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CT - Wakephan09 loves Jeff [Redacted] like a fat kid loves cake

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They do at holidays it seems. How long have those Cadbury bunny, Hershey kiss bells, and M&Ms with Santa ads been on?
 
Yeah. They do with seasonal ads but not many companies besides GEICO just play old commercials regularly.
 
We need to get some new dorks for this “WAKE” “FOREST” commercial the play during our games. The Deacon is dabbing in this thing.
 
wakephan09 said:
That's pretty similar to my experience. I started doing national and international conferences early and won a three-year national fellowship (involving lots of travel and collaboration) so my network of friends (and collaborators) is now really broad. And most of the other fellows already had jobs which meant that the depressing attrition in the field among recent graduates hasn't affected my networks as much as it usually does. Also, this early exposure really showed me how good I had it in my department despite a lot of my colleagues having bad experiences. My co-supervisors were superb and my experience was an excellent one

That's a crazy quick turnaround after comps! After our comps at the end of the third year, we take another year to write our prospectus and then 2-3 years to write the dissertation.

My cohort is all over the country, some of them already on second or third short-term jobs. The happiest are probably the ones that didn't go in the job market and stayed in the fun town to build a life
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We wrote our research proposals in year 1 and did a “qualifying exam” (sometimes called a preliminary exam) which was to review the research proposal and evaluate for knowledge gaps so that we could take the right classes over the next couple years. The comps was sort of meant as a general knowledge exam right before your final defense. I did finish the phd a little faster than average but largely because I spent 3 years doing an MS degree before my PhD and my dissertation project was modeling focused so I had to field work or data collection.
 
My MA likewise had me starting ahead in a subfield that typically takes even longer than average. I took my comps ("field exam") in semester four, prospectus at the end of year three. But then the dissertation still took a full three years to write
 
Covid update: kiddo had a fever last night but it's gone now. Just a sore throat and the sniffles. Nothing for me so far.

Thank god for vaccines.
 
lol phan going grammar nazi on a game thread. Troll starting to respect Troll.
 
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lol phan going grammar nazi on a game thread. Troll starting to respect Troll.
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It’s making my day a whole lot better. Bonus points for targeting the only female poster left on the boards.
 
It’s 70° and gorgeous here so I went on a nice long walk after that game to cleanse myself. Was gonna go get a steak from the butcher shop to show some self love to myself but they close in 10 min. Darn
 
How hot is too hot to hit golf balls at the range if you're doing it just cause ya haven't done it in awhile?
 
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