PokePsych

When supervisor is like: Let's do idea for paper 1 (redo some messy group experiments from my 1st year) and submit it, 2 (theoretical paper on my thesis), and 3 (random idea I had last week) - you can be first author on all <3 I feel so accomplished today

OK so one of the grad students reached out to talk with me. This is a good sign right?

What about UBC Pysch (and also let me know the POI)??

Awesome - I did have some things/ideas to follow up on that may interest him (although it would be mainly follow up questions - potential research ideas/topics). After all, I don't want to go of the radar.

*swearwords* Make your decision already plz

So I'm sorta having an internal debate about whether I should keep contacting my POI. I've had an interview with him (was a bit all over the place, but OK). Then followed up with a nice RQ and he sent me some papers. Now in my country it is kinda considered 'rude' and 'bad judgment' to keep contacting profs because well... they're busy. However, I met with one of my American friends and he was like gurlllll you should be a lot more aggressive - get back on something you read in the papers. So not sure what to do - do I follow up with some new ideas (although I'd have to develop something nice). Any other opinions on this?

Me! I was like if I don't hear anything by Feb 12th I will start on my plan B (get more experience). Prof sent an email for interview on the 11th (yes weekend). Now I'm back in the emotional rollercoaster. At least assuming I was rejected lead to more peace of mind.

star wars 8)

I still have to explain my mum the difference between a Master's and PhD (every time). Latest comment - but you're a 'master' in your field, doesn't that mean you're finished? Love her. It took her also 2 years into my undergrad to notice I was actually working hard - she had this perception of university being just having fun, taking a class every now and then, and then you would get your degree.

update for those wondering (something I got from an interview): Most decisions are likely to be made before the SPSP meeting (which is March 1-3). Timelines seem to vary a lot per school in terms of POIs - so don't be discouraged if others have heard and you haven't!

This always surprises me so much. Like you would assume they have the money for this sort of stuff (plus is it like that difficult to have info that makes sense?)

I somehow managed to have another interview with the same school tonight - with a different prof (that the original one arranged this) - so I assume that even though I was blank I may just have said some things that made sense :')

I'm in Social Psych - got rejected last week. Probably depends on the department

My point was more that even for social psych I wouldn't go for a sweater and that there are a lot of choices between very formal and very casual (such as business casual).

For what it's worth - there's a lot of options between a suit (very formal) and a sweater (very casual). I'd personally opt for something a little bit more in the middle, but towards the formal side (something that can be interpreted both ways) - maybe business casual. Although this is not too far from what I"m used to wearing in daily life anyway.

In hindsight, I could have done a lot better - but I did show I KNEW stuff and that my thought process sorta makes sense. Like I explained the rationale behind my thesis and there was like a good non-verbal expression on that :') So hoping for the best - I still have one person (maybe two) to talk with - so now I can redeem myself.

I was able to chat with one of my fav scientists in the world. I terribly messed up I think T_T. But I got good advice plus like... this was so cool

I think I messed up my interview big time - I could not form a single coherent sentence on my research interests I think. I was too excited :') ALthough I generally enjoy being a high energy person with high positive emotions (like I'm HAPPY happy in general) - the timing is sometimes terribly off.

So I had an interview - and I think I did not say anything that made sense. I was so excited (and starstruck lol) that I could not make a coherent sentence about my research interest as my brain was just going (OMG OMG OMG OMG LOOK WHO YOU ARE TALKING TO OMG). I even ended up throwing coffee on myself as my energy levels were out of control :') I feel like an absolute idiot and failure and have been feeling super down today and yesterday.

That moment when you have a skype interview with a dreamsupervisor + dream school and you get so excited you can barely make a coherent sentence and manage to spill coffee over yourself. I sometimes hate myself for real.

YES

OK another rejection :')

Being an international student already puts you 10 steps back - simply because of fudning reasons.

I bought a lot of ice cream. I'm happy.

Don't despair those who haven't heard anything! I just got an interview invite last night!