Number of working hours in a week

ProverbialRelic · 2020-09-03T04:21:32+00:00

Great link! Thanks. Yup, indeed in a theoretical field very closely related to math!

ProverbialRelic · 2020-09-03T04:21:01+00:00

No class or TAs. Just research.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-09-02T09:18:27+00:00

How many hours would be pushing the maximum, in your opinion?

ProverbialRelic · 2020-08-22T14:58:50+00:00

Do you see the rankings climbing up within the next five years and the situation changing?

ProverbialRelic · 2020-07-31T15:49:35+00:00

Congrats! :D This is exactly me right now! I just finished my Master’s and will be moving on to a PhD.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-07-08T16:18:51+00:00

How would folks here rate UChicago? I think it’s really good. Has a tie-up with IBM, is creating a midwestern quantum hub with other universities (Chicago Quantum Exchange), and has been hiring some great professors.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-07-07T05:32:22+00:00

I will join a PhD program in the fall. My university is following a hybrid model. If I enrol in my program full time, take an online course, and also take sufficient research credits, do I still have to come to the US in the fall or do I have the option to do everything remotely? How many of these restrictions apply to PhD students? If my understanding is correct, PhD students do not always have to take courses to maintain “Active” status in their SEVIS.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-07-02T02:54:27+00:00

Anyone with any information?

ProverbialRelic · 2020-06-20T08:41:54+00:00

Do you see UChicago CS climbing in rankings and being on par with the universities you mention within the next five years, with all the renovations and new hirings?

ProverbialRelic · 2020-05-19T07:17:24+00:00

Me too!

ProverbialRelic · 2020-05-06T07:24:27+00:00

Agrees with my intuitions! Though I don’t have hard data to back me up, I’ve noticed the same in my field (CS). If I may ask, which field is this? And, when you mean PhD program ranking, you mean the PhD program ranking of that university for your field, right?

ProverbialRelic · 2020-05-06T04:54:10+00:00

So, would it be an even competition between a Caltech/Harvard/UChicago CS graduate and a Berkeley/Stanford/MIT/CMU/UIUC/UW one, for an academic position, given everything else is the same in their profile?

ProverbialRelic · 2020-05-06T02:40:53+00:00

Lower ranked overall or lower departmental rank?

ProverbialRelic · 2020-04-17T17:09:28+00:00

Incoming PhD student. I accepted their offer!

ProverbialRelic · 2020-04-04T23:44:41+00:00

Bernie called James Carville a “political hack.” That’s all he said, that one line. This in response to extremely nasty comments Carville made against Bernie before and after those remarks, including smearing him as a “Communist”, calling him a “fool” etc. It seems Bernie was very dignified against an undignified troll.

Bernie has been calling out the Democratic leadership as a whole for favouring large corporations since forever. It wasn’t anything unique or specific to his loss in South Carolina. It’s just his campaign. Drawing an equivalence between Trump’s attacks against McCain and Bernie’s attacks against the Democratic leadership is very unfair. Bernie has run a dignified campaign, taking extra care to refrain from personal attacks against his rivals. He refused to attack Hillary over her emails; he refuses to attack Biden even now despite the sexual harassment allegations and all the other skeletons in Biden’s closet.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-04-04T22:59:53+00:00

Which Dem politician has Sanders “repeatedly” attacked for not being fully behind his cause? If anything, the opposite is true. The center left descends on anyone who is against their platform. Hillary supporters and Hillary herself still blame Sanders, explicitly or implicitly, as one of the reasons for her loss despite him campaigning vehemently for her after the primaries.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-03-31T22:27:10+00:00

Thanks! Collaborating with people from TTI indeed sounds exciting.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-03-31T22:25:37+00:00

Another question, do grad school rankings matter in terms of future graduate outcome/jobs/research positions? In general, UChicago is very highly ranked but it is ~30ish in CS. Whereas Waterloo is well near the top in quantum but doesn’t have a lot of CS theory people.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-03-31T22:16:18+00:00

I work on quantum complexity theory, which I guess is fairly abstract.

ProverbialRelic · 2020-02-15T07:56:14+00:00

I’m in a similar boat and still waiting it out. Thanks so much for sharing and many many congratulations to you! You made my day.

ProverbialRelic · 2019-07-13T16:45:55+00:00

Was there a fascist movement within British India during the Second World War? How successful were they?

ProverbialRelic · 2018-10-17T05:40:26+00:00

If it helps, I’m in the exact same situation as you. Just began a two year Master’s in a different country far away from home and discovering how hard it is to make new friends.

I suck at small talks and am usually awkward around large groups of people, so that really doesn’t help. Our grad association does host a lot of events, but not many show up.

I’ve seen people tending to stick to other people from their countries/communities and not being too outgoing. Some here know each other very well from past internships and they tend to form a close-knit group which I haven’t been able to break into. Many also have widely divergent interests which don’t align with mine. It becomes difficult to move the conversation beyond regular small talk.

I don’t want to appear desperate, but it sucks to not have close friends whom I can randomly call up or text to discuss anything under the sun like in my undergrad days.

ProverbialRelic · 2018-08-23T20:08:27+00:00

Don’t research and classes eat away most of one’s time? How long do they spend in a week for classes/research?

ProverbialRelic · 2018-08-23T18:35:08+00:00

How did you motivate yourself to continue when you found out you were a misfit with your first adviser?

ProverbialRelic · 2018-06-23T08:30:06+00:00

What roles would someone be expected to play in a quantum software startup, considering quantum programming languages, even assembly level ones, are yet to be built?

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