A Lira? In your West Coast? It's more likely than you think.

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Posted by Lomeli on Sep-29-2009 01:47:

quote:
Originally posted by gehzumteufel
UCSB is a good school. And located in a nice place. It can get pretty cold there.

COLD?! Dude, it's perfect weather year round...

Posted by bas on Sep-29-2009 01:48:

quote:
Originally posted by Lomeli
UCSB kicks major ass. I live about 2 miles away. The girls are A+++

University of Cock Sucking Bitches.

ftw

Posted by Lira on Sep-29-2009 01:55:

Guys, I think I might need to remind you that I'm already committed, hot girls are about as relevant as the trees in the campus

I'm really interested in the academic life here... and the weather, lest I fry to death.

Posted by Ygrene on Sep-29-2009 02:06:

You got your Lira in my West Coast!

No, no!! You got your West Coast in my Lira!!

Posted by Banora on Sep-29-2009 02:35:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I'm really interested in the academic life here... and the weather, lest I fry to death.

If thats the case go to Joss' boring school. You won't even notice there are girls on campus because they are buried under winter layers.

Posted by verndogs on Sep-29-2009 02:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Banora
So, have you seen Holly fox yet? You can't miss her, she's orange.

You're crazy. Anything less than 80 is considered frigid to me.

anything more than 80 is too hot for me

Posted by astroboy on Sep-29-2009 03:00:

quote:
Originally posted by Ygrene
You got your Lira in my West Coast!

No, no!! You got your West Coast in my Lira!!

Sup dawg, we heard you like linguistic typology, so we put a Lira in yo West Coast so you can agglutinate while you morphosyntactically align!

Posted by jupiterone on Sep-29-2009 03:01:

very cool lira, i'm moving to the west coast myself. LA come spring, rather excited

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Sep-29-2009 03:14:

quote:
Originally posted by Banora
If thats the case go to Joss' boring school. You won't even notice there are girls on campus because they are buried under winter layers.

Girls in pea coats for the major fucking win.

Our winters are fairly mild actually, usually in the 40s and 50s, January we get into the 30s sometimes. It all depends. The low lands rarely get snow west of the Cascades.

Posted by Banora on Sep-29-2009 03:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Girls in pea coats for the major fucking win.

Our winters are fairly mild actually, usually in the 40s and 50s, January we get into the 30s sometimes. It all depends. The low lands rarely get snow west of the Cascades.

Its about 30ish here during December and January. Holy fuck, February is like 0-10 every day.

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Sep-29-2009 03:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Banora
Its about 30ish here during December and January. Holy fuck, February is like 0-10 every day.

We get some real corkers mind you, we have days where it is in the teens and single digits, but only if the sky is as clear as a crystal ball, and usually at night. A few weeks this last winter at the place I worked at the heat went out and it was in the teens and 20s lol... sucked so hard. I had two space heaters in my cubicle and wore my snowboard jacket and another jacket and gloves and my beanie while coding. LOL...

Posted by gehzumteufel on Sep-29-2009 03:46:

quote:
Originally posted by Lomeli
COLD?! Dude, it's perfect weather year round...

Well I meant SoCal "cold" as in anything less than 70. lol

Posted by Lira on Sep-29-2009 03:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Banora
If thats the case go to Joss' boring school. You won't even notice there are girls on campus because they are buried under winter layers.

Except, unless I find someone there, going to UW is about as useful as seeking shelter in my fridge

quote:
Originally posted by astroboy

Sup dawg, we heard you like linguistic typology, so we put a Lira in yo West Coast so you can agglutinate while you morphosyntactically align!

Splendid!

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Sep-29-2009 03:54:

Neither of those schools have exceedingly great national reputations, though there is of course some variation in top schools within individual sub-fields.

This may be a helpful resource:
http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/linguistics

Posted by Lira on Sep-29-2009 03:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Neither of those schools have exceedingly great national reputations, though there is of course some variation in top schools within individual sub-fields.

