yaey

that's not cool.

YAEY!!!

seems like you could solve a lot of your problems by being flexible on your choice of topic why don't you talk to all the professors, not just the ones interested in what you're interested in? you don't have to pigeonhole yourself into one area. you like climate modeling but maybe you'd like other stuff too, i think personality fit is more important than research fit so you should select for that first

Do they ask you to program things? Explain concepts? Do tricky math on a blackboard?

What month? I fucked up this term and I want to know if I can make up for it next term.

Or do you have to keep checking the website?

Do they?

I took the math subject GRE in November, and my scores won't be available online until December 10th! How can I make sure grad schools see my scores in time? (I figure there must be a way, or else why would they offer the test in November?)

Seems counterintuitive...but cool

^See title

Will it get me into Stanford?

So now I'm terrified that the NSF people will read my proposal and be like "HAHA YOUR PROPOSAL SUCKS" I didn't actually ask anyone to look at it. I probably should have, but I finished it the day it was due.

I only became a CS major third term of junior year, so I don't have a lot of the background necessary to do well on the GRE. I took the practice test and scored at 67th percentile. Should I bother to write my GRE score on the applications? Does it spell doom for my application? I'm applying to MIT, Stanford, etc Also I think I could get a much higher score on the math GRE, so should I take that too?

For the PhD degree, you're usually supposed to write about your research experience, but master's candidates often have ambitions in industry. What do I say if I just want to get a job? Somehow that doesn't sound like a noble pursuit that will shape the future of humanity. (In my specific case I want to pursue a Master's because I haven't taken enough CS classes and want more background before throwing myself into the working world, but somehow I don't think they want to hear that)

Hello, You guys were very helpful on my last thread so I thought I would post another one. Yesterday I decided I wanted to work on artificial intelligence in grad school. My friend told me that since I have no experience in AI I should try to find a part-time research position for the academic year. There are only about two professors who do AI at my school (Caltech). If I can't work with one of them, should I work with someone in a different subfield of CS, or email professors at other schools and ask to work remotely? MIT, for example, has a much larger department. Thanks!