csun52
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csun52 reacted to nimsaj95 in First-Generation Grad Students Thread
My parents are both immigrants (from Cuba and Colombia) neither went to college, and have little understanding of what graduate school is. One example I always think of when I compare my parents educational upbringing versus my own, is that when my mom came to America at age 10, she was always pulled out of school to accompany her parents to doctors appointments to try and translate, although she was just learning English herself. There's always a sense of guilt for how easy I had it in comparison.
My parents deserve to see "PhD" after our last name. Any other females against changing their last name if they get married for this reason?
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csun52 reacted to Katie B in First-Generation Grad Students Thread
I love meeting other first generation students, it makes me feel less alone considering neither of my parents know anything about college or grad school. I come from a very small town in semi-rural Indiana and getting my education gave me a healthy outlet to overcome many family struggles. I completed undergrad in Spring 2018 with a Bachelor's in Psychology and a second Bachelor's in English with a minor in Spanish, both being honors degrees. I'll be attending Sam Houston State University's MA of Clinical Psychology program in the Fall of 2019 and will reapply to PhDs after that!
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csun52 reacted to CafeteroJr in First-Generation Grad Students Thread
Hey GC,
I'm a first-gen college grad entering my first year of grad school at Villanova this August, pursuing my MA in Political Science! I would love to see if there are other first-gen students on here so that we can all get to know each other a little ?I'll start:
So my parents emigrated from Colombia to the USA in the late 80s to flee the cartel violence, and roughly eight years later, I was born in Miami! I went to pretty rough-around-the-edges public schools in my neighborhood for elementary and middle school, where I hung around with MS13 kids and other gang kids. Since my mom was afraid of me being a part of "those kind of people", or as she would put it in Spanish "con esos pelados", she put me in a private Catholic high school on a full scholarship. I graduated top 10% of my class, went to the Bay Area for college, currently doing a year of service as a volunteer, and this August will be moving to Philadelphia to pursue my MA in Villanova.
What's your story? How did you get to where you are now?
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csun52 reacted to TheSidMeister in 2019 MPH CANADA
Hey folks. Just stumbled across this forum. Good to see an MPH community on here.
I'm a 2019 Fall prospective. I applied to several Unis in the MPH programs, but just UoA in Canada.
University of Alberta (Canada) - Accepted on Jan 31
Erasmus Europubhealth+ MPH (Europe) - Accepted on March 8
Karolinska Instituet (Sweden) - Waiting list
Uppsala University (Sweden) - Accepted today
University of Bergen/University of Oslo/NTNU (Norway) - No decisions yet
I am planning to proceed to enroll at UoA. Any fellow UAlberta aspirants here? Would love to get acquainted.
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csun52 reacted to ultraSquirrel in Let’s manage our stress together
Only if the grad school would publish probability percentage of each application's admission chance, before the long wait. This would solve all the problems and heartaches. On the other hand, torturing the grad students are kind of fun
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csun52 reacted to trekhgornyval in What does it mean to get an early waitlist
Acceptances have gone out to the top candidates. Should any of them decline, the next names up on the wait list will be extended an offer. This process is usually dependent on candidates knowing all the offers available to them, and may included interviews, school visits, etc. If all this was expected to take place right before the April 15 deadline, it would be chaotic for everybody involved. Schools start issuing acceptances once they’ve reviewed applications and are ready to do so; the timelines provided on websites are generally loose and seem to mostly represent the ultimate deadline for hearing a decision.
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csun52 reacted to mntfr in Scream Thread
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *someone walks in, weird eye contact, they leave* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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csun52 reacted to likemythesis in Favorite Rejection Quotes from the Results Page
Someone must have received multiple rejections at once because one said "I'm an idiot" and the next "I'm still an idiot!"
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csun52 reacted to Future_Chem_Professor in The Positivity Thread
Just got officially hired from a temp position in a research lab after working hard for over 6 months to get. Very excited at the opportunity!!!