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AcrossFiveJulys
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After five long months of waiting, getting rejections, weighing my options on acceptances, I have finally chosen where I'll be going to grad school: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for computer science. The tipping factor was when I was offered full financial support even after saying they couldn't offer me any. Final score: UC Santa Cruz PhD with funding --> Umich Master's with funding Georgia Tech Master's UPenn Master's Brown Master's with 3/4 funding  | ||
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Hot_Bid
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i did! | ||
LosingID8
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On May 30 2009 16:04 Hot_Bid wrote: did you buy your football and basketball tickets!??! i did! lol michigan football | ||
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enthusiast
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What kind of research did you do as an undergraduate and what are you planning on doing as a graduate? | ||
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AcrossFiveJulys
United States3612 Posts
Where did you do your undergrad? UCSB. I loved it there but wanted to go elsewhere for grad school because they don't do much research in my area. What kind of research did you do as an undergraduate I did some work in network security, then some work in sketch computation. what are you planning on doing as a graduate? AI, focusing heavily on machine learning. I might explore bioinformatics a bit too if the opportunity presents itself. By the way, if anyone is going to be applying to grad schools or is thinking about doing it in the future, I can give some good advice as to how to get into good schools and how you should go about doing it -- I've learned a lot during the process. I'll be applying to PhD programs again during the 2010-2011 season and it's going to be imba now that I know how to approach things. | ||
Jibba
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On May 30 2009 20:16 AcrossFiveJulys wrote: By the way, if anyone is going to be applying to grad schools or is thinking about doing it in the future, I can give some good advice as to how to get into good schools and how you should go about doing it -- I've learned a lot during the process. I'll be applying to PhD programs again during the 2010-2011 season and it's going to be imba now that I know how to approach things. I'm headed in that direction pretty soon. Any help would be amazing. | ||
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Jibba
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lol recruiting violations | ||
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On May 30 2009 20:16 AcrossFiveJulys wrote: UCSB. I loved it there but wanted to go elsewhere for grad school because they don't do much research in my area. I did some work in network security, then some work in sketch computation. AI, focusing heavily on machine learning. I might explore bioinformatics a bit too if the opportunity presents itself. By the way, if anyone is going to be applying to grad schools or is thinking about doing it in the future, I can give some good advice as to how to get into good schools and how you should go about doing it -- I've learned a lot during the process. I'll be applying to PhD programs again during the 2010-2011 season and it's going to be imba now that I know how to approach things. do tell some general advice :D | ||
thedeadhaji
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ZBiR
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enthusiast
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On May 30 2009 20:16 AcrossFiveJulys wrote: By the way, if anyone is going to be applying to grad schools or is thinking about doing it in the future, I can give some good advice as to how to get into good schools and how you should go about doing it -- I've learned a lot during the process. I'll be applying to PhD programs again during the 2010-2011 season and it's going to be imba now that I know how to approach things. I'd be very interested in reading general or CS-specific advice. In particular, I'm interested in how you found undergraduate research opportunities for which you were qualified. | ||
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Klockan3
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On May 31 2009 01:43 ZBiR wrote: Uhm so you can get a doctorate without a master? That's so strange... Then you just get the master at the same time so it takes a bit longer, it is not strange at all. | ||
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AcrossFiveJulys
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I'd be very interested in reading general or CS-specific advice. PM me any questions or post them here. In particular, I'm interested in how you found undergraduate research opportunities for which you were qualified For my first research experience, I did very well in a networking class as a sophomore and found the material interesting. I approached the professor afterwards and said I was interested in research opportunities with him. He then set me up in a group with two other undergrads and a phd student, whereupon we spent six months working on a network security project and managed to get it published. I repeated the same methodology for my second research experience. From my experience, it's not really about what you know already when professors take you on as undergrad researchers, but what you want you know and how hard working you've shown yourself to be. It's possible that I was just lucky to have gotten my opportunities in this manner, so no guarantees. Also, you might have to ask several professors before you find a position, because often they just don't have the bandwidth to take on additional students. One thing to keep in mind that is that the area you've done research in when you apply to graduate programs is very important. If you are applying to AI, it would help to have letters from professors in the field, which you obtain by doing research with them. So my advice here is to do undergraduate research in whatever area interests you at the time, but when you apply to graduate programs keep in mind your background when you choose an area to apply to. | ||
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