eco_env

I found plastic cups, petri dishes, wooden sticks, super glue, vinegar, oil, a hula hoop, camera, little bags, and a trowel to be helpful tools. I'll let you try to figure out what I do with that stuff .

are you an undergrad now?

If you are an entomologist, don't you kill a lot of bugs? I kill more bugs for my research than for any other reason, but I guess it's not really gratuitous.

Generally people list their former institution and add a footnote with their current institution.

Here are some places to look for grad schools: http://www.gradschools.com/ http://graduate-scho...ds.org/rankings And specifically Master's in evolutionary biology: http://www.gradschoo...biology/masters and here you can search by selectivity: http://www.gradview.com/collegesearch/areaofstudy.jsp?domain=clear

Maybe if it's coming from friends/relatives after graduation, with a gift.

All of the above. In some subjects/situtations your advisor will expect to be a co-author on your paper. In the sciences, they are mostly there to advise you on research, including communicating it in various formats.

Yes, you have to send them that day. No, it's not confusing. they'll get them and will know what to do with them when you apply. I sent in all of my scores before submitting my application, some of them in Sept.

In my experience it means nothing- If they didn't make a binding agreement with you, they can change their minds when someone better comes along.

My advisor is giving me complete freedom to choose my research questions, system, topic, etc, but it seems to me that it would be most productive to do work that branches off of/relates to previous work in this lab. I was thinking I'd read some of this lab's work/proposals and see what interesting questions I get from that. is that the wrong approach? how did other grad students choose a research question that worked out?

I'll be moving to a city with a pretty unimpressive bus system, but I'm not planning to buy a car- I can't imagine paying all the costs that entails as a grad student (and it's about time I reduced my carbon emissions, after all these flights to visit grad schools!). Hopefully I'll be able to do work as I commute on the bus, and for shopping, I was entertaining the possibility of buying a grocery cart, even though it will make me feel like an old lady. Ideally, I'll live within walking distance of a grocery store.

You can add more styles by going to Actions (the gear symbol), preferences, cite, styles, get additional styles, (or just click install here: http://www.zotero.org/styles) but maybe you knew that already... I found a style that was fairly similar to the style I needed and made a few changes by hand.

Zotero is free. You log into it through firefox and can access citations anywhere, but you also need to install something in Word to insert citations and automatically prepare a list of references.

but the official rules are probably more stringent than what i can get away with in practice, which is why I'm interested to know what other people have done.

Shoes.

I have a poster presentation at a conference- Has anyone else had experience bringing a poster on a plane? If you brought a poster, did you have to lose your under-seat carry-on or larger carry-on? Am I better off printing it when I get to the conference?

one of my professors wears a baseball cap often, but not when he is in class or a teaching kind of situation. I think the idea that wearing a baseball cap indoors is disrespectful is antiquated.

Generally, you can use the stipend for anything you want, including airfare, but you probably won't get it until you've been there for about a month (it varies by school).

cheap, but lasted me many years (and still going): http://www.amazon.com/Casio-A168W-1-Electro-Luminescence-Bracelet/dp/B000GB0FXU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307289218&sr=8-1 I like the metal strap because others tend to break (especially the rubber-type ones). It's not water resistant enough for swimming, though, just water splashes.

How about physically being at the European University with your advisor, but being a student of GU and keeping that committee? I know someone who did something along those lines.

This year. (the 09-10 application season was the last time they accepted GRE scores).

It seems to me like plenty of students from my undergrad school got a first author publication, mostly shortly after graduating, though, because it was based on their independent research in senior year. it's probably more common at undergraduate schools, where the students can do their own research rather than help out with a grad student's. I'm publishing my undergrad research, but not in a top ranked journal (to put it mildly)- it's just a good opportunity to learn about the peer review process, and make my research available to others, even if it's not exactly ground breaking.

Now that I found a job, my best piece of advice is to tell everyone you know you are looking for a job and ask if they know of any opportunities. mMaybe it's kind of obvious, but I got a job through someone I knew because it wasn't publicly advertised, so I wasn't competing with anyone else for it.

and have several 100 applicants each, in my experience.

I guess I might ask the few people I know in the area if they know anyone who'd be willing to check out the apartments for some money. anyone try that before? how much would be reasonable to offer? Either that or look at apartments while staying in some kind of temporary housing, but that could get expensive. I think apartmentratings.com is pretty useful for info about landlords and noise.