Asking for advice on other graduate schools while asking to be in their program

[ms_octopus_lady]

Hello all.

I want to start applying to graduate school in the next few months, but finding ones that are right for me has been proving to be remarkably difficult and frustrating. I want to get a Ph. D studying behavior of cephalopods, and after months of searching online, I have only found three professors who are in that field in the United States

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[keito_f]

You might also want to check out this web site
http://www.animalbehavior.org/

and consider whether your primary interest is animal behavior including that of cephalopods, or cephalopod biology including behavior.

As one of the other posters noted, you don't need to get someone who works on cephalopod behavior. You could look for a school with a good behavior program and that also had marine biology. Certainly someone who has experience with invertebrate would be useful, but your main adviser doesn't need to have the exact same specialization in which you are interested.

Good luck

[shil]

I was going to suggest this. If you can't find a prof that covers your interests specifically and entirely, try looking for places where you can get a few profs overlapping on parts of your area of interest.

[anonymous]

This might be a little -duh- and you've probably have already checked on it, but have you looked at their faculty page and where they got their PhD from?

[homericlaughter]

I assume you want to study cephalopods so you can go undercover, find out their real plans, and save the human race again.

So thanks.

[ms_octopus_lady]

Close. I want to study cephalpods so I can go undercover, tell them about the all the mean things humans say about them, then lead them through the rebellion that will result them taking over the world. They will then declare me their queen, and I shall rule over the world with an iron fist.

Stay on my good side, and maybe I'll make you a kick ass Duke.

[homericlaughter]

You fool! The cephalopods will turn on you the moment you think you've gained their trust. Cephalopods are incapable of understanding notions like friendship or loyalty. Only the joy of the kill and ceaseless hunger for power.

[embarrassedrose]

I think cephalopods are social animals, especially cuttlefish.

REGARDLESS several minutes of my time at work today was spent trying to convince my coworkers the cephalopod revolution is nigh. They are scary buggers.

Great question

[anonymous]

That's an interesting question you have and it looks like people really gave you some solid feedback. There are several conversations like this going on over at GradShare. Here is an example: http://www.gradshare.com/question.html?id=30. Come check it out.