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  1. Concordia
    Then there's the "those people from the Rhodes Trust keep sending me junk mail-- are they hassling you, too, about applying to this secret fellowship?" line, which is probably not too good to drop on your peers.
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    On the plus side, were you to re-take the degree, you'd zoom through the coursework and have a ready-drafted thesis to hand in.
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    Much of this depends on a purely academic vs. professional school. For the latter, schools often prefer students with some work experience, so they can be qualified for those great management track jobs upon departure. For a more academic thing, it's a bit of a wash. On the other hand, I'm not sure that I wouldn't prefer, as an employer, to hire an entry-level person who has an MA in anthropology and languages vs a BA in the same field. More maturity, more diverse skills, more travel experience, probably more real meat on the transcript.
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    When I did the MBA-equivalent, we were divided into orientation groups that stayed more or less intact for core classes. They became de facto study groups, which was helpful especially in first term. Perhaps you can put out feelers (on screen or verbally) that you want to start a similar thing, well before midterms come up. You do learn a lot about people when you argue with them about reading and problem sets. The main thing is to structure it well enough that it is convenient and doesn't benefit free riders. But as long as you're not actually handing in group projects, that shouldn't be so hard.
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    I don't know the politics of this sector, but high GREs might make you attractive enough to a school that the GPA won't be an impediment by itself. Going back to the MBA analogy, there are few expectations of perfect average GPAs among student bodies, as there will be a lot of foreigners, engineers, and others applying who wouldn't normally get 4.0s even on a good day. But GMAT is easily digested and reported to the prestige-mongers, and is also a tolerable proxy for being able to handle the curriculum. For both those reasons, fabulous test scores may give you a good shot of having them take the rest of your application seriously. And it sounds as if you have your act together in a lot of important ways.
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    I have lower GPA than that-- first, my college didn't normally inflate grades as is often done now. Second, it was a few decades ago (to add to that). And those were the four years my family decided to explode, so I was a real mess. Luckily, I then got an unusually good transcript from a strong MBA, (mostly because I was so un-savvy about networking I slaved away on coursework), a bunch of As from part-time courses in more specifically-academic stuff, and what I hope will be a "first" or something like it in a master's in my subject in England. At this point, I think the real issue is bottling up my writing samples and selling a particular line of study to whomever. Anyone who won't want my undergrad GPA to screw up their ratings will just have to deal with it. I'm also guessing that in your case, with SLP (more of a professional program, yes?), that they're going to be most interested in whether you'll survive the program and make them look good by being employed at the end. Lots of ways to make that case that go beyond the transcript. That is how I got into and out of my MBA program.
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    Yeah-- as I recall, Ferguson's best stuff was looking at casualties and interest rates. His political judgments were based on the very ahistorical problem of being unable to see a real difference between Ludendorff and Angela Merkel.
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    If you want to throw a small monkey wrench into the discussion, there is Niall Ferguson's Pity of War. Some really bad misjudgments, IMO, but he does put up some interesting stuff.
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    This makes me glad I'm a historian. St. A's procedure for keeping your lab bench secure seems to be sound. And from what you've said, the perpetrator may be in the process of melting down and betraying herself, so it may get resolved anyway. But just in case, gather your facts, make sure your other lab partners are in agreement, and follow whatever the official procedure is if you don't think there is a chance of getting the right result by speaking informally to your PI. If your PI administers or tolerates this kind of craziness, he/she won't be someone you'd want to have tenure.
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    Of course, you could prove her wrong. . I just did that in a master's thesis, although my advisor did also suggest emphasizing the ambiguity of the issue, that others had come to a whole range of conclusions, etc.
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    Arizona IS a beach. Just waiting for the San Andreas Fault to work its magic. As for Florida, the further north you go, the further south you get.
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    I am hardly an expert in this, but one person whose path has taken in a bit of what you're talking about is Dr David Brendel, who got an MD/PhD in philosophy. I think he's got a fair web presence, where you may find additional fodder for your argument.
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    If you look at her profile, there were some posts about moving to student housing near Kensington. Whether she is still alive to comment, I couldn't say.
