arrowtotheknee
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from AnxiousBeaver in What will you treat yourself to?
I will be quitting my job and going on a vacation. I don't get to see my family very often.
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from BuzzinAround in What will you treat yourself to?
I will be quitting my job and going on a vacation. I don't get to see my family very often.
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from nanoE in What will you treat yourself to?
I will be quitting my job and going on a vacation. I don't get to see my family very often.
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from lxwllms in What will you treat yourself to?
I will be quitting my job and going on a vacation. I don't get to see my family very often.
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from Usmivka in NSF GRFP 2012-2013
From what I've seen, the standards are similar across all fields: will the proposed project help us better understand some interesting question? Can the candidate define an interesting question? Will answering the question have any small (ie to subjects, the subjects' community) and large (science community, society, etc) impacts? The social science examples I've read have been more or less concrete and targeted questions, typically with quantitative methodologies.
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arrowtotheknee reacted to Hank Scorpio in Surviving those last few weeks of work
What a good thread indeed!
Firstly, I'm suuuuuper jealous of all you who get to quit before the end of the summer. I'm stuck at my job until the 3rd week in August. I work a call centre, and spend most of my days secretly hanging out on GC while banging my head off my desk. There was a bit of excitement when I got my acceptance emails, but since then it's back to the grind. I spend my days hating work and slinging Marxist rhetoric at my co-workers (I work for a huge, heartless corporation). Let's put it this way: I hate my job so much that right now I'm recovering from severe abdominal surgery, and I'm happier than when I'm fully healthy at work.
How much notice will I give? Well, they are counting most of my surgery recovery days as "personal days" instead of justified absence days. Sooo...I will probably will give them 2 weeks, but I wouldn't feel bad about just leaving at the end of a shift.
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arrowtotheknee reacted to TheFez in what was your success rate?
100% - 1 for 1 and fully funded PhD. I rolled the dice and it worked.
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arrowtotheknee reacted to LinguisticMystic in Sh*t people say when you are applying to grad school
Yeah, my dad then said "Oh but I could never actually live in Seattle. I can't handle rain & gloom." My parents really have no idea what I'm doing with my life. My mom just offered to buy me some "nerdy, grad school glasses" upon my hypothetical acceptance. Hah! Thanks, Mom.
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arrowtotheknee reacted to ktel in Sh*t people say when you are applying to grad school
My dad: "What will you be researching?"
Me: Something about CFD and modelling
My dad: "OK, I'm going to tell my friends that you're moving away to pursue modelling"
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from MashaMashaMasha in What will you treat yourself to?
I will be quitting my job and going on a vacation. I don't get to see my family very often.
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from tauren in What will you treat yourself to?
I will be quitting my job and going on a vacation. I don't get to see my family very often.
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arrowtotheknee got a reaction from BreathingSister in What will you treat yourself to?
I will be quitting my job and going on a vacation. I don't get to see my family very often.