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    Default I hate grad school applications!

    AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGH!

    So I had one due the 8th, one due the 12th, one due today, three due tomorrow, one due Monday, and three due later.
    I have been asked for a Statement of Purpose (by all) with a word limit of anywhere from 500 words to 3000 words and either covering or not covering all my research experience. Some also want a personal statement. Or a research statement. Or a diversity statement. Or an experience statement. Some require one or more to be included in the statement of purpose.

    I have rewritten my statement of purpose so many times my eyes feel like they will bleed if I rewrite it again, and I'm only like a third of the way done with apps.

    Fuck this shit! I'll be a stripper forever! I don't need no stinkin' grad school, I'll just hobble around with my stillettos and a walker with a tip bucket on the front!

    (Also, holy crap does this board have a ridiculous number of smilies!)

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    Good god. How many schools are you applying to? I applied to three and thought that was too many.
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    Default Re: I hate grad school applications!

    I'm applying to like a billion (OK, 10), because (1) some of them are places like Harvard and Stanford, and I need a few back-ups since it's a snowball's chance in hell I'll get into them and (2) my boyfriend is also heading to grad school next year and we'd like to stay in the same part of the country. He nixed Texas, I nixed Tennessee, he really likes University of British Columbia, I'm big on Johns Hopkins. . .

    If worse comes to worse, there's always webcams and sex toys, but I really really don't want it to come to that. (It's been almost six years, I've gotten really used to having him around, and I think he appreciates the random blowjobs.)

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    Default Re: I hate grad school applications!

    What are you goin' for Chloe?
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    Woohoo, UBC, that's my school! Or, one of my schools

    I'd like to do my grad studies there, but apparently there's some sort of frowning-upon of going to your undergrad school for your grad degree? Seems dumb to me.

    So I'll probably end up in some far away land...boo. Cripes, you just reminded me that I've got to start applying soon. Ugh.

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    Default Re: I hate grad school applications!

    good for you! PM me if you want to rant... we've got a lot in common.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scarlett_vancouver View Post
    Woohoo, UBC, that's my school! Or, one of my schools

    I'd like to do my grad studies there, but apparently there's some sort of frowning-upon of going to your undergrad school for your grad degree? Seems dumb to me.

    So I'll probably end up in some far away land...boo. Cripes, you just reminded me that I've got to start applying soon. Ugh.
    There is a fear that you will get academic tunnel vision. In some schools it is stupid because the departments are so huge and diverse.
    Hey. You should move to Toronto. You would hate, hate, hate the dancing - you'd have to travel or see who would book you as feature I doubt you could even deal with the lapdancing, but lots of schools. Cold winters!
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    Don't give up.. just take a breather.. take it one application at a time if you can.

    If I had known how hard it was going to be for me to obtain my Masters, I would have never done it and just left things were they were, but, I'm in it and doing it and I know that it will pay off.

    Hang in there.. and no, you can not be a stripper forever.. invest in yourself, your brain will outlast your body!


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    Default Re: I hate grad school applications!

    Thank you everybody!
    After sleeping on it, I feel better. There's really almost nothing a good night's sleep won't fix.

    I'm going for my PhD in Biology. Most of the schools, I'm applying directly to their PhD programs (you do the Master's coursework during your first two years), a couple of them I'm applying to the Master's program with the option to transfer into the PhD program after the first year.
    This is absolutely what I want to do with my life, it's just so damn terrifying. I mean, what do I do if they don't accept me? Ack! (Duh answer - just take more classes and apply again next year!)

    And I guess reading the whole archives of PhD Comics (Piled Higher and Deeper) at phdcomics.com really didn't help -- I can't fool myself about the fact that I'm trying to get into five years of academic hell.

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    I'm going for my PhD in Biology.
    Hey, me too! Let's both go to Toronto and molest Jenny while we do our grad work, m'kay?

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    ugh ugh ugh, i sympathize. i'm trying to get my shit together to apply for MSc programs and FUCK it's a ton of stress! trying to get reference letters from absentminded profs, essays/"statements" out the ass, worrying about whether or not my degree will even be posted in time to meet the application deadline, the COST of some of these apps is ridiculous, every school wants something slightly (or wildly) different, they're all extremely selective...and all this while I'm still in undergrad plowing through schoolwork, and juggling it all with work and internship and training....FUCK ME WITH A RUSTY SPOON!

    ahem. i mean, just keep going and before you know, it'll be over. When you start getting overwhelmed, take a five-minute break and think about a) the wild celebration you're going to have the night that you get your acceptance letter(s) back, and b) how fabulous your life is going to be once you're done school!
    Good luck.

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    It's nervewracking to think how most of these programs only accept 10 or 15 students per year, and I'm competing against HUNDREDS of people. Ack.

    I'm not applying to anywhere in Toronto, unfortunately, but I may end up in Seattle or Vancouver.

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    It's nervewracking to think how most of these programs only accept 10 or 15 students per year, and I'm competing against HUNDREDS of people. Ack.
    I hear you. The four PhD programs I like in the Boston area have acceptance rates of less than 4%. It's pretty friggin' daunting, but what's the worst they'll say to you? No? Reapply next year? Sit on the waitlist?

    Or a diversity statement.
    Any school that demanded a diversity statement cares more about social engineering than their academics.
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    Default Re: I hate grad school applications!

    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Observer View Post
    Any school that demanded a diversity statement cares more about social engineering than their academics.
    Yeah, it's basically their way of saying "Are you a minority that we should give extra consideration to?" without getting their asses sued.

    Also, I hate grad apps again, because I'm approaching $1000 spent on the fucking things!

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