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    If you haven't burned out on school and have the chance to do a year with no pressure, I'd say go for it. It's a free option. You could, of course, go to grad school, but that will mean jumping on a particular bus, with its own stresses. Now that you have the freedom to sample advanced courses (and a few intro courses in something you never had time to do), you'll learn more about what you want to do after this. And you are a much more informed observer than you were four years ago. When you do decide to do grad school (or not!), you will be in the position to make a more intelligent choice.
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    Can the analysis be re-run correctly? Or will that take too long? Or (if I understand 'violate a key assumption of the method' correctly, do you simply have the wrong batch of numbers to be doing any analysis on? Anyway, even if the department has reserved the hotel, etc., surely that is refundable, or at least transferable. It would look terrible for them to send you out to present an illogical and completely incorrect paper.
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    The LOR is going to be about what he can recommend you for-- i.e., the work you've done with him. It is also typical for recommenders to get a CV of their subject so they can sound intelligent about the rest of your life. But the main thing is that this person likes you and the work you've done in his lab.
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    Lots of people do Oxbridge masters degrees before their PhD. I believe that US PhDs usually make you go through their MA drill anyway.
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    Dunno, but today I just saw them waiting to graduate while a jazz band played outside the church.
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    I'm hardly an expert on this, but that's what I do as well. I am still behind many of the latest doo-dads for Word-- my latest problem is creating a single Word page from two pdfs and then dropping it into a bigger document. I've made the Word page, and I can turn that into a pdf, but I may have to splice 'before', 'exhibit', and 'after' pdf pages together for the final pdf that gets submitted. Also, I'm making my own footnotes, so these comments about Word doing Chicago make me confused. Still, I shudder to think about learning another program and convincing the rest of the world to want to use it. Maybe if I were doing a lot of group projects... SugarSync had some kind of deal with Lenovo, which made it easier to install than some alternatives. The only time I really almost regretted it was when I bought a new laptop and took it to England for 10 days. It took FOREVER to sync up. Now that we're all done the first time, updates are more or less trouble-free. I've tried to figure out why the services at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft would be better and I haven't got there yet. Some day, I may subscribe to another also just in case SugarSync crashes on the day my laptop is stolen.
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    Lots of excellent advice. We had our first while I was doing the MBA-type thing, second semester. My wife was all gung-ho to be a mom, which caused its own problems. Still, it took the heat off my studies. For the sake of which (as well as for your marriage), do try to line up some kind of relief for child and household care. Not to take away from the bonding, but you will need to have some time away, and also have enough security to do that without guilt. Nanny, maid, family, trustworthy undergraduate-- whatever works for you. But don't get trapped in your home where nobody will see how you're doing.
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    U-Haul often has some good prices if you're staying in the area for the day.
  22. Concordia
    You have been improving your skills/knowledge and making yourself an even better candidate. Let them guess why.
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    Sorry-- I had no point, unless you look like Wally. It's the Internet, so we have to consider all options. seriously, though, it does sound like a pain. Toxic culture is a hard thing to get past. Sometimes conspicuously taking one for the team can get you past the worst of it. In my consulting job out of business school, I got put with a primary who apparently liked hazing junior people. This in a financial firm that was allegedly lifestyle- friendly. I was putting together some research when he/she dropped a set of corrections on my desk before driving home at 6pm. It was probably the only time I had to stay past midnight but when I told him/her at 8 the next morning after the inquisitive look that the corrected draft was on his/her desk, things lightened up a bit. I did get reassigned, but not before getting the right kind of gossip onto the grapevine.
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    Something in the air. Today's paper has another perspective: http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-05-16?utm_source=dilbert.com/newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=brand-loyalty&utm_content=strip-image
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    Luckily, I have never been in that situation. Sounds like a pretty nasty bunch. Unfortunately, my guess is that transferring won't be too easy to do unless you take a year off. Perhaps you can forestall future comments in that direction by saying you went part-time last year to accommodate your sex-change surgery? There's nothing quite like dropping a hint that you know just a little more than the others in the room.
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