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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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[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.