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FoggyAnhinga

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  1. I assume at this point everyone has heard from most, if not all the schools they applied to. Best luck to you all on your graduate school career for the upcoming fall!
  2. I haven't eaten out in quite a few months now (not even for a cup of coffee). I also try to take buses as much as possible (saves money on gas). And I pack my lunch every day. Hear hear! Libraries are awesome. If I really need to buy books (leisure reading or a textbook) I buy them via my Kindle since the e-book prices are usually cheaper. Although Kindle kinda kills the actual reading feel (it's never the same as holding an actual book) but at least I don't have to lug around 4-5 textbooks daily haha (maybe that's an exaggeration).
  3. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (his songs suck btw - but that's just my opinion). I definitely heard more than I need to know about them at this point (and I'm pretty sure many people are getting sick of them too).
  4. Well, now that summer is approaching, for those living in the midwest/east coast, guess what that means with increasing humidity indoors (if you decide to save electricity bills by cutting down your AC use)? COCKROACH INVASION...
  5. Thanks sfrie! That admission in my signature is actually a professional master's degree program (that was a backup program I applied to in case if I am rejected from all the PhDs - I've been applying to various jobs as backup as well but no luck with them), but I'm okay with that too since my dream career is to work for a government agency or a company rather than to become a professor (and this 1-2 year program apparently trains their students on attaining these jobs well, seeing how most of their graduates have good stable jobs in gov't agencies as researchers afterwards - though my ultimate dream when it comes to education was obtaining a PhD, but I guess I can reapply again next year or so, if I'm rejected from the remaining four schools). The lab I applied to at my top choice school was crazily competitive - there were well over 100 potential applicants for only four PhD/MS student openings (actually, only two PhD student openings - the others were MS) in ONE lab at that university, and I had to pass through four rounds of application reviews (including two interviews - video and lab visit) to become a finalist. I definitely knew that getting through the last hurdle (final verdict on whether I'm accepted or rejected) was going to be the most difficult hurdle of all, haha... (at least it felt nice to be a finalist out of that many applicants). Congrats on your amazing admissions and best of luck choosing where to attend this fall!
  6. Just got rejected from my top choice At this point I guess I'll prepare myself to attend backup admittance!
  7. Not sure about the academia job prospects in fisheries here in the US with a doctoral degree from UK, but I do know that there are quite a few prominent fisheries/marine biology faculty in the US who pursued a doctoral degree at the University of British Columbia. McGill and Laval University are also good schools to pursue a PhD degree in fisheries and marine biology.
  8. I too am waiting for UCSC EEB. Still no word from them, but according to their application status page, supposedly they are expecting a higher volume of users this week, which means many admission decisions might be released this week. Haha PNW is a fun place to live. I heard from several colleagues who attended/worked at UW SAFS that many grad students at SAFS actually are not very happy with their current program and the professors there, so I guess it was kind of a good destiny for me not to get accepted lol (still it doesn't stop me from being disappointed with the rejection...).
  9. Rejected from University of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, but that was kinda expected, seeing how they only accept ~9-10% of applicants each year (according to UW grad admission statistics over 150 ppl apply every year and only 12-15 people get accepted, master's and PhD applicants put together). Also it seems like many professors are tight on funding... Still waiting from my other schools! Fingers crossed for everyone!
  10. The prof sounds like an insensitive and an arrogant individual... sorry to hear about that I've had profs who forwarded my question to the rest of the class as well, but they always crossed out my names and never criticized my questions. And yeah, some profs get so sidetracked with their work that they completely forget what your question was and give you an irrelevant answer (happened to me quite a few times in the past during my meetings with other profs... really annoying). I also had a bad email exchange experience with a TA (he was a total d*****bag) a while ago, during my first couple days as a first year undergrad. I politely sent him an email asking him a simple question about the weekly assignment electronic submissions (it was explained vaguely in the syllabus so i just wanted to confirm). And guess what his response was? I can't believe I still have that guy's email from all the way back then. Copy and pasted, it was "THIS INFORMATION IS IN THE WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (yes, he put everything in caps and put that many exclamation marks). I mean, WTF seriously?? I was THIS CLOSE to emailing back to him "hey a**hole, no need to be such a dick about it, I'm new to college and just wanted to confirm since it was explained NOT CLEARLY AT ALL" but seeing how he was the head TA of the course, I didn't want to risk failing the class (if he decides to treat me as an enemy if I every replied in a such manner). So, as hard as it was, I restrained myself (didn't want to start off my college experience on a wrong foot either haha). Ever since that happened I made a personal mission myself that if I was ever to become a TA I'll try my best to treat all the students fairly, no matter how repetitive or simple their questions may be (unless they try to cheat or plagiarize). Certainly I'll NEVER respond by starting with the line "THIS INFORMATION IS IN THE WEBSITE!!!!!!".
  11. Thanks Rivers! Fingers crossed for you that there will be a positive response! Looks like I have nothing to lose at this stage so I guess I'll send a polite email to my POI...
  12. A HUGE congrats to you!! I'm still waiting from my top choice... I know that my top choice also has the April 15 deadline to give me time to decide on an admission offer (if I am admitted) so I hope they send a decision soon to give me enough time to think (not that I plan to hold my acceptance as long as possible or anything, but an admission at least two weeks prior to the deadline would be nice).
  13. I think I was chewing on some beef jerky and reading my Kindle (of course, the acceptance made me almost drop my Kindle and to this day I still haven't made any progress with that reading since then haha).
  14. This week is ending with Friday March 13th, so I sincerely hope it does not end with a bad news (but then, I never had anything bad happen to me during any Friday 13th in the past before haha...)
  15. Don't get me wrong, I love dogs, but what I would like to vent about are irresponsible owners or owners in constant denial. I knew a colleague who didn't give her dog much attention as she should and her dog would go around chewing/destroying household items whenever her owner was absent (it's quite mind-blowing to see how your place looks after being gone for only a few hours). Sadly the owner was always sugarcoating it, saying that it's because she's only a puppy (she's 5 years old! Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is not a puppy) and she was always in denial (didn't want to admit her dog had problems nor admit her problems with not giving her dog enough attention). If I nor others were there to witness her dog doing the destruction (even though it was obvious it was her dog since other dogs were kept in their crates while the owners were out), she would stubbornly argue that we can't prove her dog did it... sigh...
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