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Re: University/College
« Reply #650 on: 07 Apr 2011, 23:22 »

i highly doubt that, the last four months have arguably been the most unattractive and slovenly of my life thus far

however, that does remind me of an evaluation my friend received last year in which the student rated him excellent and then wrote "SEXY" in the comments section and drew not one but two giant cocks on the page. this is the stuff that makes it all worthwhile in the end, it really does
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« Reply #651 on: 08 Apr 2011, 05:08 »

So that's what I've been doing wrong
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Re: University/College
« Reply #652 on: 08 Apr 2011, 08:52 »

however, that does remind me of an evaluation my friend received last year in which the student rated him excellent and then wrote "SEXY" in the comments section and drew not one but two giant cocks on the page. this is the stuff that makes it all worthwhile in the end, it really does

I would frame that and hang it in my house. Probably in the bathroom.
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« Reply #653 on: 08 Apr 2011, 11:22 »

I kinda want to do that on my teacher evals now.  Like probably not my professor that teaches women and the law because she would hunt me down.  But, I bet my 50 something political philosophy teacher would get a kick out of it.
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« Reply #654 on: 08 Apr 2011, 15:22 »

I worked in the English department for a while last quarter when they had to fire a secretary, but still needed someone to go through student evaluations to prepare them for machine-reading.

On the comment page, one person had simply drawn a gigantic pile of shit with stink lines coming off of it (like this).
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« Reply #655 on: 08 Apr 2011, 19:55 »

In my public speaking class we have discussed: "skullets," bestiality, motorboating (not the kind involving water), homosexuality (one student asked a lesbian in class "how can you knock the wee wee before you've tried it?" << not mean-spiritedly, btw), abortion, our teacher telling us he hasn't dropped acid in 27 years, poisonous spiders, inception, how a woman was married to the eiffel tower, whether Adam named all the animals in one day or not in the Bible.  And those aren't the speeches.

God I love this class.
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« Reply #656 on: 09 Apr 2011, 10:30 »

He said he only stopped because of he didn't like the bad trips.

He's also only missed 7 days of class in the past 10 years, and those 7 days were because he was paralyzed and he literally could not make it to school to teach for 7 class class periods.  He's kind of a badass in many ways.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #657 on: 09 Apr 2011, 12:06 »

University Thread, with your wealth of experience and wisdom: What do people think about working during grad school?  I just got into a grad program and everything is happening very fast and I have decisions to make.

I'll have 12-13 credits my first semester, and the courses are structured in blocks so I'd only be attending classes three days a week.  This is based on the course sequence that basically every full time student follows.  I always took 17-18 credits as an undergrad, so 12 seems like a fairly light courseload, but I know grad classes are supposed to be much more demanding.  I know on paper it looks like I have four days off a week to do what I need, which could include going to work, but I figure I'll need time for all the reading and writing and projects. 

I've read that some grad programs actively discourage students from working, and some even forbid it, so maybe the very idea of having an outside job is foolish.  I don't know! I'd rather not work but I'd also like to reduce the amount of debt I need to go into.  Decisions are hard.
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« Reply #658 on: 09 Apr 2011, 12:29 »

I did it and so far I'm passing. But that is probably because my course is pretty easy because a lot of the technical stuff we covered in the MSc I covered in my undergraduate.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #659 on: 09 Apr 2011, 13:41 »

I had a part time job my first semester, and this semester I substitute teach occasionally, but this fall when I student teach there'll be no time to work.  So in other words, if you must have a job, get something part time with flexible hours.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #660 on: 09 Apr 2011, 14:58 »

Oh yeah, I guess that's true, my job is part time.
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« Reply #661 on: 09 Apr 2011, 14:59 »

i've TAed since i started grad school and probably will up until i graduate because it's the main source of funding for students in my program, but i take only two classes a semester instead of the full-time workload of three. don't underestimate your workload because of what it looks like on paper - the expectation for your quality of work will be a LOT higher and you will find yourself working your butt off literally all the time. i never struggled that much with coursework during my undergrad and with my two courses a semester i am seriously like frighteningly near death basically all of the time. i'd say the general rule is that you shouldn't work if you're full-time, but if you're only gonna take a part-time workload, go for it.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #662 on: 09 Apr 2011, 15:38 »

