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emails with a Mars guy
afive 发表于 2006-11-13 20:11:00
Hi,Xin,
Thank you for the reply. You are such a funny guy!
Hello XX
Hi, Xin,
>
> This is XX from Fudan Univ. I am a senior student and
> now I am applying for PhD in Econ.Ha,so glad to receive Fudan letter, Sorry to reply late,but since you’re my schoolmate, you’ll forgive me. Sure.
> Since my interest is Economics of Development, I wonder whether
> there is such a subdirection in your department.Be frankly, No, but Department of History is just next door. We have Public or International to shelter people that handicapped by or in Math .
> I want to try my fortune because XX do not charge twice for a second application.
> In addition, does the program prefer master to BA? Not reallyOr prefer
> mainland students transferring from other universities?No Could you
> please base on the background of your classmates, and evaluate my
> strength for admission and financial aid? No enough data about my classmates.Sorry.Chance for Admission seems good.They like offer Fellowship to Chicago Math PhD that earning 2nd degree here at 31-year-old,but financial aid is different.Did you mean T.A?You’ll get that if you are a good teacher,but it’s a little bit hard to show that when you in China.P.A and R.A are also possible ,but as T.A,they kill time a lot. There are so many Chinese in your dept. Then what is the most common form of aid? Are you exhausted by the TA duties?
Hi, Xin,
>
> This is XX from Fudan Univ. I am a senior student and
> now I am applying for PhD in Econ.Ha,so glad to receive Fudan letter, Sorry to reply late,but since you’re my schoolmate, you’ll forgive me. Sure.
> Since my interest is Economics of Development, I wonder whether
> there is such a subdirection in your department.Be frankly, No, but Department of History is just next door. We have Public or International to shelter people that handicapped by or in Math .
> I want to try my fortune because XX do not charge twice for a second application.
> In addition, does the program prefer master to BA? Not reallyOr prefer
> mainland students transferring from other universities?No Could you
> please base on the background of your classmates, and evaluate my
> strength for admission and financial aid? No enough data about my classmates.Sorry.Chance for Admission seems good.They like offer Fellowship to Chicago Math PhD that earning 2nd degree here at 31-year-old,but financial aid is different.Did you mean T.A?You’ll get that if you are a good teacher,but it’s a little bit hard to show that when you in China.P.A and R.A are also possible ,but as T.A,they kill time a lot. There are so many Chinese in your dept. Then what is the most common form of aid? Are you exhausted by the TA duties?
Thank you sincerely.My honor. My
> TOEFL XX, GRE is XX The GPA isXX. Shocking! I can see you really like 3108 or 3106 or Science Library,so do not use them to scare me anymore. You can not call it "like". I am not an ET liking torturing myself.
> No publications no one does but have done some projects both with profs and by
> myself.Great!Chance risen. I got a recommendation letter from a prof in XX. Wow, you should say that earlier, why don’t you just go to U.C,when Madison has blizzard(5 months deadly cold winter),you will miss California sun. I do not know. Sometimes the option is on the school side not mine. Maybe few people apply so my chance rises. I also apply for Minnesota. I did not even think about the terrible winter in north, why? Though I am from south China.
>
> Best wishes, same to you,good luck! Thank you!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> TOEFL XX, GRE is XX The GPA isXX. Shocking! I can see you really like 3108 or 3106 or Science Library,so do not use them to scare me anymore. You can not call it "like". I am not an ET liking torturing myself.
> No publications no one does but have done some projects both with profs and by
> myself.Great!Chance risen. I got a recommendation letter from a prof in XX. Wow, you should say that earlier, why don’t you just go to U.C,when Madison has blizzard(5 months deadly cold winter),you will miss California sun. I do not know. Sometimes the option is on the school side not mine. Maybe few people apply so my chance rises. I also apply for Minnesota. I did not even think about the terrible winter in north, why? Though I am from south China.
>
> Best wishes, same to you,good luck! Thank you!
>
> Yours sincerely,
Room 63-502, 78 Wuchuan Road take care of my cats around that area They got fed very well. Some kind girls will stop at them and buy bread from stores for them.
> XX
> XX
Below are letters you may like or hate(false name,real world) They scares me very much! The life for an Econ Phd is even more terrible than the weather. If you told me one year before, I would think about the alternatives. Now----I can not find a job! Even big four showed little interest in me, vice versa.
My math is just so so. And I bably need sleep. And I care much about my skin and health. But I would not regret because this experience is probably once-in-a-lifetime.
President Bush,
How are you? How’s every thing?
In someway to apply for Econ Phd is simple, well, I do not mean applying UW is simple, it’s elusive, actually I will never know why they enrolled me, I’m such a bad applicant. Really inferior.
