GRAPEFRUITS
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This thread makes me sad. Only in a world of annonymity is this possible.
Grapefruits, when I started PhD school I thought I was the bomb. I was super smart and science, beware!
I quickly learned, yeah, I AM smart, but so are a whole bunch of other students and faculty. And there was tremendous amount I could learn from them...every single day. Thinking and acting that way only made SMARTER.
Spore, PhD (2008, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)
Wow, please point to the place where I said I was smarter than everyone else? My original questions were, "Who the hell are these people who keep posting to these forums while in graduate school? Shouldn't they have stuff to do (this is graduate school, after all)? Why don't they interact with their peers to get questions answered from reliable sources?" And these questions arose because there is little good advice given on these forums. Who knows how to get into grad school? NOBODY, that's who. I just want to know why someone would stick around here and give their $0.02, even though it is worth far less than that.
Potential grads freaking out together, sure. Some *current* graduate student with 3274349 posts? That's pretty lame, I don't care how you try to defend it.
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Last time I checked, "bajillion" wasn't a real number, so you'll have to excuse my skepticism.
Dense on purpose, you're the king of sassy. That's never been done before. I'm impressed.
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Haha well, I'd be less concerned about trolling gradcafe and more concerned about my reading comprehension if I were you.
The phrase "Sure you did," implied you think I am not being truthful regarding how many schools admitted me. So yeah, I'm pretty sure I comprehend, but thank you for the concern.
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Ahahaha this is the part that made me laugh. Sure you did, Grapefruits, that's really nice of you to share with us too.
You don't like my assertion that the advice given here is bad (overall) and that it's a bad idea to take advice from a forum of random strangers where you have no idea of their credentials, and so therefore I totally didn't get in anywhere this application season and I'm a dirty liar.
Ok. I'm sorry things didn't work out for you, good luck next year, and maybe try relying on people worth relying on in the future?
Where did I say that you have no "real life" friends? I'm not sure why you used my post to springboard into that defense. Anyway, I'm happy to know that you're going to be in a PhD program. I'm also a PhD student (one of those pathetic people still hanging around this forum... lol). I too have a ton of "real life" friends, and this forum isn't about avoiding real life. Sometimes it's about trying to lend thoughtful, anecdotal advice to those who are new, from those who aren't. Not all mentorship can be easily categorized or empirically measured. In fact, the best kind can't. Good luck with all those real life friends you intend to make. I have a feeling you're going to need it.
Defensive, me? I don't think so, just clearing up the willful misinterpretation of my comment, which was meant to offend and totally didn't. But thank you kindly for assuring me that you do in fact have friends, as if anyone cares.
Again, your last two sentences are meant to offend, but they do not. Good day to you sir.
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You "plan on having" real life friends, which implies you currently have none.
Not entirely surprised.
No, my statement implies that I currently know no one at the school which I will be attending, unless, of course, you're projecting something about yourself onto what I said.
Anywho I remember my early 20's
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You're heading to your dream school this fall? At the Master's level? Meaning, you haven't actually started grad school yet? Or am I misreading that? If that's the case, maybe you should revisit this forum after you've actually experienced your first year of grad school with all its complexities. You might view this forum differently. I know I did.
Ph.D., and I plan on having *real-life* friends, thanks.
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so wait....why are you still on the forum if you think it's so pointless? And even if you've only had 11 posts, they're mostly just pointing out how pathetic everyone is or making fun of what people say. It seems pathetic that you'd waste your time here if you think the advice is so bad.
I finished the rest of the internet early. Also, I find it flattering that I have made such an impression on you.
Then leave?
oh my god, why didn't I thin... oh, I did. I was asking this question to see if you all realize how pointless and unhelpful this site is. Really, I got into like, a bajillion top-tier programs and I'm going to my dream school and I didn't get one useful tip from lurking here all season, not one.
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For support and a sense of community. Why do some posts smack of judgment and condescension?
because they are full of judgement and condenscention.
This is the worst possible place to try and look for support or community. The 'advice' floating around on here is usually absolutely horrific. Really, I question the intelligence of those that stick around and pity the people coming here with nowhere else to turn for answers to their questions. 99% of what is posted on here are unresearched opinions, conjecture and speculation. Bad.
ha, GRAPEFRUITS: I can always count on you to start sh*t on the forums. Actually, just seeing your username cues me in that drama will soon follow! well done!
That's funny, because I'm pretty sure I was only substantially (if you could even call it that) involved in one thread, which was dramatic and pathetic from the start, so, not only is your sample size woefully small, your hypothesis and conclusions are both totally crap too.
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Why do some people continue to post on this forum, for what in some cases seems to be years, after the grad admission process? Do they not access to other graduate students / advisors to talk to in real life about their graduate school issues? It just seems a bit pathetic to me.
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Yo I got downvoted like three times on this thread.
I'm leaving, you mean, mean, poopyheads!
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UGHNNN get me off this damn waitlist.
So frustrating!
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Congrats. But no offense that is a pretty week GRE score for most competitive PhD programs in clinical psychology. I've seen applicants with literally perfect GRE scores and they usually get in. It def depends on the field. I would expect in engineering you'd need a higher Quant score but well done for getting in! That's awesome!
Don't you think that it's the fact that the type of applicant that would prioritize having perfect GRE scores would also spend the time to make the best possible application package that they could, so that it's the whole application being superior rather than the perfect GRE scores that get them into these programs?
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If you really wanted me to make my exit, wouldn't you stop replying? This is Internet 101 stuff.