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  1. http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=0CAUQjBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.archive.moe%2Fboard%2Fa%2Fimage%2F1337%2F27%2F1337270940050.jpg&ei=pWKvVIT-FKPRmAXKmYDADQ&psig=AFQjCNGSPrhsRVXajHYL4LMyzUk7XzuA4Q&ust=1420866597417077
  2. Definitely do this, not just for LORs but also for general advice on what you can do between now and your applications.
  3. I'm not sure why you think that adcoms will even care if someone shows insecurity. I have yet to read a guide-to-grad-school that doesn't say "You will, at some point, suffer from impostor syndrome". I imagine most adcoms have experienced this. Do you think that they see insecurity and think "Well, they aren't going to be any good at research"? Many people going straight from undergrad to grad will experience anxiety. Gauss forbid they choose to go to a forum with other people striving for the same thing to seek reassurance.
  4. As with all profiles like yours. Talk to your professors. You will get better information from them than you will from this board.
  5. I tried to think of a discipline that is more likely to signal intellectual curiosity pursued for it's own sake than pure mathematics, but I came up empty.
  6. Given the uni you are at (only one uni in Australia uses that grading system) you will get much better advice from your professors than from this forum. You also might find this particularly useful Core Economics | For the ambitious, prospective PhD student: A Guide
  7. Hi, I've been lurking for a few months now, wasn't planning to sign up anytime soon (I'm planning to do a masters followed by PhD but won't start the masters until 2015) but I saw this post with career advice for freshly minted (or soon-to-be) PhDs: Core Economics | Career advice for young economists And thought that some people on this forum would find it interesting. Some of it is Australia specific but I think the more interesting parts are more general. This passage in particular caught my attention: "Within economics, most academics judge someone’s productivity by looking at what they have achieved since their PhD. This means the number of years a PhD took is usually not carefully considered, nor is any career before the PhD. In turn, this also means that it is actually in a young academic’s favour to have the date of the PhD be as late as possible. Students often want to complete their PhD sooner in order to please family, or to have it over with, but in terms of academic career, later is better."
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