amaka26 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, indianIRguy said: I've never prayed so much for someone not to post anything on Tumblr ?? Is Tumblr a thing outside of HKS admission blogs?
mm1029 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 8 minutes ago, amaka26 said: MIT and Harvard are online for the Spring. Almost no school has made a decision for the Fall since it's an evolving situation. Schools are focussed on moving everything online (it's spring break for most right now) before next week. The second focus is going to be ensuring internship offers are not rescinded. Only after that would they start thinking of the fall. Atleast that seems to be the tone at MIT. You can use some of the market externalities as a proxy. E.g., airlines are only waiving change fees till the end of April at the moment. So it's a waiting game for everyone. Thanks so much for this! It's pretty nerve-wracking to be picking a school right now not knowing where things might be in the fall
amaka26 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 For sure! Which I'm sure the Ad-com realizes and is trying to factor in to their admission yield models as well - as someone on this thread had previously suggested.
indianIRguy Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, amaka26 said: For sure! Which I'm sure the Ad-com realizes and is trying to factor in to their admission yield models as well - as someone on this thread had previously suggested. Do I dare a pandemic and go to HKS? Or do I chicken out? What do these yield models say about me....? amaka26 1
gdb Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Any changes to your MYFAID portals? I think mine has changed but can't really remember how it was before...
polapp20 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, gdb said: Any changes to your MYFAID portals? I think mine has changed but can't really remember how it was before... Mine has changed too, but I'm not sure what the specific change is. it looks slightly different Edited March 19, 2020 by polapp20 Typo
polapp20 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 2 hours ago, indianIRguy said: 3.5 hours to go...I've never prayed so much for someone not to post anything on Tumblr... What time does the blog post usually go up ?
justaname Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 No change to mine. Guess it's not looking good for me ?
polapp20 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, justaname said: No change to mine. Guess it's not looking good for me ? I don't think its indicative of anything at all!!! So don't worry! The more I look at mine, I cant even tell if there are any changes lol justaname 1
spnfiim Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) Is it going to be today- Thursday? It should, so that Fulbrighters also get to know tomorrow. Otherwise, if result gets declared on Friday then we could know it only on Monday at the earliest. And you can’t imagine how the intervening weekends will be like!! Edited March 19, 2020 by spnfiim
indianIRguy Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 13 minutes ago, gdb said: Any changes to your MYFAID portals? I think mine has changed but can't really remember how it was before... TADA....it's begun!
indianIRguy Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 6-6:30 IST 5 minutes ago, polapp20 said: What time does the blog post usually go up ?
amaka26 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 What does the financial aid website look like for y'all? Don't remember what it was before to know what changed
HooLeeSheet Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) On 3/18/2020 at 4:08 PM, mc/mpa_hopeful said: I'm very happy to see the active discussion my random thoughts lead to. Thanks a lot for your comment, HooLeeSheet (love your username, by the way). In my brief post, I probably expressed myself somewhat unclearly. I am very much a realist and believe in the power of incentives both on a individual and geopolitical level. As the situation stands right now, there are no incentives for EU member states to directly help each other in this crisis. So I guess the way I would answer your question: "stronger together" choices would have to be built in to the structure of incentives of the EU and right now, there probably are not many such that could be made. Although, I would have hoped for more decisive leadership on behalf of both the Commission and the Council presidents in coordinating the response, sharing information and best practices, and ensuring unity in response measures between member states. Without having any expertise in public health or epidemology, I would venture a guess that everyone would benefit from a more effective coordination of response measures. My comment related more to the big picture: the EU has struggled with a legitimacy problem where national politicians love blaming Brussels for whatever internal political issues they might face ("it's Brussels' fault"), without at all acknowledging the fact that the EU is indeed a union of nation states. This has lead to anti-EU sentiment slowly growing over the last ~10-15 years. In this context, it is disheartening that currently the EU is completely missing in this crisis and the way it is managed. For regular citizens this is again another example of the "EU not working for them", which I think is complete bs but still an "image" problem for the EU. EU actually has a pretty good track record of managing crises and they have usually served as opportunities to strengthen integration. Think about the euro crises as an example. As an avid EU idealist and federalist, I would have hoped that the EU institutions would not have let this crisis become a completely nationally managed one. Thanks for taking the time to indulge my questions in such detail mc/mpa_hopeful! My apologies for taking some time to respond to you (and also to others for detracting from discussion on whether results will be announced today). Would you be able to detail some examples of incentives for EU member states to support each other through a crisis? I am very curious to know more about specific related measures that could be built into the system. I could not agree more with your thinking about the macro-level impacts to the legitimacy of the EU, particularly its unfortunate but recurring image problem. I hope that the EU takes these important learnings on board moving forward, and is able to imprint on people the importance of its existence. I feel at least for the moment, with all EU countries on emergency footing, the financial solidarity seems to be holding. I appreciate that fiscal hawks like your government (Finnish did you say?) are not adding any fuel to the fire on this occasion. ? Edited March 19, 2020 by HooLeeSheet Typo.
polapp20 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, indianIRguy said: 6-6:30 IST Uff 15 more mins to know for sure...
indianIRguy Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, amaka26 said: What does the financial aid website look like for y'all? Don't remember what it was before to know what changed To be honest, I do not know. But I think that box to the right and my name, I guess, are new...!? It doesn't have my full name... but for all I know, i can 100% be a false alarm...
polapp20 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, indianIRguy said: To be honest, I do not know. But I think that box to the right and my name, I guess, are new...!? It doesn't have my full name... but for all I know, i can 100% be a false alarm... Lol we've all stared at the blog page and MYFAID page so much that it is going to be so hard to tell haha. Im in the same boat
spnfiim Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, indianIRguy said: To be honest, I do not know. But I think that box to the right and my name, I guess, are new...!? It doesn't have my full name... but for all I know, i can 100% be a false alarm... I can be completely wrong but this is a good sign!!
WorldChanger Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Hahaha, I hate the control they have on our lives. I feel like a puppet.
spnfiim Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Change in FinAid portal implies something on your page is being uploaded and irrespective of FinAid decision, it certainly implies selection!!
WorldChanger Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 6 minutes ago, indianIRguy said: To be honest, I do not know. But I think that box to the right and my name, I guess, are new...!? It doesn't have my full name... but for all I know, i can 100% be a false alarm... Do you mean the Welcome 'XYZ' ? Did it have the ID number before and now it has the name? I don't even remember what it looked like. lol
indianIRguy Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 hey do you guys see some shortened text/content in the app portal? I think it went down by three-four lines... I do not want you guys to panic, and certainly i don;t need your ire...
indianIRguy Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 No I think it had my full name, now it has some weird combination of my shortened first name and last name Just now, WorldChanger said: Do you mean the Welcome 'XYZ' ? Did it have the ID number before and now it has the name? I don't even remember what it looked like. lol
Covid-20 Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 I dont see changes in my app portal. Maybe you are just looking at it with a wider screen
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