It's my second-to-last semester in college, and I fear I'm starting to check out. Grad school apps at all the universities I'm applying at are due in before Jan 3rd, which means that none of my fall semester grades are going to be on the transcripts I send them, and very few (or none) request that you follow up in the spring with another transcript. (I'm applying to econ ph.d programs.)
So, unless I don't end up going anywhere next fall, this year's grades don't matter. At all. Also, I'm at the point where it's nearly impossible to get magna cum laude, and would be very difficult to drop under cum laude.
Can anyone give me a good reason to not half-ass my Probability & Stats take-home exam? I really don't care about Chebyshev's inequality or the moments of random variable X where X is distributed Cauchy.
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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
quote:Can anyone give me a good reason to not half-ass my Probability & Stats take-home exam? I really don't care about Chebyshev's inequality or the moments of random variable X where X is distributed Cauchy.
I could probably give you a reason, but you'd accuse me of just being mean.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
A good reason? Some grad schools might request a "Final Transcript" sometime this summer. A few of the (undergrad) colleges I applied to last fall did.
I'd assume they would tell you that up front though, so you wouldn't need me to scare you with that possibility.
--j_k
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:It's my second-to-last semester in college, and I fear I'm starting to check out. Grad school apps at all the universities I'm applying at are due in before Jan 3rd, which means that none of my fall semester grades are going to be on the transcripts I send them, and very few (or none) request that you follow up in the spring with another transcript. (I'm applying to econ ph.d programs.)
Let's put it this way: I dropped my GPA down from 3.4 to below a 3 in my fall senior semester. I didn't go to law school for 11 more years.
Oh, and Bob, I don't think we should be regressin' to puns on such a serious thread.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
I admit, I had expected a value greater than just puns to come of this thread.
JTK - once a grad school has made an offer to a student (which happens mid-March), they can't pull it away unless you pretty much flunk out your senior year. I'm nowhere near that - I just might trade some A's for some B's.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
OK, here's the compelling reason to knuckle down: scholarships.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
Hmmmm... it's true that I could apply for the NSF grant next fall, and undergraduate grades do matter. I'm not sure if funding for thesis research (3rd year & beyond) depends on undergraduate grades.
However, if a school doesn't give me a full-tuition wavier (at least - I'm hoping for a stipend too) in their offer in March, I'm not going to go there. Unless it's Stanford or Cal. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:However, if a school doesn't give me a full-tuition wavier (at least - I'm hoping for a stipend too) in their offer in March, I'm not going to go there.
Grad school is very different than law school. *sad*
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Very true. Although it also depends on the specific field, and the degree of competition therein.
But yeah, many grad schools court their preferred candidates.
Posted by Satlin (Member # 1593) on :
It's times like these I'm glad I'm not going to grad school. I would agree that you should keep your grades up for scholarships though.
Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
I've got senioritis as well. I just can't seem to make myself care about the Options and Futures Market. I don't want to memorize all these formulas for the test tomorrow because I don't EVER want to do ANYTHING with Options and Futures. *sighs* Oh well, I oughta it least try instead of being on hatrack.
*kicks Jhai off Hatrack* *kicks self off Hatrack*
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dagonee:
quote:However, if a school doesn't give me a full-tuition wavier (at least - I'm hoping for a stipend too) in their offer in March, I'm not going to go there.
Grad school is very different than law school. *sad*
Yes - law students spend far less time in graduate studies, and exit with a much higher paycheck. We should both feel very sorry for the humanities and "lighter" social science students. They just as much funding as you law people, spend about seven years at it, and graduate with few job opportunities in their fields.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
I've got high school senioritis to a small degree. It usually manifests itself as procrastination.
Also, working on college applications is very not fun.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*whispers* Caltech . . . Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
I have the same problem, but I'm delaying the application process by a year for the sole purpose of raising my GPA a bit. Although it's not terrible, it could certainly use some improvement. My senioritis is certainly not helping my cause.
(Of course, I have also been told by multiple people that I'm neurotic about this law school thing and should just apply to get it over with.)
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
You might actually need to *know* some of the things you'll be learning the rest of the year. Wouldn't it be a kick in the pants if you had to study for all this stuff again later, because you didn't learn it the first time?
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
\whine But I do know the material for all of my classes. I'm just lazy and don't want to do the horrible homework problems for prob & stats (about 15 assigned per class, each takes about 20-30 minutes to solve & type up), or the annoying proofs on the take-home (again prob & stats), or entering in 100,000 pieces of data into Excel for my econometrics project over Thanksgiving Break.
Gah.
At least we're on to mini-thesis paper presentations in Philosophy Senior Seminar. I don't have to do any reading - just listen to the presentations and jump on philosophical problems in them.
P.S. Celaeno - did you do okay on the LSAT? What are you planning on doing in your year "off"?
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I'm a fifth year 1st semester undergrad who has one semester left after this. I feel your pain.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I'm jealous of you and your stats. I love stats and am seriously considering going into another graduate program for stats after I get my MBA.
I don't wanna grow up!
-pH
Posted by Pelegius (Member # 7868) on :
I've had senoritis since, well, forever. Partly its just that I'm lazy and partly its that I was part of the eldest class in my middle/elmentary school for five years (they added a grade each year.) I don't think I've gotten over that. Indeed, with a few very notable exceptions, most people from that class are now pretty much loosers. And that is sad, becouse the average IQ in that class was scary.
Posted by Amanecer (Member # 4068) on :
quote: I don't wanna grow up!
This concept is pretty much foreign to me. I can't wait to be done with school. I love working and I currently passionately hate school. One more semester and I'm free! Beyond the positives of getting a better job, making more money, and not having to study or go to class, I don't think my life will change all that much.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: *whispers* Caltech . . .
Already sent the application in.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jhai: P.S. Celaeno - did you do okay on the LSAT? What are you planning on doing in your year "off"?
I'm happy with my scores.
I'm not entirely sure. I'm hoping that the candidate that I volunteered for will give me a some sort internship position in his staff, but we'll see. Either way, I'll most likely stay in the area, so we should probably hang out.
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