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Anybody interested in international business here? A professor who I'm working with wants to recruit a research assistant. Please send me a private message if you are interested. Thanks.

I'm just commencing my phd studies and have been thrown by the technicality in some readings. I'm told I can find ways to calculate means and variances of conditional probabilities from any statistics book. Is that so? Which book shall I be looking at? Thanks!

[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE] I've a visa problem with the US. So I will not consider this option.

I'm not decided yet. I think I want to research both on US topics and topics concerning my home country.

Tilburg's PhD program pays 30000 euros a year, which is not bad. But more importantly, I heard Tilburg has a much better reputation among academians.

I haven't got a good enough offer that catches me immediately on getting it. I have two chicken ribs. I hope you can help me on picking them. One is the old UMelbourne. It gave me Aus$36000 per year and takes three years to finish. (one year's coursework and two years' dissertation and finding a job). The supervisor is nice and helpful and a big name in analytical financial accounting. He co-authored Verrechia and Mary Barth in earlier years (1990s) and taught at MIT and Stanford. He promised that if I want to find a job in the US, he would use his personal connections to help. Last year, his student found a job at Monash. The other one is Tilburg. They gave me 5000 euro per year for thefirst two years at first and raised the amount to 12000 euro per annum after I said I cannot afford it. I'm concerned that it's only a research master's program. They recruit 6 people this year and I believe not all of them are going to be able to do a phd at Tilburg after two years. There is competition and no guarantee. I asked to waive one year of the master's program and the professor listed one-year courses and said he had to ask for permission for me to do this. I'm no longer young (in my 30s) and want to finish early. So I kind of prefer the three-year program of UMelbourne. But I'm concerned about not getting enough training and not being competitive on the job market. What's your advice? Is Tilburg a much better school than UMelbourne? It will be very valuable to me. Thanks.

I understand your point. That's exactly it. The adcom will be concerned that I'm unable to finish the program and deny me admission if I disclose my disability. I cannot guarantee anything. Will it be fair to me if the adcom discriminate against me because of my mental health problem?

TheAmazingSteve, thank you for your advice and kindness. As I've said, it's under control now. But it might erupt in one or two years, for reasons I'm not sure. Even if I take pills all my life, there is no guarantee I'm cured all my life. What can I do? This disease doesn't get cured once for all.

I don't feel insulted when people tell me I should disclose the disability. It's interesting the way you 'frame' your sentences this way. To make it look like I seek for insultation myself. That's so manipulative. That's not true. That's something worse than a lie, because it intends to hurt. I don't know what to call that because I'm not so quick to use ethics labels on people as you are. The reason I came to this forum is that I'm not sure what to do, even with the professor's advice. I want to be honest but it's very difficult. Bad grades don't scare off adcoms. Bad grades don't corner people like mental health problems do. It's something that you can control and can work hard to avoid. If you have bad grades, it means you didn't work hard and/or you were unlucky. It's in no way comparable to mental health problems. It's not as severe a situation. It's all very easy for you to say because you are not the one having mental health problems. I might not be going anyshere if I tell people frankly I have mental health problems. People get discriminated against for having mental health problems. I might not get any admssion or job offer If I don't choose to be tactful about it. And it's not past. The problem is still with me now. It will be with me for my whole life. Does that mean I should risk going nowhere my whole life by sticking to rigid truth?

Non-disclosure of a disability and being silent on a point isn't the same as being deceptive and lying either. The difference between these two are far greater than the two you describe. You insult me by accusing me of being deceptive and trying to lie. I actually asked a professor about it and he explicitly told me saying I've mental health problem will scare off the admission committee and advised me to say I dropped out of the first PhD program out of "family reasons".

if you are honest, you will admit trying to look good in front of the admission committee instead of full disclosure. Are you willing to call everyone (including yourself) deceptive? I have a problem with people who use ethics labels to make my life more difficult.

Thanks for your responses guys. But I'm not ready to answer my second question yet myself. It's under control now. But it might erupt in one year or two, for reasons I'm not sure. No one can guarantee it. No method to guarantee it. I have to take the risk. I guess this is not something I should tell the admission committee about. So I think I probably cannot mention it and/or explain it in my application. I have to take chances that this problem doesn't get noticed. I'll think about getting the PhD part-time and in a less-stressful program or the part-time DBA. But I don't think this is quite possible for me either. I'm from another country, where PhDs are usually required to be full time...... I guess I have to give it a try.

I often find professors' titles with prefixes such as Curators' professor of accounting, Deloite Professor of Accounting and so on. What does the prefix mean? How did the professors get them?

I'm schizophrenia. And because of it, I dropped out of my last phd program in business economics in 2006. During the last few years, I tried to stand back up on my feet and fought the disease. It's under control now but I'm still taking pills. I'm applying to phd programs in accounting this year because I'm really into research and want to go into academics. Shall I disclose my disability on application? Will I be able to finish my phd this time without interruption by the disease?

I see. Thanks for the link.