FoxAndChicken
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Just now, rack_attack124 said:
which program are you going to? Also, why did you apply to Carnegie Mellon? I briefly dated a guy who went there but he lived in NYC at the time we were dating. I was considering a program at CMU, but I got too scared to apply because of winter. Did you like Pittsburgh when you visited? My friend says that Pittsburgh is pretty rad!
I'm going into their logic program!
I applied because they're one of the best for that, and the department is a super good fit. I'm from Michigan, so the winter doesn't scare me. I loved Pittsburgh! It has a lot of charm, and seems like a fun place to be.
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On 4/4/2016 at 3:13 PM, pink_freud said:
I grew up in the suburbs, but am excited to get to live close to Oakland! It's a wonderful city and has only been getting better as I have returned on breaks during undergrad
Also has amaaaazing restaurants .
On my visit they took me to the Porch? It was pretty good.
I'm going to be living on North Craig? Pretty excited.
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There's a Goodnotes app that lets you write directly on your pdfs. It's less bulky than a textbook, and you can bookmark things easily. That being said, I used this for about a semester before going back to textbooks. (Still in undergrad though.)
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On 4/1/2016 at 1:33 PM, pink_freud said:
Yay glad someone finally started a Pittsburgh thread! I will be starting at the University of Pittsburgh this fall!
Yay! For some reason this didn't give me a notification when you replied. Ah well. Have you been to visit yet? Such a pretty city! I should have included University of Pittsburgh in the title, since we're so close. Oops! Sorry.
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Just now, thepinkdragon76 said:
I think we have made this more of a congrats and what now thread. Congrats to you! I am trying to figure out funding now. Applying for scholarships in hopes of avoiding student loans.
Oh good! I'm applying for a couple, but also have asked my new department if I can TA and grade at the same time, which means I only need to come up with 4k + living expenses for the entire program. Which isn't bad at all.
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So, are we still waiting? Because I'm not waiting anymore. I committed. O.o I'm going to Carnegie Mellon! Yay! However, most awkward thing ever happened. I was walking through my current school's philosophy department, and a random prof introduced himself and I was like "Hi! I'm Elizabeth!" And he was like "Neat! Are you a prospective?" And I was like "Oh. Uh. Nope." And walked away. Apparently the visit is occurring now. Which explains why my adviser was in his office when I dropped in to give him an update.
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3 minutes ago, sjoh197 said:
Lol.... I have the problem of having really really dark brown hair and eyes, but incredibly pale white skin. Like... I'm almost reflective. So a lot of colors just don't look right on me. The good news is that I can get away with some funky colors though.
My mother and I would go to the mall sometimes and pick out just butt ugly colored floral and patterned stuff to try on with our "good" clothes just for laughs... and some of it would end up looking great on me. :/
I saw an article yesterday where these plus sized girls did the measuring and ordering recommended sizes from online retailers to see how they would fit irl compared to how they fit the model. At one point this girl tried on a floral top and her comment was "It's like someone hosted a garden party, but forgot to invite my self esteem."
I feel like this frequently when I go shopping.
Congratulations @AlbeeW! Is there a program you're leaning towards?
@hippyscientist my mom recently did an oil slick hair on a client.
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Just now, sjoh197 said:
Navy is always nice with pink.
It's become my MO. I'm a little sad that I didn't realize that I can't wear red with pink hair without looking like Valentine's Day threw up on me. T_T
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1 minute ago, pterosaur said:
Yeah, I visited CMU about 2 weeks ago, when I did a whirlwind tour back to the US and visited all my schools in one go. I had 24 hours in Pittsburgh, so the scheduled a really jam-packed intense visit for me. It also involved the department head giving me a tour of the new biomedical engineering building, which is still an active construction site. So that was fun.
How was it? One of my friends visited last week and she said she loved it. I'm pretty excited.
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3 minutes ago, Puffer Fish said:
My favorite school said no, via a physical letter in the mail.
