Strangefox

ZeeMore - you understand me!

I am so glad that I am not alone! I decided to read a book over the summer too (I've had it on my shelf for a long time but I was too busy with the application process and then preparing visa and stuff). The book is about 300 pages and it's mostly theory. I don't make myself read quicker, I skip some days and sometimes spend only an hour a day reading. It will probably take me about 5 weeks to read it - with all the skipping I mean (I plan to finish right before my trip to the US). Of course now I try to relax and my aim is not to finish as fast as possible. If I spent maximum possible time reading, I guess I could read it in a week (or may be not...). But that would be a week filled almost exclusively with reading. I wonder if it is a normal pace for social sciences...

I want to know this formula, too! I don't like skimming parts because if you skim them - how will you know if there wasn't anything super important in them that you missed because of skimming! It seems a vicious circle!

Interesting question! I would also like to know what other people think about that. I believe I would not refrain from discussing controversial topics with faculty/peers altogether but I would be very careful with that and not push it too much. It's a difficult situation...

I have been wondering for quite some time how other people read academic texts. I don't mean when and where, I mean how For example, I don't read really fast. It seems to me that I am a slow reader and it worries me. Some parts I read faster than others but then I can slow down and reread a sentence a couple of times or stop and stare at the wall and think about the whole idea of the part I am reading and about how it is connected with my research and/or with my experience. And sometimes (quite often!) random thoughts come to my head, thoughts that have nothing to do with what I am reading about - and I have to make an effort to make them go away. It's so much not like I generally read fiction, when I become totally absorbed by the story and just can't stop. With academic texts I can stop easily at any moment and often want to stop because I start feeling tired concentrating - though at the same time I can be really interested in what I am reading. But I don't stop and continue so the reading process becomes a constant struggle. I don't mean to say that I don't like reading academic texts. I love reading them but in a way that is so much different from fiction. I kind of love this inner struggle. On the other hand I am worried that I am doing it wrong, though I have no idea how else it can be done and if other people do it somehow differently. So how do you read academic texts? I realize that they can be quite different (across one field even) and it's easier to read some of them than others, obviously. Are you a quick or a slow reader, do you become totally absorbed when you are reading? How often do you have to take breaks (are they long or short)? How many pages are you able to read per hour?

Why would you do that?

shark tank

One little thing: when I am opening emoticons, I can see all but one in a row and I need to press an arrow to see the last one. Can they all be in one row? EDIT: I was wrong - that last emoticon appears in the row with others. But then it is strange why it also appears alone when you press the arrow...

Hm, I believe that Homer only says "Mmmmm" before something edible/drinkable ("Mmmm... Coffee...") - but I may be wrong

I totally agree. I would like to have "dislike" button back, too.

Great idea! I am looking forward to using new subforums

I believe for attraction attention to trolls the "Report" feature is much more effective.

Same here

Oh, I found the emoticons and recropped the photo! Cool!!!

So I can't dislike without previously liking something? It's a pity! I liked that feature! Oh, also, where are the emoticons? I don't see them. The last thing - avatars look a bit "squeezed" - don't know how to put it correctly, but you know what I mean. Could you fix that?

I will do that - but later. I think I will start with a Citibank account and when I am in the US, I will gradually research the issue of CUs further. Right now I am quite satisfied with Citibank options. There are no fees there as well. It's good that I know about credit unions - I am sure one day I will use their services, but there is no urgent need to start now

There is no ideal application. There are only good applications at the right time and in the right place.

You mean, you don't believe the whole story has really happened? Alas!

OMG!!! That's another proof of the fact that admission process is really unpredictable - and I mean for applicants and schools equally. There must have been some nice candidates that they could have admitted - but they chose him looking at his stats, LORs, CV and other stuff. I wonder if there was a statement of purpose involved and if it was, why did not they catch a vibe of what kind of a person he is, because SOPs tend to reveal their authors' pesonalities (at least to some extent)...

Great idea! I am going to open an account in a bank anyways, so I will do that first and then cash my checks!

Nope, I won't be a resident once I move. I wish I were! I will be a non-resident alien for quite some time. I did not check the biggest CUs only because they are the biggest. I went through all the list and most times it was clear that I do not qualify only by looking at a CUs name (Firemen Credit Union, for instance). I did not look into others because they had too few members. I don't think I would want to be in a credit union with 50 or 100 members. May be I am wrong here, but it just seems strange. So I checked two credit unions that were a) not professionally oriented and b ) had a lot of members (around 50,000 each). And both replied that I don't qualify. Well, if I don't qualify there, little is a chance that I will in a smaller or narrowly oriented one. And no, I did not find any that would be for students in my city or for students at my university.

Now I found a list of all credit unions in my city. The smallest have around 50 members and the biggest more than 150,000. I guess I would have a chance only with the biggest ones because small are too narrowly oriented, so to say. For a particular profession, company or something. Anyway, I contacted the two biggest CUs which are ostensibly for everyone who wants to join and I am not eligible because I am not a resident... I will have to go with the Citibank checking account, then

Hm, I contacted one credit union in the city where I will be living and they said they can't make me a member because I am a non-resident... I will try contacting other unions.