This may be a helpful resource:
http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/linguistics

That's the kind of thing I was looking for! Thanks, Jeffrey, I owe you two!

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Sep-29-2009 04:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
Except, unless I find someone there, going to UW is about as useful as seeking shelter in my fridge

Splendid!

There are tons of people in Seattle willing to take foreign students, the UW would probably even help place you if you got in contact with them, but I am not 100% certain on that.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Sep-29-2009 04:03:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
That's the kind of thing I was looking for! Thanks, Jeffrey, I owe you two!

No problem. And looking a bit closer, it seems that Oregon is a Top 15 program for linguistics after all. Santa Barbara doesn't seem to be top tier within the University of California system though. I'm not sure how widespread the field is - I'm pretty sure we don't have a program at my university, for example.

Posted by gehzumteufel on Sep-29-2009 04:16:

I doubt for his thing that it matters much.

Posted by Lira on Sep-29-2009 04:31:

You doubt for my thing that what matters?

quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
There are tons of people in Seattle willing to take foreign students, the UW would probably even help place you if you got in contact with them, but I am not 100% certain on that.

I'll take that into account

quote:
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
No problem. And looking a bit closer, it seems that Oregon is a Top 15 program for linguistics after all. Santa Barbara doesn't seem to be top tier within the University of California system though. I'm not sure how widespread the field is - I'm pretty sure we don't have a program at my university, for example.

Really? I'd have imagined Santa Barbara fared better, though I had never heard of it until very recently. Anyway, it's just a possibility, and I'm doing some research because my advisor mentioned that could happen... let's wait and see what the future has to offer

Posted by winston on Sep-29-2009 05:41:

Re: A Lira? In your West Coast? It's more likely than you think.

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
My advisor and I have been talking about a possible doctorate in the American West Coast. We've got contacts in the University or Oregon, and she also mentioned the UC Santa Barbara as an interesting place to pursue this degree.

I'd like to know what these universities are like, and if there are any TA's studying in these universities. If things get more serious, I'll probably just go ahead and bug the locals, but I thought I'd turn to the CORe first. It's just a possibility anyway.

They pay for everything if you get admitted, by getting paid they mean working as a TA (part-time) or research assistant, you will not pay tuition and you will get paid to teach and/or do research or both.

Posted by Lomeli on Sep-29-2009 05:43:

We have a great physics program.

http://www.ucsb.edu/nobel/index.shtml

The weather here is great. Never gets colder than 40 degrees, rarely hotter than 100. We're usually in the mid 70's.

Great beaches, hiking trails.

Posted by gehzumteufel on Sep-29-2009 07:12:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
You doubt for my thing that what matters?

I doubt that it matters if it is a top university in your field. It can be in the top 20 or 30 in the world and still be one hell of an accomplishment.

Posted by winston on Sep-29-2009 19:54:

one thing is for certain, you're gonna HAVE TO HUSTLE.

Posted by Lira on Sep-30-2009 04:12:

quote:
Originally posted by gehzumteufel
I doubt that it matters if it is a top university in your field. It can be in the top 20 or 30 in the world and still be one hell of an accomplishment.

Oh, true that. Though I am in a top institution in my country

(It's the 3rd best grad school in linguistics, as I recall it)

quote:
Originally posted by Lomeli
We have a great physics program.

http://www.ucsb.edu/nobel/index.shtml

The weather here is great. Never gets colder than 40 degrees, rarely hotter than 100. We're usually in the mid 70's.

Great beaches, hiking trails.

Interesting... do you know anything about the linguistics dept?

quote:
Originally posted by winston
one thing is for certain, you're gonna HAVE TO HUSTLE.

Bustle > Hustle

quote:
Originally posted by winston
They pay for everything if you get admitted, by getting paid they mean working as a TA (part-time) or research assistant, you will not pay tuition and you will get paid to teach and/or do research or both.

That's good to know. According to my advisor, I may also have to teach Portuguese (if the Brazilian government decides to sponsor me), so I'm sure I'll have loads of stuff to do if I choose to study abroad

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