I have one more school to hear from and if I don't get an acceptance, I'm stuck in waitlist hell.
Everything is terrible and I want to cry.
Oh no! I'm sorry. T_T
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1 minute ago, hippyscientist said:
That went straight over my head haha so I don't think you're dumb! I do a lot of "math" but it's all mechanics and/or statistics and not logic stuff.
Ooops. Maybe more background? Propositional logic is some variables (you can use x,y,z. But I'm going to use a0,a1,a2. . . for reasons that will be clear later.) And also some symbols. We have and (^), or (v), if/then (->), if and only if (<->) and not (~). You can give what's called a recursive definition of propositional logic that goes like this:
We will call a bunch of variables and symbols a well-formed formula (WFF, pronounced like the song a dog makes Woof) if it meets the following criteria:
1. Any variable an where n is a natural number (0, 1, 2, 3, . . . ) is a WFF.
2. If you have two WFFs, α, β, then α ^ β, α v β, α -> β, α <-> β, and ~ α are also well formed.
3. Nothing else is well formed.
Knowing this, the prof asked me if it was possible for me to pick a way of just saying well formed formulas such that if I was given a random WFF, I would be sure that I would eventually say the given one. I answered wrong. T_T
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8 minutes ago, pterosaur said:
Now that I have word back from all my PhD applications, I'm not sure whether I should move on from "Wine, Wait, and Whine" to "Decide and Drink", or whether I stick around to stress about waiting to hear back on 4 independent fellowship applications. (You want to talk about a long and frustrating wait? Some of these applications were due in October and don't send back word until April!)
Oooh. That does sound frustrating! Have you visited CMU yet? I'm going to visit Thursday! Eeeeeeee. Super excited. Before then I have SO MUCH TO DO though. (So naturally I'm here telling y'all about it instead of doing it.) I have two essays due tomorrow and two math problem sets due Wednesday. T_T
I'm taking an independent study on math logic stuff, and on Friday he asked if there was a way to make an algorithm that will print every string of well formed formulas, and/or one to print every tautology and I was like "Pshhhh no? They go to infinity so quickly. You would have A or A. And you would have A or A or A. And you would have A or A or A or A. And you would never get to anything else. I'm pretty sure about that." Half an hour later he was like "So, for your homework, you're going to find that algorithm." *dies* But it was actually super easy! There's a twitter bot doing it, and it's my new favorite bot. You can measure a string by its length, and since there are countably many atoms you could have in propositional logic, you make a grid, and then draw a squiggly line through it, making sure you hit every box. Then, in each box there will be a finite number of items that are that length and have that atomic symbol as an element. As soon as I thought about it, it was pretty obvious, but now I'm worried that he thinks I'm dumb. xD
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1 minute ago, thepinkdragon76 said:
Right now anything will do. Haha. Once I get my kid from school I think I will be drinking lots of wine tonight. KU is playing with my emotions and I'm afraid to check my emails. LOL Don't send me emails like I am student when you haven't sent me notice of acceptance or rejection!
I think one of the schools I applied to sent my number to a bunch of telemarketers. >.<
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3 minutes ago, hippyscientist said:
See I like Dr. Patron! But that's just me, I have a thing for words that can be interpreted multiple ways. You have a very beautiful name btw. At the end of the day, you gotta do what's going to work for you, so if Elizabeth Viera is going to be the option you feel most comfortable with, go for it!
When I need gifts for people, I give them small bottles of the tequila. (If they're at least 21.)
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1 minute ago, hippyscientist said:
Ohh name changes are always fun! I changed mine at school because there were 2 of us with the same nickname (I have a relatively uncommon name). I then decided I didn't like it (a celebrity who shared the same name did some silly stuff) so I changed it at university, but now I've reverted back to the nickname I had at school because it's just more me! The only ones who may have a problem are those who've known you a long time. No one else is really going to care if you're just shifting to using your middle name. I was called Harmony for a year (like as far away from my actual name as possible). Just start telling people to call you Eliza/elizabeth. Also, get used to hearing it!!!
