12月15日是一个坎，北美许多高校(尤其是PhD Program)都喜欢把deadline放在这一天。
下个星期北美高校就进入winter break了，所以之后再有deadline过后就要到一月份了。
由于时差的关系，到了中国这边deadline就变成了16号的中午，所以题目的日期是16号。
这两个星期一共提交了7所学校的申请材料，其中光是前两个晚上就提交了4所。
最后时刻放弃了Berkeley的EECS，打算申请明年deadline的iSchool。
准备接下来的两个星期完成另外7所deadline在明年的学校的网申。
这十来天的平均睡眠时间都大概在5个小时左右，有时候还是早上6、7点的时候从研究院出来回大运村，睡到中午下午又接着回公司干活，然后晚上搞申请的东西。
怪只怪自己之前太懒散，不好意思A班的XDJM，没能参加今天的聚餐。
其实一直折磨我的就是修改essay，这中间当然要非常感谢Dong Xin JJ，不是她每天的短信，相信自己实在很难坚持下来。虽然最后仍然还不能算上是完美，唉~
不过我也比较满意了，提交之后就不要再纠结了，接下来应该进入申请的下一个阶段了。
比较高兴的是，公司的project貌似突然变得有意思起来，要好好做，不能辜负了Xing的推荐信。
二月份已经定下来去香港开IUI’10，这两天一直在看尖沙咀附近的旅馆。
期待自己的第一次香港之行，应该会待一个星期左右(2.7 ~ 2.12)，非常欢迎愿意同行的同学。
这两天有一个感觉就是，2010年就要到来了，没想到本科的最后一年(2006 ~ 2010)就要来了，发现新年愿望还蛮多的 🙂
APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL
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- On this page you will be asked to explain why you want to go to graduate school, including some idea about what sort of research you would like to conduct.
- Your statement should demonstrate that you know what research is, that you have had at least one idea in your life, and that you have an interesting and tractable idea about your research for the future.
- Try to be concrete, but also include a few hedges such as “perhaps” and “these possibilities include”. Good writing counts. Project sobriety and maturity.
- Don’t talk about your family or your non-professional interests.
- they’re looking at hundreds of applications and they’re only going to take a second look at the ones that stand out.
- You might write a generic statement and then edit in some passages that fit each department, for example mentioning one of the professors there whose work is relevant to your interests, just to show that you know what you’re doing.
- Ask someone in your department which are the major fellowships in your area and apply for them all.
- For example, you might recompute your GPA without your freshman classes (many universities do this routinely), or your GPA for upper-division courses only, or only for courses in your major.
- This strategy almost always makes a dreadful impression, for the simple reason that professors are busy people who hate it when you waste their time.
- Send each one a customized e-mail message, no more than a few hundred words in length. This message should do four things: (1) demonstrate knowledge of their research, (2) explain that you are looking for the right PhD program, (3) explain the general research area you are interested in working in, and (4) ask them whether they are taking on new students.
- Foreign students often assume that they lack “inside information” that American students enjoy, and they sometimes respond by trying to divine this information from statistics about what kinds of test scores got someone into one school or another.