On March 13, the University of Texas’s transportation engineering faculty and students hosted myself and two other potential graduate students. The students held a cookout on Thursday night and I was introduced to 20+ folks in the program at one time. For this visit, graduate students offered up their places for us to stay, so [...]
Last week Dr. Moshe Ben-Akiva from MIT called me to let me know I was accepted into their Master of Science in Transportation program. In the follow-up email they informed me I would be funded through the MIT Energy Initiative Fellowship. This was the last school I was waiting to hear from. Their visitation is [...]
On March 6, Georgia Tech’s transportation engineering faculty and students hosted myself and three other potential graduate students. The students of the program gave us a tour of campus and the Sustainable Education Building which houses the transportation labs and faculty offices. In the afternoon I had the opportunity to talk with five faculty members, [...]
Got word on Friday from both University of California-Berkeley and University of Texas-Austin that I was accepted into their graduate programs. Berkeley has offered a Graduate Student Reserach position and invited me out to visit on April 10 (although I found out later that I will not be able to go that day because I [...]
In the past two and a half weeks I have been accepted into two graduate programs. I got a phone call on Saturday January 24 from Dr. Laurie Garrow at Georgia Tech letting me know of my status, and received an email last Thursday February 5 from Purdue University telling me of my acceptance.
Georgia Tech [...]
This afternoon I submitted the last of my applications to graduate school. I have sent them to civil engineering departments to begin study in Autumn 2009 at the following universities:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
North Carolina State University
Purdue University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Texas-Austin
I hope to visit all the schools which accept me, as I [...]