fadagaski: (horse free spirit)
fadagaski ([personal profile] fadagaski) wrote2009-05-18 08:40 am

Kill me now!

Am looking at US colleges for PhD. UC Berkeley looking good.

Kill me now.

[identity profile] zoeiona.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
Not going to kill you. Certainly not going to do that. But... another friend who was looking at US universities for PhD discovered that due to US undergraduates not specialising to the extent that UK undergrads did, it would take her seven years to do in the States the same thing that would take her four years to do in the UK, and she'd spend the first few years re-learning things she'd already done that the Americans hadn't done yet. Is this not the case with the subject you'd be taking?

[identity profile] lauds.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
Dooo iiit! Funding is so much better in the US as they're always telling us here! It takes longer but apparently most places give you PhD places with funding unlike UK where you can have a place but no way to pay for it.

Um, *kills* ?

[identity profile] jackks.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, wait, wait! I didn't think you'd done your masters yet? Or am I behind on your life?

The thing is about the US (unless I'm mistaken, which I possibly am) I had the impression funding for international students is difficult/non existent.

...

Come to continental Europe instead! We have cookies and pretty boys!

[identity profile] bustahead.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
*looks at her loaded pistol and swiftly hides it*

...why do I get the distinct impression that somehow, Troy Boulton has something to do with you considering Berkeley?

[identity profile] airlight.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh. I LOVE UC Berkeley. But then, I love Berkeley in general.