I've been working about 20 hrs a week since I started grad school. Next year I may have to take a quarter off when I'm student teaching, but having a job and going to school is reasonable. My job is on campus, though, which makes things a lot easier, because the hours are really flexible.
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« Reply #663 on: 09 Apr 2011, 17:59 »

I am at uni (which takes three to four hours of travel time a day) four days a week. I stay at uni for an extra 3 to 7 hours after class to get work done before coming home. I work three days a week doing customer supporty type stuff. There is no way I could study and not work, despite the fact that all the studies show that working during higher education has a negative effect on your grades. I need to be able to pay my rent and shit and my parents don't want me to move back in with them (and I don't want to do that either).

One of my lecturers once said that there are three options open to you while you're at uni but you can only pick two.
Get good grades.
Have anything resembling a social life.
Work more than 20 hours a week.

I work 24 hours a week and the extent of my socialising is basically band practice (three hours a week). I think I'm going to be ok.
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« Reply #664 on: 09 Apr 2011, 18:12 »

yeah i also got to second the no social life at all outside of school thing. this isn't the definition of "no social life" that translates to "oh i only go out like once or twice a week", it means no social life at all. none. no weekends, no evenings. i work on average 7-8 hours a day, seven days a week, frequently much more to the point where it starts cutting into the AM hours, and i wake up at 6AM for class/work every day. out of curiosity, i started keeping an excel spreadsheet to record how many hours of sleep i get every day and right now my average for the last few weeks is four hours a night. the last time i took an evening off to go get some dinner and a couple of beers with my friends was mid-february. it has honest to god been nothing but constant work since then, even during reading week. not trying to spark a pity party here or put myself on a pedestal or anything, just saying the workload is seriously a challenge. don't underestimate how hard making time can be.

also i hope this gives a little bit of context into why i'm basically an asshole all of the time now, i am sorry i am an asshole now but if it helps sooth the pain at all that's basically my situation. that's my fucking life. also i hate myself and i want to die
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Re: University/College
« Reply #665 on: 09 Apr 2011, 19:59 »

The only time I went out last quarter was towards the end of it when I was stressed to a breaking point and decided that margaritas were a Good Idea. I actually saw people I hadn't seen in months. I was very happy by the end of the night. My only other "social" thing is a biweekly D&D game. The rest is me either working, being in school, doing homework, or procrastinating. The last one I'm getting better with, but it happens.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #666 on: 09 Apr 2011, 21:33 »

I've discovered the best way to put off working on my thesis: Get all my other assignments done.

Productive procrastination: Get on it.
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« Reply #667 on: 10 Apr 2011, 01:53 »

Shit guys I have 5 days to decide where to go to do a PhD and I have no fucking clue and it is stressing me the fuck out. Do I want to go to America for a graduate program? It seems kind of crazy because my research is in British history and I already have a Masters, but the program of classes and intense secondary lit reviews seem appealing as hell in the sense that it would undoubtedly make me better at what I do.

But I might have to leave my girlfriend behind for 2 or 3 years if she can't find work/get a visa under her own steam. Which would suck. And I would be half a world away from my friends, academic support network, and the sources for my research. Fuuck.
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« Reply #668 on: 10 Apr 2011, 02:18 »

This 10% lit review for Microbiology is almost 4 days late and still 3/5's done. What the fuck, Riley?
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« Reply #669 on: 10 Apr 2011, 04:22 »

I've discovered the best way to put off working on my thesis: Get all my other assignments done.

Productive procrastination: Get on it.

You may be interested in knowing that this is an extension of the Premarck principle: "A less preferred behavior can be used as an incentive for access to a more preferred behavior." Only in this case, access to a more preferred behavior is instead the avoidance of another less preferred behavior. The human psyche is weird. I catch myself doing this as well. Write a thesis? Gotta clean my room first. It's not procrastinating if you're doing something else productive, right?
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« Reply #670 on: 10 Apr 2011, 12:34 »

Oh yeah I definitely will, it's just a case of deciding if I want to accept an offer in the US or UK

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« Reply #671 on: 11 Apr 2011, 00:45 »

Shit guys I have 5 days to decide where to go to do a PhD and I have no fucking clue and it is stressing me the fuck out.

