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From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Subject: Public forum for SOP's
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 06:51:29 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@erlang.src.umd.edu


    I am drawing a blank starting to write my statement of purpose.
So, I'm posting.   I'll write up a fake one now, and let people
decide what they think is wrong or right.   To keep it interesting,
could all responses be posted.  I want to see if there is some kind
of consensus as to what constitutes a good SOP.

                           A Fake SOP
                           ----------
    My name is Foo Bar, and I wish to apply to the Ph.D. program at
So-and-so University.   I feel that while my undergraduate education
was excellent, that I wish to do more.  I want to be in the forefront
of new research in the area of computer science, and So-and-so's excellent
faculty and facilities will make this possible.

    As an undergraduate, I felt there was something lacking in the education.
We are trained to think about doing problems that have been done a 
hundred times before, and while I felt that was important as a sound
basis for my education, I now feel the need to do work in areas that
are new.    As an undergraduate, the professors seemed distant, and
the interaction was little, but as a graduate, I can work one-on-one
with some of the best minds in the field, and this prospect is thirlling.

    I have done well as an undergraduate and feel that I would want to do work
in compilers for dataflow machines, and the work in database design, and
software engineering, which the faculty at So-and-so have many such
profs. in the area.   I see that Prof. Algol has recently published 
in the Journal of Algorithms and this only speaks well of the university's
high caliber work.

    I hope to provide a contribution to this field and eventually go
into teaching.

    ----

     Well, that's pretty short, and not too good, but before I actually
pass on judgement as to why this is good or bad, I would like to see
others post reponses on what is good or bad about this.

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.college
From: aelman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Subject: Re: SURVEY: Intervisitation Policy at YOUR school?
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date:  7 Oct 92 19:19:17 GMT

mwolinsk@nmsu.edu (SKIman) writes:

>Adam Elman writes
>..My guess is that this sort of thing is more common in the more
>..conservative midwestern and eastern states, as well as the less
>..populated states in the West (such as New Mexico).  It depends on the
>..social norms in the area.
>..
>..Adam Elman
>..aelman@cs.stanford.edu

>I would agree with this statement.  I also tend to notice that whenever you
>make the comment that you want a girl in your room after midnight, the only
>this you could be doing is having sex.  It seems to be a very limited track
>of mind.

I'm not sure you are talking to me specifically, but if you are -- if
you get that impression, it's because I'm thinking of why these
restrictions would exist in the first place, and that's the only thing
that comes to mind.  Never having had to deal with that sort of
restriction, I tend to take having people hang around in my room, or
hanging around in anyone else's room, utterly for granted.

Adam Elman
aelman@cs.stanford.edu
Xref: sparky soc.college:4255 soc.college.grad:1934 soc.college.gradinfo:1490
From: w246375@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: looking for e-mail address
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:13:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: ac.1992Oct13.131352.8118
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hi, 
	I am desperately looking for a e-mail address of
Washington State University in Pullman, Washington 
Is anybody outthere could give me a hand!

:<
Winny
From: gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Geoffrey Spear)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Changing names of the student body (poll)
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:30:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8eol2Oe00aw4MKGkV_
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	Actually, I've taken to referring to myself as a first-year senior.  I
will continue with this notation until I am a 7th year senior, at which
point I will either A) graduate or B) drop out.  
(Gotta change my .sig file one o' these days too...)
-----------------------------------
Geoff Spear
Freshman, ECE, Carnegie-Mellon University
-----------------------------------
The following sentence is false.
The preceding sentence is true.
Newsgroups: soc.college
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: SURVEY: Intervisitation Policy at YOUR school?
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:15:21

At the University of Trondheim, and all other Universities in Norway,
student housing is owned by student organizations.  The normal housing
unit is four bedrooms sharing a common kitchen/sitting room and
bathroom.  There are also some apartments reserved for families and
couples (who do not need to be married).  Basic policy about
visitation is, as long as the others in your kitchen (as they call
them) aren't complaining, it's your own damn business.  I even know 
someone who had his girlfriend living with him, in a bedroom intended
for one person, for over a year. 

Kitchens can be either one sex or mixed, depending on what the people
living there want.  

I never lived in any of the student villages, but those who live there
tell me having a boyfriend or girlfriend stay the night, or a few
days. 

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cocoa@netcom.com
Subject: Re: I need advice on girlfriends fantasies.
Organization: Bourbon Street
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:25:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.045114.23499@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au> rhoge1@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au ([Robert James Hoge]) writes:
[deleted]
>my girlfriend always talk to her about their fantasies, and now MY girlfriend
>has gotten this fantasy in her head to have a threesome or even a foursome
>with one or two of her friends.  This may all sound quite fine, but I am
>getting confused about my girlfriend and where I stand.
>
>Could my girlfriend have something for other girls or could she just
>have this fantasy for me being shared with her friends?  Also, my
>
>Just someone tell me what's going on.  Thanks.

