FoxAndChicken
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Just now, raaawr said:
Haha you're correct, I'm in Asia, Philippines to be exact. Lol. I'm not sure about Korea's timezone but I'm 13 hours ahead of east coast time. Haha. I don't keep up much with kpop (I only like Taeyang lol) but I used to watch kdramas a lot. I might be doing that again soon since I'm becoming insomniac again thanks to grad school application. Lol.
So, that seemed weird to me, because I was under the impression that the philippines were more east than Korea. So I looked at a map, and realized that I only ever studied geography by region, and there are a whole lot of things that I misproportioned in my mental image of the world. Mind. Blown.
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4 minutes ago, raaawr said:
What time is it where you guys are? It's 11:20pm where I am, and since my school is in NYC if they're going to email me at all, they should do it now. Lol. I'm going crazyyyy!
@The InterdisciplinarianWhere are you in Ohio? I used to live in Cincinnati lol
It's 10:30AM here. Are you in Asia somewhere? South Korea is about an hour ahead of you, I think? I only know that offhand because I tend to keep track of kpop releases.
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4 minutes ago, The Interdisciplinarian said:
I am in full blown insomnia mode, y'all. *cries*
One of my friends told me she was having nightmares because she is afraid that her boyfriend and her will break up after he graduates and it terrifies her that he might date someone else. She knows this thinking is irrational, so I didn't really have much to say except ". . . Well. If you don't sleep you won't have nightmares."
This is how I'm getting through application waiting season.
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1 minute ago, SLPgradstudent said:
Ugh, I know what you mean! Everyone, my parents, my grandmother, my fiancé's parents and so on, all keep saying "I'm sure you'll get in!" My response is always to remind them how competitive these programs are, but they don't seem to think there's a chance I won't get in. I'm terrified that I won't get into school because I really, really want to go to grad school this fall, but also because they'll all be so disappointed. Hopefully that won't happen!
The only one who has said "It'll be okay if you don't" is my fiancé, and I'm not convinced that he completely believes it either.
One of the professors in the department I work in said that she was shut out, went and learned a couple languages and got in everywhere she applied. That made me feel better.
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37 minutes ago, nka93 said:
It's frustrating that my family and friends are always asking if I've heard back, saying I will for sure be accepted, or saying "if you end up living in (insert location of a school)..." My mom would absolutely love for me to end up at a school a few hours from home rather than one of the ones on the east coast and I'm constantly reminding her that the close school may reject me. And even if they do accept me I may not be able to afford it.
This is my second application season. I got shut out last year after getting the same exact comments over and over. I already have so much stress about my future and what will happen if I get shut out again. I probably don't have a third round in me emotionally or financially. I hate that I'm carrying the expectations of others on my shoulders as well. I know they mean well, but I'm barely holding it together and those comments make it way more difficult. I've said as much and they can't seem to understand that it adds so much more pressure to the situation.
I understand. I don't want my friends and family to say "I'm sure you'll get in!" I want them to say "It'll be okay if you don't." Because I feel like it's pretty likely I'll be shut out.
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1 hour ago, jorou said:
Just noticed a signature that had a UM Ann Arbor rejection... can't find the person now. Has Michigan contacted anyone?
️I don't believe UM Philosophy has, but the classics department has people who specialize in ancient philosophy, so it could have been that.
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8 hours ago, majorshake said:
Grading can be.. especially with dry units like "critical thinking" (at my institution it means basic logic).
Leading classes is fucking great though. I love teaching. In each class there are those 2 or 3 students that listen, do their work, and ask the most insightful questions. It's so damn rewarding.I decided that I wanted to be a logic major between freshman and sophomore year, but even before that I would basically beg my friends taking the class to let me help them. (Unfortunately, something about logic means people don't want tutors because they think it's remedial thinking and they don't want to admit they're bad at thinking.) But finally I have friends taking math logic, and they not only want my help, they give me Starbucks gift cards in exchange!
6 hours ago, lisamadura said:Whoa, get after it! That sounds like a nightmare. Although, I do find that the busier I am the happier and more productive I tend to be. I only have two lecture preps right now and they're both courses I've taught a bunch so It isn't much work outside of actually lecturing and grading. My schedule is almost too open (I might get virtual eggs thrown at me for that one). As counter-intuitive as this sounds, I think I would get more of my thesis written if I had more additional responsibilities.
