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  1. [h=6]check out their CVs http://sites.google.com/site/markusbrucknerresearch/[/h] http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ykamada/cv.pdf
  2. Thanks distracted, this was just the response I was looking for. I have an appointment for counseling, but it won't be until a few weeks.
  3. I'm a first year econ student and have trouble concentrating. This is my first time living away from home, and many childhood memories have come up the past few months. I didn't have the best childhood and will not go into details here. But I often wonder how my classmates can make this program their priority and focus 100% all the time while to me, economics is just a small part of life and happiness. I want to do well in this program, but I can't seem to put aside my personal issues and fully engage in the program. Compared to life, econ grad school doesn't really seem like a big deal, but I can't seem to focus. Maybe it would help me to know that other grad students have been through tough times? I am afraid to ask my classmates because I do not want to tell them my story.
  4. i'm at a top 15 school right now, and i can honestly say that i would not be at this school, or have been accepted to my other choices, if it were not for this forum. this forum got me into my dream school.
  5. great quote! the big groups have already started forming, and I am not in an official group. but there's a few people I check answers with.
  6. okay, i will try the study group again. i think i may have had bad experience before, where i help my friend, and they end up doing better than me, and i get upset. OR they help me and i do better and that makes me feel bad. but it's more like the former and less like the latter. I'm all for mutual-helping, but sometimes it's not so mutual. but i'll try it again.
  7. Is it that you don't understand the solution even after the group has found it? Or if they find it, they don't share? If so, say something! Ask them to explain it. we don't always write on the white board. They share but they speak so fast, but i don't ask them to repeat because I don't want to make them feel like they are "tutoring me." I thought I would be reading the text and understanding the lecture notes instead of waiting and struggling to solve a problem, which gets exhuasting. kinda sucks I can't get my personality to fit in with the study group method.
  8. What if few classmates know how to do the problem, and I am also unable to answer their questions?
  9. I'm trying to figure out what is the best way for me to study. Everyday about half our class goes over the material and tries to solve the problem set in our big office, but I don't get much out from doing that. Some of us just sit at the table and stare at the problem set for a few hours. I've been thinking, is it more efficient to just attempt the problem set and write up some answer to get it done, and wait for the correct answers later and then learn from the answers and try to understand it then? Or is this frowned upon? Can anyone share their experiences?
  10. My letter writers said they would write "one letter" and suggested I apply to as many schools as I could. I applied to 18. I sent all the letter requests (click "send to writer" request) at once. One of my writers asked the dept secetary to help him. Another submitted all of them at once, which took him about an hour max (based on the email notifcations I got).
  11. I completed a 9 month program and received a masters degree in social science. The coursework did not involve any economics. Given the NSF eligibility guide Eligibility Guide - NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) I do not know how to defend that I am still eligible. NSF says they look at applications case-by-case bases and I will need to submit an eligibility essay. Some points I have: 1. Several of my courses were cross listed with upperdivison courses, so I took many courses with undergrads. 2. I did the BA and MA at the same university, so I consider the MA a 5th year to prep for an Economics Phd. 3. None of my courses involved economics. 4. The courses were not difficult. I myself consider that year a 5th year (of BA). I couldn't stay an undergraduate because I already completed all the BA requirements. 5. Although my MA is in the school of social sciences, it does not compare to the rigor of an Economics Phd?? I don't want to make up these excuses, but it is important for me to apply for funding. I don't think the MA program gave me a huge advantage but simply improved my preparation a tiny bit. I was also accepted into my Econ Phd program in the middle of my MA program. Any ideas? Also, are there any other funding programs like the NSF that MA holders are clearly eligible?
  12. Do most first years study in their own study groups? Does anyone study by themselves most of the time, and study in groups sometimes? Where do most groups study? and when? and everyday? My classes will be during noon and afternoon, so maybe there's some time until the evening. But I don't know if I like studying on campus until late at night, given that I most likely have to walk back to the apartment by myself.
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