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Comments

Re: School/funding advice?

[(Anonymous)]

Not a grad student, but...

Is there something in particular about any of these professors that makes you think they would disapprove of your accepting an substantial TA position with a 4-year tuition remittance and a great stipend? Do you have reason to think they would regard it as "shitting on your university" to go where you're going to be funded and have a great opportunity to develop professionally?

Because I do recall one of my professors speaking with some disapproval of one of his own former grad students who had done both his masters and his PhD at our school and in the same department. The professor felt that it was important to step away from what you were used to, rather than continue to study the same stuff in the same department under the same instructors. Your professors might agree.

Re: School/funding advice?

[khronos_keeper]

I think it's mostly being territorial and proud of their own department? (Which, I can understand, they have a pretty good teaching staff, with some pretty solid theoretical and applied approaches, but they've been kind of unstable with funding and professors.)

Plus, two of the professors (one of whom is pretty vocal about students not going to fancy private school for the same program) got their PhD from said fancy private school, so it's not like it's unheard of.

I think part of it might be that they see my worth as a scholar and would like me to contribute to my current department, so that they can work towards being prestigious, but right now I don't think they could raise any more than a few thousand to fund me.

I hope they see me as trying to broaden my horizons, rather than being traitorous to our department.

Re: School/funding advice?

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, this person got their PhD from a fancy private school and is down on students for doing the same? lol the hypocrisy!

Also, what kind of person would seriously expect you to put the (potential) prestige of their department ahead of your own financial security?

Re: School/funding advice?

[khronos_keeper]

Not just any fancy private school, but from the very one I applied to. His logic is that they don't have as good a program as my current uni's (which is the uni he also teaches in).

The problem is that he graduated his PhD from this school roughly 30-some years ago, and as this is a heavily maths/engineering school, they've updated significantly to have a lot of their social and fine arts programs be interdisciplinary with like computer science, engineering, etc. Like, you know. A lot of fields that experienced huge developments in the 20 years he's been away from that program, to address current social trends. Like, you know. The fucking internet (which my current uni is very not good at incorporating into research).

The second is a very good question, and one I'm going to hold onto. Because one of the people who's been vaguely guilting me about the fancy private school has admitted to partly using me for his own prestige to stay in the unfunded uni. There's a new school in my uni being set up for crisis/emergency research, which is my field, and he wants me to stay so that he can get good leverage, with some vague hints that I might get funding in the future? Maybe? (This spooks me, because I have lost 3 projects due to the black hole of funding cuts, so I am very leery of maybes.)