#im really really salty
I did, lol. The program blurbs don’t do a great job of highlighting the differences between the programs in terms of the culture, educational focus, etc, especially since so much of the coursework is elective-based. I looked at the requirements before I sent the email, too, so it irks me even more that despite me basically saying “I’ve looked at your website”, they just….linked me back to the website. I’ll email them back and ask for more qualitative information, because my wording was admittedly unclear, but the fact that I have to email them at all makes me angry, because it means their websites were too unclear to be useful.
Furthermore, the NUIN (Neuroscience) website (which is what I was looking at originally) doesn’t list the BBC PhD as an affiliated program; the only reason I was able to find the BBC program is because one of my faculty members of interest who was listed on the NUIN page says on his lab page “please apply through the BBC program!” (And NUIN doesn’t let you work with faculty housed in other departments so why is he listed as NUIN faculty anyway?) As it turns out, the BBC program through the Psych department might actually be a better fit for me than the Neuro PhD, but I never would have known, because the program didn’t come up in my various google searches, and the NUIN site didn’t feel the need to post the BBC program in its list of collaborators and affiliated programs. It increasingly feels like these universities don’t actually care about making this process easier for students, and it’s making me horribly jaded.
