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Hi All, As you've noticed, I've changed the forum software. I found the old software frustrating and thought that to some extent it hindered the community development. If you want to rant and complain, please do so in this thread and direct all insults towards me, the other mods were not really aware of my plans. Yes it'll take some getting used to, and I'm sure there are lots of things that don't work quite right just yet. So let me know and I'll get around to fixing them ASAP! Thanks for your patience! [issues] The new software is not aware of which posts you had read on the old forum. I suggest you just 'mark all as read' and start again, if you keep track of those things.Use Edit Your Profile (top right) to update the new profile fields.It seems some user's passwords were not imported correctly. So, if you can't login, try resetting the password.The software is showing some forums as unread even though you've read all the posts. This is a known issue with the s/w, a fix is coming soon. Rest assured the s/w is tracking which posts you've read. Just not doing a good job of showing you via the forum icons. I'm working on moving over your 'program' field right now... - Done! I can't find a link to the results page via the Forums with this new format. - Done!

Top 10 Posters rainy_day 52 fuzzylogician 47 rising_star 38 joro 32 spaulding 31 misterpat 31 cheesethunder 29 socialcomm 28 Minnesotan 19 shai 18 Congrats rainy_day! So close yet so far... KieBelle 18 riz1 18 kent shakespeare 14 JackieW 13 circumfession 13 In total there were 1463 posts made this month.There were 59,119 visits. 32,905 Unique Visitors and 318,156 Pageviews. July - October are traditionally quiet months here on the GradCafe. But compared to the same time last year we're already up 7x by post count! Keep it up and let us know (via Comments, Questions, Etc.) if there is anything we can do to make the forum better.

I have banned this user for precisely this reason! Sorry all for the annoyance.

Just some spam. Taken care of now

Top 10 Posters Minnesotan 62 kahlan_amnell 52 jasper.milvain 47 belowthree 45 jlee306 41 joro 33 natofone 28 mims3382 27 dacey 25 steiner-5 22 Congrats Minnesotan! So close yet so far... fuzzylogician 21 circumfession 21 rising_star 19 thepoorstockinger 17 socialcomm 17 In total there were 1818 posts made this month. There were 61,410 visits. 36,076 Unique Visitors and 342,612 Pageviews (I've set an alarm to remind me to do this every month. Should be another one posted tomorrow morning .. )

With a wire transfer there will be several deductions depending on the route the funds take to your account. The bank of your home country may charge a flat rate, then intermediary banks will charge a handling fee too (maybe $25 per intermediary?). The nice thing is the transfer can happen within a matter of hours once it reaches the Fedwire system. You might investigate any ForEx (foreign exchange) operators in your home country, as these usually give you a better dollar rate than your bank.

Unless you've been assigned an advisor (which is unlikely for a math program) it should be fine. I'm sure the adcoms realize that people will be a bit unsure about what they want to work on. Don't make a big fuss about it, just take the relevant classes and impress the right professors so they will be interested in taking you.

Aww I was only kidding guys! It's great you're still here.

Yes, find something better to do!!

Top 10 Posters teaganc 138 blah2009 132 Stories 130 liszt85 129 fuzzylogician 93 mtlve 74 cosby49 71 jferreir 68 vice 68 blargh 66 Congrats teaganc! So close yet so far... math123 65 rising_star 64 t_ruth 63 kdilks 63 dramanda 62 Nice to see the mods working hard In total there were 10759 posts made this month. Looks like things are calming down. There were 287,745 visits. 82,491 Unique Visitors and 1,941,844 Pageviews!! So, in summary, another great month. I think things will get much quieter now until Jan '10. But the site will be here all year!

Not quite MDLee, there's another status beyond Mocha ....

You win (thank t_ruth for convincing me). Please refrain from posting misleading information here. And use due diligence before drawing conclusions from things you read on this site.

Because the thread was entirely useless. If you want to talk about NSF Grad fellowships then use this thread. If you want to chat use the lobby. If this thread gets derailed too, I'll lock it! :evil: This is not a freedom of speech issue, it's a keep the forum tidy issue.

How about I just lock this thread? That way you can all calm down for a few minutes. I'll unlock it later.

Hi Guys, I received the following via email: So, if you're interested get in touch!

Top 10 Posters MDLee 174 liszt85 173 rising_star 145 Yellow#5 143 TulipOHare 135 whateverneveram3n 133 FSIA 133 psycholinguist 126 t_ruth 110 Aceflyer 108 (A close contest, but MDLee just took it!) So close yet so far... djrg 107 Cornell07 102 teaganc 94 socialpsych 91 fuzzylogician 88 In total there were 17634 posts made this month (beating the previous record, Feb 2009 by more than 2000 posts!) There were 338,216 visits. 85,226 Unique Visitors and 2,791,750 Pageviews!!! So, in summary, yet again the busiest month ever in the site's history!

http://www.sevenseasworldwide.com/ I hear good things about these guys.

Shush. We don't want everyone to know :-/

Hi Guys, I'd like to introduce new mod #1, t_ruth. We may or may not add another few mods over the next week or two, but let's give t_ruth a warm welcome!

What kind of forums are you thinking? ec86's suggestion is a good one... what else?

Hi All, The forum has been a huge success this admit season. In this final month, I'm asking to see if there's a couple of people who would be interested in being global moderators. Your duties would include monitoring the forums, moving misplaced posts, deleting dupes, and just generally keeping things ticking along. It'd be great if you were willing to stay around after the admit season is over, but not essential. For those who don't have the time (why are you reading this?? ) if you still are interested in helping without the moderator title, remember you can always "report this post" using the little "!" icon in the triangle at the top right of each post. If you're interested please send me a PM. Look forward to hearing from you.

That's the "blocked pipe effect". When I shut the forum down in the middle of the day for 20 minutes, and then turn it back on, WHOOSH, and everyone comes back

Hi Guys, I've made a LOT of behind the scenes changes today. Sorry for the various downtime / blank pages / 404s. I think things will be a lot be faster henceforth. I'll write a more technical post later, but for now I am going to eat (for the first time in 9 hours) and enjoy the final half of Lost

Just to make you feel bad, I added 5 more folks to the list. Guess what, you're on there!

Top 10 Posters plisar 248 synthla 200 Tonights 196 ewurgler 179 misterpat 163 socialpsych 158 miratrix 147 Tritonetelephone 139 Yellow#5 133 spark25 130 So close yet so far... t_ruth 127 February BigCheese 108 February policy_applicant 108 February Dinali 106 February medianerd 105 February (Congrats Tonights, #3 Jan and Feb!) In total there were 15322 posts made this month (smashing the previous record, March 2008 by a factor of 3!) There were 225,109 visits. 55,502 Unique Visitors and 2,075,015 Pageviews!!! So, in summary, the busiest month ever in the site's history!