I think you have to show that you’re willing to work hard, extremely hard, 24*7, it’s no so effective to show how clever you are, the professors themselves are or working with so many shocking geniuses, they get used to them,and they know clearly even genius would get exhausted by the path to PhD, everybody does. Generally 1st year PhD can not sleep before 3 AM, the senior live on cigarettes, so in fact they need no sleep. PhD has no life, or more specifically, no life besides math. Math is something you should exchange with your life, yes, life it is(You will be happy if you can really do that, cause some theorems are much more expensive than lives). So show them you’re in love with math madly, you hate everything that can not be put in functions, and you should take Mona Lisa as a sketch sheet to prove some mean value theorem. And You should be very glad to quit all hobbies, cut off all entertainment, break up with your girlfriend, ignore your family, say goodbye to sun, and get really involved with Lebesgue integral and Fourier transform and things so beautiful or ugly like that. Life outside is meaningless to you, fame, money, health, friends, food, sleep, you need none of them, not a bit. Without the PhD, you are not yourself anymore but some forms of protein and sugar. You want the PhD, and you’re ready to die maybe twice or three times for it. Because that actually is the life lies in front, and you shall have no fear to struggle this 8 years or longer battle.Just as training for Jedy Knight, it kills many people. ..
And if you can show that you’re a modern crusade that with some really big idea to change the whole academic climate, maybe they would get impressed. But I really do not know the professors’ tastes.
Well, I observed some PhDs, they are all freaky in some ways, good or bad.So maybe being freaky helps, you konw, many pretty math did not come out from sane minds.
And never forget to run thoroughly the Grad school and Department webs.
I don’t know whether those stupid words above can be categorized into tips, I even do not expect them to be helpful, but I wish you every success, say,as breaking into MIT or Harvard. You can do it!
Hi Brad Pitt,
Congratulations, you are just one half step away from your goal!
You are asking questions to the inside people, and that’s a very critical tactic for your success.
Last year, the department admitted 30 guys, only 8 are Americans.9 are Chinese. Feel well?
The background varies from Mathematics to Physics, so do not worry about your background since some professors even majored in English Literature or Sociology in undergraduate.
I just glanced at your BR and PS, that’s awesome! Though I have not so much time to check them currently because I’m preparing for the midterm (maybe I will later but I’m kind of lazy), I just advise you to take a look at the faculty websites, to see whether some guys share the similar interest with you. If it is, you are in.
Chen, you’re a great student, it’s my honor to offer you some tips. And maybe you will find this link helps: http://www.phdcomics.com
See you in U.S.(Only air crash can stop you, believe in yourself!)
Dear Master Yoda,
Hi, how are you? It’s so nice to receive your email! Hope everything be great with you.
Though Madison, the state capital of Wisconsin, would be a little lakeside town if compared with HK or Shanghai, people here are nice, as all rubes that live in a little town for all their lives could be. Only 22 armed robberies have been reported since August in downtown. Predominantly, the victims are male; age ranges from 21 to 39.You would like the city if you really like sailing, running, cycling, skiing, milking or eating trash food.
Professor here are quite varied, from accents to sizes. We got Belgic Math guy, Italian Macro guy, Berkeley Micro Guy and whatever Statistic guy. Do they dance and sing before class? Yes, occasionally, they spend too much time to sneer at Bush. Are they good at teaching? Probably no, so they must be good at writing papers, that is the only answer to why these weird folks got tenure and can lock their office doors up.
TAs, as you can foresee, are mostly Chinese. You can imagine how these fellows discuss problem with their students, which are, mostly Chinese. They would like to switch to speaking Chinese at every moment until people from India or Colombia protest, Japanese student can keep silent, because they hate English too.
Economics Department is located between History Department and Ecology Department, so when you eating lunch at Daisy (a snack bar next to Econ headquarter, run by Econ Grads in order to do experiments in Micro as they declared, but the only thing they found currently is that profit from Daisy can fund weekend picnics, a lot.) you can expect all freak guys from social sciences, all funny branches, gather together, argue around, and conclude again that none of these disciplines can save world, States, Africa, UW, aunt Mary’s backyard, their pets or their teeth even they may spend 13 years to finish a thesis. My landlord, a Phd candidate in Ecology, spent 6 years in Senegal and still can not write a word on her paper.
The conclusion, if you can really conclude something from the mess above which is a logical disaster, is, as some philosophers stated 3321 years ago, there is no such thing can be defined as absolute good or bad, right or wrong, whatever it is Harvard or smelly jungle school in Congo. You just get up and do the thing you like until yourself become a philosopher and get sick of this everything-is-too-simple world.
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