Your girlfriend is in love with one of the other women and wants to have an
affair.  After you agree to have a threesome, she will eventually push you
away and stay with the other woman.

I've seen it happen before.  It's always like that.

Just me,

little 'e'

(Am I kidding?  Guess. :)

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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: Ipisissimus
Organization: my opinions only
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:46:42 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.235029.9003@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.014649.631@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bathsheba.Grossman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bathsheba Grossman) writes:

>>hordes of raving nurds elbowing one another's breasts in
>>their eagerness to plunge chunks of scarcely-expired cow, impaled on
>>razor-sharp skewers, dripping with gore, into boiling oil.  Then, the
>>savory condiments, the soft pillows, the well-greased orifices...yes.
>>
>Hey Seth - sounds like your sort of party.

Nah, I've stopped eating dead meat.  The last sentence sounds like
fun, though.

Seth "If I were Trygve there'd be something remotely relevant here"
sethb@fid.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: marcia@netcom.com (Marcia)
Subject: Re: The Engaged Psychobitch from Hell Syndrome
Organization: The Dolphin Conspiracy, Phase II
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:53:36 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.190926.4702@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith) writes:
>The argument that sleeping with someone to determine compatibility is a good
>idea suffers the same fate as the argument that living with someone for an
>extended period of time prior to marriage is a good way to ensure that there
>is a match. Studies have shown that the incidence of divorce in such couples is
>actually higher, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that similar
>statistics apply to the case in question here.

Question: is the higher divorce rate directly caused by the living together 
or sleeping together, or is it because of other factors, such as a traditional
religious belief system, that would simultaneously make someone less likely
to cohabitate/sleep with before marriage and make divorce less of an option?
In that case, it's the belief system keeping the marriage together, not the 
fact that they didn't sleeep together previously. Correlation does not imply
causation.

I don't think there's anything right or wrong about sleeping with or not 
sleeping with before marriage; the important thing is to find someone who 
feels the same way that you do about it :-).
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"Sweaty Snugglebunnies."                                     mlb@cisco.com
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Help! 200 Mile Relationship! And I'm lost on the road!
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:31:10 GMT

un030025@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:

>In article <1992Oct8.174303.113705@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, aaf0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Andrew Aaron Feigin) writes:
>> I have a girlfriend that is 200 miles away and i can't see her for a while,
>> atleast till christmas.  I really love her, but seeing each other once at
>> christmas and then spring break and all next summer really hurts.  I want to
>> make it work, but i'm afraid that it is hopeless, what should i do?
>> andy

200 miles?  *You* were lucky.  

Don't mean to sound bad, but proximity is a very important part of a 
relationship ... get close to her or you'll likely lose her!
-- 
+ Rick __     + EMAIL:charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu +   //\          + /|\ It's +
|      /aylor | IRC  : Tomalek / The Romulan     | \X/--\miga 500 |  J rainy |
+-------------+----------------------------------+----------------+----------+
+ "Every Girl Already Has A Boyfriend" --- Murphy's Law Of Dating...         +
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Humans as Physical Creatures.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 06:51:47 GMT

In article <Rs3asB1w165w@wildrose.infoserv.com> rkf@wildrose.infoserv.com (Ray Fink) writes:
>wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien) writes:
>>Charles R. Martin (martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu) wrote:
>>: And how narrowly can we identify the
>>: "date" on which the Neanderthals disappeared?
>>July 18th, 39736 B.C.  Any other questions?
>
>Yes...was it "dinner and a movie"? out for a drink and my-place-or-yours?
>I've been on some dates that didn't go very well, but extinction seems
>a bit extreme, don't you think?

Nah, it's just the process of natural selection (survival of the sexiest)
at work.  Back then, you see, women went for the stereotypical computer-
geek types (a bit of tape on your glasses could work wonders back then)
and the neanderthals just didn't fit the mold so they died out.  

Of course when they realized that the neanderthals had become extinct,
women felt bad about this and have been trying to soothe their karma
ever since by forcing themselves to go for the jock-types instead of
the Edward V. Wrights of the world....

