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  1. I'm waiting for them too.....
  2. I will say that I am an undergraduate, but when I worked in industry for a brief time, in the long run, people with PhD's were those in higher positions and it was easier for them to advance. Also, there are a lot of opportunities for stay-at-home moms. For instance, I've taken a job as a "search engine evaluator" with Google-- Go look up forums for Work at Home Moms-- there's a lot of opportunity for supplement income if she's willing to work. Salt Lake-- I'm assuming there's a bit of work out there part-time as well. Have you talked to your advisors about continuing your fellowship?
  3. 1) Write rejection letters to our rejection letters. Sorry, professors, we've received too many rejections and must reject your rejection. Surprise, see you in the fall! 2) Request reimbursements to all graduate schools for all your bar tabs for those drunken nights you spent crying to the bartender over your rejections to the top universities. Note: everyone keep your receipts. Take the total and divide it by the number of rejections. Those top-tier schools have a line-item for it somewhere in the budget, I promise. 3) Draft "No really, I actually recommended this student, you must have misunderstood me" letters for all your LOR writers. Or just write them anyways and forge their signatures. Hey, couldn't hurt, right? 4) Forward your rejection email onto all of your family with the subject as: "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST GOT ACCEPTED!!!!!!111111" It'll confuse the hell out of everyone. 5) Show up to visitation weekend anyways and insist that there is obviously a mistake. There's no way they would have rejected you. 6) Go fill out applications to be a highschool Chemistry teacher- Yay! Congratulations, you've won your spot as the teacher of high school's most dreaded subject! 7) Go join the circus. Because the chances of being bitten by a tiger are less than the chances of getting beaten up in the parking lot when you fail a high school student.
  4. I think they just take paper copies of all of our applications, stand at the top of the Chemistry building, and throw them. Those who hit the ground last get rejected. Now I'm all worried about the schools I applied to. In the time since applied I decided to apply to strictly organic programs, but half of the professors that I mentioned are Organic. I have no idea what to do-- a couple synthetic professors are great, but I'm still really, really nervous I'm going to end up in a lab I don't like.
  5. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T TAKE THIS STRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Sigh*...... I feel so much better now. Seriously, you guys should try it.
  6. Is it just me or is everyone getting MASSIVE amounts of emails from Polytechnic in NYC?? And Oklahoma. Those two are blowing up my inbox.
  7. I completely agree with the nature of this thread-- Most of the posts here are about the same schools-- MIT, Harvard, Yale, CalTech--- but you don't hear much about other schools: For Example, US News and World Report: CIT MIT Harvard Berkeley Stanford Illinois North Western Scripps Wisconsin Columbia Cornell Austin Chicago Chapel Hill Yale Princeton UCLA U Mich TAMU U Penn Johns Hopkins Penn State Purdue UCSD Minnesota, Twin Cities For instance, these are just "#1-#21" on US News and World Report, which I'm sure we've all seen: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/chemistry-rankings/page+2 I think so far I'm the only person to mention TAMU-- which seems to be highly ranked (which usually doesn't mean anything) I also haven't heard much about Johns Hopkins, Penn State, or Minnesota. Are we just picking schools based on the reputation rather than how they're ranked? Also, are these rankings just bunk in general? I thought about Purude as well-- but I'm not the biggest fan of where it's located
  8. All I do is obsessively check my email. And it's even worse, because my first acceptance to UGA was sorted into my spam box and I didn't find it until a day or so later. So now, I'm obsessively checking ALL of my mail boxes. I hate the be "that guy" but can anyone share with me their GRE General scores for those that got into MIT? I'm a bit preoccupied with mine, they're not as good as they should be. But, I've gotten overwhelming response from many of the schools that I have applied to, so I don't think I made it automatically in the reject pile... UGH, I hate grad school admissions!!
  9. I've found that for the schools, many actually are willing to work with you on dates. For instance, I'm going to the national ACS meeting in San Diego right smack dab in the middle of visitation weekends in March. So, I'm having to kindly let people know that I have to reschedule. Also, not happy because I think I'm going to have to do some visitations over spring break, when I planned to be at the beach! Oh well, all in the name of research and education, I guess!
  10. So, I've been thinking about something that pertains to Chemistry interviews and visitation weekends. Do the schools offer certain perks more than others? For instance, I know that Wake Forest University gives all of their students in their programs computers with tons of software. Also, one school offered me $1,000 as a relocation bonus if I chose to move to their school. As an aside about this whole procedure, I'm getting completely blindsided because (like an idiot) I had no idea it was actually commonplace for most schools to fly you out for visitation weekends. So, I'm having to reschedule my entire semester to travel on weekends (and I'm a bartender! Work now sucks for me!!!) So, I'm just trying to get some heads up on what certain schools are offering as bonuses in addition to stipends.
  11. I believe I submitted mine at the end of November.
  12. I just heard from GA Tech and Emory
  13. Yay! I just got accepted to Georgia in Athens and U of Utah! Woot!
  14. I just finished my applications and I'm now en route to an internship at the University of Madrid! U of Utah Vanderbilt Emory MIT GA Tech UGA U of Texas Texas A&M UNC Chapel Hill You guys make me so nervous with all your chatter.
  15. Hi! My schools are: University of Utah UGA GA Tech Vanderbilt Emory UT Austin Texas A&M UNC-Chapel Hill MIT So nervous!! I'm looking to go into Organic or Inorganic.
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