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What TheSquirrel said, or if you have a Wordpress (i.e., external from school) account, I think they have a module you can fill out to use a custom domain name.

One of the ones I liked a lot: http://nanomag.ucsd.edu/ Don't make it gimmicky. Keep it simple so that anyone else can edit and modify it in the future. Don't make too many pages/subpages -- you want it to be easy to navigate. Don't put too much detail -- keep only relevant things (research, members, grants, publications, etc.) and be concise.

I bike (A LOT), and considered moving further out of campus, but coming from California (and moving to Chicago), I want to get acclimated a bit to the new winter before deciding anything so rash

My year off was spent just paying off undergrad loans. I worked as an evil branding consultant, but I'm pretty much debt-free! I would suggest working in a lab if you can find a paid position, though, and you're headed towards a Ph.D. program.

About your refutation of the metaphor of racism, it's pretty dead on since racism doesn't have to be overt hatred -- if you have a generalized sense of superiority over any people, then I'd call you a racist if said people were a minority. Someone can have a 'friend' whom they don't respect. This is why rising star stated that your argument is like saying "I'm not racist! I have a black friend!" You continue to create a sensationalized story account about MA students and just throw out that you have some MA friends. That is fallacious and doesn't mean anything about your elitism.

I guess there's more sensibility in school business practices up there, then. The professional schools here keep opening up unchecked and students keep applying thinking that it's a ticket to success. Being down $250K+ in debt with a clinical psychology degree is insurmountable and the graduate schools don't care; what more is that these schools do little in the way of helping their students get APPIC/APA internships after graduating.

I tend to agree with neuropsych76. I'm here in California where a good amount of my friends applied and got into Alliant (former California School of Professional Psychology), and the acceptance rates here are around 50%. There are a lot of professional Ph.D. programs (not just Psy.D.) that accept an abundance of students.

I wouldn't use the TV as your one-stop monitor if you're planning on using it conventionally (i.e., 1.5 feet or so away from your eyes). 1. Most TVs are huge. 2. Your eyes will be strained from the harshness of the TV. A nice IPS/PVA/MVA panel will do wonders for the quality of picture without being too bright/contrasty like a TV/TN panel. My set up is dual 24" PVA panels with a 25' HDMI that I swap with one of my DVI to connect to my TV across the room when needed.

Thanks for the links (don't appreciate the snarkiness from the lmgtfy, though). But besides a few of the smaller universities (and UNC), it seems that the Entrepreneurship programs are either dual degrees with Policy/Engineering schools or they're under the Management/Strategy umbrella. --- Add: And the first link isn't really relevant. many of those top schools don't offer a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship.

Top? As far as I know, there aren't Ph.D. programs in Entrepreneurship.

Bingo.

Does it matter? Adding: Admissions statistics don't mean crap about competitiveness of a program. GRE/GPA isn't telling, and looking at % admit is fallacious.

I don't see many employers in industry buying into JDM, to be honest. It's great to have a thorough understanding of it, but until JDM/BDT becomes mainstream, it'll still be considered hogwash. If you can nab an MBA/MPP from a top 20 and put your knowledge of JDM to use, you can be quite successful in marketing, consulting, technical support, policy, etc. A Ph.D. is overkill (and probably full of opportunity costs) if you don't want to be an academic. A masters in psychology ... doesn't carry much utility, in my opinion, unless you're using it as a stepping stone to a Ph.D. program.

This. As an undergrad I was involved in many non-research activities just to stay sane. After balancing a job, several simultaneous research positions, and anywhere from 22-32 units per quarter, I still found a way to spar in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 3-4 times a week or to go out and wander with my camera with some friends. It was really a cleanse of all the stress I accumulated and I'm sure if I didn't make time to do those activities, finding success would have been a lot more difficult.

If/when making an academic webpage, I'd also advise for those of you to register a domain name to forward to just for easier recall when trying to link others (verbally, business card, etc.). It's easier to remember "firstnamelastname.com" than "university.edu/school/department/studentprofiles/yearx/~firstinitiallastname", ...and the former first a whole lot more handsome on a business card

Hope you enjoy it! I swear I need to see if I can get a corporate referral program going on with Chef John--I've gotten all my friends and a good chunk of reddit tuning into his channel now (all for free! )

The one "frat bro" thing I do is go to a good amount of sports bars when a game/event/fight is going on. I meet a lot of fun acquaintances that I run into quite a bit at future outings. For some reason, I actually meet a lot of people at random cafes, especially ones that are open 24 hours or really late--people get very chatty when it's 3am and you need a short break. Also, http://www.meetup.com/ Use it. Use it a lot. Also, see if there's a subreddit/community page for your city (or even university) on reddit.com. I feel that many of the site's frequenters would get along with the average techy/nerdy grad student. I've been to a few meetups and they've always been really fun and attract a lot of really good, funny people.

I run a custom i7-930 desktop at home (used to be a wedding photographer, so I needed something for fast workflow) along with (now) a Lenovo Thinkpad T420--and an iPad for s***s and giggles. I couldn't be happier with the setup. Typically I lug the laptop and iPad everywhere I go, but I often get away with just bringing my iPad by itself.

I guess I'm going a little against the current from what seems to be the predominant opinion here, but here's my view on the issue: Change religion to whatever controversial personal belief one holds. I respect everyone has their own belief about whatever the subject may be; I have mine, too. In the correct context, I'd be happy to discuss things civilly, but many times these subjects arise in conversations unsolicited and I don't care much for that.