Trygve

Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cocoa@netcom.com
Subject: Banana-split psychosis
Organization: Bourbon Street
Distribution: na 
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:39:06 GMT

Please forgive my quoting of these two articles at length, but does anyone else
beside me wonder if this person is:

a) a fruitcacke with split personalities?

b) a hard-up adolescent sneaking into someone else's acct?

c) a Nice Guy [TM] who's finally lost all his inhibitions?

d) invent your own


In article <5387@balrog.ctron.com> lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Saint) writes:
>I'm a 30 yo male and I'm in that "shattered" stage having just lost my SO
>(and fiancee) of two years. Details are irrelevant. Needless to say, I'm
>about as low as I've ever been.
[deleted]
>If you are a single (unattached/uninvolved) female, 25-35, who's been
>where I am now, could you reply? There are a lot of questions a woman in
>your position could probably answer for me.
[deleted]
>Are monogamy and commitment dead in today's society? Do women no longer
>want someone to treat them well, with respect, care and love? Am I just
[deleted]
>Please respond by E-mail, there's no sense airing our psyches for the
>Net to pick through (and you know there are those out there who would
>have a field day with someone's feelings).


In article <5450@balrog.ctron.com> lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence) writes:
>oooooh yeah, just like that, faster .... now put your leg up here ...
>ooooooh, oh yeah o-- ..... umm, 'scuse us. We didn`t know you were
>listening.
>
>Anyway, for any and all women, age 25-35, REDHEAD, brunette, or blonde
>(with most variations also accepted): If you're seeking intelligent,
>fun, flirtatious and sometimes randy conversation and perhaps a
>meeting of the minds (and bodies eventually), E-mail me!
>
>Order before midnight tomorrow and we'll even throw in the amazing
>roller-slicer, ABSOLUTELY FREE!
>
>I'm 29, 6'2", 205 lbs (enroute to 195) brown/brown, a journalist and
>radio/television broadcaster/writer. According to "reliable" sources,
>I look like Billy Ray Cyrus or Randy Travis (personally I think I'm
>better-looking, but I'm too humble to say so).
>
>Let's get it on ... the screen, that is. Hope to hear lots of beeps
>from my "you have mail" window.
>
>					Hasty banana,
>					Gary
>					(but only on odd-numbered days)


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Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: wolfson@regatta.sps.mot.com (Stephen Wolfson)
Subject: Re: The Four Food Groups (was: something else)
Organization: SPS
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:26:14 GMT

I heared that Irish Coffee was the perfect food, containing the
4 food groups of Caffeine, Fat, Sugar, and Alcohol.
Xref: sparky soc.singles:27837 alt.romance:12731 alt.romance.chat:19442
From: walkerr@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Robert A Walker)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,alt.romance,alt.romance.chat
Subject: Re: How long has it been?
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:40:19 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <Bw56s3.Bys@mtholyoke.edu> gmedina@MtHolyoke.edu (Glorimar Medina) writes:
>Well, it has been a month and four days.Since my boyfriend broke up with
>me. It was a LDR, i wish we could have worked through it but guess it
>wasn't meant to be. Can't really complain, we had a very wonderful time
>while the relationship lasted. We have remained friends. At times it is
>really hard to handle missing him so much though. Guess i'm on the
>rebound. And there are not any available men
>                                             in a women's college! Help!
>                               GLORI

	A woman's college, sure wish I could go there.  I'd keep you on your
toes if my SO didn't mind.  But if it was fun and wasn't working out then 
truck up to UMASS and find a non-shy guy that wants and needs someone like
you.  
 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject: And they wonder why we are in a Recession....
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:42:11 GMT

jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:

] Here's a question that I've been asking everyone lately. It comes c/o a slow
] trading day at my buddy's firm:
] 
] If your arms were removed, which would you rather have in their place: two
] bear claws, or a bionic arm and a pocket fisherman?


Its a Sad, Sad, Sad day indeed.....

ciao
drieux

Make the coffee Black, the Donutes Fresh,
and give me that leatherman's Tool....



-- 
Modern Day Problems:
In any case, don't give up, just type slower :-).
Chimo
Bob.
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: cocoa@netcom.com
Subject: SeesterSizeWars
Organization: Bourbon Street
Distribution: na 
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 07:29:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.151749.4815@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor) writes:
>
>Ah, I've still got you Allisson.  I've got three seesters!

Hey!  I have *four* seesters!  What can I get for them, I wonder.

Just me,

little 'e'

- -
"I know Speedy Gonzales, he dates my seester."
"Oh, that's nothing.  Speedy dates *everybody's* seester." - Warner Bros.

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From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Good movies ...
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:49:28 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.3 beta PL7]

John Fereira (johnf@Auspex.COM) wrote:
: Add some comedy and romance and take away a bit of scenery and you'd 
: have "The Princess Bride".
: 
: It may not be playing in the theaters but could always rent it and cuddle
: on a couch.

