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well my mom and dad got really horny at one point, and here I am!

I anonymously called the graduate coordinator to try to see where they are in the admission process. I learned that they have "made some of their offers, but have not made all of their offers" great thanks

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glad to see that I'm not the only 70+ on here

emailed one professors today if he's taking graduate students, and received a prompt response that he doesn't have funding. He was the only professor that I would have worked with in that department. I'm only lukewarm about another one. I shuold have done a better job contacting professors... I'm hanging by a thread. F**K!!!

man you're pretty close to houston. I'm jealous. I'd never go to a rodeo for fun. But since I'm not from around here, I might go just so I can say I did it.

that's cool. I'm near the Beaumont area, working on site. as far as I know, the offices in houston are mainly administrative buildings that branch out into the plant areas. Are you working IN Houston, or are you located in a plant? btw. you going to the rodeo? I'm thinking about going this week because I get my Friday off, and there's nothing to do where I live.

I totally feel you. Although being a regular engineer working in the private sector is pretty lucrative, I must admit. I wouldn't mind making some extra money before falling below the poverty line again, lol. But I've gotten used to the early morning routine. I used to avoid my 9 AM classes like the plague. I'm supposed to be here between 7 and 8, but once I got here at 10 (damned alarm screwed me over). It was no big deal. But I'm used to it now. Get here at 7 everyday, get out early, you know what I mean? btw, you're in TX. Would you happen to be near the Houston area?

congrats on the internship. I'm currently doing a co-op with a koch subsidiary. Although it appears they want to keep me around, I still want to do research. It's much more interesting to deal with polymers, than cooling water and high pressure steam. Interest aside, I heard a woman from a nearby rubber chemical plant just got a new job with exxon. Her previous salary was something like 180k. Her new job gave her a 85% increase in pay. That is over $330k a year. Granted, she's probably tier two or beyond in her placement in the company. But that's over 10x more money than the wimpy little stipend that phd students get.

I saw in the results section a post by a guy with a 3.2 GPA. He emailed a professor, got a response, and received an offer hours later. This is Georgia Tech, a top 10-20 school. As far as I know, this isn't something that normally happens. What do you think?

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I'm waiting on 2/5. Rejected from first 3, all of which were in the top 20. Even if I get accepted to UC-Davis, there are only two professors that I'm interested in working with, maybe three. Plus, it's not a highly ranked program (30ish). If I apply again next year, I will have 7 months of co-op experience, as well as two published papers. It sucks because I had put in the work for those two papers, but they're still unsubmitted, due to pending patents. And these papers are suppose to be in a high impact journal.

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These were the good ol days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6pg18bJt-A&list=PLHQ7ceMebQk2c3b9cDFTqqp7HNxi8VfLY&index=70

I got maria carrie stuck in my head It's funny, because I haven't lost anybody. . .

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