deleonj

Yeah I see "child" or "marriage" and it is my kryptonite! Anyways thank you, I can't wait to use all these lovely baby names:) maybe you will stop tracking all my posts now? I know that's too much to ask. You love to attack me. It's evident in every single post I have made or any response, it's fine I'm a big girl I can handle it, if that makes you feel good about yourself then hey.. More power to you dude. I will continue to post what I want where I want to, you can ignore it or go on the attack against me... No sweat off my balls.

Wow you're still going on about me?? Thanks:) and interestingly enough I actually haven't talked to my pregnant friend in a while, since she asked me to help her pick out a middle name... Ummm no thanks dude figure it out on your own. Also, I will be 26 when I graduate or pretty close to it.

I really don't need a lecture on people, or relationships... I am saying that a guy who is in his late 20s choosing to date a teenager is sketchy.. that is that.  i will not be changing my opinion so thank you for trying but no thank you. If older guys chose to date you because you are a young single mom and they can relate to that then more power to them but at 18 and 19 she should maybe be dating 23 at the oldest.  I am not even saying that people can't date older, I am saying the a grown man dating a TEENAGER is wrong, weird and bad.  I am 23 I have gone out with guys in their 30s but guess what.. I'm 23 not 18. 

Your grandparents came from a different time so that's not even relevant. I'm done with this argument. Don't ask me any questions, I said what I had to say. A grown man dating a teen is bad. The end. But doesn't look like he's dating her anyways so who really cares? Doesn't look like he's even made an effort to talk to her in months.

It's not stupid to give advice on what I Know I don't know this girls life (nor do I give a crap) do what you want why bother coming here to ask? And don't worry I don't go on cheap dates ever sweetie

Love your doge taco! 
 
This is my fifth year in Ann Arbor. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask. 

Could anyone explain this whole "fecal particles" situation in the first post?
 
I keep my toothbrush and towel in the bathroom and have never (seemingly) had any issues.

i eat my own shit

I got a last-minute admit from Chapel Hill with 5 years of funding last weekend! Woohoo!

I'm not in grad school yet, but hell - this is amazing advice, please take it seriously.  My teeth have many awful stories they could tell you.  Take care of them and save yourself the pain/expense...

It seems like you have great knowledge about movies you haven't seen. Are you intentionally not seeing these so you can be a ringer on "Stuff I've Never Done" games? Or are you just holding out in order to have the best weekend movie-athon ever?

How is this living???!! LIFE.... you are missing LIFE.  Do you have ANY idea how many of those movies can change yours FOREVER???? You are in serious need of a movie marathon, my friend.

yeaaaaaah. I need to see a lot of films. my SO and I are working on it.
 
 
never experienced Harry Potter?! AUGH!

This isn't so much about ranking as it is about department culture in a way, but I definitely see what you're getting at.  I have always felt that if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.  It may be an adjustment if you are not used to being challenged, but I think people that genuinely enjoy learning thrive in environments where the material is challenging and you have the opportunity to learn from not only your professors, but also your peers.

You may need some time to adjust to being challenged, but I think if you're aware that challenges will come and you're open to taking them as a learning experience and not as a blow to your ego, you will be great.  Be excited!  You might look like a fool, but so does everyone at some point.  Your peers face the same risk.  Learning is hard, and that's why it's so damn rewarding.  Just anticipate the challenges/struggles, don't take them personally (easier said than done, I know), and do your best.  You will grow so much more when you are being pushed!  I think you'll do very well.

If it is not the big 3: Harvard, Yale, Princeton(stretching it a lot here because their grad programs are inferior to H and Y) then don't even think about Ivy prestige because I never knew Brown, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia are Ivy until some months ago.

How I would choose between two equally ranked programs:
 
1. Research/POI interest
2. Money
3. City
4. Climate (weather and at the school)
5. Ease of returning home (for holidays dont want to spend $400 each time)
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293. Ivy or not

the pyramid gets steeper the higher you climb
people fall out at every cut
but few are willing to do anything but try to kick the door that didn't open for them in
while i admire persistence, i also value creative problem solving 
my plan b has always been finding a back window that's open where i can crawl through 
and that has worked well so far (i'll have 2 graduate degrees from an elite school despite a hohum ba from a 'party school' with an overall gpa barely 3.0)
 
re a doctoral program, if i apply and am rejected, the ace up my sleeve is such a diversified background, i would apply for a phd or edd
 
but then again
i have enough money not to give a d**** 

Jennifer Lawrence--a beautiful, young, Hollywood a-lister taking bragging about she loves being "fat" and "lazy", and the popular media applauding her for her "bravery".  Sorry, does not compute.  

Although it may not work for your field, I will make the suggestion for others in the same boat:
 
Try to work with your department the summer before you actually start. Before my masters program I went in the field with my new POI right before I started and it made a huge difference. I came in as "one of the guys/gals" and was already a part of the existing cohort when I began. Plus, I got a jump start on data collection and got to know my POI really well (drank beer with him all summer). 
 
This summer -- the summer before I start my doctoral program -- I will do the same. This time it's in Greece, so I'm going to stick around and prepare (i.e., read) in cafes and such with the money I make in the field working with my new POI.

Oh YES. In the UK instant coffee is kinda the staple and as a result tastes quite good. American instant coffee is pure nastiness...but that doesn't stop me drinking it. 
 
* Singing along to 80s power ballads. 
* Eating cold baked beans straight from the tin.

Instant coffee. (It's quick and does the job when brewed coffee isn't readily available or I'm in a hurry).

Hell's Kitchen...

poached eggs on toast and black coffee, with some fruit and cheese on the side

They told us that the faculty will probably meet to make decisions this week or next, but it could be end of March to when the decisions are actually released since it has to go through the grad school.
 
We were told that there are fewer seats than the number of us who were invited to visit/interviewed   I met people from all the Comm depts as well as other non-comm dept interviewees at Northwestern during the past weekend, so it seems like it was a massive interview weekend.

Oooh! Good thread!
 
I think the worst one I got was last spring, when a student's mum (NO!) at his request, e-mailed me his essay (NO!NO!) via a spam-bot-looking hotmail account (NO!NO!NO!).
 
I agree with the syllabus thing. It helps me to "pick my battles" and stand my ground on a couple of the fundamentals. I know a colleague who will actually write back "consult the e-mail etiquette portion of the syllabus and try again"; I would have a hard time doing that, but he swears by the effectiveness of the technique! I suppose it's better than the hard-nosed "if it doesn't conform to these guidlines I won't respond", approach, I would find that impossible!
 
One of the most miraculous things I did was to prioritize the online "blackboard" system as the first resource for correspondence. I build a forum there and tell students that, if they have a question whereby the whole class might benefit from the answer, then they are to post there first. I then plug the etiquette guidelines right above where one might create a thread, so it's right in their face while they're writing. Between the front and center guidelines, and maybe the fact that many people will be reading the question (they're not anonymous), students seem to take a little extra care to craft messages with the fundamentals in mind. Not only that, it cuts down on the infuriating or duplicative queries; either the student will consult the syllabus first and find the answer, or they'll see that I've already posted a response to a similar question.
 
If the question is personal or individual, then students e-mail me (and, honestly, this is mostly regarding illnesses/deaths in the family ect;, crisis moments where I'm not hung up on etiquette).