Waiting, waiting, waiting, OH EMAIL!

That is basically my day now. Aimless wandering around and checking my email every 10 minutes to see if I have ANY word on grad schools....I have called everyone I can and have interview dates for 3/5 schools. Most are in February except for the school in Europe...I hope I get an invite somewhere! So far the most contact i have had is at Oregon State. My POI (person of interest) is very nice, totally chill and seems interested in me! Yay! I have another Skype interview with him soon, this time hopefully with his grad student so we can discuss the lab and what working with him is like :)

I'm thinking I should maybe contact his former grad student who is now a post doc...I have run into her before when I was looking at labs to apply for, she is the post doc for a good lab in a good school but it was a place I didn't apply to. Yes, I think I will contact her. Maybe today.

Well, on the job front I have accepted a radio tracking position for a spring migration project! Very excited for that! I will get to live in Louisiana! Louisiana! I actually applied for an easier mist netting job (4 hires) but was interviewed for this position instead, I didn't even think I was qualified! But apparently they liked me and training is no big whoop. Am waiting for more paperwork to get done...argh but this waiting for grad school is grueling! The interview timelines affected my job search considerably. It is hard to get away from a field job to do these interviews and this job does not interfere with them...Eekkk, wouldn't it be funny if I didn't get interview for the European school and my whole March was EMPTY! HA

Well, people are posting things on the Grad Cafe about interviews, rejections, waitlisting, and acceptances. As far as I can tell not too many Eco/Evol news is out yet. Mainly it is psych, neuro, and some humanties. Of course it could mean that eco/evol people don't post there...but there is a thread for us and I know there are people in it. Well this is what one person wrote in the Results page: MIT, Computer Science PhD F11, Stats: GPA 4.00, GRE: 900Q/900V, 150 journal publications, 2 Nobel prizes. I am 16 years old
Hilarious! This totally made my morning! Well, I guess I should pack now. Am heading up to Philly and will hopefully seem some new birds in New Jersey!

I hung out with some local Audubon people last weekend for some winter duck viewing! I really should update my list now!