Yeah. My full name is Sarah Elizabeth Viera-Patron, and I wanted to go by something less ethnic sounding (because it doesn't really represent me. Identity issues with being half-Mexican and stuff), but Sarah Viera sounds very ... ditzy. Sarah Patron would make me Dr. Patron (because it's pronounced like the tequila) and that would make me sound like a bad DJ. So I want to publish as Elizabeth Viera.
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Hi friends! How's it going? I've decided to change my name for graduate school. (And by that, I mean, I'm going by my middle name, which is Elizabeth, though I also will accept Eliza as a shortening of this.) I'm not sure what steps I need to take for this, but I started telling the starbucks barista to call me that, so that's going well.
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Just now, philosophe said:
No, those are my WLs. I'm waiting on rejections from Stanford and Rutgers, and any news from UT Austin, UCLA and CUNY.
Ohhhh
I'm waiting for rejections from UCBerkeley, Stanford, and UMich.
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4 minutes ago, philosophe said:
Morning vent:
Dear admissions committees, please put us out of our misery so that we can focus on the options that we still have. There's no need to wait another month just to reject us, it will not help you and it certainly will not help us.
xoxoxoxo
philosophe
Are you waiting for the yellow ones or the blue ones?
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1 hour ago, gradapplicantinagony said:
Yay!! The agony is over! I applied to Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon for an MS in HCI. Georgia Tech rejected me and today I was accepted at CMU/Univ of Madeira. I guess I should say that the agony is only partially over because now I have to start with the student loan process... hopefully I can get enough. So much planning to do. I have never lived outside of hot California so moving to Pittsburgh and then Portugal will be very interesting. I am finally getting out of my comfort zone.
I am also wondering if I should still apply to my back up programs (later app deadline) that are cheaper just in case I don't get enough funding - but I don't want to waste money applying hmmm.
Hey! I was accepted to CMU for an M.S./M.A.! Are you going to visit CMU? I'm going in about two weeks. Congratulations!
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18 minutes ago, marycaryne said:
On my end, one application status says the program completed their review and will send the decision via email. That was a couple days ago and I was hoping to hear by today. The day isn't over yet and I'm really hoping they can carve out time in their day to click that "send" button because I don't want to go through a painfully slow weekend waiting for Monday to get here. Another school said they'd finish reviewing my application this week and send a decision after that, which I am thinking I won't see until at least the 14th since they are on spring break next week. Not that it will stop me from checking portal every few minutes. I'm not expecting a decision from another until later this month, and the fourth has been radio silent. I will say this is probably the first time in my life that I hate the weekends.
I work in a University department that's on Spring break, and we've been fully staffed all week. So, spring break doesn't mean you won't hear!
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Just now, nka93 said:
Maybe they confused email with Twitter?
I don't even know.
5 minutes ago, Euler said:Oh goodness! Maybe they were only allowed to send emails with 10 words or fewer? That's the only reason I could ever imagine an email like that would be appropriate.
Somebody needs to be fired
Somebody appears to be a professor.
But they should treat people with more dignity.
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Hi friends! How are you? I was rejected from Princeton this morning, but that's okay. It wasn't a great fit for me, and I'm very enthusiastic about my acceptance with partial funding to CMU.
But omg in the facebook group someone posted that they were rejected from Columbia with an email that said:
I'm sorry to report you are not admitted
All best
(Initials)
Sent from my iPhone
OMG I would probably flip a table if I paid a $105 application fee and received that as a response. I didn't apply to Columbia though, so it's okay.
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Ross is pretty good. One of my best friends is a Ph.D. student there. She's pretty awesome, but also told me "If you cry every day in grad school, don't worry because that's normal." And now I'm a bit scared, but I think that also just might be her. I'll probably still cry sometimes, but not like every day. xD I like warm places, but it's not a huge priority for me. I almost like bad weather because it makes me stay inside and be productive. I super love rain, though.