the great American novel of everyone's lives. And it also saves you time from having to write it.
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Dude, I'm pretty sure Nebraska isn't a sausage fest so you can find some sentient female life forms to go out on dates with. Don't just bury yourself in the books, start going on dates or going to places where you can meet new people. Word to the wise, don't date anyone in your program, it usually ends horribly. Don't even make out, grope, or whateverthehell "hooking up" means this week with them, it didn't go well for me and it probably won't for you.
She's old news man, move on and meet love of your life 2.0, the new and improved version? Life is too damn short to dwell on the ghost of girlfriends past.
- Sigaba and tristramshandy
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Keynote baby! Love it and you can easily export to ppt when you have to use it.
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I want to make friends with the night janitor. Would it be creepy if I showed up with beer some night and say, "hey, be my friend!" ?
Also, Sigaba.... amazing post
You have to let it happen organically, you could just drink booze in the lab and offer some up to the janitor, public safety, or the hobo trying to steal shit from the lab whenever the opportunity presents itself.
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Two things:
1) It's highly unlikely that you'd have to read 25 TOC a week since most journals are published once a month or less frequently.
2) Searching one database may cause you to miss articles that are not indexed in that particular one.
Just two things to think about when trying to work smarter.
Also, don't forget about getting things from/to your colleagues. I pass along links to articles that I think my peers might be interested in based on their projects and they do the same for me. They may well be monitoring articles/journals/search terms that you aren't or hadn't thought of.
Um more than just a few of the journals I read are published weekly (Nature, PLoS family, Science), and I use pubmed or web of science to scour for stuff that is epublished ahead of print, I don't wait for them to show up in the paper copy. The pubmed searches help you to be proactive on a topic so that you see it as soon as it epublished, which can sometimes be up to 6 months ahead of print depending upon journals. As far as searching one database for those of us in life sciences, PubMed is pretty much THE database to use. Also we do pass along interesting articles between one another, I didn't say this was the only way I searched, just a good way to cover a good amount of the literature in a short amount of time.
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I find plenty of time to sit at the altar of Cathulu in my apartment in worship him. Seriously though, its good to find time for your faith if that is important to you. Grad school is beneficial that is forces you to prioritize and get really good at time management. I learned to cut a lot of crap that was not important or necessary in my life out or prioritize it way low down the list. If its not immediate, I'll get to it. I think a lot of newer grad students have an issue where everything at first seems to be the most important thing ever and has to get done now. Not really, it just feels that way, and when your are stuck in this cycle you have yet to get a good grasp on balancing school and life.
Now if you spent 40 hours a week at church, grad school may force you cut down on some of the time you spend, but not cut it out completely.
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When going into industry, does one still do a post doc?
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I call bullcrap, after meeting with many industry employers most still want you to do a postdoc, albeit a shorter one. Typically 1-2 years, maximum of 3. Some don't because they already have a particular skill that industry wants ASAP but most want to see you manage a research project as a postdoctoral fellow and function more independently than you did as a graduate student.