Post by Patricia Halpern on Aug 2, 2013 14:44:18 GMT -8
Patricia knew that some people on this campus would feel the need for graduate education. However, she does not expect that many people to think about graduate school at this point. She finds herself in a classroom that is normally used for honors and graduate courses, which is to say that it isn't very large. Yet, somehow, the classroom was equipped with a projector, a state-of-the-art projection console that could take inputs from a variety of sources: Blu-Ray, DVD, computers, to name the sources most commonly used by the classroom's users. And she didn't expect her Q&A session to attract more than 20 people, which is the reason why she thought that cramped classroom would suffice.
And the room was filled almost to capacity. To this end, she prepared her connection to the projector, as well as her PowerPoint slideshow. "The first thing about graduate school search, long before you start preparing for the GRE (or what other test you might need to take) and writing the personal statements, is that you're looking for specialties in your field first and a school second. Once you have identified a prospective school or two, you can then begin to ask for letters of recommendation or to prepare for the GRE, depending on where you are at in your undergraduate education" Patricia explained, with a PowerPoint slideshow at hand, filled with special effects and soundwork, like bells and whistle sounds - literally.
Understandably, given that she is a first-year PhD student in physics, much of what she is set to talk about is geared towards research programs (MA/MSc or PhD) although some of the advice she is about to give may very well be applicable to law or medical school. She seems to show that she has a rather deep understanding of the topic of graduate admissions; after all, she wouldn't be given the possibility to do what she is currently doing if she wasn't admitted to this... PhD program to begin with. However, she doesn't have any clue as to what fields the students in the audience want to do graduate education in. She sees, in the cramped confines of the classroom, someone raise its hand, presumably to ask a question.
And the room was filled almost to capacity. To this end, she prepared her connection to the projector, as well as her PowerPoint slideshow. "The first thing about graduate school search, long before you start preparing for the GRE (or what other test you might need to take) and writing the personal statements, is that you're looking for specialties in your field first and a school second. Once you have identified a prospective school or two, you can then begin to ask for letters of recommendation or to prepare for the GRE, depending on where you are at in your undergraduate education" Patricia explained, with a PowerPoint slideshow at hand, filled with special effects and soundwork, like bells and whistle sounds - literally.
Understandably, given that she is a first-year PhD student in physics, much of what she is set to talk about is geared towards research programs (MA/MSc or PhD) although some of the advice she is about to give may very well be applicable to law or medical school. She seems to show that she has a rather deep understanding of the topic of graduate admissions; after all, she wouldn't be given the possibility to do what she is currently doing if she wasn't admitted to this... PhD program to begin with. However, she doesn't have any clue as to what fields the students in the audience want to do graduate education in. She sees, in the cramped confines of the classroom, someone raise its hand, presumably to ask a question.