The good thing is that sometimes when you are forced to make a decision quickly, you rely on your instincts.  Time to decide can be good, but it can also lead to a lot of thinking in circles that only leaves you more confused.



Thanks for the varying perspectives on the whole work/grad school balance thing.  I get the impression that a "manageable schedule" varies a lot depending on the program.  I think it'd probably be a good idea to get in touch with my adviser on the issue. 
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« Reply #672 on: 11 Apr 2011, 07:58 »

Last exam ever tomorrow and studying for it sucks but it's ok because it's the last one ever!

Also, because I am awesome, in my one other real course this semester (I'm also doing an independent research project worth a bunch of credits), I got 100% on the first big assignment and 98% on the second (both of which were hour and a half long presentations in front of the class), so even though I ended up slacking off a bunch and missing class and small assignments because of Shitty Circumstances, I absolutely definitely have an 'A' in this course, which makes up for the fact that I'll probably do terribly on my exam tomorrow.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #673 on: 11 Apr 2011, 14:40 »

Oh shit guys I officially got an offer of funding from Cambridge, making it a three-way contest between Cambridge, UCL and Stanford. What the fuck where do I even begin to pikc that one apart?

This is easily the best and yet most ridiculously hard decision I have ever had to make.
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« Reply #674 on: 12 Apr 2011, 12:25 »

Yeah you should ask him.
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« Reply #675 on: 13 Apr 2011, 17:14 »

words i have made up at some point for the purposes of my final term paper only to discover via spellcheck that they are not actually real words. also i'm not sure what they would have even meant if they were because i have not slept in a very long time
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« Reply #676 on: 13 Apr 2011, 17:25 »

they are the product of writing for so long that you've completely lost the ability to use basic english words to make your point and can now only do so via strings of frantic incomprehensible jibberish

a more fitting name for this thread might be along the lines of "so you made a terrible life choice"
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« Reply #677 on: 13 Apr 2011, 17:26 »

Inclusatory - Inclusively Accusatory
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« Reply #678 on: 13 Apr 2011, 19:04 »

I am so unprepared for this math test that I am sitting here trying to figure out how badly I can do on it and still get away with a B in the class.  I am so so bad at finite math.
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« Reply #679 on: 13 Apr 2011, 19:18 »

Is tantamental like tangential or tantamount to? Spellcheck is inhibiting the evolution of English, impo.
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« Reply #680 on: 13 Apr 2011, 19:46 »

I figured it was fundamentally tantamount.
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« Reply #681 on: 13 Apr 2011, 19:47 »

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« Reply #682 on: 13 Apr 2011, 20:01 »

That explanation was tantamentally poop
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« Reply #683 on: 13 Apr 2011, 20:14 »

my short term memory seems to have all but disappeared in the course of writing this article and i discovered said words in the process of proofreading so unfortunately i really have no idea what was going through my head when i created them. i'm sure more will appear as i keep working on this thing. i think "inclusatory" was supposed to be "inclusory" which is only a couple of letters off so maybe there's still some hope for me
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« Reply #684 on: 14 Apr 2011, 00:52 »

- developmentalist

Oh I know this one, it's a TV show where a detective solves crimes by creating real estate.
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« Reply #685 on: 14 Apr 2011, 07:53 »

Tania: I kind of get what you mean, only I have to write all my papers in Dutch, so every so often I find Dutchified versions of English words in there that would make sense to me and other Native English speakers, but Dutch speakers just WTF at. I'd give some examples, but you don't actually speak Dutch so it'd be kind of useless anyway and I can't think of any.

