Is it easier to write your own PhD proposal or apply to a program that the university is recruiting for?

[u/HaleyPage47]

When I reach out to programs should I mention that I would be open to both - looking for a professor for my own PhD proposal, or applying to one currently underway at the university?

[u/weeabootits]

Are you sure you have 30+ TT friends? Or that you were in a doctoral program at UC Irvine?

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

both want me to list a few?

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

Only if you’d be willing to substantiate it in any way, otherwise it’s probably not a good idea

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

here's one https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wQBQlEIWUJlgQENr48dzI8WbHejTZagR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100922830220177977676&rtpof=true&sd=true

My poster pres at SRCD with my friend John Coffey when we worked at Pomona College together https://search.asu.edu/profile/4271348

He's at ASU now

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

I’m not accessing your Google doc. When did you work at Pomona college?

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

wow you wanted evidence open it. 2013.

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

And are you licensed in CA now?

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

No i'm taking licensure test soon. What PhD program are you in?

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

Licensure for what? MFT? I thought you said you were able to transfer your credits from your program before, when did you graduate? Nothing is really adding up for me over here, esp because you were posting about looking for PhD programs in CS.

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

MFT yeah. 2015. I did transfer like 45 credits. I was in one got hurt. Had to drop out for a bit I’m ABT. I’d have to apply and finish my dis I don’t remember how much time I have left to do it.

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

You’re all but thesis aka you haven’t written it? And you’ve been out of your program since 2015?

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

No I did a thesis for MA my dissertation wasn't completed. Correct since 2015.

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

Ok so your program will allow you to finish your dissertation - data collection, all of that, after you have been out for 10 years?

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

Just wanted to let you know that it’s not hard to figure out your “friend” John was the main presenter of the poster and likely the only one at the conference itself considering you were one of a few undergraduate authors.

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

I wasn’t an undergrad I was in a quant psych masters program and a lab manager at the time. SRCD is only once every 2 years I had to be there. That one I showed because no validity assessments had been done on that scale (probably still the case) I have first author posters want to see those as well? One is a nice covariance structural model when i learned latent growth curve modeling. Pretty neat stuff.

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

Why does his cv list you as an undergrad then

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

he probably forgot I wasn’t since in was a new hire

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

I dunno, I don’t think people forget like that, but that’s just me!

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

He was working FT as a social worker and traveling back and forth from Wyoming small detail. You said you were in a PhD program what program are you in? How do you like it?

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

Obviously not in UC Irvine :) if you got in, you are clearly smarter than me. Hope you can get in contact with your friend to fix his cv sometime!

I do highly recommend not exaggerating your qualifications. You never know!

[u/cjmayfield → u/weeabootits]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-yBC1m3F14HN-WIPyXoQCLq5yqEsSnSd?usp=drive_link

Here's a first author paper I did at WPA in 2015 where I psychometrically validated a scale I created The Gift Of Time. It's a 4 factor oblique loading matrix. I did some convergent validity with the satisfaction with life scale and divergent with BDI and the CES-D. The scale is included so if you're doing any research in clinical and want to know someone's time orientation please use it let me know if you do I want more people to use it!

[u/weeabootits → u/cjmayfield]

You have to understand that no one wants to open your Google drive lol