I can't remember a time without lots of things to do. (I think that as a kid this is how my mom kept me from hanging out with the neighbor kids who all do meth now.) So I am both used to it and crave it. One thing that really jumpstarts my productivity is to make an entry in my planner that has the items I need to do with estimated time it should take. And I tend to estimate on the low side to push myself to do the things faster.
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Just now, majorshake said:
I think the more commonly used term in the US would be grading?
(I do a lot of teaching/grading/marking at the uni where I'm doing my MA)Oh, got it. I've heard grading can be tedious. It's weird to think that I could be leading classes within two years.
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6 minutes ago, majorshake said:
Cute dog!
I found the most soul-sucking way to spend the weekend that isn't waiting: I'm marking undergrad assignments in critical thinkingMarking?
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All of that sounds really cool! I've never taken a physics course. Actually, my science courses in general are pretty lacking. I had to plan out every class I wanted to take when I was a sophomore because I decided to make my own major. Since I wanted to take upper level/graduate coursework in multiple departments, I needed to do prereqs in Linguistics, Philosophy, Math, and CS. Between that and my history minor, I ate up all of my electives. :/ No regrets, though! Interesting stuff, for sure. What is your background? I'm finishing up my senior year at UMich.
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52 minutes ago, o m g said:
Just curious - what other schools did you apply to?
Order which I applied: Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, Yale, UMich, Carnegie Mellon, and Tufts.
I don't want to preference rank them because I will be ecstatic if I get into any one of them, and definitely don't expect to get into multiple. Ergo, if I am in a scenario of having to decide, I'll figure it out, but I won't anticipate being in that position.
Where did you apply?
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16 minutes ago, raaawr said:
I'm just on episode 5. Lol. I only started yesterday cause I just finished watching all 8 seasons of that 70s show then I started watching the first season again so I was like, I need a break from the 70s. Lol!
I've never actually watched That 70's Show. Is it good?
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I was going to apply Harvard, but I had so many apps on one day that I decided against it. Also, if I get shut out, I can apply again next year and they won't have seen my application. Reading their site was so nice because it validated that what I do is indeed a thing.
I'm the first/only logic major at my school, so it's a lot of floating between the math and philosophy departments. -
2 hours ago, KingNikolai1 said:
I will hear back from Yale this upcoming week or the week after. Since Columbia and Yale are my two top choices, the wait is incredibly nerve wracking. I even had a slight feeling of nausea for a little bit, and it can be hard to occupy my time on the weekends with things besides homework and movies. The worst was I had a nightmare last night. In the nightmare I was rejected from Yale, and the comments mentioned that my writing ability in Russian was nonexistent, my reading comprehension was lacking, and my speaking was incomprehensible.
The pathetic part is I have already been accepted to two programs, and I am just waiting to hear about funding. Yet, the doubt and uncertainty never seems to leave.
The nightmares, omg. I had a dream that parenthesis were chasing me and the next day, when I was typing up homework for my recursion theory class, I realized that how I'd written it before the nightmare actually did have mismatched parenthesis.
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2 hours ago, o m g said:
I also applied - do we know if anyone has heard back from them yet? I know math and philosophy acceptances are already out, so I don't know if I should despair. I got into Irvine LPS though, so I'm happy I can go somewhere to pursue my interests. I have broad interests, but with respect to Berkeley, I'm particularly interested in doing set theory, with an eye towards exploring philosophical questions about the justification for additional axioms (like large cardinals and reflection principles) and answering questions like the Continuum hypothesis that are independent of the axioms. (Unfortunately, Hugh Woodin recently left to Harvard though, but they still have John Steel...) I'm also interested in model theory/computability theory, more general quesstions in the philosophy of logic/mathematics, and lastly formal epistemology.
I don't think we'll hear back for about a week and a half, if last year is any indication. They seem to get a little later each year, but I don't have a ton of data. I'm taking set theory now! It's cool stuff. Working on well orderings and stuff. Did you apply Harvard also?
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On January 26, 2016 at 10:34 AM, reddog said:
I don't suffer from stress-eating, however....... stress-shopping.
