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5 hours ago, Tall_Matt said:
Thanks for the response! I sure hope to hear in the next week or two and I hope you hear as well. I emailed the graduate office just to see what they have to say. Good luck my friend!
Its taken all my strength not to email, do tell me what they say cause I'm so damn curious!
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Wish I could tell ya! I sent in my app to U Albany for Behavioral Neuroscience PhD and that damn "submitted" hasn't budged at all. I have a gut feeling we'll hear this week.
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On 2/18/2018 at 10:26 PM, E-P said:
So, this is mostly just me venting. I've been in the corporate world since 2004, and am a well-respected manager. Unfortunately, my last company went out of business last June, and I've been applying everywhere ever since.
I'm at the point where I'm six months away from starting my program, my unemployment benefits are gone, and I'd really like to do something besides pet the cats and watch X-Files and apply for jobs. I get interviews at about 10% of the jobs I apply to (which, evidently, is good odds), and they just don't go past the phone interview. I'm not advertising the fact that I'm leaving in six months, so I honestly don't understand what I'm doing wrong.So, for my fellow Fall 2018 cohort: What are you doing to fill in the job gap between now and then...and how did you find it?
I'm in a super similar circumstance, worked at the same company from '09 until this past november when big layoffs started. I was already in the process of applying anyhow, and obviously was hoping to leave soon, but it still hurt, and has put stuff in a bit of a bad way.
My advice (assuming you don't mind burning your short-term bosses, and that you were not working in government) is think of who the major competitors are to your former employer and apply for positions within those businesses. My experience is that moving to the other side of a rivalry can certainly make you resume jump to the top of the pile. Apply directly to the company if possible, without intermediaries.
I see you already have a couple acceptances, congratulations!
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10 hours ago, miss-prufrock said:
Hi there, @Progress . Hearing about your relationship is unfortunate to hear. I do hope that you're finding ways to cope, especially with the disability aspect.
Thanks! It has really really sucked, she was my best friend and best advocate. Now i have to move back into a situation that makes dealing with my disability much more difficult (I am late-life deaf and a cochlear implantee), that exacerbates my other issues significantly, and all without my companion.
It is a relief in a way to see other folks with similar goals struggling with similar issues.
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You guys are courageous AF. I have physical disabilities that I hide when I can, its hard for me to even write on a damned message board about my struggles with mental health. I just applied this round after working full-time for nearly a decade. I became so tunnel visioned that my relationship with my life-partner withered away and broke, then my living situation fell apart, then everything else fell down.
I'm starting to doubt myself something serious. Good luck to you on the path!
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I love the whole "your status will not change in mosaic" jeeezzz, institutional inside baseball much?
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50 minutes ago, exvat said:
Hi, everybody.
I've spent yesterday and today working on resumes, which has been helpful in numerous ways: distracting me from feelings of self-doubt and anxiety, giving me hope about my decision to move to NYC (and changing careers) regardless of admissions decisions, and making me feel like I have even a modicum of control over my future.
(barf)
oh man, you're trying to get into NYC, and I'm trying like hell to get out! Tried moving upstate for a while, that fell apart, now i'm going back to my old damn apartment in brooklyn where it is loud all the time and tourist eat breakfast blocking my stoop every day (im not bitter). Where do you want to live?
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8 hours ago, cindyboop said:
Did you get an interview? I'm just curious because I applied there as well but never heard anything.
No interview here either. Crickets!
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11 hours ago, StemCellFan said:
It would make sense to have a funding decision before making official offers. This way they have a package set up for the applicants they want to admit to the program.
Ohhhh I hope so. After nearly putting it out of my head for 5 weeks the itch has become REALLY bad. Like, loading the admissions website every morning and evening type of bad.
Also, funny handle stemcellfan! I'm picturing a super enthusiastic sports nut with an hat shaped like an undifferentiated cell and a big foam hand shaped like an amnio needle, jumping up and down shouting "grow, grow, grow"! Is that weird?
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I managed to completely put this out of my brain for 5 weeks.
Today I've refreshed my POIs application portal about 10 times.
This is gonna be a long few weeks.
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following (and remembering how to message board)
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I'm just here for the follow... Applied SUNY Albany PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience, have not heard anything from admissions as of yet. I did receive an e-mail regarding funding that indicated those decisions would be communicated by 3/6. Would they make a funding decision before an admission decision? That doesn't make sense, right?
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