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[taffimai]

My grad school application wants to know the date I first registered to vote, the date I first got my driver's license, and the date I first registered my car. Am I supposed to know this stuff?

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[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you need to make some calls to City Hall and the DMV. They must have that stuff on file somewhere.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I know, but ... geez!

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Wow, really? That's...thorough of them.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

It's in the "Establishing In-State Residency" section, so it kind of makes sense. Still ... I'm really supposed to know these things?

*points to your icon and agrees with it*

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Hm... if it is "first time in your state" that makes some sense, though those dates might be harder for me to remember than the first-ever dates. (And do they want calendar dates or just years? Years I could probably do.. but dates? ack.)

Re: *points to your icon and agrees with it*

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

They want year, month, and day! I could do years just fine, but the actual date? I have no idea.

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Uh, what? Those are very, very weird questions. How specific do they want you to be?

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

They want year, month, and day. I wonder if this is a test of how much you really want to go to grad school...?

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Wow, dude that's nit picky. I'm sure your car's registration will have the last one, but the other two might require some searching. At least it will set you up for research.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

My degree is going to be in Statistics! No research needed.

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Heh -- don't tell my best friend that. She's a bio-statistician.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

That's different!

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Entirely, since she got her degree by doing statistical analysis on petroleum in shale deposits. It went whoosh over my head. I just hated her because her thesis was only 80 pages, including programs and analysis, and mine had to be 80,000 words minimum.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is a non-thesis masters. No writing at all.

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Smart move.

[hllangel]

One of my applications wanted the issue date on my drivers license. I gave them the issue date of that particular one. The Ca one shows it on the card.

So annoying when they ask for stuff like that.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

This wants the original issue date and the most recent issue date. My license has the most recent issue date, but the original one? Dude, no idea!

[natlyn.livejournal.com]

I might be able to come up with month and year, but the actual day also? Wow, that's extreme. Good luck with that!

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thanks.