报GSE offer。。。

ma_xsxUID: 2839246

本人：香港某top 3大学，math econ本，均分A-，GRE1480, TOEFL113

Offer:
Barcelona GSE master of economics, 免掉了九千欧元（还要交三千欧元）

我个人挺喜欢巴塞罗那这座城市的，只是家里人反对意见比较大。所以不一定去
（西班牙最近这个经济状况啊。。。）


希望大家都能有好offer!

Susan

turkeykUID: 208840

cong一下，不过感觉lz应该有更好的，或者至少拿同等的可以bargain更多钱出来，呵呵~

ma_xsxUID: 2839246

2# turkeyk
请问楼上什么叫做bargain出更多的钱？

我很懒，只申了oxford, LSE and GSE.前两个杳无音讯。Cambridge正在申请。

我想说要是一月份还无消息就从了巴塞。。。

谢谢你的指点！

威尔·熊UID: 2975143

楼主应该改可以拿到Oxford或者LSE的AD。可以直接发个邮件问下小米什么时候会知道结果，顺便告知他们你手上已有offer。

厚脸皮UID: 2901265

恭喜!至少结束了三无状态，有保底的了么不是~快乐过年吧!

swolf54UID: 2421931

肯定能有更好的～con!

JordiUID: 2501274

LZ要是就真的只另外申了英国几个学校的话，如果能从OX or LSE榨出钱来就去那边，不然还是去巴塞罗那吧。

厚脸皮UID: 2901265

看了楼上的评论后很好奇如果楼主能拿到oxford, LSE, Cambridge的ad，但榨不出钱，会咋选?

墨存UID: 2893735

LZ应该有更好的，cong~

shuroUID: 2401325

CONG

ningmengliuUID: 2638353

特意登陆来回复 觉得楼主好容易满足。。。。。  请您1月就算等不来lse oxford的ad也再耐心等等吧 要不就申点美国名校。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。当然去西班牙把他们都镇住也还好啦:)

ma_xsxUID: 2839246

楼上费心了！我确实是比较容易满足，给什么就要什么。
我再等等吧。。。恩看来是得再申多几家。。。

对自己搞研究也有些不自信，总觉得自己跟身边申请phd的econ同学们差距甚远。。。

楼上同学现在在哪里？

xinxing0033UID: 2592330

cong一个～哈哈，Barcelona GSE唯一的好处（至少今年看来）就是，没怎么有中国人……反正至少，今年就我一个中国人（指econ项目，含中国大陆/港澳台）。

xinxing0033UID: 2592330

Here's my opinion (you may want to sit down for this) - be prepared to feel a sense of loss. Loss of time, loss of energy, and loss of patience for teachers (and TAs) who just...hmmm, how to delicately put this...don't live up to your lofty (but well-deserved) expectations. Let me be a bit more specific:
1.
Barcelona is a beautiful city...so I have heard. Never really been around much. (and I am, or at least, I was, an adventurous person). I live 5 minutes away from the beach - been to the beach only during the first week when they had "La Merce" festival. That's all. Not seen the Sagrada Familia yet, and I can see it out of my window every morning - that's just pathetic.
2.
Out of the three Econ Theory professors, two of them are completely incomprehensible (actually, one of them can be understood on a good day...but it has to be a REALLY good day. The other one - forget it. Even native Spaniards cannot understand a word that he's saying). But on a positive note, I have heard that this year was a DRASTIC IMPROVEMENT compared to the living hell that last year's students had to live through (last year's Nazi of a teacher believed that MWG was for little children's bedtime story). As for our Econ Theory TA...let's just say that he is unbelievable/ungelivable...and not in a good way.
3.
Be prepared to buy (or cheaply download/print) a LIBRARY of books. Or, more simply, be prepared to buy a Kindle to store about 30 PDFs of books/chapters/documents/articles/anything else that may be of use FOR ONE PART OF ONE COURSE! That's correct - not one semester, not one course, but one PART of one course. We switch often from MWG (Chapters 1-6, 10-12, and appendices) to Jehle/Reny (the entire book except for chapter 1) to Rubinstein (the entire thing) to Gibbons (the entire book) to Osborne/Rubinstein to Tirole ALL FOR ONE COURSE!
On the other hand, for econometrics, the professor was not as ambitious - we only went through about 10 chapters of Cameron/Trivedi, 6 chapters of Davidson/MacKinnon, some chapters in Wooldridge (not baby Wooldridge), 3 chapters in Amemiya, a chapter or so in Hayashi, plus various articles/journals/other handouts (by the way, MEMORIZE the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell Theorem before you come - it's the most sacred and life-saving theorem ever). Did I mention that this list is only for Microeconometrics? For time-series (which is ironically completed in 3 weeks), we went through about 11 chapters of Hamilton.
4.
Teach yourself STATA as soon as possible. In fact, while you're at it, teach yourself economics as soon as possible. That's all.
5.
Be prepared to get a completely arbitrary set of grades. I answered one and a half questions out of six on my econ theory final exam and managed to pass...how does this happen, you may ask? I am still asking myself this question. Additionally, on the econometrics part, there was a time when I felt like circling both "all of the above" and "none of the above" for the same multiple-choice question.
6.
You will find yourself asking the following questions VERY often:
a.
Why am I here?
b.
What would have happened if I wasn't here?
c.
What the hell is economics?
d.
Why do I care about the answer to c?
e.
When was the last time that I slept for more than 4 hours in a night (or, as the case for many of us, in the morning)?
7.
You will find yourself answering the following questions VERY often:
a.
If you're the only person (effectively Robinson Crusoe the firm and the consumer) on a deserted island, and you have 1 unit of labor to make bananas, but you don't like bananas...how many apples do you consume in a period?
b.
Replicate two Nobel Prize-winning authors' results from their publications (due to data restrictions, you cannot get the same answer by any stretch of the imagination; however, you must replicate the results, nonetheless).

NOTE: This is only for the first semester...it took two weeks in Paris and Rome to partially recover from this trauma. And mind you, there not two, but THREE semesters that you must go through at BGSE. If you want, we can tell you how the second circle of hell feels like...soon.

Hope this helps you, and congrats again!

JordiUID: 2501274

Here's my opinion (you may want to sit down for this) - be prepared to feel a sense of loss. Loss of time, loss of energy, and loss of patience for teachers (and TAs) who just...hmmm, how to delicatel ...
xinxing0033 发表于 2011-1-6 07:10

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