Elephas
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Have you discussed with the director at NSU that you are very interested in attending but are hesitant because of funding? This may help increase your funding package especially since you have another funded offer already.
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This largely is a forum for higher education so I think a better bet for an answer to your question would be to ask it here https://www.reddit.com/r/Welding/
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Now would be the time to reevaluate why you'd want to pursue a PhD. I wouldn't accept any unfunded offers, but if you're still interested in pursuing this degree strengthen your application with research/experience and apply again next year.
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I know of a service ran by a woman who is currently a PhD student and she does work like this http://www.mertinawriting.com/. She should have some price examples on her website for reference what she charges.
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Though I'm not in graduate school yet I'll say what has been discussed with me and how I applied.
Graduate schools and Ph.D. programs are to teach you how to be thoughtful and how to independently develop research questions and answer them yourself. Naturally this does require some level of independence in completing assignments, papers, etc in a timely manner but so do many aspects of your career. In terms of asking for help with applications that's absolutely appropriate! Your supervisor isn't there to judge you they're there to help you highlight and discover your own voice. In the beginning especially they are likely to expect that you will have more questions and as you gain experience in the program that you'll naturally begin to answer them on your own, and ask for their help after exhausting other resources.
When I wrote my research statements I started out with a bullet point list of things I thought would be interesting. For each I then bulleted ways I could approach the question, resources I would need presently, and background information i would need to gather. I then took this list to one of my current advisors who gave suggestions and led me to my more solidified research proposal which I was able to use in applying to graduate school. After I compiled the entire statement I went back for more advice and was told I had focused too much in one spot and not enough in another. All this clarification is what I believe helped me compile the most thorough proposal I could have, and was a statement that many of my interviewers/PIs were able to reference and ask deeper questions about.
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It sounds like it wouldn't hurt for you to follow with faculty you think align with you it could remind someone about you or initiate interest in you.
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I've received emails like this. If the emails have any unsubscribe link at the bottom you should be able to click on that and opt out, that's what I did for a few schools. If not you could email the department administrator who updates the who gets emails list and ask to be removed from it as you've accepted another school.
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I think that you have a great idea of what you're looking to do and that taking the funded masters to get into an ideal PhD program aligned more closely with your interests makes sense also. I think that taking the PhD program that doesn't closely match your interests would not help your productivity in trying to complete the degree.
Though the masters is funded would you still be taking on debt to complete the degree? I'd talk to current students/alumni to see if they thought that any debt was worth it and see if there are alternative funding opportunities to help cover the rest of the cost.
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Do you know if anybody would be able to take you on the year after and whether you'd need to choose an advisor in the first year? Some schools allow selection of official advisor after the first year so maybe you'll have the opportunity to interact with and join one of their labs. I would only go if there is at least one other person you could see yourself working with. I did go down the route of selecting a program that has rotations with several exciting professors for me however I don't think this is mandatory.
Also if you have a chance over the next few days to talk to some of his Advisees that may give you the opportunity to see more into his personality and if you'd match well.
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You could phrase it along the lines of "Hey we're having a self-care event ___ that will involve stress management techniques, tea, and discussions on spirituality feel free to stop by" and say it more so in passing so that they're not obligated to say yes or no but if they want more info they can follow up with you. You also said that people have the vibe of "thanks but no thanks" and I feel like that's a pretty good indicator of how people may feel about that event in general. I think it's okay to discuss what helps you succeed as a grad student but if the other grad students participating in that ultimately aren't in your department that's something you'll need to be okay with.
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I don't think it hurts to hang a poster near your office or send an email to the list serv once to invite people to a bible study but I wouldn't push it past then. If you're planning on sending an email out I would check with the department to see if that's okay to do. I think that perhaps a general event on self-care and including a segment on spirituality could be an opportunity to find others interested in the same things without excluding people who do not want to partake in that type of self-care.
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I agree with the above posters. I also wonder if you have anyone else in your department that you could speak to about this such as a dean of students/graduate director because regardless of choice you should be able to complete your current porjects while at the school. Also, if he has to pass your thesis/etc and has this unfair bias someone else should be made aware so you can still graduate.
