John Stamos Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 I don't plan on making any decisions on my PhD choice until exactly April 10th, however, I think the absolute killer is waiting from April to August. IMO it will be way worse than waiting out November-March from the acceptances. Even with taking a month earlier in July to quit my job, for those of us who currently have full-time jobs with bills and rents to pay, we kind of have to stay in our jobs for a bit to pay things. There is now ZERO reasons for me to give two craps about my current job knowing I will be leaving it for the PhD in August. Any work that I start I won't have time to even see take off so there's no motivation to do any new projects. The fact that i can't also just quit now and do something fun due to bills and rent is just going make April-June absolutely brutal and boring, this is even taking into consideration that I'm working the bare minimum to not get fired. /end rant jmz and brightorangesocks 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwar Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 hey can you ask your wife to give me some "help" with getting into USC? I hear Aunt Becky is familiar with how that all works MinDZ and literalturtle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pensivefont Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Once I figure out where I'm going, my plan is to take several months off from work before school starts to just go camping, read books, do volunteer work, etc. (Although I can absolutely see myself getting cabin fever from such a drastic life style change.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiyoshi Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 I plan to quit my job in middle May and take about 10 weeks off until the school starts.Since I guess PhDs don't have long winter or summer holidays LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternwild Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 8 hours ago, Dwar said: hey can you ask your wife to give me some "help" with getting into USC? I hear Aunt Becky is familiar with how that all works Oh man that joke is gonna get old fast. I can already sense it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDZ Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 10 hours ago, John Stamos said: I don't plan on making any decisions on my PhD choice until exactly April 10th, however, I think the absolute killer is waiting from April to August. IMO it will be way worse than waiting out November-March from the acceptances. Even with taking a month earlier in July to quit my job, for those of us who currently have full-time jobs with bills and rents to pay, we kind of have to stay in our jobs for a bit to pay things. There is now ZERO reasons for me to give two craps about my current job knowing I will be leaving it for the PhD in August. Any work that I start I won't have time to even see take off so there's no motivation to do any new projects. The fact that i can't also just quit now and do something fun due to bills and rent is just going make April-June absolutely brutal and boring, this is even taking into consideration that I'm working the bare minimum to not get fired. /end rant I feel the same way. My job was already nearly unbearable, hence the grad school applications, and now time is going to drag even more. But I also feel like all the work bullshit is going to roll off me a little easier since I’ll only be there a few more months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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