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Overseas Grad Studies for US Students?
foidulus asks: "I am currently a senior undergrad at Penn State looking into studying overseas. I spent 6 months working in Japan at an R&D lab and have published 1 paper with another pending publication(though I was researching security, however I would like to study bio-informatics). I am confident in my Japanese language skills, however it seems very tough to get any scholarships or funding there, but in the US a lot of schools seem to have tuition waivers and stipends(some even have health insurance!). Have any US Slashdot readers done any Masters/PhD work abroad? Do people from outside the US have any information on grad school in their country? What were your experiences? How did you get funding? Were your language skills adequate?" What differences can one expect when dealing with Graduate School in a foreign University compared to those in the United States?
**** THE PROOF THAT Slashdot IS EVIL ****
S L A S H D O T
19 12 1 19 8 4 15 20 - as numbers
1 3 1 1 8 4 6 2 - digits added
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4 2 3 8 - digits added
Thus, "Slashdot" is 4238.
Turn the number backwards, and add 1815 - the year first commercial cheese factory was established. The number is now 10139.
Subtract 8081 from the number - this is the year Turri constructed the first typewriter, giving birth to bad publicity, written backwards. It gives 2058.
Multiply the number by 006 - this is the symbol of war, from right to left. It gives 12348.
Add 83 to it - this is the symbol of slavery, written backwards - you will get 12431.
Subtract 4091 from the number - this is the year Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb, was born, written backwards. It gives 8340.
This number, when read backwards, gives 0438. This, written in octal, gives 666 - the number of the Beast.
Enough said - QED.