<p>I’m sure some are better than others. I’d ask a professor for recommendations.</p>
<p>I’ll ask around at the office tomorrow, too, though… come to think of it… most of our H&H folks aren’t native English speakers. (Insert anecdote here) Their first degrees are probably from locations outside the country, so no guarantees as to widespread knowledge of which are the better and which are the worse.</p>
<p>Anecdote: The entire department actually accosted me the other day to clarify the English-speaking protocol regarding what exactly defines “next week”. Like, if you say to someone, “I’ll have it to you next Thursday” and it’s a Friday, then it’s pretty clear that they mean the immediate following Thursday. If you say “I’ll have it to you next Thursday” and it’s a Monday, then there’s some implied ambiguity. They had a situation where it was a Friday, the subcontractor said they’d have the data to them by “next Thursday”, and the following Friday, they said, “Where’s our data?” and the subcontractor said, “Oh, no, no. This may be a miscommunication. When we said ‘next Thursday’ in this country, we mean that we get a <em>full</em> week. So, we’ll get that data to you in about seven more days.” This sounded fishy to them, so they came to talk to me, and I reassured them that the sub was full of it.</p>
<p>Here’s what my dad wrote me about structures’ funded students (re post 36):</p>
<p>I don’t think that it will be that bad. Depending on how many projects I end up with I may need 3 or 4 new grad students or more myself. The problem is that when we go out for offers in March, we don’t know how many TxDOT projects we will get. If I get the two I am submitting proposals for, I will need 3. I have a number of other projects for companies that will probably come through also. But we are going very cautiously in making offers 6 months before classes begin. We always have more projects when September gets here.</p>
<p>I hope all the projects come through! My son is VERY interested in Texas and if more projects get funded, maybe he will have a better chance of going there.</p>
<p><em>shrug</em>… My parents didn’t know where I was going for grad school until I told them. They had no idea I’d applied until I informed them that I’d been accepted… I took several trips to visit schools, on the schools’ dime, only letting my parents know, “Hey, I’m going to be out of town, so if you call my room and I’m not there, that’s why…”</p>
<p>Actually, come to think of it, aside from my mom driving down with me to visit Rice, and aside from their proofreading my essay (and having no comments other than “That’s really good!” which was… unhelpful…), they didn’t really have much to do with my college application process, either.</p>
<p>It just depends on the student and it depends on the parent. I think it’s nice when parents care about their kids’ lives, though I tend toward being closed-mouthed about my own life-happenings…</p>