I could try to paraphrase this, but since I got the recipe from this video by the one and only Chef John, I might as well post the video: Asparagus Souffle http://youtu.be/GuTqoBy98t0 Asparagus Souffle Ingredients: 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed, (about 12 ounces by weight) 2 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoon flour 1 teaspoon kosher salt (or 1/2 teaspoon fine table salt) cayenne to taste 1 cup cold milk 1/2 clove garlic 1/2 cup finely grated cheese 4 eggs, separated (Blog source: http://foodwishes.bl...nd-full-of.html) Chef John is the person that transformed me from eating out 100% of the time to ... ~90% of the time--but I have fun when I cook! And I even hold dinner parties every once in a while when I've mastered one of his recipes.

Agreed with what's been said. I got into one of the more competitive psychology-ish programs this year with 0 journal pubs. They're neither expected nor required for admission at top programs. I did have several conference publications, poster presentations, and a couple of invited talks--those are much much easier to get than journal pubs once you're involved in research, though.

It's good that you're addressing now rather than later. This is a problem a humanities student is going to inevitably face, and those who do it close to completing their doctorate are too late to make any meaningful improvements in their marketability. For one, yes -- quality work/publications is weighted heavily regardless of field. If a program is recruiting someone for a TT position, they want to eventually hire the one with the best potential to be a quality academic. Look at past TT placements (namely from your own school) and see what they did to land those positions. Brand name/pedigree of a degree does seem to weigh heavily in on admissions across all disciplines (see a fairly recent thread in the CHE forums: http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,69173.0.html and a working paper about job placements in marketing academia: http://www.utdallas.edu/~caz062000/Zamudio_Wang_Haruvy_2011_JobMarketMarketing.pdf). It seems that you need a name brand doctorate to even be considered at certain schools (for one, I know that there are maybe only 5-6 universities represented by UCSD's large economics faculty) and that a less-than-superb CV can be made up by having that shiny school's name listed under education compared to more superb profiles from not-so-prestigious schools. I'm going to take a guess and say that this is probably more pronounced at business schools since they do have the practical business-side operations approach of "fancy pedigree => more students want to come here" since MBA students don't care about who's doing what research and many times base the quality/intelligence of their professors by their education. Lastly, never underestimate the power of networking. I don't know how often humanities academics have conferences, symposia, etc., but use these times to really impress people that can help land you a job in the future. I don't mean driving your CV down people's throats, but actually making friends with lots of academics. I'm on very good contact with a lot of the professors I interviewed with during application season; they're great people (which is the reason I applied under many of them) and I hope they understand that it'd be an honor to be able to work alongside them one day, too. I know it's not in the typical academic archetpye, but having an agreeable personality goes a long way--I mean you're going to be spending decades working beside faculty, and those faculties hiring do have it well within their interest to (all other things being equal) hire someone they get along with.

Some people would argue Chicago would be right up your alley, but they got pointed with a 108F heat-indexed killer today

I would love Google+ to be as spartan as academia.edu and LinkedIn. The problem with FB and a lot of the other social networking sites is they get way too cluttered with gimmicky things. Already, I'm seeing the same people who spam things on FB/Tumblr do the same on Google+; at least I can put them in a different circle and never hear of them again.

You can't go into clinical practice anyway unless you get your Ph.D. in actual Clinical Psychology. You're going to have to make the choice between Clinical or Experimental before you can even come close to determining what field you want to apply to. If you go into any Experimental Ph.D. program, you can still do research that encompasses clinical topics--you just won't be able to be a practitioner. At my undergrad, we don't have a single clinical psychologist on faculty, but there were plenty doing research with collaborators in the psychiatry department in the med school. My own advisor was a behavioral psychologist by training (B.F. Skinner was even on his dissertation committee in 1967) and he's done research encroaching social, behavioral neuroscience, and economics in the past 4 decades. Nothing but the limit of his curiosity prevents him from doing work he didn't do a Ph.D. on. Once you're tenured, you begin to get more freedom about what you want to study--this is something you develop on your own, out of the classroom anyway. Talk to the professors in your department. You end up finding out that it's not so scary. I know for top top marketing program, the acceptance rate is somewhere around 3-5% (with around 2-4 matriculating) and that's a hard number to swallow. HOWEVER, people who've served on admissions committees know that many of the applicants really have no business applying to doctoral programs. Many don't meet administrative requirements of GPA/GRE scores; many have 0 relevant coursework; many have 0 research experience; and many don't have the right reasons to go to grad school to convince adcomms that they're worthy. At UCSD, the professors said that only around 20% of the applications are even worth reading from doing a very quick preliminary look at transcripts, scores, and CVs. If you've been doing research as an undergrad, have good letters of rec, and your numbers meet the requirements of the school you're applying to, your chances of getting in are a lot higher than you think. I had some feelings that I would be shut out of admission this year (you read my story; I only decided to apply 3 days before taking my GMAT and did everything on a whim), but I somehow got into 7/12 programs I applied to--something I never believed I could do. You won't know how competitive you are until you apply (you can get an estimate if you give your honest profile to a professor to look over, too). Haha I couldn't tell if you were joking or not in that post. There should be a new troll/sarcasm smiley for the forum. And yeah -- one of the reasons I still insist on using the same quant rigor as econ in my research is because I feel that behavioral psych/marketing research could benefit from using models and more sophisticated means of analysis rather than just acknowledging the presence of an effect. And yeah QM salaries are pretty scary and still aren't on par with finance.