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Spanish Manlove posted:One day while studying for a final a bunch of classmates and I pulled up the mugshot of the professors' DUI from ten years ago and laughed about it. My professors hold flexible office hours and truly seem to care about my research area of passion.  Their goddamn TAs, however, need to pull the stick out of their collective asses. "Et al. Is a Latin abbreviation with a period at the end which you have all grievously neglected and points HAVE BEEN deducted for incorrect in text citations" And here I thought I was a grad student at a prestigious university.
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JediTalentAgent posted:It was a very protracted and screwed up situation that gradually got worse and worse. You wouldn't be the only one that never heard of it. I'd spoken to other schools over the years that never heard of it either. Breathe. Almost every university does this; I went to the University of California system, and we were given 4 semesters after transfer to graduate. But have no fear! Plenty of people were multi year "super seniors" - It just requires you to write and defend a petition. Also, classes not being offered or being full will be more manageable at a university than a community college. Advocate for yourself, talk to professors of classes you absolutely need to get into, and make sure you communicate with academic advising about possible substitutions for unavailable courses. Also, I now have a huge crush on Spanish Manlove.
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Last week of graduate school. Thesis due Tuesday. Final paper in another class and a poster presentation of my research Friday. One job interview today, another also on Friday. So close to freedom after seven years of college. So close. So... ... .  Oh and my thesis research turned out not to be significant.
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May 8, 2014 05:05
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Aerofallosov posted:I can only offer an ehug and well wishes, Fishy fellow. Thanks. Finished the research presentation, which was supposed to be informal. Informal my rear end. My research builds off the findings of a really well respected and influential professor in my department at my lovely public ivy league. So I got to sweat bullets for fifteen minutes while she absolutely scrutinized the very fibre-composition of my typo riddled poster reporting my totally null findings. She eventually did wander over to talk to me and apparently the way I phrased my null findings ("Look! Nothing changed! That means the intervention is working, because if it wasn't, those numbers would be getting worse!") pleased her and now I have a research position with her for eight weeks this summer And someone else gave me a "compliment" because apparently social workers aren't supposed to know enough math to do basic logistic regressions.Now I just have to finish writing the actual loving thesis 
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May 10, 2014 19:54
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paragon1 posted:This is just my first impression from reading the article but the whole thing reeks of corporate management and shareholder value maximization thinking running afoul of how public education actually works. From the statement from the uni leadership to the name of the program. Tenure means you have a right to a hearing or evaluation before you are dismissed for misconduct. This university is about to have a shitstorm on its hands.
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Remember to bring tons of food and a water bottle with you, and sit outside in some sun if there is an opportunity between finals. This too shall pass
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