hungryhungryhipster

Though I am Canadian, if I were you I wouldn't count on Obama's health care plan standing up in the courts. As much as I think it's a great step forward for your country, I know those mouth-breathing Republicans will stop at nothing to see it struck down.

Whatever. I ask a question, even if it was a bit tactless, and people jump down my throat. And no, I was initially quite excited about going to the UofA, then I got that magical letter from my dream school and with my dream professor, so I no longer had any reason to consider UofA. Meanwhile, they already had booked my flight, so it would have looked bad to turn them down and make them eat a non-refundable plane ticket. Do you think I enjoy missing a full week of school and then having to pretend for the whole time that I'm interested in them?

It hardly matters, though, as I can see I'm not welcome on this forum, so adios.

I know it's not on your list, but you can't go wrong with Canada. Except maybe Alberta. Folks there are pretty conservative, but they're also pretty harmless. I think they just try and mimic what they hear on US television or something.

Whatever. I ask a question, even if it was a bit tactless, and people jump down my throat. And no, I was initially quite excited about going to the UofA, then I got that magical letter from my dream school and with my dream professor, so I no longer had any reason to consider UofA. Meanwhile, they already had booked my flight, so it would have looked bad to turn them down and make them eat a non-refundable plane ticket. Do you think I enjoy missing a full week of school and then having to pretend for the whole time that I'm interested in them?

It hardly matters, though, as I can see I'm not welcome on this forum, so adios.

Well, if you're dual there should be no problem, but be advised that your husband might not even be able to immigrate. We don't just take in anyone, lol.

I know it's not on your list, but you can't go wrong with Canada. Except maybe Alberta. Folks there are pretty conservative, but they're also pretty harmless. I think they just try and mimic what they hear on US television or something.

Well, if you're dual there should be no problem, but be advised that your husband might not even be able to immigrate. We don't just take in anyone, lol.

Very true. It's worth noting that three of my courses this term are project/research related (i.e. write a paper and get it to me in April), so i was counting those. I only have two actual classes, and those are the ones I'm concerned about, simply because I will be missing so much class time due to flying all around the country. It's not really about lack of time, just lack of being present. Being an aural learner, if I miss classes it really messes me up.

Well, in Canada, I don't think interviews are the norm as they are in the US. The only school that has interviewed me is UofT. The other that I've heard back from just accepted me without talking to me. I see your point though. Even just doing applications is a ton of work.

WTF do my dietary preferences have to do with you? I simply don't like them, and I get by just fine without. Would you call out a vegetarian like that? I hope not.

WTF do my dietary preferences have to do with you? I simply don't like them, and I get by just fine without. Would you call out a vegetarian like that? I hope not.

WTF do my dietary preferences have to do with you? I simply don't like them, and I get by just fine without. Would you call out a vegetarian like that? I hope not.

WTF do my dietary preferences have to do with you? I simply don't like them, and I get by just fine without. Would you call out a vegetarian like that? I hope not.

I don't see why it matters if you've already been admitted. Of course, don't look like a slob, but I can't see them revoking an already-offered admission for anything short of blatantly lying about your qualifications. Luckily enough, my first visit is in Edmonton, so my coat and several layers of sweaters will conceal anything nice I wear anyway.

I would tend to disagree about the job offer. As soon as I see the words "start up" I tend to run for the hills. Being a start-up, the very first thing you should do is make sure they're gonna pay you in cash, not "umm well you can have a percent of our company that's gonna fail in a couple years anyway". I've just seen too many people who just learned PHP or whatever and think they're gonna make the next Facebook or something.

I'd say if they can't wait what is a fairly reasonable amount of time for you to tie up some loose ends that, in all fairness, existed long before they offered you a job, then to heck with them IMO. They need to recognize that you had other things going on before they popped out of the blue and offered you a job.

Also, it's always good to keep in mind what university is and isn't, especially at the graduate level: it is an opportunity to enrich yourself, to pursue research that presumably you are very passionate about. It is not just another two years of job training. Ask yourself this: would I go through with my masters degree even if I knew that it would not make me do any better in the job market? If yes, then you are doing it for the right reasons. I think too many people merely see this kind of education as a means to an end, rather than evaluating it on its own merit.

Well, if you're dual there should be no problem, but be advised that your husband might not even be able to immigrate. We don't just take in anyone, lol.

No problem! I know I can be a little... harsh with my opinions, but sometimes that's what's needed. Trust me when I say that there will be plenty more startups to jump into later on. They're like locusts in the CS world lol.

If you like, I'd recommend this paper I just finished reading (written by my current advisor) on linear dimensionality reduction. Between LDR and SVM methods, you should have most of the machine learning covered, as well as HMMs. Neural networks are also very interesting, but have fallen out of favor lately, as most people use HMMs instead. There's also a book called Pattern Classification by Peter Duda (sp?) that gives a good overview.

http://janus.newcs.uwindsor.ca/~lrueda/papers/ChernoffLDATwoJnl.pdf

Well, you did have a choice in the matter at some point along the line. You can't really expect a history degree to leave you swimming in cash. No offense, of course.

Well, you did have a choice in the matter at some point along the line. You can't really expect a history degree to leave you swimming in cash. No offense, of course.

Well, if you're dual there should be no problem, but be advised that your husband might not even be able to immigrate. We don't just take in anyone, lol.

From what I was told during my interview at UofT's computational biology faculty, they said they would be going through them 2-3 weeks from then, which was on 01/27. So you should be hearing soon. Hopefully I will be too, but my interview didn't go as well as I'd hoped (I had fluffed something semi-important up on my CV unintentionally, and the prof basically (though not directly) called me out on it), so I'm not so sure. Then again, the prof did say that he wasn't actually on the committee, so maybe not.

Though I am Canadian, if I were you I wouldn't count on Obama's health care plan standing up in the courts. As much as I think it's a great step forward for your country, I know those mouth-breathing Republicans will stop at nothing to see it struck down.

Though I am Canadian, if I were you I wouldn't count on Obama's health care plan standing up in the courts. As much as I think it's a great step forward for your country, I know those mouth-breathing Republicans will stop at nothing to see it struck down.

Though I am Canadian, if I were you I wouldn't count on Obama's health care plan standing up in the courts. As much as I think it's a great step forward for your country, I know those mouth-breathing Republicans will stop at nothing to see it struck down.

Though I am Canadian, if I were you I wouldn't count on Obama's health care plan standing up in the courts. As much as I think it's a great step forward for your country, I know those mouth-breathing Republicans will stop at nothing to see it struck down.