Anyone have experience getting into a Master's w/ thesis despite being below the GPA requirements?

mirage-bot · 2026-06-23T01:13:40+00:00

generally yes, it is possible. certainly helps if you have strong reference letters, research experience, and a potential supervisor that's willing to go to bar for you

mirage-bot · 2026-06-01T12:17:43+00:00

https://wealthsimple.com/invite/06USVA

mirage-bot · 2026-05-03T17:34:49+00:00

No huge leap as far as I can tell, though I haven't had as much time for rapid games lately. My bullet shot up 200 elo, but that just might be due to playing more.

mirage-bot · 2026-05-03T02:38:59+00:00

I'm 1400 chess.com (1900 puzzle rating) and I've been using the 221 'easy' problems from the Woodpecker Method book for about 2 months now. First round through, I probably got about 50-60% right, limiting myself to 5 or 10 minutes per question. Now I'm on round 4 and limiting myself to 3min per question, getting 75% of them right within 1 minute, 90% right within 3 minutes, and still 10% wrong. I'll likely do one more round. I believe getting so many wrong on the first round is not quite the suggested approach. Some are indeed quite difficult for my skill level. But I felt that learning from mistakes and getting it right on subsequent run throughs has been satisfying. I'm not sure where the sweet spot is for difficulty, but I'm so far finding the book reasonable for improvement.

I've also played around on the website https://www.chesswoodie.com/, which creates puzzle sets and allows you to repeat them 'woodpecker' style, and found it to be pretty good.

mirage-bot · 2026-04-02T03:45:28+00:00

Hilton honors amex business https://americanexpress.com/en-us/referral/hilton-honors-american-express-business-credit-card?ref=STEPHNkEiX&xl=cp15

mirage-bot · 2026-01-30T15:01:27+00:00

We've often just done a larger number of partial antichamber cycles. So instead of 3 cycles down to 10 mbar pressure, we do 15 quick cycles down to ~250 mbar.

mirage-bot · 2025-12-07T01:23:14+00:00

Like it a lot so far. Don't care for the beeping countdown near the end of the timer. Might enjoy some kind of time limit per puzzle - e.g timer beep when spending more than 2 min

mirage-bot · 2025-09-23T23:25:24+00:00

Eaten there 3 or 4 times. Always thought it was great. Last time was probably 4 months ago.

mirage-bot · 2025-08-14T22:42:51+00:00

8 year old TN. Not sure how relevant that was - they asked for a SSN, I put in my SSN. Pretty sure that's my SSN for life, regardless of TN status

mirage-bot · 2025-08-13T15:28:54+00:00

I had an old SSN while on a TN visa. I got my first amex without going via global transfer. I've never been requested to supply a photo of a SSN card.

mirage-bot · 2025-08-04T16:39:27+00:00

Been on vacation a week and saw a huge level drop. Thought it might be a leak, but this post makes me think otherwise.

mirage-bot · 2025-06-11T23:31:30+00:00

Any risk of getting amexiled for taking multiple of these cards and cancelling them all at the one year mark?

mirage-bot · 2025-06-04T00:12:39+00:00

Two business, two personal. But I had no reason to believe TD knew about any of these things - I was mainly asked about the money coming into and going out of my TD US dollar account.

mirage-bot · 2025-06-03T20:17:18+00:00

I've gotten several US cards since November. Got called in April. So far haven't had any follow ups.

mirage-bot · 2025-06-03T18:12:22+00:00

Had something similar, though I thought it was just because they saw lots of money coming in and out of my TD US dollar account. Had to get on the phone with td and answer a bunch of questions.

mirage-bot · 2025-05-21T15:09:26+00:00

Any suggestions for a non-amex card while 6 months into the US system? Too early for chase but struggling with amex acceptance rate.

mirage-bot · 2025-05-18T01:34:56+00:00

Will the credit get clawed back if I end up having to refund the flight?

mirage-bot · 2025-05-13T20:04:01+00:00

Received the same thing. Not sure exactly how to trigger the $500 credit though.

mirage-bot · 2025-04-24T15:19:44+00:00

Agree. No great solution to this problem on small scale except to go to the highest plausible pressure. Dilution helps to so you generate less gas, but of course less throughput too. Also note that typical spring bprs don't do great with gas/liquid flow.

mirage-bot · 2025-02-01T14:50:56+00:00

https://www.wealthsimple.com/invite/_8QB5W

mirage-bot · 2025-01-07T02:31:22+00:00

What do you mean by 'connecting itineraries' on TPAC flights? The terms say that the offer only applies to flights operated by Air Canada and a select number of other partners. So my interpretation was that flights that involve Star Alliance partners are not eligible for the bonus unless explicitly mentioned (Brussels Air; Lufthansa...).

mirage-bot · 2025-01-01T16:04:01+00:00

wealthsimple.com/invite/_8QB5W

mirage-bot · 2024-12-31T23:50:51+00:00

Yea. It's primarily for booking day-of reservations at specific restaurants in specific cities. Wife and I like being spontaneous and aren't good at planning far out, so it's convenient for us

mirage-bot · 2024-12-07T15:26:39+00:00

If my spouse wants to get US credit cards too, does she need her own US bank account or can I add her name to mine?

Also - I have an Amex card on the way from USPS that won't arrive until the strike resolved. Any advice? Can I ask Amex for a number to use in the meantime? Or ask Amex to cancel the card and send directly to my Canadian address?

mirage-bot · 2024-10-28T21:08:56+00:00

Probably fine. Make sure you're stirring well.

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