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Thank you guys for your answers. The reason why I feel I need to have this as an option is because i think this affects a lot my well-being. This year has been extremely hard, and being far away just made everything worse - my mind was always sonewhere else. This got to a point to which i started feeling bad also from a physical point of view and i even started questioning my motivation and ability to do a PhD, so I went back to my homecountry for a while. And i worked like crazy. This proved me that I really need to feel emotionally well to produce at my best. i guess I will take things as they come - first objective now being passing my exams - and then figure out how to work and how much time to spend here and there. thanks again :)

I am not thinking of resting, just working from distance for some time periods.

My view is pretty confused, what I was asking is: will this hurt me considerably?

The professor I will RA for next year already told me that she has no problem in working at distance. Plus, I have an entire year of fellowship (which I can break down in quarters) in which I don't have to TA or RA because I didnt use the money they offered to me this year, as I was on an external fellowship. Again, though, I do not plan to be away for entire quarters. Just some more time around Christmas and Spring Break, and the summers. Thanks for your replies!

I saw the thread... It was partially useful, my experience is a little different as I plan to concentrate and maximise my presence on campus in some months, and be away for a while after that.

Hi all, I am a first-year international student at a top-5 US university. The question I am about to ask might sound a little strange, but I'll give it a try: is it possible to spend some time periods (say for example a month and a half between Christmas and Thanksgiving, a few weeks at Spring Break, and summers) in my home country, always working and keeping in touch with faculty and mates, in the last years of PhD? I am asking this because this year has proven quite hard to me so far, as I have a long-distance relationship. My boyfriend lives in Europe, he's a banker and he has very little time off of his job, and moving to the US is quite hard for him because of visa issues; moreover, I am pretty sure I don't wanna live in the US after I graduate, so I would be happy to join him. I have been spending long time periods home in this year too, always working hard and submitting problem sets and so on, but - as my Graduate Program Director put it - when you do research, things are a bit different. He told me I can do whatever I want and I have all the flexibility I need to work as I prefer, but that being far is likely to affect my performance. I know this is true, but I would like to find a compromise between being a good researcher and having a happy life. This first year has been like hell for me: I know it is partly due to the stress and pressure and hard work, but I know it is also due to my personal situation. Do you think working from far away is possible, or if I do so I will end up being a crappy research who'll never gonna be able to go on the JM? Thanks a lot! A slightly frustrated first-year :distracted:

qqq, i think you got my spot :) i declined the offer yesterday at 1230 pm NYC time. So hard to decline that one, nice to see i made someone happy :)

Stanford!

Indeed. Yet not a trivial one... at least for me!

Institution: NYU Program: PhD in Economics Decision: Admitted (off of waitlist) Funding: 25,300 + 4,000 summer stipend Notification date: 03/21/12 Notified through: E-mail Posted on GC: No Comments:

Thank you. Seems like an easy choice, but it's not...

Thank you.. it seems they do not actually have a deadline!

Hi guys, the time for choosing is approaching fast, and I don't know how to decide. I have been admitted to these four schools (actually, to three of them, as I am in a short waitlist for NYU): all great for some reasons, not so great for others. My main interests are Political and Labor economics; lately, I have found myself to be very interested in education, migration and segregation issues. I feel like saying that my interests might change; anyway, I plan on working on applied micro stuff. I am unable to choose. Chicago is supposed to be the best place to do labor; nonetheless, people told me that it's not among the best programs in terms of environment, and the faculty is pretty small and does not care that much about phd students, at least not as in programs like Stanford, in which students are "pushed" to work with professors. Stanford seems like the best place, but I'm not sure I want to be on the west coast, since I am European and I would prefer to stay east. UPenn is also a great place to do education and similar stuff, as well as political economics, but the program is known to be kind of tough (well, at least this is what appears from a place where the mathcamp starts on July 16th and there's a math exam on sep 2nd!) and I have heard controverse stories about Philadelphia. Last, I love NYU as a place to live and study: I've had an experience there and loved it in its entirety, moreover it's on the east coast and I feel like I would be much better living in a city rather than in green grass and nature, as Stanford. Nonetheless, NYU is somehow lower ranked than Stanford, or Chicago, and probably also UPenn, so I'm afraid I would regret this choice in my future; besides, they haven't told me anything for sure, so I'm not even sure I can actually go there. In sum, what I value most is the quality of people in the program, the possibility of working well without useless sources of stress, and being in a place I like. But I am still unable to choose! What do you think about it?

I was just asking because I don't think it's the same anywhere... for example, for Chicago is May 1st and for BU is May 15th...

for those who have been admitted to Cornell: what is the deadline for the decision of going/not going? Thanks!