10-17-2025, 11:42 AM
It's been two full business days in Spain since I submitted my docs and nothing from ENEB/Unimarconi yet. I'm assuming they'll say something if my attempts to decode the Engrish were wrong. If you're going to make me read nonsensical Engrish, at least have the decency to make it funny.
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Dream on tiny grass. Dream on.
It is curious that cheaper European degrees feel the need to have at least two areas of study. 11 out of the 14 degrees ENEB has now have at least two areas of study. I remember most/all of the degrees that were cut having two areas of focus, like Business and Something Else Communication or Management and Team Management. 8 of Unimarconi's 12 degrees not in this offer have at least 2 areas of study, and 2 of the 4 that don't are both MBAs. Throw the ENEB collab degrees in and it goes to 12 of 16.
A couple years ago I got on a propio kick and went around the net looking for other schools like ENEB that might offer a high return per dollar spent after finding the right evaluator. I don't remember which school, but I saw a "master's degree" in financial, computational and some other kind of mathematics that claimed 12 ECTS. So that's not even one real class in each type of math the degree covers? It's almost like the chintzier the degree gets the more names of things have to be crammed into it to overhype its value. At least in the case of UOC's doctorates they are supposed to be interdisciplinary areas of study so a list of things they encompass is unavoidable. It's not like there is one word that means law, political science and economics. I'd rather have my Unimarconi degree say Big Data or Analytics than Applied Big Data and Analytics.
I'm finding out it's a lot easier to say I'm going to write a semi-useful interdisciplinary paper that could pass for a master's thesis and use that to get into a fully funded doctoral program than it is to actually write it. Shocking, I know. I got 88 pages into this book on statistical learning and, while I did not come across a single word I did not know, I had no idea what anything I read actually meant. So I asked my old buddy MechaGrok to recommend some books that would help me understand book 1 of the 30 I was planning on using for this paper. I got a list of 14 massive books with the shortest one being 800some pages.
Uncle told me there'd be days like this and I didn't believe him.
My optimistic/delusional plan was to knock out this paper and the Unimarconi paper by the end of the year and try to start the fully funded programs in the spring (application deadlines are for ze weak!) but that is seeming less and less plausible. Even if I put all of my energy into writing a thesis-like paper, and considering that I'm probably going to have to teach myself at least a few 300 and 400 level math and physics undergrad classes along the way, I'd be a marginal candidate applying to programs with acceptance rates in the 5-40% range, depending on how many people apply and the available funding each year.
Maybe it would make more sense to plead sincerity and legitimate academic interest in the GCAS interview, do the Mathematical Sciences PhD there and then apply to the American schools to build on doctoral research I have already done. The GCAS program is supposed to take three years. As I'm thinking out loud I'm putting one more year into finishing a doctorate (if I can find a way to get in with the Unimarconi degree) than I would by making myself a marginal candidate with a statistical probability of success under a coin flip. I also have no idea if they would hold my "amateur" research done on my own with no faculty support against me for not meeting some standard I don't know exists or if they would be pleased by the initiative. Probably some combination of both. At least they wouldn't be able to say this 40something guy is just going to quit anyway once he realizes how much work it is and/or he just wants easy access to scantily clad co-eds. As one of my profs pointed out during my undergrad, co-eds wearing almost no clothing is supposed to be one of the perks (economics was 100% sausage party all four years), but it's not enough if your heart isn't already into it.
I'm hoping I'll be able to the get the paper for Unimarconi done within a month once I find out what I need to do. I did the exams at ENEB because the contrived case studies sucked the life out of me and made my eyes glaze over. To say nothing of finding scholarly articles to back up points that are obvious. For example, due to this company's entire talent pool being comprised of two women, if they don't know how to do something some other company has to be contracted to do it and it will cost money. How am I supposed to find a scholarly article that says something so obvious? Oh, I better not be "lazy" and put that in a paragraph like someone with a middle school reading level, better use some silly infographic that was in the ENEB textbook instead or the rubric that leaked said I should lose points for writing like an adult. I'm tempted to have a bot do it with a bunch of sources that don't exist just to see if anyone actually reads it.
Like ENEB not asking for the rest of the money, it's fun to think about it for a couple seconds before accepting the absurdity of the premise and moving on.
I know Pearson is in the middle of a couple different things and other people were thinking about doing it in a few months. As a reminder, you have 1 year to start after paying the deposit. While they don't always go away when ENEB said they will the first time, historically all offers for non-ENEB degrees have seen price increases and/or ceased to exist. We're 2 weeks away from ENEB's Black November. The promised price increase to $3300 actually happening on Nov. 1 followed by 20 emails hyping a "sale" that is higher than the current price would fit ENEB's historical pattern for outside degrees. Be comfortable with the risk of paying an extra grand if you're waiting to see how things go with me. I would expect the price to be higher or for the opportunity to be gone by the time I write the paper, get it accepted by Unimarconi, do the comprehensive exam, wait who knows how long for that to get put into a database so my degree/transcript can be issued and get an evaluation from WES.
