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BlueNahlchee

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  1. For Skype interviews, I am always terrified about sudden power outage or WiFi disconnection that will throw me off the track and make me stumble the rest of the way.
  2. One year a long time ago, there were penguins who didn't wear hats when swimming. This made their mothers livid. "Unacceptable!" Frightened, they screamed, "Bears!" Nobody seemed convinced so instead of going swimming they tried juggling. Their mothers tried everything they thought would teach her a skill. However, she couldn't even make oatmeal without disastrous results. So, the penguins gathered money (obviously) trying to purchase a bear. Towering over them, a grizzly beast danced, devouring all bears with such ferocity that even God enjoyed it. Afterwards, God congratulated the penguins and applauded them. "You did it!" Suddenly, the grizzly beast started dancing vigorously. There was an acromantula nearby. It challenged the preconception that magical mushrooms were magical. Sparkling, the magical mushrooms were spreading throughout town. Nobody with pyromania thought grilled cheese would spontaneously erupt into nine identical squirrels! Nevertheless, the penguins elucidated the benefits of sparkling water from Iceland. Suddenly, Iceland exclaimed, "Enough!!! No more penguins. Kill all of the arcades on Monday because King Arthur suffered from sphenisciphobia." Tragically, everyone forgot lasers cure bug madness, meaning none of them stripped the violet beast of his powerful jaw bones. So while some arms spouted Kool-aid, others chopped nuts. This phenomenon halted commerce. Together twenty-five yellow dragons danced sporadically inebriating all anger
  3. I might be traveling outside the country in a couple months, so I am planning to bring back some souvenirs as gifts for my LOR writers.
  4. I've definitely done that too, so I know what you mean though I feel that it usually does not disqualify you from being considered for the lab you are applying for (unless you were talking about random nonsense or irrelevant stuff, which I'm sure you didn't haha).
  5. Your undergrad academic record looks great - certainly doesn't look like anything to be concerned about. 3.66/4.00 overall is a pretty good GPA, and even better, you have demonstrated that you have improved your academic performance every semester. Many programs often require overall undergrad GPA to be 3.0/4.0 or above, and often, they require overall GPA of last two years (or four semesters) of your undergraduate career to be at least 3.0 as well, so yes, often they do weigh latter two years more. Once again, I think your GPAs are great throughout your undergrad and your MA so I wouldn't worry about it. Nicely done!
  6. Well, I will say that after applying to many PhD programs for 2017 admission, nothing has been more frustrating than transcript requests. The MOST frustrating part about transcripts is that there are still a ton of graduate programs that require us to request official transcripts to be mailed from their respective institutions after we submit our application (to be fully considered for review by the admissions committee, even if we have not received any unofficial admission offers), and often, these institutions will only accept hard copies via snail mail! Even when many universities are offering electronic official secured PDF options! Seriously, this is 2017... Some institutions I request transcripts to be requested from have both first-class mail & overnight delivery options (though the second options always costs like crazy, but I always choose the second option if it's available, since the registrar office takes their sweet time to delay the delivery if a first-class option is requested), and some only offer their infamously sluggish first-class mail option. I find that first-class mail transcripts from their respective institutions sometimes take up to TWO weeks (or even longer) to get delivered, even though I requested them WELL IN ADVANCE! Some of these institutions' registrar office take FOREVER to process the transcript order and won't officially mail it until 2-3 days (or even longer) after initial request... simply ridiculous. Another frustrating part about these is that the admissions office of the graduate programs I applied to will email me (or nag me, if you can call it that, haha) to remind me that they still have not received the transcripts. I mean, what else am I supposed to do? I've done all I can by requesting transcripts to be mailed well in advance (as well as triple-checking that the recipient addresses are entered correctly). Sometimes I even had to order more copies because they were just taking so long to get delivered. And sometimes they were just plain lost in the mail! Does anyone else here found transcript requests to be the most frustrating part about graduate applications? Or does anyone have any transcript horror/annoyance stories to share? I'm relieved that more and more schools are only requesting official hard-copy transcripts (or ePDF) after an applicant is admitted, which makes this whole process SO MUCH EASIER. However, a large number of schools (including some I applied to) still require official HARD COPY transcripts mailed by snail mail to be fully reviewed by the admissions committee (even if you have not received an unofficial admissions offer), which I find it ludicrous, seeing that this is 2017 (and ePDF transcripts save so many trees). I will say that if it wasn't for all these transcript requests, I would definitely have saved a substantial amount of my savings that went to graduate applications...
  7. According to the Google search results, POI is also a popular acronym for "Poor Obfuscation Implementation".
  8. I recently began applying for jobs frantically to get my mind not too distracted by this waiting game...
  9. Everyone seems to love Game of Thrones but I'm not really a fan...
  10. Every time I see a new email, my mind is racing, only to find that it's another promotion email that came from a local museum I visited only once (I've been on an unsubscribing email spree from these promotional/spam emails since fall 2016).
  11. I applied to UCLA & UCR too - haven't heard a peep from them yet. It appears that there haven't been any results posted on survey about interview offers from them so far. Has anyone else applied to UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology? It seems like they have been sending out interview weekend invites last week
  12. Ah bummer that's crazy! 30 applicants for one lab opening... I guess your POI must have been overwhelmed too on deciding which applicant out of so many to choose from (I'm guessing many of them were very well qualified, including you as well). I'm not surprised about the competition... from what I hear often these days, PhD programs in our field are becoming fiercely competitive, much more so than ever before. Still looks like you got an interview though! Fingers crossed!
  13. I too got a generic rejection from UC Irvine - they responded super quickly (only 19 days after their deadline - seems almost unheard of for EEB programs!). But apparently the UCI grad school didn't know that their EEB dept. already made admission rejection decisions for a bunch of applicants and kept sending us emails (their Ayala school email, which arrived after the rejection email from the EEB dept, read "thank you for applying! The department will be in touch with you shortly.") & hard-copy catalog about how great their grad school is, etc (they even put a memo in the catalog saying "while you wait for your admission decision, here are the reasons why you should attend Ayala school!"). Salt in the wound indeed! Oh well, at least it's better than keep us waiting for months and then rejecting us...
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