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CMU admission!
I like this. Every day, like clockwork, at 11:48 AM, I receive a letter like the following. Hopefully this will continue. (-: YAY, FREE TRIP TO PITTSBURGH!! Now, if only these schools didn't schedule their visiting days for the same weekend. I have to admit that one of the reasons for me applying to CMU was because I wanted to visit Brandon there. (-:
February 11, 2004
Dear Tobin,
On behalf of the Carnegie Mellon Department of Physics, I am pleased to offer you admission to our graduate program starting in the Fall 2004 semester with financial support provided by a graduate teaching assistantship. At Carnegie Mellon, you will become part of a lively physics department that offers both a solid foundation of course work and a wide range of thesis opportunities. You will study and collaborate with a faculty that is both involved in exciting research and is dedicated to your education and development as a professional scientist.
You will have the opportunity to work with both experimental and theoretical research groups studying the universe from its most microscopic structures to the cosmological scale. We have active groups particle and nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, biological physics, astrophysics, quantum information and computational physics. You can participate in interdisciplinary research through collaborations between members of the physics department and colleagues in other science and engineering departments in the university. Some of the most advanced computational facilities in the world, including the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, will be available to you. If you are planning on a career that involves teaching, you can participate in programs in the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, which provides training and documentation of your participation that can be of benefit to you in your future teaching.
Our commitment to you does not end when you receive your degree. We are equally committed to helping you find a challenging position as you begin your professional career. Our graduates do well, finding good positions in industry, as Post Docs, and as college instructors.
Outside of the department, you will find Pittsburgh a pleasant place in which to live and study. CMU is located between a quiet residential neighborhood and a large city park, yet it is within easy reach of metropolitan recreational and cultural resources. Enclosed is a brochure from our housing department, which describes the surrounding neighborhoods.
Your teaching assistantship provides a full-tuition scholarship and a monthly stipend for the nine-month academic year. The stipend for the academic year 2004 - 2005 will be at least $1650 per month. After you are enrolled, we typically provide three months of summer work, for which you will receive the same monthly stipend. Participation as a teaching or research assistant is part of your graduate training, and such service, or its equivalent, is required of all candidates for graduate degrees, whether they receive stipends or not. Teaching assistants normally spend 15 hours per week in their teaching assignments. Teaching assignments will not inhibit you from taking a normal full-time program of graduate courses.
At this time we invite you to attend our Grad Visit Weekend scheduled for Friday March 19th and Saturday March 20th. This visit offers you the opportunity to meet with other prospective graduate students, department faculty and current graduate students. You will also have the opportunity to tour our facilities and campus. Enclosed is a tentative schedule for the visit. We will pay all of your air (coach) and travel expenses including meals and lodging. If you plan to attend, please contact Hilary Homer via email at heh@andrew.cmu.edu or by phone at 412-268-2849 for travel and reimbursement details.
If you have any questions about this offer, please send email to me at the address below. Otherwise, please send us your reply via email to [...]. I believe that Carnegie Mellon is an exciting, rewarding place for your graduate studies, and I hope you will decide to join us.
Very truly yours,
Curtis A. Meyer
Professor of Physics
Chairman, Graduate Admissions
P.S. You may consider this offer until 1:00pm (Eastern Standard Time) on April 15, 2004. If you should reach a decision sooner it would be a great help if you could let us know promptly. I hope to both see you at our visit in March and as a member of our department in August.
Tentative Itinerary for the March 2004 Graduate Visit Weekend
Friday March 19th to Saturday March 20th
Thursday Afternoon/Evening
Arrive in Pittsburgh.
Limo service from the Airport to the Wyndham Hotel
Friday, March 19th
8:30am Brunch in the Wyndam Hotel with some physics faculty.
9:30am Shuttle to CMU Campus (about 8 blocks)
10:00am Meeting with the Department Head (Fred Gilman)
Meeting with the Graduate Advisor (Ling-Fong Li)
Meeting with Head of Graduate Admissions (Curtis Meyer)
10:45am Meet with Faculty - Session 1
11:30am Meet with Faculty - Session 2
12:15pm Lunch Buffet in Faculty Lounge
1:30pm Meet with Faculty - Session 3
2:15pm Meet with Faculty - Session 4
3:30pm Tour of the department and campus with Graduate Students
4:00pm Departmental Tea
4:30pm Meet with Current Graduate Students
5:30pm Shuttle back to the Hotel
6:30pm Meet at the Hotel to go out to dinner with graduate students
Saturday March 15
Additional Meetings can be arranged with Faculty.
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(just wait and see when this princeton trip of yours will happen: pittsburgh is not that far away from here, you know.)
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jesus!