Oh man I have this happen to me all the time, except it's often entire sentences that make sense in English, and do too in Dutch, but it's just kind of "that... isn't a thing". Happen pretty much on a daily (hourly?) basis when I'm there.
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« Reply #686 on: 14 Apr 2011, 11:44 »

Is tantamental like tangential or tantamount to? Spellcheck is inhibiting the evolution of English, impo.

all i know is it's far and away my favourite of the four
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« Reply #687 on: 14 Apr 2011, 14:08 »

fffffffffffffffffffffffffffff


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« Reply #688 on: 14 Apr 2011, 14:09 »

congratulations! that is amazing.

re: my own education
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« Reply #689 on: 14 Apr 2011, 14:12 »

Yeah, Dicky!
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« Reply #690 on: 14 Apr 2011, 14:24 »

be excited! you are obviously super smart and this is a really incredible opportunity.
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« Reply #691 on: 14 Apr 2011, 15:20 »

My dad got his masters in engineering at Stanford.  He was offered a job for $9 an hour and took one for $13 an hour (He makes way more now).  But yeah, congrats cause you had to earn it.  Enjoy it!
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« Reply #692 on: 14 Apr 2011, 15:40 »

I'M SO CLOSE I ONLY NEED TO CLEAN UP LIKE TWO OR THREE OR FOUR PARAGRAPHS AND THEN I AM DONE I CAN TURN IN THE LAST GIANT PAPER OF THE SEMESTER HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY. at 40 pages this is the longest thing i have ever written and it's been a fucking nightmare getting through it because of how particular i am about proofreading and making sure every sentence is perfect but i think i've finally figured out how to get it to say what i need it to say although this experience has left me increasingly more and more worried about the prospect of writing a full-length thesis if i can't even write 40 good pages without wanting to pull out my eyes. also as soon as i turn this in tomorrow morning i have about five minutes to celebrate before i have to go invigilate a final exam and then mark 70 final essays within 48 hours and nobody understands how criminal law works, including myself, and it is going to be awful. ghhgggl
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« Reply #693 on: 16 Apr 2011, 22:58 »

I have a physiology mid-sem (30%) and a marked practical for biochem (14%) on Wednesday morning. I'm just going over the 3 possible tasks for the marked practical and I'm all like:



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« Reply #694 on: 17 Apr 2011, 11:51 »

Finished all the stats stuff for my research experiment stuff yesterday and it seems like everything worked out just fine! Now I just need to write everything and I'll be all graduated!
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Re: University/College
« Reply #695 on: 17 Apr 2011, 12:31 »

Congratulations, Dicky, but also noooooooooooo we could have had hangouts in Cambridge and drunk coffee in the UL and talked about things! Huh.

(How did you decide in the end?)
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Re: University/College
« Reply #696 on: 17 Apr 2011, 14:47 »

Oh man Dicky, I'm so happy for you! Congrats! I was kinda secretly hoping you'd choose Stanford, because moving countries is so exciting and amazing. Good luck, I'm sure you won't regret it a bit!
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Re: University/College
« Reply #697 on: 17 Apr 2011, 17:39 »

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Re: University/College
« Reply #698 on: 17 Apr 2011, 18:14 »

I keep trying to get into university (well, community college), but I keep on having to wait for my parents to get their shit together and do their taxes. I mean, come on, maybe you could take a break with renovating the house for like 4 hours and get your tax stuff together so your son can try to not work shitty jobs for the rest of his life.
Also, no, I can't just get emancipated, I'm 21, and they'd have to have abused me.
The financial aid system is bullshit in america. This is so dumb, my parents live 3000 miles (142988km) away, how am I still a dependent?
if this works out I'm gonna say goodbye to everything because I'll be working all night and in school all day.
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Re: University/College
« Reply #699 on: 17 Apr 2011, 19:40 »

I found this link that offers some ideas for how to get aid if you can't get your parents information. 

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The impression I get is that you have to jump through some hoops, and contact your financial aid office (which is a good thing to do anyway), and after all that you might not be eligible for as much aid, but every bit helps.  Luckily community college is on the affordable side, so even if you only get a couple thousand dollars, it should cover a good chunk of tuition at least. 


Another option that I always thought sounded terrible, but actually isn't is a private loan.  Some of the banks offering student loans have decent interest rates, and even offer the six month post-graduation repayment grace period like the federal loans.  You will have the issues with getting any private loan, such as higher rates if your credit score isn't great, etc.  I think it's worth looking into though.

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All else fails, you only have to work crappy jobs for a few more years, not the rest of your life.  I went to undergrad with a guy who had to wait until he was 24 so he could file independently, and he said he's actually glad he waited because having those years off helped him figure out exactly what he wanted out of college.
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