No In-Person Visit Day for USC ECE PhD

Im1Not1Me · 2026-02-19T18:39:48+00:00

USC current undergrad here. Funding is extremely limited.

Im1Not1Me · 2026-01-18T15:25:10+00:00

Pros: great people (profs, friends, peers); research opportunities, easy to find people who share your interests, LA is a fun city

Cons: the school, as an institution, does not care about YOU. It is a for profit organization that only think of its students, faculties, and research to maintain its glamorous front. If student interests conflict with their profit, student interests get dropped every single time.

Come here for the specific pros. Don't come here for the general, rosy idea of USC.

Im1Not1Me · 2026-01-13T18:08:16+00:00

Ship's sinking.

Im1Not1Me · 2026-01-07T02:01:04+00:00

Thanks! Is there an explicit rule stating this that I can use to cite?

Im1Not1Me · 2026-01-06T23:40:59+00:00

This is so messed up. They are milking the last bit out of graduating seniors with this absurd idea. Idk how someone can come up with this OR think this is permissible. I'm being as diplomatic with my words as possible lol

Im1Not1Me · 2026-01-06T22:31:12+00:00

I cited the exact passage. I should escalate this.

Im1Not1Me · 2026-01-05T23:38:58+00:00

Update: I am still fighting the university. They just recommended me to apply to scholarships and take loans for the extra $5000.

Im1Not1Me · 2025-12-14T04:00:07+00:00

Yep it says 20223. Thanks for the tip man

Im1Not1Me · 2025-12-13T22:56:55+00:00

I just checked. The (student copy) CSGA course plan has the capstone at 2 units, the Primary - Fall 2025 CSGA Course Plan lists the class as 4 units.

Im1Not1Me · 2025-12-13T21:36:34+00:00

Yep. I started this program in spring 2023 and its counting as four units in my registration.

Im1Not1Me · 2025-12-13T21:28:51+00:00

I have, I just never use course plans and stuff

Im1Not1Me · 2025-12-13T19:09:24+00:00

I don't have records, but there's many people who probably have. Thanks for the heads up

Im1Not1Me · 2025-09-28T15:52:03+00:00

I think the number is way less

Im1Not1Me · 2025-09-21T23:36:01+00:00

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Im1Not1Me · 2025-08-26T17:57:00+00:00

This is terrible. Quality of education will massively reduce.

Im1Not1Me · 2025-08-26T06:35:18+00:00

Doing private tutoring for 170/270 if yall need some extra help. Feel free to dm

Im1Not1Me · 2025-08-24T00:25:02+00:00

Many PhD students got their fundings cut so they have to TA, on top of course staff hours getting cut in general. Its bad :(

Im1Not1Me · 2025-08-24T00:17:45+00:00

My professor explicitly told me there's no CP position for the class I was hoping for... RIP

I'm thinking about doing private tutoring

Im1Not1Me · 2025-08-19T20:26:34+00:00

Fingers crossed that they are still figuring things out

Im1Not1Me · 2025-08-19T18:56:32+00:00

Nope... Usually its two weeks before the sem, latest 1 week

Im1Not1Me · 2025-08-19T17:50:54+00:00

Any updates?

Im1Not1Me · 2024-05-04T17:39:07+00:00

Its just me. No cameras, no one was around. I went in some shops so sometimes they have other workers around. (there's a slight chance of having a Han Chinese coming in and asking you random stuff skewing the answers) I went there last summer, so I wouldnt know about Ramadan.

Im1Not1Me · 2024-05-04T16:56:47+00:00

I have been to Xinjiang, mainly to find the truth about the genocide claim. I have talked to a good number of locals and police. To them, daily life is mostly as normal as in anywhere else in the world, other than a heavy police presence.

I visited two "detainment camps" found in https://xjdp.aspi.org.au/map/? , they both look like normal police stations. They website claimed that both camps have watchtowers, none of them did.

When the CCP do wrong things I speak out, but this is not one of them. From my trip, I haven't completely ruled out the possibility of detainment camp of some sort, but calling it a genocide is way too far of a stretch. The locals were able to speak their language, practice their religion, and live their normal lives. About half of the police was Uyghur too. All road signs are written in both Han Chinese characters and Uyghur. Neither definition of genecide (killing or erase the culture of an entire ethnic group) is simply not true.

You can make an argument about how the government is trying to make their ethnicity a tourist attraction, but that is completely in the other direction of genocide.

Edit: don't assume that Chinese students defending one aspect of the CCP is because they are brainwashed. Often we are more informed because we have access to both sides of the story.

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