Bombeck's Rule of Medicine
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
At Last, A Reply
Finally, after all that effort that I had spent last sem on application work, one seed that I had sown bore fruit today.
Yes, thats right.
I have got one very positive reply.
I HAVE GOT ADMISSION FROM RICE UNIVERSITY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERING.
I again thank all of you who had wished me luck that last time. It was of great help to me, to keep me optimistic during those times.
The details of the admit are as follows.
I have an admit for a Ph.D in Bioengineering, in the field of Bioinstrumentation, imaging and optics.
The aid is as follows: the tution fees are waived. I have a Graduate fellowship for the first year (2004-2005) which will give me $22000. The aid in the succeeding years will depend on the performance in the preceding years. Besides that, I get $500 as medical expenditure.
The surprising thing was that, usually the universities intimate by email that you have got an admission before sending the actual packet. But in this case, all that I got was this packet -
out of the blue. Still, I am not complaining.
I have to send a reply before April 15th. There is a lot of time for it, but I feel it is prudent to consider other better offers also.
Also, I have changed the template. The old one didnt look nice at all. So I changed it. This design is based on the
late nights design of
Blog Frocks. I have modified it a lot - changing many images and css properties. It took a total of about 3 hours of coding, 2 hours of image resizing, one hour of online modification. Hosted some of the images at
Ripway. Ripway is pretty good, they provide 30 MB of online space and 5 MB of daily bandwidth for free - the logistics of which is unknown to me. For budding bloggers who want some online storage, this is a great boon. I will probably transfer many of the images later there.