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@dkt123 Seems like most neighborhoods close to the University / near a train line are good but there's a Chicago, IL forum that has a lot of info on different areas.
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For me it would depend on how the department handled it/ the culture of the school overall is. Seeing as there were faculty members who supported those students who were affected I'd take it as a positive sign for the culture of the department that people would stand up for the students. I don't think it necessarily implies anything wrong with the department but it's difficult to judge how they handle things from a position outside of the administration. Maybe there were things behind the scenes that prevented them from removing them from the position etc etc even if they wanted to.
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I would give her until Monday she may be coordinating scheduling you as well as other candidates for the interview.
Is your boss aware that you applied for grad school? If so wouldn't you stop working there soon-ish?
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If anybody's into data I found this interesting: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/nsf_grfp2018.html it lists awards by field, and by institution this year. It was on the reddit GRFP forum.
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You can look up the Deep Learning in Finance Summit and look at who has spoken to find professors and universities for example I saw listed: University of Oxford, Hanken School of Economics, and they also listed some labs and companies interested in these topics.
This is a youtube video from the summit that seems aligned with your research interests:
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It didn't hit me until I submitted my first application and then it really hit me when I got my first response from a school
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Sure I posted more about it before here's a link with the template I used.
Especially since you're far removed providing something like this could give them more details to fill your letter with rather than trying to vaguely remember something from before.
Your idea to familiarize with current work to develop your SOP seems like a great idea. Keeping a running document with drafts as you alter your SOP is helpful also. For each university I customized my intended research slightly differently based on who I wanted to work with so that may help also.
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We still don't know the results of your applications and I also didn't apply for canadian programs so I can only offer some points that I think might help if you decide to apply again. In terms of LOR you could ask to sit with the letter writers and review with them the things you'd like to be included. This could give you a chance to see the formatting and also give you varied letters. I.e. each letter writer focused on a different skillset for me(research, classroom, service) but included some other things of other writers for overlap. In order to do this I gave each a facts sheet of things they were at liberty to include and added different aspects in each sheet. SOP, you say it elaborates on your work in the past 6 years but does it speak to the future work you hope to do and how you plan to achieve it? The past is important in that it prepares you for the research that you wanted to do. I was told people liked my SOP because I had a clear vision of what I wanted to work on and a general action plan even if I didn't stick to it.
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@Coaster congrats! I'm not sure I think Evanston would be really convenient the first year but budget wise the Rogers Park area is better so it's really a toss up right now.
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8 hours ago, geologygal said:
waiting for the GRFP is killing me, should I keep doing that? how late is too late to wait? If I were funded, should I consider attending a program that didn't initially financially support me?
I don't have much to add for 2 but in terms of how late is too late to wait I'd say April 16th as the 15th is the deadline for your other funded offers. I don't think that there's anything wrong taking your award to the institution who didn't give you funding if you really like the program there. I've heard of some people who got rejected or waitlisted at schools but when they presented the GRFP were admitted to the institution. However if it's something that you think you might harbor and would negatively impact how you view you professor I would keep that in mind when choosing a university.
I also wonder if there's another professor at school 2 that your partner could reach out to to work with or you at school 3? I feel like that could help with compromising if you find someone more closely aligned in research.
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It depends on your interests. This message sounds like you are being admitted into the school as a masters student but there is currently no funding for them to offer you. If a funding opportunity comes up you have the chance of being selected for it but not guaranteed.
If you don't mind paying out of pocket for the masters you could accept the school but if not you can ask them when they would expect other funding opportunities to be available and try to wait until then to accept.
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Have you tried speaking with current students to see what they've done or a professor of interest? Maybe there are some additional funding options that you haven't been made aware of yet like working as a research assistant to get paid over the summer.
Trying to decide what I should study
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I'm not very familiar with your interests the inter sectional aspects might relate to Information schools which U Michigan has so you might take a look at those.