Dream on tiny grass. Dream on.
It is curious that cheaper European degrees feel the need to have at least two areas of study. 11 out of the 14 degrees ENEB has now have at least two areas of study. I remember most/all of the degrees that were cut having two areas of focus, like Business and Something Else Communication or Management and Team Management. 8 of Unimarconi's 12 degrees not in this offer have at least 2 areas of study, and 2 of the 4 that don't are both MBAs. Throw the ENEB collab degrees in and it goes to 12 of 16.
A couple years ago I got on a propio kick and went around the net looking for other schools like ENEB that might offer a high return per dollar spent after finding the right evaluator. I don't remember which school, but I saw a "master's degree" in financial, computational and some other kind of mathematics that claimed 12 ECTS. So that's not even one real class in each type of math the degree covers? It's almost like the chintzier the degree gets the more names of things have to be crammed into it to overhype its value. At least in the case of UOC's doctorates they are supposed to be interdisciplinary areas of study so a list of things they encompass is unavoidable. It's not like there is one word that means law, political science and economics. I'd rather have my Unimarconi degree say Big Data or Analytics than Applied Big Data and Analytics.
I'm finding out it's a lot easier to say I'm going to write a semi-useful interdisciplinary paper that could pass for a master's thesis and use that to get into a fully funded doctoral program than it is to actually write it. Shocking, I know. I got 88 pages into this book on statistical learning and, while I did not come across a single word I did not know, I had no idea what anything I read actually meant. So I asked my old buddy MechaGrok to recommend some books that would help me understand book 1 of the 30 I was planning on using for this paper. I got a list of 14 massive books with the shortest one being 800some pages.
Uncle told me there'd be days like this and I didn't believe him.My optimistic/delusional plan was to knock out this paper and the Unimarconi paper by the end of the year and try to start the fully funded programs in the spring (application deadlines are for ze weak!) but that is seeming less and less plausible. Even if I put all of my energy into writing a thesis-like paper, and considering that I'm probably going to have to teach myself at least a few 300 and 400 level math and physics undergrad classes along the way, I'd be a marginal candidate applying to programs with acceptance rates in the 5-40% range, depending on how many people apply and the available funding each year.
Maybe it would make more sense to plead sincerity and legitimate academic interest in the GCAS interview, do the Mathematical Sciences PhD there and then apply to the American schools to build on doctoral research I have already done. The GCAS program is supposed to take three years. As I'm thinking out loud I'm putting one more year into finishing a doctorate (if I can find a way to get in with the Unimarconi degree) than I would by making myself a marginal candidate with a statistical probability of success under a coin flip. I also have no idea if they would hold my "amateur" research done on my own with no faculty support against me for not meeting some standard I don't know exists or if they would be pleased by the initiative. Probably some combination of both. At least they wouldn't be able to say this 40something guy is just going to quit anyway once he realizes how much work it is and/or he just wants easy access to scantily clad co-eds. As one of my profs pointed out during my undergrad, co-eds wearing almost no clothing is supposed to be one of the perks (economics was 100% sausage party all four years), but it's not enough if your heart isn't already into it.
I'm hoping I'll be able to the get the paper for Unimarconi done within a month once I find out what I need to do. I did the exams at ENEB because the contrived case studies sucked the life out of me and made my eyes glaze over. To say nothing of finding scholarly articles to back up points that are obvious. For example, due to this company's entire talent pool being comprised of two women, if they don't know how to do something some other company has to be contracted to do it and it will cost money. How am I supposed to find a scholarly article that says something so obvious? Oh, I better not be "lazy" and put that in a paragraph like someone with a middle school reading level, better use some silly infographic that was in the ENEB textbook instead or the rubric that leaked said I should lose points for writing like an adult. I'm tempted to have a bot do it with a bunch of sources that don't exist just to see if anyone actually reads it.
Like ENEB not asking for the rest of the money, it's fun to think about it for a couple seconds before accepting the absurdity of the premise and moving on.I know Pearson is in the middle of a couple different things and other people were thinking about doing it in a few months. As a reminder, you have 1 year to start after paying the deposit. While they don't always go away when ENEB said they will the first time, historically all offers for non-ENEB degrees have seen price increases and/or ceased to exist. We're 2 weeks away from ENEB's Black November. The promised price increase to $3300 actually happening on Nov. 1 followed by 20 emails hyping a "sale" that is higher than the current price would fit ENEB's historical pattern for outside degrees. Be comfortable with the risk of paying an extra grand if you're waiting to see how things go with me. I would expect the price to be higher or for the opportunity to be gone by the time I write the paper, get it accepted by Unimarconi, do the comprehensive exam, wait who knows how long for that to get put into a database so my degree/transcript can be issued and get an evaluation from WES.
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