I guess that's one advantage over the book.  (The movie was great, but the
book was awesome.)
-- 
Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com 
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
Subject: Re: Book Rec.: _Bodies: Overcoming the Tyranny of Perfection_
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:48:07 GMT

Julie
>and Seth
>>and Julie write:
>>>But... how can a perfect diet (ha!) not contain any maple syrup?
>>What flavor did you think the ice cream was?

>Well, I was assuming it was Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream.  It
>*couldn't* be maple, because that would violate the B&J Principle,
>which goes:

>Whensoever thou partaketh of ice cream, maketh thee sure it's made by
>Ben and Jerry and has lots of yummy chunks and things in it.

*laugh*  When _I_ partakes of ice cream it's usually eaten fresh from
the churn, and has lots of yummy things but no chunks.  I just found
some dark cooking maple syrup at the local gourmet shop--feel free to
come over and partake of ice cream some warm summer night...

>As far as I can remember, they don't have a maple flavor, 
I thought they did, actually.  Probably with walnuts and stuff, since
they do seem to be fond of chunks.  Of course, it's likely to be
called 'Wavy Gravy' or something equally unappetizing.
-- 

Kiran Wagle                           <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome)
Subject: Re: Ipisissimus
Organization: Some and growing
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:24:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.002213.14345@linus.mitre.org> wtr@mitre.org 
(Bill Ralston) writes:
>I hate to do it, but I've had to take over as the treasurer, since the 
>IIOSF lost (or will soon, anyway) all his money playing poker at a Boink.  
>If you have two seesters, send one to me and one to the IIOSF.  If you 
>only have one seester, send it to the IIOSF and send me a check for your 
>bank balance.  If you don't have any seesters, borrow some.

Hmm, sounds like a high stakes game to me - will it occur at the
Philly Boink by chance?  Especially since I know the entertaining and
elusive James will be in attendance.

So what are the stakes and can anyone join in -- or is it one of
those male-bonding type activities?

Sorry, I don't have any seesters (at least that I know of) but I'm
willing to open with 3 pounds of bananas (and not to be outdone by Mel
- I'll scrounge up the fondue pot and make chocolate fondue, dip the
banana, remove the chocolate in one elegant motion (exerting me
"freedom of expression" again), and then  eat the banana in a fashion
not suited for viewing by smalldren.  Will that do?

Yes, I am back - I will however have a new account once my password
works.  But this is still viable as a way of getting hold of me -
especially now that I have my own private phone line (and a very clean
line it is).  So what have I missed - other than 1000s of postings
from and about Edward Wright?

>Bill
>Keeper of the Demimonde

Uh, Bill, isn't keeping one of them an expensive proposition (than
being, of course, how you got one in the first place)?


Allisson - net.gypsy ( or should that be ROM?)

-- 
allisson@turing.toronto.edu (new address)       H. Allisson Roome
"Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love."(A.C.I.M/p.92)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
From: rthoff@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Rudolph van't Hoff)
Subject: Re: this conference
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 01:00:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.162615.1013@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
>
>In article <226.3407.uupcb@synapse.org> doug.hewko@synapse.org (Doug Hewko)  writes:
>>
>>I am new to this conference, and can someone please tell me exactly
>>what this conference is for?  Over here, it is called a singles
>>conference, but I noticed someone posted a singles ad but got told by
>>the moderator (???) that the message was in the wrong place....
>
>It is a singles *discussion* group, not a place for personals.  Also,
>there's no moderator -- if you post something inappropriate, you get the
>pants flamed off you.
>-- 
>                         --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
>                             @netcom.com 
>
>Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6
>
>Who needs Lime Jello [tm]?  We had lasagna.....


Well, I never got flamed for placing adverts!


Ha!

Later,

Rude -THE- Dude
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From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Ipisissimus
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:25:57 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.3 beta PL7]

H. Allisson Roome (allisson@turing.toronto.edu) wrote:
: Seesters we doan need no steenkin' seesters - besides the seesters that
: I know areenunse.  I don't think that the 'men' want to play poker eith
: nuns...
Strip Penguin Poker.... hmmmm...  
-- 
Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com
From: wjb@moscom.com (Bill de Beaubien)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Lasagna (was Re: Best of Friends)
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:20:29 GMT
Reply-To: wjb@moscom.com
Organization: Moscom Corp., Pittsford NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Carl Kaufmann (carl@sscl.uwo.ca) wrote:
: Unfortunately, I had to leave early.
: 
: How was it?
I liked it, but then, I'm biased :-)
-- 
Who needs lime jello?  We had lasagna...
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Bill de Beaubien / wjb@moscom.com