I was hoping to come home and find an email from a Computer Science Graduate Studies admissions department for some prestigious school glistening in my inbox. I opened thunderbird to find that the ’school’ folder had like 10 new emails in it. Hooray! Could this be the day? Nope; just 6 emails from the ‘Colorado School of Mines,’ to which I never applied, informing me about funding I could recieve, followed by an apology for sending me so many emails. I replied:
you guys wanna give me a full ride ? i’m pretty good at stuff.
Their response:
Mark -
I can’t imagine any Department not wanting to give you a full-ride!
In all seriousness, however, teaching assistantships/research
assistantships are competitive at Mines, but everything is looked at on
a student by student basis.
If you have a particular area of research interest I can get you in
contact with that Department Chair and you’d be able to get a better
sense of direct funding options.
Let me know if I can be of assistance.
[Name Removed]
If I don’t hear back from any grad schools soon, I swear I’m gonna go nuts.