I'm constantly scowering online stores, looking at clothes, jewelry, makeup. I have only ordered twice so far (both for birthdays - ok ok one is my own birthday), but I know I'm playing a dangerous game here
I stress shop, too. It's really bas because I just quit my retail job recently because I was hired to help with a cool research project. This is my first weekend where I have things to do, but don't have to be anywhere to do them, so I'm doing probably six months of laundry. (Over the past six months I've done a load per week, but worn more than a load of clothes per week.) I am currently horrified at the amount of clothing I purchased while working at a cute boutique. O.o
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56 minutes ago, raaawr said:
I am currently watching Jessica Jones at 2am to keep myself sane during Februgatory. If my program will follow last year's interview invitation emails, according to the results page they should be sending out invites on Monday. How to survive this weekend and how to survive this month if I don't get an interview invitation? Ahhhhhh!!!!
Jessica Jones is pretty excellent! So many ups and downs. What part are you on? Over winter break I watched a lot of Buffy.
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1 hour ago, piglet33 said:
@gingin6789 I had my Nirvana band tee on, and when I was explaining it was a band - the older gentleman asked what it was - he thought it was my band. So cute.
I haven't officially started yet, but one of the researchers at my university is in the brand new IOC-comissioned research centre for sports medicine and he's developed a novel tool for injury analysis and it looks like I might be able to work with him on that which is just mind-blowingly cool in my book. Isn't it awesome when you get all nerdy excited about research?! haha
That project sounds SO cool! I sprained my ankle like twenty times over four years, and then I went to physical therapy and now I don't faceplant while walking over flat surfaces.
This past week I started a project in the math department developing a logic curriculum for first or second year undergraduates that explains why math proofs work. Specifically, when you explain: "Take an arbitrary element of a set. Show that it has these properties. Then, you conclude that everything in the set has this property." It takes a while to sink in why that works. So we're developing a curriculum that will give them lots of practice with this. I'm SUPER excited to start this project, because usually math peoples think I do a fuzzier version of what they do. But now I get to make them clean up their notation. Muhahahaha!
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I don't give myself a choice. I am in six classes and have three jobs and maintain leadership positions in three student organizations. Not being productive isn't an options.
I'm required to be places for all of these things, which helps. I check my email every very few minutes at most of them. Fortunately, people understand.
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49 minutes ago, Pink Fuzzy Bunny said:
Man guys, I've already emailed Cornell twice since I was admitted two days ago. I'm not even there yet and I'm sure they're already regretting admitting me
I mean, maybe. But I have a couple friends who independently use the phrase "I'm obnoxious," and they're all really successful people. Probably for that reason? One girl was talking about feedback she got from some judges at a thing, and I was like "Wait. How did you get feedback? Those are secret ballots." And she was like "I'm obnoxious." And yeah. That's why she wins.
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I haven't heard anything yet, but all of my friends in mathematics have heard from a bunch of schools. It's just a difference of field (I'm applying mostly philosophy and the earliest any of them should be released is like the 12th), but every time I go into the math department (which is daily) they ask if I've heard any good news yet. Like, there hasn't been any news, and that's fine. It's just making the waiting that much worse.
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I recently posted general interview advice in the Wine Wait and Whine thread! Not grad school specific though.
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Some tips I picked up for interviews: 1. Being really grateful and really nervous are weirdly mutually exclusive. If I get in the mindset of remembering all of the improbabilities that had to line up for me to get where I am, then I don't feel nervous any more. Also, it helps you remember to be kind of humble. 2. Remember that they want you to succeed. Everyone has that fear of being like in the middle school talent show where people boo you off stage because your talent is bad. But you're ACTUALLY qualified to be in said interview, and more importantly, middle school students are terrible. Even the most terrible adult will not be as soul crushing as a judgy middle school student. So they won't boo you out of the interview, even if your talent sucks. Because social norms. 3. They don't want perfect, they just want you. The best way to be an interesting person is to be interested in things. You want to get a Ph.D. for a reason, right? If you weren't interested in the topic, you wouldn't be doing this. Let that shine through, because that is exciting to the person interviewing you as well. View it as an opportunity to nerd with a fellow enthusiast. :D
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I don't have a good excuse for this. I'm just doing the stereotypical American thing and realizing it's been years since I took a close look at a map.
Fortunately, I'm not applying for a geography Ph.D.