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calenlass:
Golly gee, Bassist, what school did you go to? Can my college experience please be seen through the same rose coloured glasses kthx.

Bastardous Bassist:
My college experience ended a couple of years ago, and I think that really helps.  It also helps that I'm quite unhappy with how things are going now.  If you want to love your college experience, go get a PhD in Rochester, NY.

jhocking:
"If you want to feel better about your life now, go do something even worse so that you'll look back on the present as fond memories."

timeless advice

tania:
hey who here has gone to graduate school or is planning to?

i've finally started putting together everything i need to apply for grad school this february and it's scary as heck! how do i come up with a really good research proposal and statement of intent that will totally blow any prospective supervisor's mind away? is it appropriate to e-mail my old professors and ask "hey, tell me what to do research on" if they are the same professors i need to ask for letters of recommendation from (i have a pretty basic idea already i just need to fine tune it into something that is a real research question with variables and stuff)? what should i do first, the asking for letters of recommendation part or the asking for thesis proposal help part? also what the heck am i supposed to put under "academic experience" on my cv, i don't think i have any and it's kind of freaking me out.

any advice here is appreciated! i know the application process really varies depending on what program you're applying for, but still, any guidance at all would be helpful because i live far away from my professors now and can communicate with them only via excessively formal emails and i am terrified of accidentally being rude to them cos i don't know anything about talking-to-professors etiquette, also i am curious to hear other people's experiences because i don't really know what i'm doing and i know most people don't know what they're doing but gosh, i really don't know what i'm doing and i just want to get into school so i can turn my totally useless degree into a semi-useful degree and maybe get out of retail finally.

Bastardous Bassist:
One of my professors who wrote a letter of recommendation actually reviewed my essay before I sent it in and suggested a lot of changes.  Thing was, I think he wanted me to get into grad school more than I wanted to, so there's that.  Under "academic experience," I'd put any significant research project you did, even if it was just for a class.

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